Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery
concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is
a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves. Dr. Andrew Newberg, who has
put enlightenment through a battery of scientific tests, says there are
actually two kinds of enlightenment: lowercase-e enlightenment, which changes
our opinions about the world, and Enlightenment, which changes our essence,
i.e. how we think of life, death, God, etc. Read more.
