Sources for "Science Finds God?"

Athene Neuroscience Theory of everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbh5l0b2-0o , accessed 21.11.2016

Carl Sagans view on Religion:
Dorion Sagan (son of Carl Sagan): "My father believed in the God of Spinoza and Einstein..."
Margulis L., Sagan D. (2007): "Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature". page 14.
David T.(1990): "Kenosis, Sunyata, and Trinity: A Dialogue with Masao Abe". In Cobb, John B., Jr.; Ives, Christopher. The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation. Faith Meets Faith Series. Essays by Masao Abe. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. p. 52.

Quote by Einstein: "I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists" (New York Times , April 25, 1929)
more about Einsteins view on Religion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr5oKSDJcwc&feature=youtu.be&t=3m
Dukas H. (1981): "Albert Einstein the Human Side". Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Calaprice A. (2000): "The Expanded Quotable Einstein". Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Jacobi F. H., Vallée G. (1988):"The Spinoza Conversations Between Lessing and Jacobi". Lanham: University Press of America.

Spinoza, Benedictus, The Collected Writings of Spinoza, 2 vols., Edwin Curley, translator (Princeton: Princeton University Press, vol. 1: 1985; vol. 2: 2016). The Ethics is in vol. 1

Video about Spinoza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEeXjPiw54 , accessed 23.11.2016

Harms E. (1962): “Ethical and Psychological Implications of Religious Conversion”, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 122-131, DOI: 10.2307/3510690 , accessed 21.11.2016

Charity efforts: http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8157995/ , accessed 21.11.2016

Neurotheology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotheology , accessed 21.11.2016
“God Helmet Experiment” http://www.feelguide.com/2015/06/14/neurotheology-team-proves-god-helmet-is-real-eliciting-mystic-states-visions-god-like-presence/ , accessed 21.11.2016
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/15/132078267/neurotheology-where-religion-and-science-collide , accessed 21.11.2016

Dissociation:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0272735896000062 , accessed 21.11.2016
Dell P.F., & O'Neil J.A. (2009): "Preface". Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: DSM-V and beyond. New York: Routledge.

Reward center /  mesolimbic pathway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesolimbic_pathway , accessed 21.11.2016
Berridge K.C., Kringelbach M.L. (2015): "Pleasure systems in the brain". Neuron. 86 (3): 646–664. DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.02.018 , accessed 21.11.2016

Harari Y.N. (2015): "Homo Deus: The History of Tomorrow". London: Penguin.
Harari Y.N. (2011): “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”. London: Vintage Books.

Smallpox:
World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/about/bugs_drugs_smoke_chapter_1_smallpox.pdf , accessed 21.11.2016

Dobbs R. et al. (2014): “How the World Could Better Fight Obesity”. McKinseys & Company, http://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-the-world-could-better-fight-obesity , accessed 21.11.2016

850 million malnutrition: http://www.humanosphere.org/human-rights/2014/10/global-hunger-rates-down-850-million-still-suffer/ , accessed 21.11.2016

100 million killed by spanish flue: Chandra S., Kuljanin G. & Wray J. (2012): "Mortality from the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: the case of India". Demography. 49. 857. DOI:10.1007/s13524-012-0116-x , accessed 21.11.2016

Around 60 Million died in WW2: http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm , accessed 21.11.2016

11.310 deaths by ebola: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/en/, accessed 21.11.2016

Decline of human violence:
Gat A. (2006): "War in Human Civilization". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 130–1;
Pinker S. (2011): "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". New York: Viking;
Goldstein J.S. (2011): "Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide". New York: Dutton;

2012 56 million died in total, 120000 in war: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates/en/index1.html accessed 21.11.2016, Global summary estimates

Example of consistent patterns:
Tegmark, Max: “Is the Universe Made of Math”. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt/
Patterns in nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_in_nature , accessed 21.11.2016
Examples in nature: https://www.wired.com/2010/09/fractal-patterns-in-nature/ , accessed 21.11.2016
4 fundamental forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction , accessed 21.11.2016

Cathexis definition by Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (PFL 2) p. 49

Explanation how cathexis works and linking it to current understanding of Neuroscience:
Schönbächler G., Stojkovic D. & Boothe B. (2016): "Mapping a gap: the concepts of the wish and wishing in psychoanalysis and the neurosciences". Neuropsychoanalysis, 18:2, 163-177, DOI: 10.1080/15294145.2016.1242295 , accessed 21.11.2016

How self-esteem is connected to reward center:
Robert S. Chavez and Todd F. (2014): "Multimodal frontostriatal connectivity underlies individual differences in self-esteem",  Heatherton, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

Duality experienced as ambivalence in psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambivalence#Ambivalence_in_clinical_psychology

Inner child:
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Recovery-of-Your-Inner-Child/Lucia-Capacchione/9780671701352

Driven by emotions:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827459/, accessed 21.11.2016  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-control-our-thoughts/ , accessed 21.11.2016
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050437/ , accessed 21.11.2016

Valueing comfort:
http://natureofcollege.org/essays/dr-america/american-environmental-values/comfort/ , accessed 21.11.2016

Self-centeredness: http://www.matthieuricard.org/system/resources/W1siZiIsIjIwMTMvMDUvMTMvMTlfNDZfMzVfNDExX0RhbWJydW5hbmRSaWNhcmQyMDExX19TZWxmX0NlbnRlcmVkbmVzc2FuZFNlbGZsZXNzbmVzcy5wZGYiXV0/DambrunandRicard2011_%20Self-CenterednessandSelflessness.pdf , accessed 21.11.2016