Published Works
Author Philip T. Nicholson is a professional medical writer whose research on the neural correlates of meditation-induced light visions has been published in academic journals and medical journals, including The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Medical Hypotheses, The Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies, and The Proceedings of 2006 Harvard-Peking University Conference on Comparative Mythology. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton (A.B. Philosophy), studied law and psychiatry at Stanford Law School (J.D.), and then, after military service as a judge advocate stationed at USAF Headquarters in the Pentagon, he enrolled in a master’s degree program to study health education and health administration at the Harvard School of Public Health (M.S.P.H.). Nicholson’s earlier book, Meditation & Light Visions: A Neurological Analysis (2009), presents a detailed technical analysis of how human brain mechanisms related to slow wave sleep are responsible for generating the shapes, colors, movements, and timing intervals of the light visions that can appear during prayer and meditation vigils. His latest book, The Inner Light and World Religions, demonstrates that those meditation-induced light visions have a universal distribution and that this mystical phenomenon helped shape the evolution of the world’s major religions.
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