Psychologist Lisa Miller

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Hidden Brain · Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1 · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

And science also in the peer review process requires that two or three scientists within or closely adjacent to the area of inquiry weigh in on the method, weigh in on the conclusions, offer recommendations for expansion of the study.

We were able over now three decades to publish our lab, often in collaboration with fellow labs, about 200 peer review articles and chapters.

And the field around us has grown.

We've tried to be collaborators in building a field as well.

But I will tell you, Shankar, that despite the meticulous science and top peer reviewed journals, because the findings were new, I would say people did not know yet what to do with these new scientific findings.

And so, for instance, we published an article that showed that an adolescent with a strong spiritual life compared to one who doesn't really know what you're talking about was 80% protective against onset of addiction.

80% protective.

Who wouldn't want that for their child?

And yet when I presented these findings published in the top journal for children and adolescents, there was an utter silence and confusion.

A couple people left.

I got up and walked out in the middle of Grand Rounds later to share, well, what does that have to do with mental health?

What does that have to do with psychology?

But most people were just confused.

The paradigm at the time didn't have a place for what on earth is going on.

And so, you know, good people, good healers were confused.

And a lot of this just sort of, you know, dropped silence for a while.

And then culture started to change.

New residents came, new psychologists came.

And in the rising generation, there was more curiosity and perhaps a stronger sense of personal spiritual quest.

And I saw residents light up, oh, you want to talk about spirituality?

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