Psychologist Lisa Miller

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

Or to sign a book or offer an article in the room felt liberated.

The rising generation wanted to talk about spirituality.

and felt free.

There were plenty of good spiritual people who were senior, but perhaps didn't feel free to speak their heart about spirituality.

You know, Shankar, one of the most important findings was put forward in 1997, replicated in 1999 by Ken Kendler at Virginia Commonwealth.

And what Kendler identified was that spirituality is innate.

It is one-third innate, two-thirds environmentally formed.

Religion is environmentally transmitted.

Almost entirely.

So there's enormous confusion in a country where for 40 years there has effectively been an ice age on spiritual and religious discourse in the public square where people in the classroom or boardroom or at a dinner party don't know how to talk about spiritual and religious life without imposing or don't know where the line is.

There's a tendency to simply shut down.

So in that context, I have found in the 10 years I've spent sharing the science on spiritual life, resilience, and mental health, I have seen enormous confusion, Shankar, over the difference between spirituality and religion.

Through the lens of science...

Religion is a gift of our parents and grandparents.

We might choose a faith tradition and immerse ourselves.

Religion is environmentally transmitted.

Spirituality is innate.

The capacity for a transcendent relationship as tracked by discrete and specific neural circuits that are universal in every human brain.

So now when I'm asked, hey, what about the fact that people have done all these bad things in the name of religion?

I can say, well, my question as a scientist is, are they acting in a way that is consistent with natural spirituality?

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