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MRI Studies Reveal Your Brain Is Wired for God | Dr. Lisa Miller
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How to Nurture Spirituality in Children — Even If You Don't Believe
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Lewis asks what a parent can do if they don't believe in anything themselves. Dr. Miller's answer reorients the entire question: the job is not to teach spirituality but to stop suppressing it. Children arrive spiritually alive — they see living beings as kin, love ceremony, want to pray, sense mystical presences. The most important thing any parent can do is never tell a child their spiritual experience isn't real. That one dismissal — it's not real — can close the antenna for years, sometimes decades. Dr. Miller has met countless adults who say 'I was such a spiritual child and my dad told me it wasn't real' and spent years finding their way back. [1] — Dr. Lisa Miller "Children's implicit spiritual cognition is innate: Unless socialized out of it, young children naturally perceive the continuity of conscio…" 59:23 Even a parent with no personal faith tradition can simply say 'wow, what does your heart say?' — authorizing the child as a direct spiritual knower. The antenna doesn't need to be built; it just needs not to be covered. Lewis closes this section with advice to parents navigating modern challenges: in a world of social media, AI, and relentless comparison, The Spiritual Child offers a science-backed answer rooted in the child's own birthright.
Distilled from The Spiritual Child for 20,000 Pentagon personnel, the 4 P's framework is the simplest operating system for a spiritually grounded life: a Practice to connect with your higher power, People to share it with, an ultimate Purpose, and your Path. Everything else flows from these four pillars.
