michael.lifshitz2 [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Selected Publications
Brahinsky, J.B, Lifshitz, M., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2022). Steps towards a neurophenomenology of speaking in tongues. In The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Spiritual, Religious, and Mystical Experiences, M. van Elk & D. Yaden (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
Luhrmann, T. M. Weisman, K., Aulino, F., Brahinsky, J. D., Dulin, J. C., Dzokoto, V. A., Legare, C. H., Lifshitz, M., Ng, E., Ross-Zehnder, N., & Smith, R. E. (2021). Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(5), e2016649118.
Lifshitz, M., Brahinsky, J., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2020). The understudied side of contemplation: Words, images and intentions in a syncretic spiritual practice. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis , 68(2), 183-199.
Lifshitz, M., van Elk, M., & Luhrmann, T. M. (2019). Absorption and spiritual experience: A review of evidence and potential mechanisms. Consciousness and Cognition, 73, 102760.
Lifshitz, M., Sacchet, M., Huntenburg, J. M., Thiery, T., Fan, Y., Gärtner, M., Grimm, S., ... Margulies, D. S., & Barnhofer, T. (2019). Mindfulness-based therapy regulates brain connectivity in major depression. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 88(6), 375-377.
Lifshitz. M., Sheiner, E. O., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2018). Cultural neurophenomenology of psychedelic thought: Guiding the unconstrained mind through ritual context. In The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous Thought. K. Fox & K. Christoff (Eds.), Oxford University Press.
A. Raz & M. Lifshitz (Eds). Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes. Oxford University Press, 2016.