Lisa Miller
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Oct 31, 2026
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Hello, and welcome to the Examined Life podcast with me, Kenny Primrose.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Today, I am re-releasing an old episode, one that I did actually, I think my second ever podcast with Dr. Lisa Miller.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Lisa is a clinical psychologist and founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
She's also the author of the book, The Awakened Brain, which I found utterly compelling and would recommend reading to anyone.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
If you haven't listened to the Philip Goff episode, then I do recommend going back, listen to it.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
These, I think, complement each other quite well as two conversations.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
I'll hand over now to my conversation with Lisa Miller.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Before I do, as ever, I'd love it if you could send this podcast or this episode to someone you think will enjoy it.
Michael KovnatHOST
In his 2021 book, How God Works, The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion, he examines what rituals and religious traditions can teach us about connection, well-being, and caring for one another without requiring everyone to share the same beliefs.
Michael KovnatHOST
Then, Columbia clinical psychologist Lisa Miller explores our capacity for spiritual experience in her 2021 book, The Awakened Brain, the new science of spirituality and our quest for an inspired life.
Michael KovnatHOST
How religion works, right after these ads.
Michael KovnatHOST
Do you actually have a proper password manager set up right now? I'm guessing you don't.
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David DeStenoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy the book.
Michael KovnatHOST
Thank you, David.
Michael KovnatHOST
Okay, coming up, Lisa Miller will share ideas from The Awakened Brain, The New Science of Spirituality, and Our Quest for an Inspired Life.
Michael KovnatHOST
So I've never been a guy with a website, even though I've worked in media for decades and having an online presence always made sense.
Shay O'BrienHOST
there's
Jamie ClementsGUEST
amazing studies, Dr. Lisa Miller.
Jamie ClementsGUEST
Yeah, healthier, happier.
Jamie ClementsGUEST
And, you know, it drops in suicidal ideation, drops in depression markers.
Ellen VoraGUEST
And just to put my psychiatrist hat on for a moment, I'm aware of the data.
Ellen VoraGUEST
We have Dr. Lisa Miller out of Columbia University.
Ellen VoraGUEST
And her research shows us that if someone has any kind of spiritual belief, and this does not have to be a particular religious doctrine, it's any openness to something beyond the self to a sense that there's meaning and order in our cosmos, that's protective against depression.
Ellen VoraGUEST
It reduces suicidal ideation.
Dan KochHOST
Spirituality, without a lot of doctrinal or kind of theological content to it, a lot of cognitive content, can also meet all three of these needs.
Dan KochHOST
And I'm drawing on Lisa Miller's work and her definition of spirituality as connection to a higher power that is loving and guiding.
Dan KochHOST
And by that, she can mean even like the way the birds lined up on a canoeing trip sort of helped me see that I'm a part of something like it can be very, very minimal, but really briefly coherence.
Dan KochHOST
Okay, if there is a higher power, that higher power has some kind of control.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
And, you know, so my position is that this is something that I believe.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
There's a woman, I think her name is Lisa Miller, who's written The Awakened Mind.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
And I think that she's onto it, this thing.
Diana PasulkaGUEST
I don't know if she calls it the spiritual sense, but she's identifying it in the brain.
Hillary McVeighHOST
And your intuition connects with something far greater, far beyond the five senses.
Hillary McVeighHOST
And Dr. Lisa Miller speaks a lot about radical materialism in which this is an epidemic in our world of thinking so limitedly where it's just on like what you see around you.
Hillary McVeighHOST
And even neuroscience speaks about how we only perceive 10% of reality and half the time our eyesight is just filling in, just light.
Hillary McVeighHOST
The Kabbalah speaks about we only perceive 1% of reality and there's 99% that our intuition connects to.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
I am going to follow up this episode with an old episode.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Well, like the second one I did, I think, with Professor Lisa Miller, a psychologist at Columbia University in New York.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
She's a fascinating thinker.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
She's written really interesting books.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Or leave a review.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
That's also helpful, as long as it's a nice review.
Kenny PrimroseHOST
Here is a snippet from Lisa Miller.
Lisa MillerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It hurts too much to not live out fully our nature.
Will ColeGUEST
It has to be meaningful, not just checking the boxes.
Will ColeGUEST
And Dr. Lisa Miller from Columbia, she substantiates this as well.
Will ColeGUEST
Like changes in the brain for people to have a faith practice.
Will ColeGUEST
We have greater resilience on average, right? We know, yes, the things in our world matter, but we have perspective on the ultimate things that matter.
Martha BeckHOST
I didn't agree with him, but I also saw his point that every time we have a coincidence and call it a sign or a symbol, and then say we have certainty, people who aren't in the same belief system quite rightly say, well, that does not sound like certainty to me.
Martha BeckHOST
So on the other hand, Once several months ago, I had on the Gathering Room a brilliant scientist by the name of Dr. Lisa Miller from Columbia University, who has done this incredibly powerful social science work on people's spiritual experiences.
Martha BeckHOST
And basically, Dr. Miller, Lisa says, you got two choices based on the data, spirituality or depression, because people who don't believe in any kind of science, similar coincidence in any kind of reality beyond the physical life of the body We're looking at a very sort of limited view of what our lives are about.
Martha BeckHOST
And by midlife, when you look at your life and go, well, you know, I'm more than halfway through and I know exactly how this will end.
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