Klemm Explores Mental Happiness in Newest Book on ‘Triune Brain’
William Klemm, a senior professor of neuroscience in the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, has released his newest book, “Triune Brain, Triune Mind, Triune Worldview.”
Released by Brighton Publishing, LLC, the book is currently available from multiple eBook vendors—including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other leading retailers—with the print version scheduled for release through Ingram in mid-2019.
“Triune Brain, Triune Mind, Triune Worldview” explores a trinity of perspectives based on the intimate interface of a Triune Brain (an oversimplified view of our evolved reptile brain, primitive mammalian brain, and newly evolved primate brain), the Triune Mind (consisting of conscious, unconscious, and nonconscious processes), and a Triune Worldview, (wherein neuroscience, mental health, and religion overlap and mutually inform each other).
“The perpetual struggle with religious controversies is largely unhelpful and unnecessary,” Klemm said. “This book’s focus on the interface between neuroscience, mental health, and religion will help all readers think and feel anew in a mentally healthy way in pursuit of happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual wholeness.”
“This stimulating, provocative, and enlightening book gives a very positive view of the relation of neuroscience to religion and the need for a revitalized approach to religious thought,” Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Oxford University.
Though officially retired from Texas A&M as an Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, Klemm continues scholarship and teaching at Texas A&M. He teaches VIBS/NRSC 201, History of Neuroscience, VIBS 407, Core Ideas in Neuroscience, and VIBS 408, Neuroscience and Religion.
Klemm’s new book grew out of work that he and biomedical sciences students did over five semesters of his “Neuroscience and Religion” course, which is of special interest to the pre-medical students who comprise most of the class’s enrollment, according to Klemm.
A pioneer in the field of neurotheology, Klemm is a Texas A&M and Sigma Xi “Distinguished Scientist,” a distinguished alumnus of Auburn University, and is listed in 19 biographical publications, including Marquis’ Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
He is a widely published researcher in multiple areas of neuroscience and can write and speak with authority at all levels of neuroscience from membrane biology to human cognition. He has published 21 books, many of them for lay audiences. He also is a writer on learning and memory for Psychology Today and on aging wellness for his local newspaper.
In addition, he has been recruited to serve as editor of a special series on neuroscience in religion by the scholarly journal Religion, and on April 15-16, he will be giving invited presentations on this subject at Texas State University and for a public session with citizens of San Marcos.
