The G.O.D. Experiments: How Science Is Discovering God In Everything, Including Us - Hardcover

Schwartz, Gary E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743477405 ISBN 13: 9780743477406

Publisher: Atria, 2006

Synopsis

A Harvard educated practitioner of the "open-minded skeptic" scientific method presents a follow-up to The Afterlife Experiments in which he drew on principles from psychology, quantum physics, and mathematics to examine the science of human spirituality. 40,000 first printing.

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Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he served as professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred scientific papers and coedited eleven academic books. He is the author of The Afterlife Experiments and The Truth About Medium and coauthor of The Living Energy Universe.

William L. Simon is a screen and television writer and bestselling author.

Reviews

Schwartz, a University of Arizona professor of psychology and neurology, believes passionately that 21st-century science provides clues to G.O.D.—the "Guiding, Organizing, Designing" process animating the universe. With the fervor of an evangelist, he draws on quantum physics, psychology, mathematics and evolutionary biology to convert unbelievers to the idea that this G.O.D. exists. He underwent his own conversion after testing the claims of a man who said that his dreams could foretell the future. In a kind of double-blind 10-day experiment, Schwartz found that the man's dreams accurately described locations, randomly selected, for them to visit each day. Schwartz became convinced that nothing happens by chance and that some kind of organizing and guiding process must exist. Order rather than chance is the exception to the rule in the universe, says Schwartz, because all objects are interrelated. Many, both scientists and not, will have trouble accepting Schwartz's sophomoric and overly determined experiments—you can't have sand paintings without a designer, but that doesn't prove that the universe has a designer—but others no doubt will find Schwartz's blend of pop spirituality and pop science satisfying explanations of intelligent design. 5 b&w illus. (Apr. 4)
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Edition details

• Publisher: Atria
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743477405
• ISBN 13: 9780743477406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320