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Why does God survive, flourish even, in our secular age? This book recognizes that religion and science, two different ways of making sense of the world, are indeed irreconcilable. It does not seek to fit either one into the world view of the other. Instead it argues that we need to embrace this incompatibility, and recognize that this mystery stems from essential facts about the psychological make up of the human being. The book draws on two sources of data to advance its argument; the findings of cognitive science about the limitations and characteristics of the way in which our brains are wired up, and experience; experience documented by revered mystics of the past, and experience of people of our time who have ventured into the borderland between mysticism and madness. We need a more sophisticated understanding of spirituality to recognize how our yearning for the sacred can be abused and exploited, whether by dangerous fundamentalism or cynical capitalist advertising.
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Isabel Clarke combines working as a clinical psychologist in an NHS acute mental health hospital with publishing and speaking on psychology and spirituality. Her earlier book, Psychosis and Spirituality: exploring the new frontier made considerable waves - three conferences and a yahoo discussion list which flourishes to this day. Her earlier career in medieval history, and her involvement with the spiritual wing of the ecological movement, through Greenspirit provides a broad cultural context for her ideas. She also helped to found the Spiritual Crisis Network.
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Absolutely first class! It came into the can't put it down category so I have read it cover to cover. Ian Mowl, Co-ordinator of GreenSpiritI have thoroughly enjoyed reading this. It is groundbreaking territory, fascinating, good, topical and relevant. Janice Hartley, Secretary of The Spiritual Crisis Network Development Group
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