Spiritual Science, by Steve Taylor

Author: Steve Taylor. Review by Noël Staples

'Materialism is a religion with dogmas and doctrines like any other.' | Photo: Book cover of Spiritual Science, by Steve Taylor

Many of us do not realise how much our thinking is structured by materialism. Yet we Friends centre our lives around mystical experience, for which we have no material basis or explanation. It is the beating heart of Quakerism. Steve Taylor’s challenging book about panspiritism (the idea that spirit is in everything, and is a fundamental quality inherent in all space as well as in all material things) works with the idea that consciousness is external to our brains. Our brains are receivers as well as processors.

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