Inside the Mind of God: Images and Words of Inner Space

by Michael Reagan (ed) and Sharon Begley (intro)

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Philadelphia/London: Templeton Foundation 2002 160pp $24.95

Beautiful photographs of brain cells, brain imaging, molecules of neurotransmitters and much more, with exquisitely chosen quotes of scientists who sit on both sides of the divided opinions about whether the brain is the source of mind, or whether spirit embodies itself in the brain (mostly emphasizing the latter).

Here are a few.

There are a limitless number of different sciences, but without one basic science, that is, what is the meaning of life and what is good for the people, all other forms of knowledge and art become idle and harmful entertainment."
Leo Tolstoy (p. 33)

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II (p. 84)

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa (p. 95)

In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer aski9ng why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (p. 124)

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