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When Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer, with Charles Darwin, of the theory of evolution, encountered the distant effects of consciousness in the nineteenth century, he did not believe them at first. Yet he courageously investigated them and eventually concluded, "The facts beat me." If the facts are to speak to us, as they did to Wallace, we must put aside our biases about how we believe the human mind ought to behave, and allow ourselves to become vulnerable and open to new truths. If we do so, we may discover something more glorious about our nature than we have recently believed. |
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André Malraux, the French novelist, remarked that the twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be at all. If he is correct, there is great urgency in taking seriously the material in this book, because it holds the promise not just of an expanded view of science but also of a respiritualization of the human vision. |
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Geoffrey Madan, the English writer, once said, "The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset." Let us therefore not lament the fading of the old views but celebrate the glorious emergence of new ones in which we will recognize ancient wisdom as well. |
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LARRY DOSSEY, M.D.
AUTHOR OF PRAYER IS GOOD MEDICINE, HEALING WORDS, AND RECOVERING THE SOUL, AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE |
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