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From the award-winning NPR religious beliefs correspondent comes a fascinating inspection of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled humanity for generations: Can science describe God?
Is religious experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that people can experience but not easily measure? Does your consciousness count entirely on your brain, or does it stretch beyond? In Fingerprints of God, award-winning journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty delves into the discoveries science is making about how precisely faith and spirituality impact us actually and emotionally as it tries to understand if the ineffable place beyond this world can be rationally -even scientifically-explained.
Hagerty interviews some of the world's top researchers to describe what their groundbreaking research discloses about our human being religious experience. From analyses of the mind functions of Buddhist monks and Carmelite nuns, to the possibilities of healing the ill through directed prayer, from what near-death experiences illuminate about the afterlife, Hagerty grows to beyond everything we think we realize to understand what goes on to us when we believe in an increased power.
Paralleling the discoveries of science is Hagerty's own account of her religious evolution. Brought up a Christian Scientist, she was a scrupulous adherent until a small moment as a grown-up brought about a revaluation of her beliefs, which led her to a new thought process about God and faith.
An insightful study of what science is learning about how precisely and just why we consider, Fingerprints of God is also a moving report of 1 person's visit a communion with an increased power and what she uncovered on that trip.
