Sense and Goodness Without God by Carrier Richard

Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781452059266
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: 2005-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

Quote from: Carl Sagan, “Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization,” Skeptical Inquirer 20:6 (1996), p. 29.

Still important is William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (1902), along with Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (2002).

We now know religious and mystical experience has an identifiable physical cause in the human brain, and is therefore a natural, biological phenomenon: see Eugene D’Aquili & Andrew Newberg, The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience (1999) and Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief (2001); Joseph Giovannoli, The Biology of Belief: How Our Biology Biases Our Beliefs and Perceptions (2000); John Horgan, Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border between Science and Spirituality (2003). See also the bibliography to section IV.2.2.4, “Religion as Medicine.”

Important examples of secular spirituality, with discussion of its very nature, include: Robert Solomon, Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life (2002); David Cortesi, Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths to a Richer Life (2002); Matt Berry, A Human Strategy: Toward a Genuine Spirituality (1999); Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark (1997) and Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (2000). The issue is also discussed by Martin Seligman in Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (2002), and secular spirituality is often exemplified in the writings and speeches of Robert Ingersoll (cf. Roger Greeley, ed., Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches, 1983).

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