Everything I Know About the Universe: Meditations on Reality and Spirituality from a Doctor, a Patient, a Scientist, and a Reluctant Believer by Anonymous has been released worldwide. This 222-page collection of essays tackles the apparent incompatibilities of science and theology, reframing each and showing ways they can coexist. By looking at large existential questions – where we come from and why we exist – through an interdisciplinary lens, the author finds an intersection of the physical and the metaphysical that brings both fields into new light.
Seeking answers that are “scientifically driven and spiritually informed,” the writing offers new modes of looking at spirituality through the lenses of evolutionary biology, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and other academic disciplines. In giving equal criticism to the dogmatic shortcomings of both sides of this age-old debate, the book challenges assumptions, provides deep insights for readers of all backgrounds, and takes a bold stance against increasingly siloed schools of thought.
The diligent research methods stem from the author’s background as a professor, editor, and practicing physician, and give the author a scientifically-minded approach to the big questions of “how” and “why.” Yet personal and practical experiences have also taught him the importance of spiritual nourishment, leading to a balanced, holistic worldview that dismantles the starting assumptions of the bitter conflict between theists and atheists.
Armed with this inclusive, elegant approach to one of humanity’s most pressing debates, the essays delve into crises facing our species, deepening divisiveness, and the urgent need for reconciliation for the good of society at large. The essays are each standalone works of critical, theoretical, and reflective writing, but serve in concert to make a powerful case for the importance of spiritual actualization, as well as the balancing necessity of analytical and data-driven intellectualism.
A fascinating critique that spans the ideological spectrum, this revelatory call for social, spiritual, and psychological change shows that the rift between science and theology is illusory, and provides a context for coexistence that could reshape the world.
Everything I Know About the Universe (ISBN: 9798327433878) can be purchased through retailers worldwide, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon. The paperback retails for $9.99, and the ebook retails for $0.99. Review copies and interviews are available upon request.
From the back cover:
Written from the perspective of a doctor and scientist, Everything that I Know About the Universe is a selection of essays explaining why we need to rethink some of our basic assumptions about science and theology and how the two fields of thought can coexist. The need to ask where we came from and why we’re here is a fundamental part of being human. This text seeks to take those two questions and reframe them to show how they can be scientifically answered, but spiritually informed, with appeals made to evolutionary biology, quantum mechanics, cosmology, and large number theory. Along the way, the author lays out definitions for the mind, consciousness, and spirituality, and shows that even if we can’t have definitive answers to the big existential questions of life, asking those questions is one of the most important things that we can do. The essays also delve into some of the most important critiques of traditional religious and scientific perspectives on the universe.
About the author:
The author is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington Medical Center and also a physician with the Veterans Health System. As a professor, the author has written over 50 peer-reviewed publications in the medical literature. As an editor, the author has edited and reviewed manuscripts from the leading journals in the field. In addition to being a doctor and professor, the book is inspired by the author’s journey as a patient, suffering from a rare cardiac condition. Faced with his own mortality, and armed with academic knowledge of the condition that he was suffering, the author sought to revisit fundamental questions to what it means to be a good person. This was difficult to do, because asking fundamental, holistic questions is challenging in an academic setting. The reasons why academia is not conducive to holistic questions are many, but centrally, academia in the 1700s fundamentally changed course, with a separation between the sciences and spirituality. Prior to that era, knowing the universe was both a spiritual and a scientific task, and scientists often took both duties seriously. In our current era of increasingly acrimonious debate between atheists and theists, the complementary nature of science and spirituality is even more obscured by post-modern discussions. But based on his personal health challenges and his experience as a physician and professor, the author of this book sought to reconcile the gap between the sciences and spirituality. And the more he focused on this gap, the more it was clear that scientific and spiritual questions have a complementary role.
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