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by Doug Bennett (Author)
For those seeking a spirituality without the history and dogma of organized religion, Life and Spirit offers a spirituality that arises naturally out of the nature of reality. We are all "of God".
For those seeking support and explanation of their practice of the paranormal arts, Life and Spirit offers an explanation grounded in hard science. Your practice is completely normal.
For those rare science people who what to know if there is any truth in all those spirit and paranormal things that people keep talking about, here is an explanation in the language of the science that you know and love.
Life and Spirit is about the connection between the transcendent quantum field and human life in the material world. But this book does something more than most books on this subject, which is to describe how high-level human function is connected to the quantum field. The connection is a synthesis of several lines of new research in science, so it is a "theoretical" proposal. It does, however, meet the first test of a valid scientific model: it accounts for observations that current models in science cannot explain. Those observations are the paranormal phenomena and the spiritual phenomena. The paranormal includes psychics, medical intuitives, energy healing, premonitions, past lives, and more. The spiritual includes God, soul, spirit, life after death, ghosts and more.
Of course, the science that includes all those things is very different from today's mainstream, reductionist science, and the spirituality that is described by science is very different from the spirituality of today's mainstream, exclusive religions.
The world that emerges from this model is both empowering and threatening for most of us. It is empowering because we are all integral parts of the quantum intelligence that people have always called, God. Threatening because we are integral parts of God and because the medium of our connection and our power is our much-maligned feelings. Descartes and the patriarchy got it wrong.
Author Biography
Doug Bennett grew up in a family with attentive but Cartesian parents. His third generation Scottish mother and engineer father wouldn't talk about feelings if their lived depended on it. Church was for appearances. Being a first child he carefully emulated his parents: the aversion to feeling stuck, but the superficial view of spirit did not. Two books were very influential to his junior high spiritual development. One was Shaw on Religion and the other was Letters from Earth by Mark Twain. Shaw on Religion was a collection of George Bernard Shaw's writings on religion and sprit. Letters from Earth was letters written by Satan during a visit to earth reporting back to his fellow archangels about the state of creation. Both authors were eloquent in their descriptions of the inconsistencies and abuses of organized religions, but both were also deeply spiritual. They described a way of relating to tings beyond the material. So Doug spent his adult years being an engineer like his father, avoiding church whenever possible and reading science fiction and fringe science looking for some evidence of things beyond the material world. After the death of his mother (not properly grieved) and a stressful time at headquarters of a large computer and software company he took up yoga, energy healing and music healing. He started teaching a class on how energy healing worked. That led to the world beyond the material world and ultimately to this book, which is about people being gods and the importance of feelings. Sometimes the things you run away from are the very things you should be looking at. He lives with his wife of 45 years who lived across the street when they were four years old. He has two grown daughters.
