EXPANDING HUMAN SPIRIT

Westerners look to science to explain the way things are. Yet science often overlooks something essential to life: the human spirit. Although spirit cannot possibly be seen through the lens of a microscope, captured on a video camera, or explained through scientific experiments, few of us would deny that it exists. Huston Smith dismantles the walls that separate science and religion, breathing new life into our search for truth, meaning and the nature of reality. He illustrates eloquently why, "more than any other single factor," the manner in which the "two most powerful forces in history--science and religion--settle into relationship with each other" is what will determine the future of humanity.