Spiritual Science: Why Science Needs Spirituality to Make Sense of the World

In our culture, it’s often assumed that there are two ways of interpreting the world: in a rational scientific way, or an irrational religious way. This book shows that there is a third alternative: a spiritual, or “panpsychist” view of reality that transcends both conventional science and religion, and answers many of the riddles that neither can explain.

   • Beyond Materialism attempts to show that it is possible to have a rational view of the world without being a materialist. In this book Steve Taylor shows that one can be an intellectual and a rationalist, without automatically denying the existence of seemingly “irrational” phenomena. It will show that it is actually much more rational to be open to the existence of such phenomena. In this book Steve Taylor presents: How the materialist model of reality developed, and details its cultural consequences

   • The argument for a panpsychist or spiritual view of reality, drawing on the insights of philosophers, physicists, mystics, as well as spiritual traditions and indigenous cultures 

   • Many issues that don’t make sense from a materialist perspective but can be more easily understood from a spiritual or panpsychist perspective. 

   • How the standard materialist explanation of science often fails when trying to explain topics such as, human consciousness, altruism and seemingly “anomalous’ phenomena such as near-death experiences, telepathy, pre-cognition and “higher” states of consciousness or spiritual experiences 

   • A compelling argument for a vision of reality which is fully compatible with both modern science and ancient spiritual teachings.