The Spirit as an Emergent Life Force

From Krista Tippett: The Biology of the Spirit — In the summer of 2005, a few colleagues and I went to the Chau­tauqua Institution’s week on “The Brain.” We were invited by Chautauqua’s Religion Department, which was focusing in that same week on the nature of love. Those two subject areas might seem, on the surface, to deal with distinctly separate realms of human reality — reason and emotion. But one of the lessons of the week was that modern science is turning up an intricate and fasci­nating inter­re­la­tionship between them. What we are learning about “the three-pound human brain,” as Sherwin Nuland likes to refer to it, may compel us to reconcile Western civilization’s split between body and spirit. · Go to The Spirit as an Emergent Life Force →