Subtitled Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's behind It All, Haisch's personal take on the nature of God is typical of a spiritual man of science. His answer to "What's behind it all" is consciousness; God is an infinite, timeless consciousness. But he also honors the Kabbalah in noting that "all descriptions of God are necessarily wrong, because an infinite, timeless consciousness can have no characteristics that can be properly translated into physical terms. Love, light, and bliss come the closest."
Haisch is an astrophysicist and Catholic seminary drop-out; currently he says he's an independent Christian who occasionally attends a Unity Church. He believes that scientists who rigidly adhere to a reductionist materialism are as dogmatic as religionists who ignore the principles of science.
Mystics of all religious traditions invert science's assumption that consciousness is a byproduct of the material brain and its neurochemistry. They say that matter does not create consciousness; consciousness creates matter. Quantum mechanics is coming close to agreeing. "In the physics laboratories of today, we acknowledge an enigmatic, but undeniable, relationship between consciousness and the outcome of quantum experiments."
Excellent book for pulling science and spirituality together.
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