Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Paradoxology; Spirituality in a Quantum Universe by Mariam Therese Winter

The title is a made-up word that combines paradox and doxology, but little is said about paradox in this book; instead, it is basically a song of praise to God. It is very lyrical and contains a some lovely poetry written by the author. However, I have reservations about her use of the word "quantum," because the tie to physics is somewhat tenuous. Winter has definitely done her homework and knows about wave/particle duality, nonlocality, and the shift from a Newtonian based reality to a quantum one. But it seems to me that she is just stepping into a spiritual consciousness that was being presented at Universalist and Unitarian churches back in the 1950's.

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