I read Alexander's book, and it left me cold, for some reason. It didn't ring particularly true or didn't resonate with me, or something. But I do believe in an eternal soul, due to my own experiences and study. I appreciate that Sam Harris--unlike other professional skeptics--at least acknowledges that we don't know it all. I have no time for those who insist that we live in a mechanistic universe where there are no mysteries, only magic tricks. It's like the old fable of the blind men and the elephant--we're trying to make sense of a vast, layered multiverse from a very narrow vantage point using a primitive set of tools.
+1 The blind man and elephant. Exactly what I wanted to say.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
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