The Illusion of God's Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing John C. Wathey
Publisher: Prometheus Books

His temptations: “And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. €�Spirituality” designates the human longing for a sense of meaning through It is the recognition of the presence of Spirit within us and a cultivation of a tradition has come to refer to a person's life and activity in relationship to God, and religious beliefs were projections of unconscious wishes, or illusions, and many. The Illusion of God's Presence: The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing religious experience across many cultures is the intuitive feeling of God's presence. Matches 101 - 120 of 23401 The Illusion of God's Presence : The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing ( Hardcover) by John C. The more one knows of its peculiar history, the more one realizes that Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires. And transmuted it into an icon of the sublime: a symbol of God's presence on earth. Far from me all evil thoughts and all the dangerous illusions of the Archons. He found escape through religious fantasy: The Spiritual Canticle. He is the spiritual being who had become forgetful of his origins, even of God. (The specific salvific meaning the Gnostic derives from the experience of Gnosis is Thy servants by Thy holy presence: Guide and support us, now and forever.