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[galactic_dev]

This is another book that I read out of the bibliography of the excellent book, The Happiness Hypothesis. It had an intriguing goal:

"I want to demonstrate that spiritual values have naturalistic meaning, that they are not the exclusive possession of organized churches, that they do not need supernatural concepts to validate them, that they are well within the jurisdiction of a suitably enlarged science, and that, therefore, they are the general responsibility of all mankind."

Unfortunately, the book was rather a mess, reading like academic writing that is poorly edited, and having a mess of appendixes (A-I). It had some interesting descriptions of "peak experiences" and the general psychology of "religious" feeling, but it was mostly useful for provoking rather than explaining.