Takes the reader on a fascinating tour of both Western and Eastern thought.
Fred Alan Wolf brings the most modern perspective of quantum physics to the most ancient questions of religion and philosophy. Wolf explains the differing view of the soul in the works of Plato, Aristotle and St. Thomas - the ancient Egyptian's belief in the nine forms of the soul, the Qabalistic idea of the soul acting in secret to bring spiritual order to a chaotic universe of matter and energy and the Buddhist vision of a "nonsoul." Wolf also mounts a defence of the soul against its modern critics who see it as nothing more than the physical body.