Inside the Mind of God

by Michael Reagan

Book Overview

"Who seeing the stunning order in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890151971
• ISBN13: 9781890151973
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Templeton Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book

This book has beautiful pictures of various kinds of cells. I only wish that I had known that some of the pictures are of life threatening diseases.

Outstanding Visuals and Inspiring Quotes

Upon seeing the title and cover of this book, I picked it up from the bookstore. It is lovely eye-candy! It has a colorful picture of a human brain on the front cover. Always curious as to what is in the mind of God, it was a have-to-have it book. It combines for the most part beautiful images (and some stunningly beautiful) of the inner body processes blown up to mega-size and, in some cases, resembling a kind of impressionistic art. Even cancer cells have a certain beauty blown up many times their actual size. Among the many images, with carefully chosen quotations that match each picture so well, are adrenaline crystals; synaptic connections between neurons (brain cells), the flu virus, normal white blood cells, and so much more! What this kind of compilation does is to bring home the resounding truth that we are a living universe---each of us. We are not so different than the grand Hubble shots of deep space that have become so sought after. While we metaphysicians "knew" this truth intuitively, it is now verifiable by photography. It is a bit like when aura photography came into vogue and made the electromagnetic field accessible visually to the masses. This is a book of inspiration, and it succeeds grandly in its intent. I highly recommend it to those of you who can be fascinated by your inner workings and inspired by the wonderful quotes which accompany each picture.

Beautiful photos, great quotes

Beautiful photographs of brain cells, brain imaging, molecules of neurotransmitters and much more, with exquisitely chosen quotes of scientists who sit on both sides of the divided opinions about whether the brain is the source of mind, or whether spirit embodies itself in the brain (mostly emphasizing the latter). Here are a few: There are a limitless number of different sciences, but without one basic science, that is, what is the meaning of life and what is good for the people, all other forms of knowledge and art become idle and harmful entertainment." --Leo Tolstoy (p. 33) Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. --Pope John Paul II (p. 84) I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much. --Mother Teresa (p. 95) In the final analysis, the question of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. --Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (p. 124) An excellent holiday gift.

Beautiful and poetic ... and that's just the pictures

Pairing startlingly beautiful photographs of the most minute aspects of life -- neurons, cancer cells, adrenaline, anthrax bacillus, embryonic stem cells, sperm and egg, DNA and more -- with great thoughts of scientists, clergy, philosophers, writers, political leaders and artists is utterly ingenious in this book.For example, a gentle blue photograph of a breast cancer cell appears beside a quote from Mother Teresa: "I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much."This book not only offers a glimpse inside the human body and related "landscapes," but also a glimpse of great thinking. I found myself marveling at the photographs and mulling the ideas that appear with them.

Stunning photography! Thought provoking!

Page after page, the photographs compiled by Michael Reagan are a microscopic tour of the universe within us all. Beautifully colored photos of almost every part of the human body are here: synapses, DNA, the human embryo during early cell division, cancer cells, and AIDS. There is also a small section of substances used during religious ceremonies of each major religion.Certainly this book may never convince everyone of God's amazing work or the existence of God at all. But the book leads the reader to acknowledge that beneath the simplest substance, the most mundane aspect of ourselves, is a huge, intricate and orderly universe which, although invisible to the naked eye, exists just as surely as we do. Strongly recommended.