D. Derek Lyons
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Divinity Within Ourselves proposes that belief in God naturally arises from the operation of the human brain, particularly from the consciousness of mind itself. Just as our brains project our sensations and perceptual constructs onto the external world, we too apprehend our minds as a whole as immanent in individual objects and the background space of the universe. Belief in God partakes in the inherent unifying processes of the brain, which incorporate...
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English
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Divinity Within Ourselves proposes that belief in God naturally arises from the operation of the human brain, particularly from consciousness of mind itself. This point of view came four decades after the author weaned himself away from the theology of the Catholic Church. Deeply religious from early childhood, Derek Lyons rebelled from God during a wrenching experience while he was a teenager. Here is the story of his conversion, and how and why...