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Ursula Goodenough

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The concept of an independent "spiritual realm" does not augment, for me, the magic of the mystical dimension, whereas to think of this dimension as emergent from our minds makes it all the more wondrous to be a human.
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As quoted in The Faith of Scientists : In Their Own Words (2008) by Nancy K. Frankenberry, p. 491

 
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