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The God-Shaped Hole

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God-Shaped Hole by Veronica Brady, who is with the Department of English and Cultural Studies in the University of Western Australia, has a thought-provoking collection of essays and speeches she has made to prominent and important audiences. In these speeches she explores contemporary literary and secular works and gives her perspective on how these point to "Other," as missed by our religious orders and churches of today. She points out that the Aboriginals of Australia have always known and followed this Mystery, which modern society has cast off or ignored or denied. By omitting the spiritual part of our lives, we moderns have created a vacuum, or God-Shaped Hole, within us individually and as a society, and we don't know what the discomfort is. She points out how literary works, without naming God, reveal to us the great need in our lives to fill this void by seeking the Mystery. She feels that organized religion of today has missed the opportunity of leading people there because of the degeneration into dogma and meaningless ritual. An astute and deep read