When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist by Chet Raymo |
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"All of my life has been a relearning to prayAa letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition 'Me, Lord, me,' instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart." To that end, Raymo (365 Starry Nights) offers a beautiful breviary of his moments of deep attention to the natural world, set in three different landscapes, following the moon cycles of a year. This professor of physics and astronomy (at Stonehill College in Massachusetts) and Boston Globe columnist divides his year between Massachusetts, the island of Exuma in the Bahamas and the west of Ireland. Each short section in the book links an observation of nature with a profound question or rumination that is rendered in the complementary terms of science and poetry or literature. Raymo is struck by the interconnection of all life while, for example, watching ants maneuver a dead moth across a porch in the Bahamas. He tracks the sun's energy down to the moth and the antsAenergy that is born when protons fuse at the center of Sol. Raymo nails our sense that sun, energy and matter are one with Dylan Thomas's famous line, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower." Celebrating the moon or dragonflies, Virginia Woolf or Thoreau, Raymo shows how scientific observation can become worship. As appealing and accessible as Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell, this marvelous book demonstrates how prayer can be a "meditation on the world, informed by knowledge, open to mystery." (July) FYI: In 1998, Raymo won a Lannan Literary Award.
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...meditations informed not by mysticism but by scientific knowledge, a source of infinite wonder when articulated in writing as clarion as Raymo's. -- Booklist, July 1, 1999
Out of a deep belief in science and a love for natural history, the author builds a contemplative spirituality. -- Orion, Oct-Dec 1999
Raymo's writing is passionate and compassionate, mixing his reverence for the myriad possibilities of life with his amazement at what science has revealed. -- Seattle Times, August 29, 1999
[Raymo] approaches all of creation with wonder and eloquent delight. -- Boston Globe, August 22, 1999 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"All of my life has been a relearning to prayAa letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition 'Me, Lord, me,' instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart." To that end, Raymo (365 Starry Nights) offers a beautiful breviary of his moments of deep attention to the natural world, set in three different landscapes, following the moon cycles of a year. This professor of physics and astronomy (at Stonehill College in Massachusetts) and Boston Globe columnist divides his year between Massachusetts, the island of Exuma in the Bahamas and the west of Ireland. Each short section in the book links an observation of nature with a profound question or rumination that is rendered in the complementary terms of science and poetry or literature. Raymo is struck by the interconnection of all life while, for example, watching ants maneuver a dead moth across a porch in the Bahamas. He tracks the sun's energy down to the moth and the antsAenergy that is born when protons fuse at the center of Sol. Raymo nails our sense that sun, energy and matter are one with Dylan Thomas's famous line, "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower." Celebrating the moon or dragonflies, Virginia Woolf or Thoreau, Raymo shows how scientific observation can become worship. As appealing and accessible as Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell, this marvelous book demonstrates how prayer can be a "meditation on the world, informed by knowledge, open to mystery." (July) FYI: In 1998, Raymo won a Lannan Literary Award.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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...meditations informed not by mysticism but by scientific knowledge, a source of infinite wonder when articulated in writing as clarion as Raymo's. -- Booklist, July 1, 1999
Out of a deep belief in science and a love for natural history, the author builds a contemplative spirituality. -- Orion, Oct-Dec 1999
Raymo's writing is passionate and compassionate, mixing his reverence for the myriad possibilities of life with his amazement at what science has revealed. -- Seattle Times, August 29, 1999
[Raymo] approaches all of creation with wonder and eloquent delight. -- Boston Globe, August 22, 1999 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Imaging Life After Death: Love That Moves The Sun And Stars by Kathleen Fischer on page 93, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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