A similar book (busting out from materialism,) even heavier on the biology/science that I am listening to (have to take breaks from it since it is too heavy on medical, chemical, anatomical and biological references) is the audio book titled Science and Reincarnation. It's along the line of other books that interest me in the area of Who Are We? What? Why? Where? When? exploration and books about Consciousness. I'm going to buy this book in hard copy format too so I can reference it. Luckily, the money I wasted can be recouped. The ultimate outcome of my experience with this book is a waste of a few hours of my time. The issue is that he doesn't connect the dots in any logical way. Like I said, he does discuss science, and his understanding seems solid. (Spoilers) The "hypothesis" (I think) is that Amazonian people have a tremendous understanding of the medicinal uses of plants, due to their ability to see DNA, a conclusion he came to after seeing snakes during a hallucination, realizing that snakes are found everywhere and resemble strands of DNA. It's not that the science in the book is bad, it's that the science is not used to back up his irrational thoughts. I'm less baffled by the amount of people who think this is science. After listening to the entire thing, I'm baffled by how many people have reportedly enjoyed the book. Reading reviews of this book, I imagined it would be interesting, even if not necessarily offering a narrative I agree with.
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