All Things Are Full of Gods - The Mysteries of Mind and Life

A world-renowned philosopher-s genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness -[A] masterpiece. . . . The most thorough and rigorous account of the nature of reality to be published in a century.--James Matthew Wilson, World Magazine In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have gathered to discuss the nature of existence, the mystery of mind, and whether there is a transcendent God from whom all things come. Turning to Eros, Psyche asks, -Do you see this flower, my love?- So begins David Bentley Hart-s unprecedented exploration of the mystery of consciousness. Writing in the form of a Platonic dialogue, he systematically subjects the mechanical view of nature that has prevailed in Western culture for four centuries to dialectical interrogation. Powerfully rehabilitating a classical view in which mental acts are irreducible to material causes, he argues through the gods- exchanges that the foundation of all reality is spiritual or me