Book Launch
Spiritual Crisis Network presents a
free public talk and book launch of
Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God
by Isabel Clarke
and Introduction to the Spiritual Crisis Network by Annabel Hollis
Friday 5th December 2008 from 7pm
in the Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church,
Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT
Refreshments provided
Donations to SCN appreciated
Profits from book sales on night to SCN
This book offers a new way into the paradox. The feared experience of madness becomes the key to the human ability to operate in two ways at once. Science studies our individual side but is blind to our potential to participate in a reality beyond that which we can precisely know - the territory of religion.
Isabel Clarke is a psychological therapist, at home in her work with the experience of people diagnosed with psychosis and other severe mental health problems. Familiarity with their experience, together with a knowledge of the spiritual literature and of research into the processing capacity of the brain, led to her central conclusion:that psychosis and spiritual experience both inhabit that other reality - a reality that is integral and vital for all humans.
This new perspective on faith and psychosis offers insight into the unshakable conviction of both delusion and religious fanaticism. The survival of faith and superstition in a secular age is explained. God is located within the scientific world view in a way that respects mystery and so enlarges rather than diminishes our vision.
More information (chapter list)
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