Inventing God: Psychology of Belief and the Rise of Secular Spirituality

Listening to Michael Shermer Show. Here's the first one. Inventing God

Psychology of belief and the rise of Saric spirit secular spirituality. Boy I'm having a hard time reading my own writing here. Today he could see why I had him on for that. But his other new book that just came out is called End of the World. Civilization and its fate. It seems like if you just watch the news That's a rather uh ominous title because it often feels like it's the end of the world. John, how you doing? Nice to see ya. Oh, it's nice to see you and thanks so much for having me on your show. Uh you've been a big fan I've been a big fan of you for many years.

Oh, you're the one. Thank you. Where are you? In you're in Ontario, Canada? Uh yes. Yeah. Okay. South central Ontario. You know, I don't think I've ever ha uh in fact I know I've never had a psychoanalyst on the show. I've had a lot of cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists and

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