Spiritual Evolution

In Spiritual Evolution, Harvard professor George Vaillant, M.D., lays out a brilliant defense of man's inherent spirituality. He shows that our spirituality resides in our uniquely human brain design and in our innate capacity for emotions like love, hope, joy, forgiveness, and compassion, which are located in a different part of the brain than dog-matic religious belief. Evolution has made us spiritual creatures over time, he writes, and we are destined to become even more so. Drawing on a range of psychological research and neuroscience, as well as on history and literature, Spiritual Evolution is at once a work of scientific argument and a lyrical meditation on what it means to be human. It will restore our belief in faith as an essential human striving. Book jacket.

George E. Vaillant, M.D., is a psychoanalyst and a research psychiatrist, one of the pioneers in the study of adult development. He is a professor at Harvard University and directed Harvard’s Study of Adult Development for thirty-five years. He is the author of Aging Well and The Natural History of Alcoholism, and his 1977 book, Adaptation to Life, is a classic text in the study of adult development. He lives in Boston; East Thetford, Vermont; and Victoria, Australia.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Positive Emotions	p. 1
The Prose and the Passion	p. 18
Three Evolutions	p. 40
Faith	p. 65
Love	p. 82
Hope	p. 102
Joy	p. 119
Forgiveness	p. 135
Compassion	p. 151
Awe and Mystical Illumination	p. 164
The Difference Between Religion and Spirituality	p. 185
Notes	p. 207
Permissions	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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