Since the early 20th century, medical materialism has so undermined our trust within the human means for transcendence that many folks locate it tough to think in God and the human soul. The materialist standpoint has not just solid its spell at the normal sciences, psychology, philosophy, and literature, it has additionally enthralled pop culture, which deals little or no to inspire the “soul’s upward yearning”.

There are many symptoms of the frequent lack of self assurance in our skill to jump upward, and those were famous by means of thinkers as assorted as Carl Jung (psychiatrist), Mircea Eliade (historian of religion), Gabriel Marcel (philosopher), and authors C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Their observations have been verified by means of a 2004 learn released within the American magazine of Psychiatry that associated the absence of faith with a marked raise in suicide, meaninglessness, substance abuse, separation from relations, and different mental problems.

Thus, the lack of transcendence is negatively affecting a whole society. it's stealing from numerous contributors their feel of happiness, dignity, beliefs, virtues, and destiny.Ironically, the facts for transcendence is larger this day than in the other interval in historical past. the matter is, this proof has now not been compiled and made generally available—a problem Father Spitzer aspires to fulfill with this book.

Father Spitzer’s paintings presents a brilliant gentle in the course of the darkness by means of featuring conventional and modern facts for God and a transphysical soul from a number of significant resources. It exhibits that we're transcendent beings with souls in a position to surviving physically loss of life; that we're self-reflective beings conscious of and ready to attempt towards ideal fact, love, goodness, and sweetness; that we have got the honor of being created within the very picture of God. If we underestimate those truths, we undervalue each other, underlive our lives, and underachieve our destiny.