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A book by Dr Gary M. Pritchard

INEFFABLE

A voyage into the mystery between science and spirituality

FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO CURIOUS TO DISMISS IT — AND TOO SCEPTICAL TO BELIEVE IT.

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Cover of Ineffable: A Voyage Into the Mystery Between Science and Spirituality, by Dr Gary M. Pritchard

There seem to be two very popular responses to mystery: “That’s nonsense.” And “That’s definitely the universe speaking to you.” There is a third possibility: I don’t know. Let’s look.

This isn’t a book about what you should believe. It’s about what might happen when we’re brave enough to admit: we don’t know.

The voyage

Three parts, one crossing

  1. Part I

    Weighing Anchor

    Qualifications. Research. Evidence. Academic credibility. A fortress with excellent views — and the question: what if it’s still a cage?

  2. Part II

    Deep Water

    Psychology, neuroscience, mysticism, psychedelics, religion and philosophy. Looking for answers to experiences that couldn’t be explained — or quite dismissed. “I didn’t find certainty. I found something more interesting. Mystery.”

  3. Part III

    Finding Sea Legs

    Maybe the test of spirituality isn’t what happens during the extraordinary moments. Maybe it’s what happens afterwards. In the argument. In the traffic jam. In the supermarket.

The author

A recovering academic

Professor. Researcher. Former evangelical. Psychotherapist. Sceptic. Eight-year-old announcing he'd met God. Man reading The Secret with something approaching intellectual nausea. Psychedelic voyager. Husband, father, grieving son. Someone sufficiently open to mystery to explore it and sufficiently suspicious to wonder whether he has constructed “an elaborate monument” to his own self-deception.

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