Science & Spirit
Volume 37 Number 4 Winter 2012
8 THE OLDER WRITER IN THE UNDERWORLD Julia Alvarez
Remembering and renewing, with Demeter, Persephone, and Hades
14 A CONVERSATION WITH THE ELEMENTS Mark Nepo
Wisdom and practical guidance on opening to the world
20 DOES CONSCIOUSNESS DEPEND ON THE BRAIN? Chris Carter
A persuasive defense of the primacy of mind
30 ELIZABETH Tracy Cochran
An unsolved mystery brings insight
38 WOULDN’T IT BE WONDERFUL?
A conversation with SETI scientist Doug Vakoch and astronomer Rick Forster
42 A CASE FOR ALCHEMY Amy Carpenter Leugs
Alchemy as a way of active imagination
50 TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Dave Pruett
The great priest-scientist’s life and meaning
62 TO READ GOD’S MIND George Beke Latura
Behind it all, stands Pythagoras
68 ENERGY THERAPY Patty de Llosa
A dispatch from the front lines of healing
78 THE MATERIALITY OF THE SOUL Christian Wertenbaker
A provocative new theory on the nature of the soul
86 THE death of the SCIENTIFIC BUDDHA Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Behold the original—and revolutionary—Buddha
94 HOW TO BUILD A HABITABLE PLANET Charles H. Langmuir
and Wally Broecker
Taking our place in the universe
TANGENTS
100 A VISION OF THE ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION Sr. Joan Kirby
The role of religion in the future? A report on the U.N. Rio+20 Conference
106 POST-POST MODERN ART: A RETURN TO BELONGING Marc Gafni
On the art of Claudia Kleefeld and the spiritual life
BOOK REVIEW
118 SACRED SITES
Susan Suntree | reviewed by Miriam Faugno
128 ENDPOINT
