Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins by Steve McIntosh is a heady brew of science and philosophy. This isn’t a quick-and-easy guide for practical spiritual growth. Rather, it’s a dense and thorough explication of an integrative understanding of evolution. For McIntosh, evolution is not a strictly scientific, materialistic subject; it touches on every aspect of reality: “there is no getting around the metaphysical connotations of evolution as a ubiquitous cosmic process.” And it is this new “philosophy of evolution” that will play a decisive role in both our individual spiritual development as well as the continued development of humanity.
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