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Summary: Good intentions, but fails to compel
Review: This book fails to set up and maintain a logical flow to advance its thesis. He should have started with the appendix as a list of axioms, then proven statements from those axioms to construct his theory. Instead, the text is rather scatter-brained and lacking in conciseness. He fails to give good definitions of many terms used (light, dark, etc), which leaves them as free parameters instead of giving them precise moral values. To me, the objective of furthering the implementation of quantum physics within theology is admirable, though questionable in its justification. His principles are vast, unproveable generalizations of a poorly understood physical theory which itself is only an approximation to more fundamental theories (such as string/M-theory, if it turns out to really be a physical theory). So, even ignoring the free parameters, the applicability of his axioms to our universe is unclear. Moreover, as faith is the one truly subjective human pursuit, completely lacking in objective data to ground together multiple viewpoints, any arguments involving faith fail to compel. This is because there is no reason for all beings to share the same faith, no evidence to draw or repel potential believers. Some may argue that holy scriptures are pieces of such evidence, however they are analogous to a report on a physical experiment conducted long ago which states only the results of the experiment, with no description of the setup itself. In this case, the experiment is not repeatable, since we don't know how it was conducted, and we have no way of knowing how much the authors' personal prejudices or mistakes influenced his/her report. Holy scriptures give, at best, second hand accounts of the true objective data (the miracles, revelations, etc) and since we are unable to witness those miracles, etc, for ourselves we are simply left with interesting, useless tales. Thus, O'Murchu's axioms which ascribe a definite nature to the supernatural, hence require faith to be held as true, are merely arbitrary choices within an infinite array of equally weighted possibilities. Therefore, I find his project to be flawed in both its basis and its execution.
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Summary: Good Table of Contents - Poor Book
Review: This book is based on very healthy premises I think and the Table of Contents looks great ! What the author does with it though is very confusing. I have not found one chapter that was fully developped or even well understood. Even the chapter on mystics is I think quite poor and/or assumes you know everything about the subject. I think the book too ambitious and the author not clearly knowing where he wanted to take the reader. Very disappointing if you already have some insight on the subjects tackled.
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