![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A former chemistry student, Ehrenreich is particularly harsh on the brand of “scientific reductionism” that reduces mystical experiences to the misfiring of neurons, a completely internal event. In fact, what she seems to be backing away from is certainty of all kinds in the face of genuine mystery. She is as disdainful of organized religion as ever, writing that when people run up against the inexplicable they call it “ ‘God,’ as if that were some sort of explanation.” And she insists that “the idea of a cosmic loving-kindness perfusing the universe is a serious, even potentially dangerous error.” But she also seems to back away from her atheism, portraying it as just another arrogant belief system she inherited from her father, a man she sums up as the “great man-god and Shiva-like genius of self destruction” and a “habitual liar.” Embracing her secret allows Ehrenreich to make some wise late-life course corrections. ![]()
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