Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination

Many books criticising religion have appeared in recent years but most have been written by people who never had a religious belief or lost it early in life. This one is different, in that it offers an inside view of what it feels like to be immersed in two quite different belief systems, Roman Catholicism and Transcendental Meditation, and then to leave them. In both cases, though for different reasons, my main feeling has been one of relief. No doubt for temperamental reasons, I find that...