{"product_id":"soul-a-history-of-the-human-mind-1","title":"Soul : A History of the Human Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully entertaining' - Michael McGirr, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'I am absolutely in awe of this book' - Hugh Mackay AO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Almost everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was part of all of us, that survived the death of the body and ventured to the underworld, or to heaven or hell.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The soul could be saved, condemned, tortured, bought.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And then, mysteriously, the 'soul' disappeared. The Enlightenment called it the '\u003cb\u003emind'\u003c\/b\u003e. And today, neuroscientists demonstrate that the mind is the creation of the brain.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The 'religious soul' lives on, in the minds of the faithful, while the secular 'soul' means whatever you want it to mean.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Soul- A History of the Human Mind\u003c\/i\u003e critically acclaimed historian Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted- to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul\/mind have animated and driven the history of humankind.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Soul\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than a mesmerizing narrative and uniquely accessible way of explaining our story. It transforms our understanding of how history works. It persuasively demonstrates that the beliefs of the soul\/mind are the engines of human history.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Soul : A History of the Human Mind","offer_id":44837701779653,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/soul-a-history-of-the-human-mind-1","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}