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Healing the Rift: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Spirituality

Healing the Rift: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Spirituality
By Leo Kim

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Science attempts to explain the world without a creator, spirit or design, constantly seeking new information with which to test its theories. Spirituality holds that the most important aspects of the world are beyond human comprehension. It labels this realm "spirit," "soul," and "God." Who is right? Are humans simply a cluster of cells that eventually dies? Is there a greater plan? Leo Kim asked himself these questions again and again. As a scientist developing new drugs for the treatment of cancer, Kim felt powerless as he watched patients die, an experience that led him on a decades-long quest to understand human existence. Healing the Rift chronicles his metaphysical and scientific journey. Kim reveals how recent scientific breakthroughs led him to the belief that the world is a blending of mind and spirit, explaining the science behind his discovery in entertaining, approachable terms that help readers make sense of their own search for answers.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #208056 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-11-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 256 pages

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"Healing the Rift is an exciting exploration of the intersections of science and spirituality. Kim's exploration takes us into the mysteries of consciousness, the most important frontier confronting our civilization. This book will excite and delight anyone who is ready to move beyond the prevailing dogmas of both conventional science and religion."
— Larry Dossey, MD. Author of Healing Words and The Power of Premonitions

"Congratulations to Leo Kim for writing a terrific, far-seeing, integrative and very readable book! He has great writing skill and a remarkable ability to communicate very complex material in a lucid format. This book is highly recommended for all readers, especially those sincerely interested in the connections between science and spirituality. There is great wisdom in this book!"
- William A. Tiller, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Materials Science, Stanford University

“I found Leo Kim’s Healing the Rift riveting. He offered easy-to-understand word pictures of scientific findings that described what the vast majority of near-death experiencers actually encounter during their episodes. He showed how the latest in science brings us closer to what our faith traditions have been telling us for thousands of years. Lots of books try to do this, but Leo Kim’s does this one better. He winds up walking us through the illusions of time and space just as experiencers of transformative states really experience it. He gives us words where there are so few. He gives us questions that become answers that lead to heartfelt sighs of relief that at last… someone took the time to explain the strange but true.”
- P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., researcher of near-death states and author of nine books including The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences

"If ever there was a time for healing to occur between science and spirituality, it is now. Dr. Kim has written a highly readable and graceful book revealing how contemporary science is enabling us to envision and experience the larger spiritual reality of life and the Universe."
- Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Medicine, The University of Arizona, and author of The Afterlife Experiments and The G.O.D. Experiments

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Blends the author's personal insights and reflections with those of science and spiritual realms5
Most U.S. people believe in a spiritual dimension - yet most also believe in science, and there's a gap between scientific and spiritual belief. HEALING THE RIFT seeks to close this gap, offering a scientific journey that explores the nature of reality using metaphors, examples, and anecdotes. From the nature of life to the healing mind, HEALING THE RIFT blends the author's personal insights and reflections with those of science and spiritual realms.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Some truly profound perspectives along the frontier of science5
Leo Kim has some of the most fascinating and poignant perspectives on how emerging discoveries in science could be making room for the reality of spirit and soul. Consciousness, in an information based universe, could be more the rule than the exception. Dr. Kim begins with a review of the amazing processes that allowed the universe, and then life on earth, to evolve and emerge. And although I graduated in physics, there were numerous fascinating bits of information here that were new to me. The book revolves around the assertion that everything in the universe, including all matter and energy, is simply energy at the most fundamental level. Everything that takes place involves the processing of energy and the transformation of information which in turn leads us to consciousness. Dr. Kim ties some of the latest discoveries in physics, which he explains in an easy to understand way, with some of the most fundamental beliefs of the world's oldest religions. He reminds the reader along the way that both contemporary physics and the world's greatest religions both acknowledge that our perception of reality is extremely limited and there is much that our humble minds cannot comprehend. This has to be one of the best works I have read on the topic linking the spiritual to the physical. It is comprehensive yet easy to read, and leaves the reader in awe of who we are and the universe we live in.

A refreshingly wonderful, fascinating, enlightening, and simple read!5
In astonishingly clear and simple composition, Healing the Rift explores the deeply complex theories and phenomena of quantum processes and their cause/effect relationships with our perception of reality, consciousness, mind, spirit, and life's origins. In addition, it identifies how many religious doctrines explain the same wonders, basing their beliefs on faith rather than scientific data. The author combines his years of research and personal experiences with recent scientific findings, and delivers wonderful insights that bring religion and science closer together. In reading Healing the Rift, it becomes apparent that science, too, ultimately bases many of its theories on faith, and that in fact science and religion complement each other, and enrich one another by sharing their respective views.

I highly recommend this insightful book to anyone! Healing the Rift will provide ample benefit of simple thought provoking explanations, and new insights about life and the universe to anyone, whether scientific, religious, or neither.