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David Sloan Wilson - Conscious Evolution

Mind & Life

CHAPTER

A Biologist's Perspective on Humanity

i had a thoroughly secular upbringing. My dad was a famous novelist, sloane wilson, and he scorned religion. He thought i was hypocritical. And so that led me to study pro sociality as a biologist. But never did i become involved in any kind of religious or spiritual practice myself. Then i met a interesting fellow named kirk johnson who, like me, got his ph d. In evolutionary biology, but, unlike me, became an ordained episcopal monk between his masters and p d. Kirk has become a central figure in what has become known as the inter spiritual movement. It is like an advanced form of faith and ecumenical thinking.

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