This book explores the complex dynamics between science, art, and religion, delving into their capacities and limitations in satisfying our deep needs for meaning, connection, and joy, while inviting readers to reflect on their coexistence and the enrichment of the human soul.
“The Human Spirit” offers a profound and multidimensional reflection on the universal quest for happiness. The book explores this quest through three inseparable prisms: science, art and religion, each revealing complementary aspects of our relationship with happiness.
The author invites readers to deconstruct the seductive illusion of perfect happiness, often imposed by social and media norms. This collective pressure fuels a ‘rush towards emptiness’, characterised by rampant consumption and a relentless pursuit of fleeting pleasures that ultimately disappoint.
By exposing this futile quest, the book encourages a healthy awareness of our true aspirations.
At the heart of this journey, science is presented as an infinite quest between rationality and wonder in the face of the irrational; art, as a space for emotional expression and imagination, offering access to the sensitive and the invisible; and finally, religion, oscillating between spiritual refuge and the risk of dogmatic confinement, prompts a lucid questioning of the divine and inner freedom.
“The Human Spirit” is much more than an essay: it is an invitation to embrace the complexity of existence, to accept imperfection and to find a paradoxical serenity in the raw beauty of the present moment. It proposes to weave harmonious links between science, art and religion, and to adopt a new sensibility based on compassion, creativity and intelligence.
In short, this book offers an original way to rethink happiness, far from illusions, towards an enlightened and deeply human authenticity.
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