Of course. Is that not obvious!

Read it in the '90s. Excellent book!

Excelent recommendation. It will be my next book

Very interesting

I listen to books using Audible. I would like to listen to Matthew Alper. It seems to me that spiritualism is merely an increase in awareness of being alive.Someone said that the best activities in life are the ones that increase our awareness of being alive. I dunno.
It's difficult to come to terms with the idea that our life is played out sort of on a screen and is projected in our minds for us to watch. Sam Harris is very good at describing this phenomenon. Consciousness is an illusion.As neuroscience progresses, I think we will increase our view of a reductionist view of consciousness.
I wonder what the future holds for criminals as we begin to approach the idea of a deterministic brain. "My brain made me do it" may one day be an excuse for criminals. Our control over our brains is limited at best. Try to sit still with closed eyes and think of nothing for one minute.
Most humans somehow feel that there must be a creator. This is understandable when we view the cosmos. However, to believe there is a God that watches everything we do, especially when we are naked seems ridiculous to me. Why would the God of the universe like to write books?

Perhaps god came about as man’s inability to cope with the idea that he could talk to himself.

I love good books. I belong to a book club that is part of our Omaha Metropolitan Area Humanists Association. We read a variety of books, but this looks like it would be a good fit for us. I'm reading a book right now that I also want to recommend to our club, Fantasyland, How America Went Haywire - A 500 Year History by Kurt Andersen. Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking. I take the book to work with me and read at lunch. One of the managers comes by, sees the cover, takes my book and says "follow me." We have just moved into a new building. He takes me to one of the conference rooms which is the Andersen room, with the author's picture on the wall. The conference rooms in this building are named for local celebrities. The author is from Omaha. Another conference room is the Brando room. And I did get my book back.

I haven’t read that book, but I am guessing how it goes. Neuroscientists have learned that when a person is having a spiritual experience a certain part of the brain becomes more active. Therefore spirituality is nothing but the firing of neurons, a rote mechanical process of no meaning or significance. There is no mystery involved—everything is well understood and under control. No questions please.

If I am wrong please advise me and maybe I’ll get the book. I don’t want to spend time and money on something stupid and bogus.

You might find this interesting along the same lines.

unlike most other mammals we have a very long childhood.
due to this we expect that there are powerful controlling beans that will provide for our every need. of course is our parents, as we get older we realize that our parents are flawed people like ourselves. the need is great the god-shaped vacuum is there, so we create a all powerful parent without human frailties. we can assign the attributes to the God as we see fit. the Roman assigned to their gods based on the values of their society.
the Jews and Hindus selected gods with attributes that reflected their society.
clearly if horses had a god it would look like them and reflect the values of their society.
knowing this does not free us from the god-shaped vacuum, it's still there.
it is my belief we will fill it with something, science, or The voices in your head.