The author's deeply rational conviction that the divine element is part of the natural process -- not strictly supernatural as he says but paraphysical -- leads him to assert that a universal response to the experience of encounter with God is just as much a natural response as any other that may be studied by the biological sciences.

The function of the Religious Experience Research Centre is the study of contemporary spiritual and religious experience. It is situated at the University of Wales, Lampeter, together with its archive of accounts of spiritual experiences and specialist library
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The Research Centre was founded by Sir Alister Hardy in 1969 as the Religious Experience Research Unit at Manchester College, Oxford. It moved to Lampeter from its previous home at Westminster College, Oxford in July 2000.

The Centre's aim is to study, in a disciplined and as scientific a manner as possible, contemporary accounts of religious or spiritual experiences and to publish its findings.

This book looks at the arguments that being religious is part of the natural human condition ( )