When Beliefs Fail: A Psychology of Hope

by Jim Stempel

Caught between a scientific worldview that scoffs at the spiritual and a mythical worldview that runs counter to scientific reason, many seekers don't know where to turn. For those whose beliefs--religious, agnostic, or atheistic--fail to make sense or provide inner peace, Jim Stempel offers hope. Explaining that the barrier to truth is the limitation of our beliefs, Stempel encourages an expanding of our focus. Just as the noise and movement of a carwash seem chaotic to those who stay inside their cars, so can our lives seem chaotic when we are on the inside looking out. When Beliefs Fail takes us outside our personal sound and fury to look at the whole.

What we see, Stempel suggests, is our own psycho-spiritual evolutionary path, as we and humanity move toward universal truth. He offers us a future which will bring science, religion, philosophy, and psychology together, aided by a changed perspective in education as development is understood to be a lifelong process for every human being.

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001