““This book is written from a clearly Christian point of view. We do not apologize for this. Our approach is based on empirical theology, an approach largely alien to Western Christianity but familiar to the Christianity of the East. Consistent with Eastern Christianity, we believe the Faith is not just a set of beliefs similar to any other perspective on metaphysical entities. We believe spiritual reality is an empirical phenomenon that is independently verifiable by people who are primed to experience the Spirit. From a Christian context, this is the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Holy Trinity. Spiritual reality is an integral part of the psyche or soul. Consistent with Jung’s vision, the psyche is viewed as an empirical phenomenon that cannot be reduced to anything else. As indicated above, it can be studied introspectively as well as in dreams and mythology. Nevertheless, psychic phenomena are not divorced from the physical world, but are correlated with physical events, especially brain dynamics. It is this correlation that, to some extent, allows psychic phenomena to be verified by our understanding of the brain. If””
