In the Beginning Was the Spirit: Science, Religion, and Indigenous Spirituality. This item is unavailable.In the Beginning Was the Spirit: Science, Religion, and Indigenous Spirituality

Poets knew it. Mystics knew it. Indigenous people knew it. Now Diarmuid O'Murchu unearths what religion has often forgotten or ignored - the power and presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the breath of all things. Using insights from science and spirituality O Murchu recaptures the enduring fascination of an ancient belief. He gives us a contemporary and unforgettable understanding of the source of everything. In the Beginning Was the Spirit is the crowning achievement of an author whose seminal works have influenced the way we understand God, religion and the world.

A priest, missioner, and social psychologist, Diarmuid O'Murchu has worked with homeless people and refugees on three continents. He has written a number of pioneering books, and led workshops in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, India, and Peru and in several African countries. He lives in London where (when not reading every book every published and writing his own) he works as a counsellor in bereavement work and with AIDS-HIV patients.