Defining a moment in human self-awareness four centuries in the making, "Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit" offers a way to move beyond the either/or choice of reason versus intuition--a dichotomy that ultimately leaves either the mind or the heart wanting. In doing so, it seeks to resolve an age-old conflict at the root of much human dysfunction, including today's global ecological crisis.

An outgrowth of C. David Pruett's breakthrough undergraduate honors course, "From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping Myth for a New Millennium," "Reason and Wonder"...