The Belief Instinct: The Psychology Of Souls, Destiny And The Meaning

Introduction The book I chose to write this report on is titled The Belief Instinct, The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life written by Jesse Bering and published on February 7, 2011. This book speaks about exactly those topics explaining the concept of what our minds can perceive and why they can analyze such behavior that is not a physical characteristic, but something hidden from the human eye. The Belief Instinct follows a fascinating trail that derives what leads human beings to believe in destiny, god, and our purpose in this lifetime. Written with testimonies of multiple point of views that have either supported or disagreed with theories like Darwinism that uses the stand point of evolution or the belief in god that brings multiple types of people together when tragedy hits even though they may not all …show more content…
All these different belief systems are questioned to provide an explanation on what I believe are two questions. The first is regarding how was the idea of god ever implemented into our minds? Not just referring to people who believe in god but speaking generally people all over the world know or have heard about the idea of god whether that be in a different form or even atheists who may not serve any religion at all. The second is why must we figure out the whereabouts about all our assumptions and theories? This correlates with the millions of opinions, theories and experiments conducted to acquire how humans were born onto the face of the earth or if animals also have a mind and feel emotions if not also belief in something like the way humans do. This book conveys all these ideas into a solid combination leaving the reader with a different perspective on how minds may or may not be more than your