Cover of Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything

Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything

Jed McKenna argues that the sense of mystery troubling us may be nothing more than a belief held inside the mind. Rather than accepting that life's deepest questions must stay unanswerable, he asks whether the answers are plain and have been in front of us all along. He sets out a single explanation of existence meant to stand apart from both religious doctrine and scientific orthodoxy, and to be understood without special training. The book presents this explanation as a direct way of seeing the world without its comfortable illusions.

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