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Divinity Within Ourselves (Book 2): A Memoir
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Divinity Within Ourselves proposes that belief in God naturally arises from the operation of the human brain, particularly from consciousness of mind itself. This point of view came four decades after the author weaned himself away from the theology of the Catholic Church. Deeply religious from early childhood, Derek Lyons rebelled from God during a wrenching experience while he was a teenager. Here is the story of his conversion, and how and why it happened.
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D. Derek Lyons
The author has been a patent attorney for over 30 years, now with a practice in the New York City area. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1951, the first of seven children. He went to Lehigh University, where he majored in math, physics, and psychology. He has painted in acrylics and sculpted in clay. He currently reads, thinks, and writes. He is married with one child.
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