{"id":1954,"date":"2020-06-09T16:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2020-06-09T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T16:48:21","slug":"now-available-smile-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Now Available: <i>Smile of the Universe<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/smile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-1955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/smile.jpg\" alt=\"smile\" width=\"100\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>Our newest book is subtitled &#8220;Miracles in an Age of Disbelief.&#8221; We think that at this perilous moment in time everyone\u2014including disbelievers\u2014would welcome a miracle. While we can&#8217;t make that happen, we can offer you philosopher Michael Grosso&#8217;s examination of miracles in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=106\">Smile of the Universe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, in which he looks beyond religion and science to better understand the parapsychological roots of miraculous phenomena. Prepublication reviewers love the book: &#8220;a tour de force,&#8221; says David E. Presti, professor of neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley, and Stafford Betty, Ph.D. in theology, calls the book &#8220;a brilliant and inspiring reading adventure.&#8221; Oh, and if you&#8217;re wondering about that title: The word <em>miracle<\/em> is rooted in a Sanskrit syllable <em>smi<\/em>, from which we get the English word <em>smile<\/em>. So a miracle refers to a smile induced by certain sensations of awe, beauty, and wonder. Let the universe smile upon us. Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our newest book is subtitled &#8220;Miracles in an Age of Disbelief.&#8221; We think that at this perilous moment in time everyone\u2014including disbelievers\u2014would welcome a miracle. While we can&#8217;t make that happen, we can offer you philosopher Michael Grosso&#8217;s examination of miracles in Smile of the Universe, in which he looks beyond religion and science to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smile-of-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}