{"id":1973,"date":"2023-12-01T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:54:17","slug":"a-thoroughly-investigated-universal-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"A Thoroughly Investigated Universal Phenomenon"},"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>Funny how things happen, like publishing a book on miracles in a year as fraught as 2020. But Michael Grosso&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=106\">Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is certainly not your run-of-the-mill book of miracles. David E. Presti, professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, says that &#8220;Michael Grosso has written a sophisticated philosophical and scientific analysis of miracles\u2014a universal phenomenon perhaps never-before investigated so thoroughly in such a sober and open-minded manner.&#8221; Bob Ricard, in his review the book in <em>Fortean Times<\/em>, writes: &#8220;Grosso discusses in detail an extensive range of phenomena with which &#8216;science&#8217; has failed to engage, except to argue that they have no reality or causation within the &#8216;scientific&#8217; doctrines of physicality and materialism&#8230;Grosso\u2019s prose is clear, methodical, and open-minded, and like Fort, exhorts us to have confidence in questioning limitations set by others, because &#8216;miracles violate nothing but intellectual provincialism.'&#8221; And Michael Peter Langevin, editor of <em>The Echo World<\/em>, sees in this tale of &#8220;unexplainable, documented occurrences&#8221; Grosso&#8217;s underlying optimism: &#8220;In this wonderful book Michael puts forth the premise that the transformation of society and human nature is possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how things happen, like publishing a book on miracles in a year as fraught as 2020. But Michael Grosso&#8217;s Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief is certainly not your run-of-the-mill book of miracles. David E. Presti, professor of neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley, says that &#8220;Michael Grosso has [&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-1973","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\/1973","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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}