GOD DOESN'T LIVE IN HEAVEN — Digital Edition

GOD DOESN’T LIVE IN HEAVEN — Digital Edition

Is the human mind the true birthplace of divinity?

For thousands of years, human beings have looked beyond themselves for gods, spirits, meaning and answers. But what if the origin of divinity is not somewhere above us, beyond us or outside us at all? What if the idea of God begins much closer to home — inside the human mind?

In GOD DOESN’T LIVE IN HEAVEN, Jake Land explores the possibility that religion, gods and supernatural belief may have developed from the extraordinary human capacity to imagine, fear, hope, explain and search for meaning.

Rather than treating belief as something simple or foolish, the book asks deeper questions. Why have gods appeared in so many different cultures? Why are religious ideas so powerful and persistent? Why do human beings continue to create supernatural explanations, even as scientific knowledge expands?

This is an investigation into belief itself — how it begins, why it survives, and what it may reveal about the human mind.

Written for readers who are willing to question inherited assumptions, GOD DOESN’T LIVE IN HEAVEN invites believers, sceptics and the simply curious to consider an unsettling possibility: perhaps humanity did not discover God at all. Perhaps humanity created the idea of God in its own image.

A provocative exploration of religion, human nature and the origins of divinity.

By Jake Land

Digital Edition — A$9.95