Mark Zuckerberg’s 16th pick for his Year of Books is William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience. He makes the case that religious experience is simply human experience, and has substantial potential to change our perspective, learn, and heal. Imagine waking up in a world in which all of the religious buildings had vanished from the map. Churches? Gone. Mosques? Disappeared. Grand cathedrals? Vast, empty plots of land yawn where once they stood. An added mystery is revealed in that, along with the religious edifices, the planet’s holy books, associated dogma, religious clothing, and religious symbols have evaporated, too (bummer…
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