Abstract
This fascinating and challenging, albeit very short, book is written by a physical chemist who has been on a lifelong search for evidence, particularly from quantum mechanics, of a transcendent part of physical reality. In just over one hundred pages, the author argues that the insights of quantum mechanics provide the basis for a new covenant between human minds and the mind-like background of the universe. Unlike classical science that took meaning out of life and separated fact from value, findings from the study of quantum phenomena point to a reintegration of these elements. Material things seem to have a nonmaterial basis. The components of real things are not real in the same way that the things they form are real. Local order is affected by non-local, faster-than-light, events. Choice and chance play a large part in creating the visible order of things, and observation creates reality. In violation of common sense, and perhaps in opposition to what many would call scientific knowledge, these phenomena describe the transcendental physical reality of the universe.