Unravelling the Great Mysteries of Life

This book, titled "Unravelling the Great Mysteries of Life", draws on my experiences as a clinical psychologist, while juxtaposing psychology with multiple disciplines, including theology, philosophy/religious philosophy, science, physics and astrophysics, and literature and film. In so doing, it builds an in-depth inquiry into the questions it raises. The book is intended to be inspirational and to encourage readers to examine their own lives and the mysteries of living in the world more deeply and analytically. The book also examines how the most serious of the world's ills came about, including the Holocaust, racial prejudice against indigenous peoples, and genocide more broadly. Reference is made to the works of religious scholars, including Jon Levenson, Richard Elliot Friedman, Abraham Heschel, Harold Kusnher, and to distinguished literary figures and film-makers, including W. Somerset Maugham, Federico Fellini, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vittorio de Sica, Bob Dylan, and Jordan Peterson. As the book Preface notes, "Life is full of doubt, egoism and self-importance, anger and fear, love and hate, and strengths and weaknesses. And the questions the book addresses challenge us to face our realities with honesty, confidence and good will."