In the 2008 Madaleva Lecture in Spirituality. Barbara Fiand - a sister of Notre Dame de Namur, retreat director, writer, and lecturer - draws the startling, yet increasingly important, connections between science and spiritual transformation. Written with great clarity and insight, her exporation of this fascinating topic reveals the expansion of consciousness that is being opened up for us by extraordinary scientific discoveries, especially in quantum physics and cosmology.

All human longing for the Ultimate is rooted in the context o the time in which it arises. It formulates its vision out of the language and symbols of its age in order to present a time-relevant approach to that which, in spite of all our striving