In Science and Spirituality, Marc Halévy examines the lives and inner worlds of 14 major scientists—from the early modern period to the twentieth century—and reveals how their most significant discoveries were shaped not merely by observation and experiment, but by a deeper, visionary understanding of reality. Science, Halévy states, is more often than not born from spiritual intuition.

But the book’s ambitions go further. Halévy situates this argument within a vast intellectual history, tracing the evolution of human consciousness, from animism and polytheism, through monotheism to the triumph of scientific materialism. He suggests that our current moment may represent a threshold: the emergence of a higher gnosis—a new mode of understanding that moves beyond both religious dogma and the reductionism of modern science, whereby we may enter a new stage of consciousness altogether.

Rigorous yet accessible, Science and Spirituality is essential reading for anyone who suspects that the deepest questions about reality can be answered by neither science nor religion alone.