Ursula Goodenough vs. Alice Bailey
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Ursula Goodenough
1943 – present
Ursula W. Goodenough is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution. She contributed to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture from 2009 to 2011.
"I profess my Faith. For me, the existence of all this complexity and awareness and intent and beauty, and my ability to apprehend it, serves as the ultimate mea…"
Alice Bailey
1880 – 1949
Alice Ann Bailey was a British and American writer. She wrote about 25 books on Theosophy and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. She was born Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchester, England and moved to the United States in 1907, where she spent most of her life as a writer and teacher.
"We are told by physicians and scientists that thousands of cells in the human brain are still dormant and, consequently, that the average human being uses only …"
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