Reviewed by Devo
[Snip] The author herself expresses that the intent of her book is to:
“My hope in this book is to help establish a framework to talk about spiritual experience that is not dependent on a particular religious practice or belief.”
And I think that she does a pretty good job with this. She starts the book off by discussing some of her own approaches to divinity, or the Divine, and also goes over what the Divine is. To summarize it briefly, her definition would be as follows:
“I consider any awe experience to be a manifestation of the Divine. Manifest Divinity actually implies that the Divine is present and obvious. We simply bring our attention to it, or bring the Divine into our awareness. When this comes as a surprise, without any effort on our part, the result is awe.