There has been a lot of discussion lately about the risks posed by increasingly autonomous AI systems. Some predictions are unsettling, even catastrophic.

When readers ask where the characters in The Heaven Dimension came from, they are often surprised by the answer.

Suppose for a moment that every major assumption you hold about yourself is wrong.

While writing The Heaven Dimension, I kept returning to a question that has fascinated me for a long time: What if science and spirituality are not competing explanations of reality, but different ways of trying to understand something larger than our ability to perceive?

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”— Joseph Joubert

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

There are moments in life when you feel something shifting beneath the surface of the world around you. In recent years, watching the way Americans spoke to one another, and sometimes at one another,  I began to feel that shift. The noise was getting louder. Outrage was becoming a habit. And the space where honest conversation once lived seemed to be shrinking.