Thanks Don, I appreciate the suggestion. Certainly understand there is disagreement on the implications of the failed belief in physicalism. As a theist, I am most interested in whether or not the best understanding of reality today through science and philosophy today is compatible or incompatible with theism. I have not read Mr. Wallace but I see he is an expert on Buddhism and certainly have seen how this belief system and practice is amenable to the new understandings in science, including consciousness. I want to explore whether biblical theism also is compatible.