The Soul’s Upward Yearning: Clues to Our Transcendent Nature from Experience and Reason by Robert Spitzer, SJ, PhDSince the early twentieth century, scientific materialism has so undermined our belief in the human capacity for transcendence that many people find it difficult to believe in God and the human soul. The materialist perspective has not only cast its spell on the natural sciences, psychology, philosophy, and literature, it has also enthralled popular culture, which offers very little to encourage the souls upward yearning. There are many signs of the