“Refusing all inwardness and consolation, David Webster faces down spirituality’s guile in favour of a bleak atheism’s hints of a worthwhile life. Bracing, timely stuff!”
Dr Peter Manley Scott, University of Manchester,
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“Should be placed gently but firmly in the hands of any budding convert who thinks that the vacuous claims of a new spirituality are any better than the lies, evasions and hypocrisies of orthodox religion ...”
Professor Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy, Cardiff University
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"This is as close to a “must read” as it gets, for the religious as well as the spiritual reader, as well as for atheists."
Dr. Mikael Askander, Lund University, Sweden
Dispirited 
Hi David.
Congratulations on your book. I don’t know the details of your argument, of course, but the title itself makes me giddy. I have been around self-anointed “spiritual” people as, first, a student and scholar (of Indian Buddhism), and then for a living (I work at a Buddhist institute). For now, I’ll just say that you nailed it with your title/sub-title. I see those qualities in the people around me daily. They, of course, couch them in different–grandiose, crypto-religious–terms. (Using a set, prescribed system of postulation to do your thinking, for instance, is evidence of one’s beautifully “spiritual,” non-egotistical nature, I hear. No, I reply; it’s a form of stupidity–it’s locking into the tracks of borrowed thought, etc.)
I really look forward to reading more.
Glenn
Thanks Glenn – I will update you once the book is on pre-order etc…
d.