Meeting the Almighty takes hallucinatory talent and training. And Hannah, a member of the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, has got it down. She talks with God every day. Sometimes she imagines that God is walking beside her, although no vision of the Almighty appears. On other occasions, Hannah goes on what she calls “date nights” with God. She buys a sandwich, finds a secluded bench and imagines that the big guy is sitting next to her. In both cases, imagination occasionally gives way to a sense of truly hearing God speak. During these divine experiences, Hannah gets in touch with her unc... (p. 22)

Young children, but not chimps or monkeys, generate collective leaps of knowledge.

Vocabulary learning starts when babies can barely babble. (p. 12)

Tots acquire the gift of gab by matching adults’ mouth movements to spoken words. (p. 9)