This spiritual biography completes what other biographers have largely glossed. The author, a neuroscientist, has mounted a masterful effort at research, grasping Einstein’s thoughts along with various major thinkers across the ages, organizing “walk-ons” by Pythagorus,  Socrates, Jesus, Shankara, Galileo, Bruno, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, et al. Einstein asserted that he was not an atheist, but rather, a student of “cosmic religion” – without hierarchy, dogma, or creed. There is something here for anyone with an open mind, a spiritual appetite, and deep curiosity about the Nature of reality. (This book pairs well with THE ONE: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics, by Heinrich Päs.)

The Einstein book is also available in Italian.