"Reality Check provides an impressive map to fascinating new territory about the brain and the human soul. David Weiner also delivers this inspiring knowledge with a deft and humorous touch, making it easy for us to process and enjoy complex scientific concepts and ideas. This is must reading for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of how our brain works with our heart. Personally, I found the book riveting."

Michael Toms
Founding President and Executive Producer/Host of New Dimensions Radio, and CEO of New DimensionsWorld Broadcasting Network.
Author of 17 books on personal, social and spiritual transformation.

" Humans have always tried to assert the superiority of themselves and their kin to others leading to wars, ethnic cleansings and religious intolerance. In this important book, David Weiner writes with clarity and wit about how we become prisoners of the evolution of our brains, and integrates cosmology, the structure of the human genome and the essential randomness of our creation to provide a much needed Reality Check. We are not fundamentally different from those we seek to dominate and control."

Charles T. Snowdon
Hilldale Professor and Chair of Psychology
University of Wisconsin, Madison

"David Weiner has written a delightful and impressively researched tour de force on how the brain works that includes wonderful side trips about DNA, the size of the universe and the foibles of religiosity. This is popular science writing at its best--clear, witty and marvelously informative."

Benjamin J. Hubbard, Ph.D.
Professor of Comparative Religion
California State University, Fullerton

"Noted researcher, business executive and author Dave Weiner has assembled considerable research from several fields---psychology, neurobiology, evolution, and philosophy---into a highly readable and thoroughly enjoyable journey in Reality Check, his fourth book about the brain. Weiner adroitly balances skeptical questioning with humor and genuine inquisitiveness as he leads the reader into the complex relationship between our brains and reality---or what we think is reality---from synaptic excitation to larger questions of conscience, social order and the meaning(s) we ascribe to the world and the people around us. Whether one is searching for mindfulness or just curious about the latest findings in mind-brain science, Reality Check will not disappoint."

Paul Babiak, Ph.D.
Industrial - Organizational Psychologist

"David Weiner clearly is a widely read, thoughtful, and often bemused observer of human behavior. His response to much of what he sees around him is 'What the hell is going on here?' He then uses keen insight, measured skepticism, and a delightful sense of humor to offer his perspective on the question...His crisp, clear, down-to-earth writing style no doubt reflects the incisive and pragmatic ways in which his mind works. His analyses of some of the big issues of our time are fascinating and invariably illuminating....This book is thought provoking and entertaining, and a terrific read."

Robert D. Hare, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of British Columbia.

"Is the brain the instrument of the soul, or vice versa? And what is consciousness, or even conscience? And what about all those synapse steadily snapping back and forth millions of times in your brain? Why? You'll find answers to those and other mind-boggling questions about the brain inside this book. If you read this book, the word "Reality" will take on a whole new meaning."

Roger E. Axtell
Author of a series of nine "Do's & Taboos..." books on international business and behavior

" The brilliant psychology author David Weiner explains in "Reality Check," among other things, the workings of our brain that produce limitless numbers of emotional responses. We can be depressed and then moments later elated and even feeling superior. This book enables us to understand better the instantaneous changes in our own minds caused by an action or comment and enables us to recognize mood swings of those around us. This is a remarkable insight into the primary force of our lives, something most of us never think about."

Daniel J. Edelman
Founder and chairman of Edelman, world’s largest independent public relations firm.

" Inspiring! Brings clarity and order to concepts, ideas, and science that most of us mortals rarely have a chance to explore let alone understand. The amount of heavy lifting Weiner did to synthesize this material is truly amazing. I am grateful for the energy, courage, and thoughtfulness he brings to this work. Essential reading for all who have a curiosity about things of the mind."

John W. Lee II
Founder of Learning Curve Toys and The Thomas & Friends Wooden Train System ®