Editing Jane Goodall (section)

===Religion and spirituality===
Goodall was raised in a Christian [[Congregationalism|congregationalist]] family. As a young woman, she took night classes in [[Theosophy]]. Her family were occasional churchgoers, but Goodall began attending more regularly as a teenager when the church appointed a new minister, Trevor Davies. "He was highly intelligent and his sermons were powerful and thought-provoking... I could have listened to his voice for hours... I fell madly in love with him... Suddenly, no one had to encourage me to go to church. Indeed, there were never enough services for my liking." Of her later discovery of the atheism and agnosticism of many of her scientific colleagues, Goodall wrote that "[f]ortunately, by the time I got to Cambridge I was twenty-seven years old and my beliefs had already moulded so that I was not influenced by these opinions."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |title=Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey |date=1999 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=0-446-93042-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2q6cOl-zY5wC&q=reason+for+hope+congregational+church+jane+goodall&pg=PT29}}</ref>

In her 1999 book ''Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey'', Goodall describes the implications of a [[mystical experience]] she had at [[Notre Dame Cathedral]] in 1977: "Since I cannot believe that this was the result of chance, I have to admit anti-chance. And so I must believe in a guiding power in the universe – in other words, I must believe in God."<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Goodall |first1=Jane |title=Dr. Goodall's thoughts on the fire of Notre Dame |url=https://news.janegoodall.org/2019/04/15/dr-goodalls-thoughts-on-the-fire-of-notre-dame/ |website=Jane Goodall Institute |date=15 April 2019 |access-date=29 April 2021}}</ref> When asked if she believes in God, Goodall said in September 2010: "I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me."<ref>Jane Goodall's Questions & Answers, ''Reader's Digest'', p. 128, September 2010</ref> When asked in the same year if she still considers herself a Christian, Goodall told ''the Guardian'' "I suppose so; I was raised as a Christian." and stated that she saw no contradiction between evolution and belief in God.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1=Stephen |title=Jane Goodall: 'My job is to give people hope' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/jan/13/jane-goodall |access-date=30 April 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=13 January 2010}}</ref>

In her foreword to the 2017 book ''The Intelligence of the Cosmos'' by [[Ervin Laszlo]], a philosopher of science who advocates [[quantum consciousness]] theory, Goodall wrote: "we must accept that there is an Intelligence driving the process [of [[evolution]]], that the Universe and life on Earth are inspired and in-formed by an unknown and unknowable Creator, a Supreme Being, a Great Spiritual Power."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Laszlo |first1=Ervin |author-link1=Ervin László |title=The Intelligence of the Cosmos |date=2017 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=Foreword |isbn=978-1-62055-732-7 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S3goDwAAQBAJ&q=Jane+Goodall+forward+ervin+laszlo}}</ref>