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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Urizen the Bearer of Circumfrences
A biographer of William Blake discusses Blake’s take on materialist reduction and the nature of mind:
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Carl Jung on the Reduction of Mind to Matter
Carl Jung, as quoted in The Conscious Universe (1997, 324-25) by Dean Radin: It is almost an absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, epistemology, life, materialism, matter, mind, paranormal
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This Sounds Right to Me
And:
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Tagged death, forgiveness, Jesus, life, love, NDEs, near-death experiences, paranormal
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Nick Pope on UFOs in Britain
Nick Pope was interviewed in August of 2009 on British television just after the British government released a new bundle of its UFO files into the public domain:
I Think They’re onto Something
People who have experienced UFO abductions, or psychedelic mushroom trips, or near death experiences (NDEs) have something to teach us non-experiencers. At least that’s what I think. What say you? Oops. This YouTube doesn’t embed. See it here.
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Does Atheism Lead to Belief in Social Darwinism?
The short answer is no. But there is also a longer answer that qualifies this “no”, and atheists and agnostics should think about that qualified answer. It is certainly true that there is no logical necessity at work that tells … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christianity, Darwin, evolution, Nietzsche, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, Social Darwinism
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Dean Radin, Speaking at Google, on Psychic Phenomena
Oops. I see that this talk does not embed. See on YouTube here.
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Tagged dean radin, materialism, mind, philosophy, psi, psi phenomena, psychic phenomena, reason, science, skeptic
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I Believe Her, Too
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, death, freedom, happiness, joy, life, love, NDEs, near-death experiences, psychology
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I Believe Her
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Confusion in the Atheist Universe! We Are the Paranormal Phenomenon That We Have Been Waiting for!
Remember how, during the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama said that we are the change we have been waiting for? Well, I was thinking about this in terms of paranormal phenomenon. So many people are looking beyond themselves, out into the world, for evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, atheist universe, biology, materialism, mind, paranormal, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, science, UFOs
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Bruce Greyson on Near Death Experiences
Dr. Bruce Greyson is one of the leading academic researchers into the NDE phenomenon. He is a psychiatric researcher and teacher at the University of Virginia Medical School, and he co-edited a recent book on NDEs. Here he offers brief observations … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, bruce greyson, death, heaven, hell, life, NDE, NDEs, near-death experiences, psychology
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What’s Atheism Good for? Ctd.
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Tagged atheism, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, evolution, Expelled, free thought, life, PZ Myers, reason, Richard Dawkins, science, worldviews
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What’s Atheism Good for? Ctd.
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, death, life, loneliness, philosophy, pragmatism, psychology
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Monty Python’s “Parrot Sketch”
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What Does Atheism Really Offer to, Say, the Dying?
I like this quote from Michael Dirda (a writer for the NY Times) writing about agnostic Julian Barnes’s book on death: “Beautifully done might also justly describe Nothing to Be Frightened Of. A friend once summed up Julian Barnes’s own … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, cancer, death, eternal life, gospel of John, life, light, philosophy, religion, seneca, stoicism
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Bertand Russell on the Mind and Body Problem
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John Searle Wants Us to Reject Both Materialism and Dualism with Regard to the Mind
John Searle splits the difference by saying that consciousness is, in relation to matter, “ontologically irreducible but causally reducible.” Here’s parts 1 and 2 of a longer talk. If you don’t want to hear the biographical introduction to Searle, you … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, consciousness, dualism, free will, john searle, materialism, mind, philosophy, reductionism, science, self
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Is Dualism Still in Play? Australian Philosopher David Chalmers on the Relation of Mind to Matter
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Can You Be a Scientifically Educated and Buddha Aware Person, and Still Believe in the Self and in Free Will?
I know this goes against the prevailing winds of both science and Buddhism, but what would it be like to hold a naive view of the self and free will? In other words, what if you were to think that, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Buddhism, determinism, free will, free will v determinism, humanism, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, robots
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