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Sun Salutation
_____ True shield of Aten, color of Van Gogh’s Beard, in an eggy apron of aloes My skin I present to you. O mushroom Atomic; aureola at noon; yolk; bloom Atop Earth’s dome of blue: meet your black pupil (That … Continue reading
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Tagged body, imagination, life, literature, matter, mind, poem, poetry, summer, sun salutation, the sun, yoga
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Near Death Experience (NDE) Watch: Waiting for Dr. Sam Parnia
Late last year, the Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece on near death experiences (NDEs), and it included an aspect on the phenomenon that I’d never heard of before: near death awareness: In his book, “Visions, Trips and Crowds,” David … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, body, cancer, death, God, life, mind, NDEs, near-death experiences, psychology, skeptic
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Denyse O’Leary on the Signal and the Set (the Mind and the Brain)
I see that Denyse O’Leary, the co-author of The Spiritual Brain (a book I recommend), has a blog. Here she is offering a non-reductionist analogy for the mind’s relationship to the brain (it might be like a television signal in relation to a television set): Non-materialist neuroscience, … Continue reading
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Tagged body, dualism, eternal life, free will, immortality, intimations of immortality, life after death, mind, philosophy, televisions, the soul, Wordsworth
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She was an Atheist. And Angry. Then She Found Herself Out of Her Body!
I like her intensity and articulateness. She seems to be a wise person and to know something:
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The Mind’s Dependency on the Brain? Bryan Appleyard on the Final Frontier of Atheism v. Theism
Two years ago, journalist Bryan Appleyard wrote an interesting review of The Spiritual Brain, a book by neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, and started his review this way: Neuroscience is a combat zone. It is here, in the human brain, that the final conflict … Continue reading
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Bertand Russell on the Mind and Body Problem
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Tagged bertrand russell, body, chemistry, dualism, mind, philosophy, physics, psychology, spirit
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Holy, Holy, Holy: The Three Sacred Mysteries of Existence
I see three sacred mysteries: God, matter, and mind By ‘God’ I mean whatever it was that prompted what might have been nothing to actually be something. As an agnostic, if I’m going to talk about ‘God’ the best I … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, body, God, holiness, holy, life, matter, mind, philosophy, poetry
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At the Intersection of Pornography and Art: Big Boobs, Big Hips (Head Optional)
Boooom! Fertile, fecund, and ample. Humanity’s oldest art object (yet discovered). In southern Germany, at least 35,000 years ago, someone hung this headless alpha-female body pendant around his or her neck. No honoring of the mind here, just Earth Mother goddess … Continue reading
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Tagged art, body, breasts, feminism, hips, homage to my hips, life, lucille clifton, magic, neolithic art, spirit, the female body
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Prometheus Unbound 