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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›
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What Is Primary: Mind or Matter? 

The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages. Read More ›
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Metaxas, Berlinski: A Match Made in Heaven

The dramatic tension between the two is notable and interesting and unusual for the SITC forum, punctuated by laugh-out-loud moments of humor. Read More ›
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Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Read More ›
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Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species

Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression. Read More ›
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For Transhumanists, a Dawning Realization

New religions aren’t necessarily founded already knowing that that is what they are destined to become. Read More ›

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