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When the Mind is Freed from the Brain

The strong dependency of mind on brain that gets us through everyday life no longer seems to apply when we come to death and dying.  Read More ›
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Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Read More ›
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According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›
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As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›
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From Charles Murray to Dan Brown, the Culture Is Maturing Toward the Immortal Mind

The existence of an immaterial reality, a soul, or a genome, is a concept that has been bubbling up, independently, across a range of minds. Read More ›
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light 

Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›
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The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?

Such cases may have been around since prehistoric times. Some researchers even suggest that they may have given rise to the popular artistic images of angels. Read More ›
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We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains

Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right. Read More ›
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Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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