The late Alan Watts on personal identity and understanding our place in the Universe:
WTF Evolution? is a website honoring natural selection’s most baffling creations.
Colonial Latin America’s great feminist poet, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, combined images of transcendence with the immanence of nature in her eloquent writing.
Buy online through Amazon: Indic Visions in an Age of Science by Varadaraja V. Raman (New York, NY: Metanexus, 2011). or Download the book for free as a PDF. INTRODUCTION In the previous five lectures I reflected on a variety of Indic visions that have interest and relevance to science as an intellectual enterprise. I…
I cannot understand how our minds, which have been formed by responses to the emergencies of a small corner of space and time, could possibly comprehend a revelation of the total universe, even if it were granted them. I can understand that we might be given a mystical intuition of the nature of the universe,…
1. Introduction “No primary Christian doctrine has been left so undeveloped dogmatically”, yet “the Bible is the Book of the Spirit”, wrote Wheeler Robinson (Robinson 1928). Although there existed a vivid awareness of the Spirit in the early Church (as shown by 302 references in the NT against 195 in the OT), there was little…
Presently, way too much of the science and religion discussion could be summed up in the “X-Files” slogan, “Trust No One.” I’d much prefer to move ahead in accordance with the other slogan: “The Truth Is Out There.”