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Visionary Spiritual Experiences and Cognitive Aspects of Spiritual Transformation
Contemporary scholars have found spiritual and spirituality difficult to define, complaining that their meanings are “vague and contradictory” (Egbert,...
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Resources and Problems in Whitehead’s Metaphysics
His process metaphysics tends to depersonalize God to the extent of rendering theism irrelevant and naturalize moral evil in...
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The Neurosciences of Religion: Meditation, Entheogens, Mysticism
Religion is a complex neurocognitive experience that includes rituals, social groups, and other dimensions not easily replicated in a...
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The Spiritual Brain without God: Possible? A Review of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary
Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. New York:...
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The Possibility of Practical Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary Model for Discernment
Wisdom is not an abstraction. It isn’t a static state of peace, beauty, or justice. Although a wealth of...
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The Mind and Its Now
Augustine’s phrase in his Confessions, “quaestio mihi factus sum,” which is the motto of this conference, may strike one...
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Brain, Mind, Soul, and Spirit—Unified in Personality
The brain is a physical organ that transcends the machine-like regularities of mechanics, and thereby reveals that...
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The Varieties of Human Experience
Can our advancing knowledge of biology lead us to a better understanding of religion?
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The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religious Forms
In recent years a substantial evolutionary literature has emerged in two related areas: religion and the religious mind. The...
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Libet’s Loophole: The Fight For Free Will
1) THE FINAL FRONTIER The issue of free will continues to attract attention in philosophical circles despite the fact...
