Reincarnation is a fact but not the truth, I once heard a religious teacher say. The point is to incarnate, not reincarnate. Then what the hell is hell?
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Talking to an unorthodox chaplain at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia recently, he stated his faith in that there is a higher intelligence operating in and on…
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It’s a lazy summer afternoon, and at the only sandy ‘beach’ in Lower Park, a big group of parents and children frolic in the water.
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There are so many spiritual teachers now, mostly of a Buddhist or New Age stripe (it’s become difficult to tell the difference) that it’s contrarian to use the word religious.…
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An old philosophical canard refers to ‘the ghost in the machine’—consciousness in the brain. Philosophers don’t believe in ghosts, but most sure do believe in machines.
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An explanation, however cogent, of how humans came to operate in opposition to nature, from which Homo sapiens arose like all other life, can’t change the explained. But a new…
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In America at least, we are still in the ‘new toy’ phase of high technology. Every new gadget that comes out receives oohs and aahs in the media, with the…
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In the deeply battered and bereaved central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations has formed an “intervention brigade” that’s taking proactive measures against rebel groups.…