One of the greatest confusions of our age is the conflation of scientific knowledge and truth. Indeed, scientific knowledge is now seen by most people as the only way to…
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It’s difficult to conceive, but a few decades ago nature was largely seen as a dangerously untamed force. Now only when there are natural disasters, such as the recent cyclone…
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It’s good science to show how humans evolved in nature, but it’s bad philosophy to say that man isn’t alienated from nature. The attempt to blur the difference between humans…
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Perhaps the clearest expression of a core intent of this column comes from Vimala Thakar, an Indian spiritual teacher and social activist I read about recently who died in 2009.…
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The biggest problem I have with science in the modern age is that it leaves no space for genuine philosophical enquiry and religious experiencing. Both have been subsumed under the…
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Great masses of gray and white cumulus ascend thousands of feet over the partially shadowed lines of the foothills at the entrance to the canyon. As often happens after a…
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“Doubt,” I once heard a teacher say, “is like having a dog on a leash. You have to know when to let it run, and when to put it back…
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On one hand, most neuroscientists now say, “our sense of self is a neuronal illusion.” On the other, they say, “But we make our own purposes, and they’re real.” They…