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“Scientific Fundamentalism”: Reply to a Materialist
Posted on 29 May 2013, 7:51
A few weeks ago a broadside in the local newspaper blasted me and what I represent. The writer was a psychiatrist. For him the self is “lodged squarely in the field of clinical and research psychology, where it is rigorously defined as a creation of the brain’s frontal lobes.” …
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Philosophy Majors Take Note: Dualism Is on the Comeback
Posted on 27 March 2013, 20:04
For many years academic philosophers have been waging a campaign, often stealthily, sometimes openly, against the age-old doctrine of the soul that most Americans over 30 were raised on. This doctrine is known as dualism. It’s the belief that matter and spirit, or body and soul, are different…
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Religion: Job Description for a Meaningful Life
Posted on 04 October 2012, 9:53
One of the first things I learned at St. Mary’s when I was five years old was that God knew me by name and would take me to heaven at death to live eternally with Him. I hung on to that philosophy for the next twenty years. It brightened my day when I woke up every morning. It fortified…
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The World of Spirit According to Spiritualism
Posted on 23 July 2012, 10:19
Introduction The last chapter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s History of Spiritualism is titled “The After-Life As Seen by Spiritualists.” After having studied hundreds of narratives deriving apparently from spirits living in the world beyond death, he concluded: …
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Is Reincarnation True? The Research of Ian Stevenson
Posted on 24 April 2012, 14:38
We live in time and are in constant flux. We grow. We diminish. But a question arises. Has the process been going on for a very long time? Possibly even before our present life on earth? I can’t remember a single event before my third year, but my parents tell me…
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Are We Supposed to Know about Life after Death?
Posted on 27 December 2011, 11:01
A Lesson from the Lewis and Clark Expedition Sometimes I wonder if we are supposed to know what to expect after we die. Maybe it’s part of the divine plan that we do not. Are the spirits who tell us about their world through mediums flouting the plan? Are they making it…
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Steve Jobs’ Final Words
Posted on 04 November 2011, 8:57
According to Steve Jobs’ sister Mona Simpson, who gave the eulogy at her brother’s memorial service on the campus of Stanford University October 16, Jobs’ final words were, “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” From his deathbed he was looking past members of his family into the distance when he spoke these…
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The Day of the Dead: What is their life like the rest of the year?
Posted on 31 October 2011, 19:10
Growing up a white Anglo-Saxon Catholic, I observed All Saints Day November 1 and All Souls Day November 2. In other words, I said a few prayers to my favorite saint and said a few more for the anonymous dead a day later. I had no idea what kind of fun I was missing because I wasn’t born…
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Why society needs belief in an afterlife
Posted on 19 October 2011, 20:14
Last month the 14th annual Bakersfield Interfaith Conference addressed the question of afterlife. Representatives of the world’s three largest faiths—Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism—shared their convictions, and a professional philosopher with materialist convictions made the case for extinction. …
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Welcome to My New Blog
Posted on 23 September 2011, 17:13
I am delighted to announce that White Crow Books will be publishing my novel The Imprisoned Splendor in a November 2011. 
It’s a…
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