Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Saturday, June 10, 2023

How do we define spirituality and what it’s role is in our daily lives?

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This post is primarily directed to Austin TX people who will be attending the Sunday 2 p.m. July 2 meeting of the Austin Rainbow Forum that ...
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Monday, February 06, 2023

Openness to spiritual experiences...with caution

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After a Protestant Christian upbringing (I was a teenage organist in an Austin Lutheran Church, and took a course from theologian Paul Tilli...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Douthat's Guide to Finding Faith

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I recommend that you read through Douthat's elegant exposition of the continuing relevance of some form of religious faith. I paste in...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths

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A fascinating open source article by Luhrmann et al. showing that what feels real to our senses is shaped by our culture. Significance Th...
Monday, June 01, 2020

An "Apostle's Creed" for the humanistic scientific materialist?

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(Note: I have begun to slowly go though the posts on MindBlog, which began in Feb. of 2006, over 14 years ago.  Here I repeat the post that...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2019

For the holiday season - the gift of self care

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To acknowledge that today is a special one for a large fraction of humanity, I want to pass on Parker-Pope's description of suggestions ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

How trance states might have forged human societies

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I want to pass on a series of clips I have made for my own use from an intriguing article by Mark Vernon in Aeon : With anatomically modern...
Monday, January 07, 2019

The return of paganism

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Continuing in the thread of the 12/28/18 post below , I want to point to a piece by Ross Douthat that suggests the return (or emergence) of...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Reimagining the human

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Eileen Crist does a perspective essay in Science Magazine. Some clips: Earth is in the throes of a mass extinction event and climate change...
Thursday, August 09, 2018

A ecosystem of podcast bros who want to optimize your life.

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I'm not a podcast or video kind of person, being too impatient to listen to or watch material that I can absorb more rapidly by reading ...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

Why are religious people trusted more?

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A prevailing view is that religious behavior facilitate trust, primarily toward coreligionists, and particularly when it is diagnostic of be...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The “sense of self” in Biblical times.

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Sigal Samuel does an article on the ideas of James Kugel in his final book “ The Great Shift - Encountering Good in the Biblical Era” ...
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Monday, July 03, 2017

Neural measures reveal lower social conformity among non-religious individuals.

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An interesting bit from Thiruchselvam et al. : Even in predominantly religious societies, there are substantial individual differences in r...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Religiosity and social support

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I found this article by Eleanor Power to be an interesting read. Here is her abstract:. In recent years, scientists based in a variet...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Dreams and revelations.

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I want to pass on a few clips from an engaging essay by Patrick McNamara , and suggest you read the entire piece. He begins by noting religi...
Monday, May 23, 2016

When philosophy lost its way.

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Frodeman and Briggle offer a lament over the irreversible passing of the practice of philosophy as a moral endeavor, one that might offer a...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Several perspectives on the valuation of outgroups.

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A recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science has two relevant articles: Keelah et al. show that Americans’ stereo...
Friday, December 25, 2015

The need for affiliation - communities of kindness

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I belong to the Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida, which completed a series of five Christmas season concerts over the past two weeks. S...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Religiousness decreases children’s altruistic behaviors.

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Decety et al.  challenge the view that religiosity facilitates prosocial behavior.: Highlights •Family religious identification decrease...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Birth of the moralizing gods.

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Lizzie Wade offers two interesting summaries of work on the evolution of religion that suggest that as societies grew bigger, so did their g...