A friend writes to express a conundrum many people are grappling with these days, touching on a philosophical inquiry that rather obsessed my youth until I gained sufficient insight into…
Martin LeFevre
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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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As Upton Sinclair famously said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Perhaps that’s why, when academic philosophers…
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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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A recent comment by President Obama on the Jay Leno show exemplifies the basic philosophical error of his presidency, and a central reason why Americans make so many reasonable people…
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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.