Here Mary Midgley, now in her 90s, reflects on the profound implications of attempting to abolish death. The more one thinks it through, the less desirable the prospect seems. An earlier version of this article appeared in Philosophy Now, March-April 2012 Till lately, people discussing death didn’t have to consider […]
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Anne Geraghty has worked as a Clinical Psychologist with R D Laing, and as a psychotherapist, group facilitator and spiritual-therapist all over the world on the dynamics of love in families and relationships. After a lifetime exploring the mysteries of the human condition, her journey into death when her son died […]
At the recent Science of Consciousness conference held in Tucson, Arizona, Dean Radin delivered a talk that summarized more than ten years of research on the influence of the mind on a quantum level. He explained that not only are his positive results with the double-slit experiment statistically robust, but […]
These days, there’s no shortage of scientific optimism, that this or that problem, even though it cannot be solved today will one day be solved. One day we will understand the nature of consciousness and, yes, it will be shown to be material in origin. One day we’ll prove […]
These days more astrobiologists take seriously the idea that life may not have originated on Earth but was brought here soon after the Earth formed, by comets. In its early days the Earth was a hot ball, inhospitable to life. Traces of life would not have survived those conditions. A […]
On May 12 the Prince of Wales spoke in London to the Global Leaders Conference on One Health and Antimicrobial Resistance. HRH raised the issue of the overuse of antibiotics especially in the raising of farm animals, a situation that has led to antibiotic resistance in the human population in […]
We take it for granted that we are self-aware. That we are conscious of ourselves. But how far back in human evolution can this self-awareness be traced? One way of finding out is to look for the earliest graves. Human beings are the only species that bury their dead. Not […]
Editorial – Paul Filmore Articles Archetypal Penetrance and the Midlife Crisis – Dr Tim Read Michael Whiteman’s Scientific Mysticism – John Poynton Isaac Newton’s Spiritual Search for Truth – Hugh Murdoch Unknowing – Jennifer Kavanagh In Memoriam: Edgar Mitchell, ScD, PhD – Cassandra Vieten Conscious Evolution: Taking Personal Development to Higher Levels – Chris Thomson and David Lorimer The SMN and […]
We’re all used to hearing that a course in yoga and meditation can make you feel better. Help you cope with stress. Now a new study headed by Helen Lavretsky of UCLA and published in the May edition of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Research indicates yoga and meditation may also […]
We’re used to thinking of our bodies as bio-chemical systems that our cells are maintained by chemical processes. When we visit a doctor, the treatment usually comes in the form of a pill, something to change our chemistry. What about electricity? What role does it play in biological systems? The […]