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William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences

By Maria Popova — 2018

More than a century after its groundbreaking publication, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James remains a fascinating read.

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An Introduction to Science and Spirituality

Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike.

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2022
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Spiritual Science: How a New Perspective on Consciousness Could Help us Understand Ourselves

It may be that the best way to understand the world is not through science or spirituality alone – but through an approach which combines them both.

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Steve Taylor
2019
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Currents of Consciousness, with Dr. Amit Goswami

Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.

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Michael Woronko
2020
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Science and Mysticism

The tragedy of dichotomous worldviews is compounded by the current myopia of conventional science and traditional religion, each convinced it has cornered the market on truth. "The true disease of the age is . . . literalism," observes mythologist Michael Meade.

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Dave Pruett
2016
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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are.

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John Horgan
2019
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Do We Have Minds of Our Own?

The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.

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Meghan O’Gieblyn
2019
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Dr. Eben Alexander on His Near-Death Experience—And What He’s Learned About Consciousness

In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.

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Eben Alexander
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What Is Occult?

Learn all about occult and how it differs from spirituality and mysticism as Sadhguru reveals all.

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Sadhguru
2020
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One Word Is the Answer to Everything

It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.

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Deepak Chopra, Neil D. Theise
2020
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