Philosopher F. Samuel Brainard previews his new book, "Reality's Fugue," and explores the unifying thread between diverse religious and scientific perspectives. He explores the critical role of philosophy in today's discourse and what he sees as the built-in limitations of both religion and science.
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Jim DeLuca, the general manager of Rochester New York's Abundance Cooperative Market talks the integration of spirituality and business, the "triple bottom line" and food coops, and his personal spiritual practice. He also shares his experience in the Spirit and Business Global Institute, the Omega Institute and the Mankind Project.
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Psychologist Greesh Sharma on Hinduism, the Indian diaspora, and how travel has both broadened and humbled him. He shares his critiques of contemporary psychological practice, and the limits of politics and religion. He explains why he formed the Vanaprastha Corp, a group of serves victims of the Hindu diaspora around the world.
Sharma's most recent book is Mental Health Survival Guide; For Individuals and Families of Indian Origin.
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Sermon delivered January 29, 2017 at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Titusville, NJ. Explores the notion that humanity is currently in the midst of a transition from a period of tribalism to universalism; how this is expressed in the current trend of natavist politics and the implications; and some suggestions for those who actively want to promote that shift.
Coach and author Frederick Dodson explains common misconceptions aobut the law of attraction, the difference between magical thinking and reality creation, and explains why people have difficulty getting what they want.
Psychologist David Stern talks about the journey that led him to integrate spirituality into his psychotherapy practice, provides some examples of what that looks like, and specific pycho-spiritual issues common to the Jewish community.
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Jeffry J. Kripal is a bit of an iconoclast when it comes to the study of religion.
He’s more interested in anomalist phenomena – the mystic, the psychic, the paranormal – than he is in things like religious history or the philosophy of religion.
A professor and Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University, Kripal began his publishing career in controversy. Some Hindu scholars took exception to his 1995 book, Kali’s Child: in which he characterized Hindu saint Ramakrishna’s mystical experiences as homoerotic.
The response to the book wasn’t all negative. Michael Murphy, the cofounder of now iconic Esalen Institute, loved it. Thus began an immersion into the intellectual epicenter of that Big Sur epicenter of the human potential movement, and Kripal’s 2007 book, Esalen: America’s Religion of No Religion.
As Kripal relates in this podcast, his Esalen exploration marked the beginning of the second phase of his work, which he describes on his website as a “history and analysis of the relationship of mind and matter, particularly as this relationship is made manifest in ‘paranormal’ events and experiences, such as mystical experiences, parapsychological phenomena, near-death experiences, abduction events, ufological encounters, and psychedelic states.”
Kripal’s quest is to expand scholarly inquiry into the study of phenomena that can’t be easily explained within the constraints of the scientific method.
“What’s happened in our public culture is we have conflated science and materialism, which is just an interpretation of the science. It’s a good interpretation, but it’s an incomplete interpretation. And it rigorously blocks out all of this stuff I want to talk about, because this is the stuff that drives religion,” he says.
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