Tag Archives: empirical evidence
Was It A Past Life?
Was It A Past Life? By now there are many cases on record of individuals recalling previous lifetimes. A person under hypnosis will seem to remember incidents that occurred under conditions quite different from those obtaining in that person’s present … Continue reading
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Afterlife, Alienation, American Politics, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, bad faith, bigotry, books, bureaucracy, Childhood, Christianity, Cities, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, cults, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Feminism, Freedom, Guilt and Innocence, hegemony, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Immortality, Institutional Power, Jews, Judaism, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Martyrdom, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modern Women, Modernism, Moral action, Moral evaluation, Moral psychology, morality, Mortality, Oppression, Past and Future, Philosophy, Political Movements, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Race, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, science, scientism, secular, self-deception, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, Terror, terrorism, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, victimhood, victims, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged AAR president, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", American Academy of Religion, anomalies, anti-semitism, anti-semitism's return, Austrian S.S., breast cancer, Brendan Larvor's Lakatos: An Introduction, children's past lives, covenantal obligation, death experience, death vision, Edith Wyschogrod, emblem and fact, emblematic experience, empirical evidence, excisional biopsy, Germany in the 1930s, Holocaust, hypnotic regression, Imre Lakatos, informers, laws of nature, materialist/mechanist model, medical empathy, medical tatoo, Nazi gas chambers, Nazi killing techniques, out of body experience, paradigm, past life, past life confirmation, past life regression as treatment, radiation treatment, refuting instance, reincarnation, reincarnation evidence, return of the repressed, scientific evidence, scientific theories, sealed trucks, Shoah, theoretical anomalies, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, trucks in the Shoah, woman GYN, Zyklon B
1 Comment
The Meaning of Meaninglessness
I’m reading a book by a philosopher named Susan Wolf about the meaning of life. Or rather, about the importance of meaning in a good life. What prompts such a book? you may ask. Susan Wolf explains that philosophers have … Continue reading
Posted in Absurdism, Academe, Action, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, books, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Eternity, Ethics, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Feminism, Freedom, glitterati, Guilt and Innocence, Health, hegemony, hierarchy, history of ideas, ID, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Mind Control, Modernism, Mortality, Oppression, Past and Future, Philosophy, Poetry, Political Movements, politics of ideas, post modernism, Power, presence, promissory notes, Propaganda, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reading, Reductionism, relationships, Roles, scientism, secular, self-deception, social climbing, social construction, Social Conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Time, twentieth century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged curing depression, cynicism, definitions of the good life, depression, despair, empirical evidence, facts and theories, fashionable theories, finding your path, having a passion, human purposes, identity theory, life after death, life’s purposes, little things, meaning of life, meaning of meaning, meaninglessness, mind and brain, opinion shapers, passion for philosophy, personal quandary, philosopher’s books, philosophers, philosophic authors, pointlesslessness, quality time, quantity and quality, skepticism, socially constructed beliefs, socially constructed values, Susan Wolf’s Meaning in Life and Why It Matters, the absurd, the search for meaning, too brief to matter, too small to matter, value judgments, what happens when we die, worldviews
4 Comments
“Proof of Heaven”
“Proof of Heaven” We are in Riverside, California, having arrived from Phoenix, Arizona, where we had a five-minute TV appearance on Pat McMahon’s show, The Morning Scramble. Jerry had had his first radio interview with Pat, an hour-long substantive conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Afterlife, Alienation, Anthropology, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, beauty, Biblical God, Cities, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Culture, Desire, Erotic Life, Eternity, Faith, Freedom, Friendship, Health, Heroes, hidden God, Identity, Immortality, life and death struggle, Love, Memoir, memory, Mortality, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, politics, Power, Psychology, public facade, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, self-deception, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, spiritual not religious, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged afterlife, alimentary canal, Arizona, bacterial meningitis, bodily wisdom, body’s viewpoint, brain death, California, cognitive function, cognitive recovery, cognitive survival, coma, cultural change, cultural influence, Dante, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Dante’s Paradise, deathbed communications, Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven, empirical evidence, evidence, father-daughter relations, father-son relations, filial piety, heaven and hell, identity theory, liars, life as story, love as force, Materialism, materialist worldview, media visibility, medical team, medical worldview, mind and body, mortality, narrative view, natural law, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, out of body experiences, paradigm shift, Pat McMahon, peer pressure, performers, personal identity, personal responsibility, philosophers, philosophic influence, philosophic wisdom, philosophical materialists, Phoenix, professional courage, professional duty, professional responsibility, Q & A, radio interviews, Riverside, scientism, talk shows, the Big Questions, The God Show, The Morning Scramble, the paranormal, trip to heaven, truth, truthfulness, TV interviews, untruthfulness
Leave a comment
Final Proofs
Final Proofs This week, amid a flurry of barely-caught typos, fonts of the wrong shade and misplaced style cues, Jerry, I, and his priceless crew of teammates finished going over the final set of proofs that go to the printer. … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Alienation, Anthropology, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, beauty, Bible, Childhood, Chivalry, Christianity, Cities, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Faith, Femininity, Feminism, Films, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, hidden God, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, Memoir, memory, Mind Control, Modernism, Mortality, non-violence, Ontology, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Poetry, Political, Power, Psychology, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Romance, Romantic Love, Romanticism, Seduction, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Alexandria VA, answered prayer, answering the call, author, belief, Bible movies, couples, creation, Creator, Divine communication, Divine messenger, Divine Presence, Divine summons, doubt, ego needs, empirical evidence, evidence, Faith, Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, getting married, getting to yes, God's audible voice, God's audible words, God's voice, God's words, higher ed organizations, human responsiveness, humility, identity, imagination, individuality, Jerry L. Martin's "God: an Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher", level-headedness, love, maintaining identity, marriage proposals, married life, newlyweds, ordinary life, ordinary world, philosopher, prayer, proofreading, proofs, prophet, protocol, publication, publication process, publishing, Q&A, quest, real life, reality check, receptivity, relationships, religion, Romantic Love, sacred, secularism, skepticism, spiritual growth, spiritual seekers, theism, Washington life, writers
Leave a comment