Tag Archives: paradigm change

The Other Culture War

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Abigail

The Other Culture War People live and die by ideas. That’s not the only thing we live and die by, but ideas are big in the lives of all of us. For the last 100 years or so, trend-setting thinkers … Continue reading →

Posted in absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, bad faith, Biblical God, bureaucracy, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, courage, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, female power, femininity, feminism, freedom, gender balance, glitterati, guilt and innocence, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history of ideas, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, masculinity, mind control, modern women, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, mysticism, ontology, oppression, past and future, Phenomenology of the Mind, philosophy, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, romantic love, science, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, seventeenth century, sex appeal, sexuality, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, work, writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged animal communication, anomalies, anti-teleology, competing world views, cosmic mind, cultural power, culture war, cynicism, David Lorimer, denying evidence, despair, discredited paradigm, emotional wisdom, enforcing opinions, establishment power plays, good and evil, groupthink, horse psychic, idealism v materialism, ideas as causal, ideas in culture, inconsistent data, intellectual trends, laws of nature, loss of reputation, love as real, materialist paradigm, mechanistic universe, metaphysical idealism, metaphysical materialism, minds and brains, monistic idealism, NDE, near death experience, new realism, opinion shapers, paradigm change, paranormal phenomena, precognition, precognitive dreams, professional threats, reality check, reality of individuals, reasons v causes, refutation by refusing to look, scientific establishment, scientific method, scientific progress, scientific revolution, search for truth, skepticism v dogmatism, social pressure, The Galileo Commission, unconscious projections, Victor Zammit’s Friday Afterlife Report, women's wisdom | Leave a comment

The Paranormal and Me

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Abigail

The Paranormal and Me If by “the paranormal” is meant the field of reality that comprises effects not linked to causes by any known physical laws — and if the missing links are likely found in consciousness – then the … Continue reading →

Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art of living, atheism, autonomy, books, bureaucracy, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, cults, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, exploitation, faith, fashion, films, freedom, friendship, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, masculinity, medieval, memoir, memory, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, morality, mortality, motherhood, mysticism, non-violence, novels, ontology, oppression, past and future, peace, philosophy, politics of ideas, postmodernism, power, presence, promissory notes, propaganda, psychology, public facade, public intellectual, reading, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, romance, romantic love, romanticism, scientism, secular, seduction, self-deception, sex appeal, social climbing, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, victimhood, victims, work, writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged academic nonreappointment, academic philosophers, academic politics, academic protocol, academic tenure, ambiguous evidence, anecdotal evidence, bad professional news, cause and effect, collegial ridicule, collegial shunning, conscious beings, consciousness, consciousness research, culture and the paranormal, dangers of psi, digging a well, dowser, dowser’s stick, emotional absence, emotional letdown, everyday experience, finding water, funding for research, funding for unpopular research, house in Maine, intellectual foundations, invisible force, known physical laws, medical candor, mediums who cheat, missing explanatory links, news bearer, nocebo effect, nonphysical causation, one of the boys, paradigm change, paranormal and fraud, physical laws, placebo effect, precognitive bad news, precognitive dreams, premonitions, present day physics, private life and paranormal, professional risk, psychic, psychic power, refuting instance, researching the paranormal, secrets of consciousness, significant coincidence, social death, Stephen E. Braude’s The Gold Leaf Lady: And Other Parapsychological Investigations, study of consciousness, the paranormal, the search for truth, unpopular hypothesis, unsupportive men, what everybody knows | 2 Comments

“Proof of Heaven?”

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Abigail

“Proof of Heaven?” Epicurus, ancient atomist and empiricist that he was, taught that we human beings are composed of large numbers of atoms, each one too tiny to see. So, he maintained, is everything else. When such collections of … Continue reading →

Posted in Absolute Freedom and Terror, absurdism, academe, action, afterlife, alienation, anthropology, art, art of living, atheism, autonomy, beauty, Biblical God, Christianity, cities, class, conformism, contemplation, contradictions, cool, courage, courtship, cultural politics, culture, desire, dialectic, erotic life, eternity, ethics, evil, existentialism, faith, fashion, femininity, feminism, freedom, friendship, gender balance, glitterati, Gnosticism, guilt and innocence, health, hegemony, heroes, hidden God, hierarchy, history, history of ideas, id, idealism, ideality, identity, ideology, idolatry, immorality, immortality, institutional power, journalism, legal responsibility, life and death struggle, literature, love, male power, memory, mind control, modernism, moral action, moral evaluation, moral psychology, mortality, mysticism, novels, ontology, past and future, peace, philosophy, poetry, political movements, politics of ideas, postmodernism, promissory notes, propaganda, public facade, public intellectual, radicalism, reductionism, relationships, religion, roles, scientism, secular, self-deception, social construction, social conventions, social ranking, sociobiology, spiritual journey, spiritual not religious, spirituality, status, status of women, suffering, terror, the examined life, the problematic of men, the problematic of woman, the profane, the sacred, theism, theology, twentieth century, twenty-first century, work, writing, Zeitgeist | Tagged academic presentations, ancient atomism, Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, ants, atomism, brain death, brain surgery, coma, comforts of religion, cultural paradigm, death, death as the end, death is not, determinism, dissolution, divine beauty, divine light, divine Love, E. coli bacteria, Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Into the Afterlife, enjoying solitude, Epicurus, Esquire magazine, fear of death, Harvard Medical School, heart death, heavenly support, hyper-reality, identity theory, journalistic expose, journey to the after-life, kabbalist, medical credentials, medical warrant, medically inexplicable recovery, mind as brain, moral struggle, near death experience, neocortex, neuroscientists, Omaha Nebraska, paradigm change, physical anxiety, physical vulnerability, received opinion, scientific consensus, scientific fact, Scott Wade, Sioux City Iowa, solitude., stress fracture, surviving brain death, surviving heart death, total death, Ultrasound Surgery Foundation in Charlottesville VA, world of action | Leave a comment

“Conversions”

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Abigail

“Conversions” What we believe influences our taste, our most consequential choices, our self-esteem and sense of our own weight in the world. When we are viewed from outside and classified, what’s typically picked out are the inherited features (“nature”) and … Continue reading →

Posted in art, culture, faith, feminism, history of ideas, memoir, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions, spirituality, the examined life, the problematic of woman | Tagged Ariadne's Thread, Aristotle, atheist, behavior therapy, belief, believer in free will, brainwashing, Caravaggio, coercion, confessions, conservative, conversion, determinist, duress, feminist, Fidelista, friendship, gnostic, Hank Williams, I Saw the Light, Jew, labyrinth, nature and nurture, paradigm change, personal identity, self-concept, sincerity, stimulus response conditioning, The Road to Damascus, theist, traditional woman, transformation, truth | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: paradigm change

Dear Abbie: The Non-Advice Column

Recent Posts