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Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance your well-being, or it can leave you wanting, stuck in a cycle of sadness, anxiety, or anger. Regardless of whether you're starved ...  Show more

Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Together we discuss how Tibetan medicine approaches the challenges that arise in the course of meditation. Alo ...  Show more

Disembodied survival النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية من حلقة الحياة بعد الموت EP46: Life After Death "كثير من الفلاسفة فى مختلف الثقافات وعبر العصور نظروا لفكرة النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية. من المهم اننا نشير الا ان اى حجج ضد النظرية المثنوية بالضرورة هتعد حجج ضد فكرة النجاة اللاجسدية. وبا ...  Show more

Ioannis Gaitanidis' book Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion? (Bloomsbury, 2022) critically examines the spirituality phenomenon in contemporary Japan by looking at the main actors involved in the discourse: spiritual therapists as practitioners, ...  Show more

Some think of religious faith as just that: a leap of faith. But psychologists are increasingly filling in the gaps in our understanding of how beliefs shape — and are shaped by — the human mind. This week, psychologist Ar ...

Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Metzinger about the scientific and experiential understanding of consciousness. They also talk about the role of intuition in science, the ethics of building conscious AI, the self as an hallucination, how we identify with our thoughts, attention as ...  Show more