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Personal experience, by and large, cannot be contradicted by the person who has it. You lived it and therefore you know that it is true. I ...

The occasion for this post is my discovery quite recently of a major nineteenth century figure in psychology, Frederic W.H. Myers. I’ve bee...

This is really a note on aging; if you are young, come back as you’re approaching eighty. The notion today is that as we become ever more a...

The man I have in mind is Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), paleontologist, biologist, and man of letters. He was born five years after I was ...

Recently I managed to discover another book by Carl B. Becker, this one titled Breaking the Circle: Death and the Afterlife in Buddhism (S...

Negativity on culture, especially in times of decay—but I wonder if times are any different when growth prevails—can only be effectively co...

I made a note the other day on the need to have a meta-theory of some sort before any thought is expended on the possible meaning of the li...

For the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of The Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:6 [Aramaic Bible in Plain English] The rendition...

My guess is that C.S. Lewis’ Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer , might be among his least read works, viewed perhaps as a mere mole hil...

Some mornings I have to make active efforts to assert a view of the world in stark contrast with the one I see presented in the newspaper o...

I keep trying to put into words my long-standing view that dramatic experiences like satori (and their equals under other names) stand in s...

There is such a thing as feeling-logic alongside the logic based on observation. Feeling-logic assures me that there is such a place as hel...

A post on Just Thomism ( link ) reminded me, again, of the problematical nature of substance as understood by Aristotle and Aquinas (hylom...

One of my habits is to re-read an old textbook of mine, Thomism and Modern Thought by Harry R. Klocker, S.J. This tends to be good-weather...

The man credited with founding the Stoic philosophy was Zeno of Citium who lived from 334 to approximately 262 BC. Citium is in Syria, but ...