By Inverse
“Our experimental goal is akin to finding a way to talk with an astronaut who is on another world.”
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CLEAR ALL
Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike.
It may be that the best way to understand the world is not through science or spirituality alone – but through an approach which combines them both.
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.
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