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The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

By Robert Pirsig
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Robert M. Pirsig (1928–2017) was an American author and professor. Pirsig was best known for his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a contemporary philosophical meditation on how to live.

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Krista Tippett of “Speaking of Faith”: Creationism vs. Darwin

CNN's Jonathan Mann interviews Krista Tippett, host of "Speaking of Faith," about the increasing popularity of creationism in the U.S. and asks if Americans have simply lost their senses.

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Krista Tippett
2008
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The Space Less Traveled: Straight Talk From Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell

On January 31, 1971, Navy Captain Dr. Edgar Mitchell embarked on a journey into outer space, resulting in his becoming the sixth man to walk on the Moon. The Apollo 14 mission was NASA’s third manned lunar landing. This historic journey ended safely nine days later on February 9, 1971.

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Edgar Mitchell, Carol Mersch (editor)
2012
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Psychedelics and Spirituality with Rick Strassman

Here he describes how he was an active Buddhist meditator for twenty years while he was also engaged in DMT research. Eventually he left Buddhist practice, and began a deep study of the Hebrew Bible. Initially, he thought that the DMT "spirit molecule" might be responsible for spiritual experiences.

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Jeffrey Mishlove
2019
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Integrating Science and Religion to Uncover New Ideas and Truths

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Sister Ilia Delio PhD. OSF, a Franciscan Sister (Order of St Francis of Washington, DC) who holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Dr.

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Ilia Delio
2019
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The Ignatian Lecture

Is the universe 'catholic'? Sensitive to our world of religious pluralism, this lecture focuses on catholicity as a dynamic principle of attraction or 'whole-making' that marks the Big Bang cosmos, biological evolution, and religious evolutionary consciousness, and which breaks open in the life of...

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Ilia Delio
2014
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Evolution - A Christian Perspective

A summary of some of Teilhard de Chardin's views on evolution and its relation to humanity from a Christian perspective. Lecture by Ilia Delio from Georgetown University

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Ilia Delio
2012
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Evolution and the Primacy of Love

According to Teilhard de Chardin, evolution ushered in a new understanding of reality based on love-energy. This year's annual lecture explores Teilhard's philosophy of love and the import of conscious love for the direction of human evolution.

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Ilia Delio
2016
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The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spiritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature

Did you know that spending time in a forest activates the vagus nerve, which is responsible for inducing calm and regeneration? Or that spending just one single day in a wooded area increases the number of natural killer cells in the blood by almost 40 percent on average? We’ve all had an...

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Clemens G. Arvay
2018
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James Carse: Belief, Religion & Science

Scholar and teacher James Carse shows that religion and belief are in opposition not alliance. Science, he says, should not slip into "belief."

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James Carse
2008
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Exuberance: The Passion for Life

Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survival itself.

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Kay Redfield Jamison
2005
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