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Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
In Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of A Former Badass (Street Noise Books, 2025), Professor Cara Gormally draws us into the familiar academic world of chronic busyness. In panel after panel, Cara brings us into a life numbed by overwork. Then, as this gra ... Show More
39m 37s
Jan 8
How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend
Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe. Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant state of flux — adapting, reconfiguring, finding new pathways. And it has an astonishing capacity for recovery. Rachel Barr struggl ... Show More
44m 47s
Jan 8
Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, body, and environment, with a special emphasis on the natural environment. He has devoted his life to studying it. If you sometimes feel drai ... Show More
33m 54s
Nov 2018
Disembodied survival النجاة الروحية اللاجسدية
6m 18s
Mar 2023
Ioannis Gaitanidis, "Spirituality and Alternativity in Contemporary Japan: Beyond Religion?" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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
49m 33s
Jun 2024
Our God-Shaped Brains
<p>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 <a href="https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/ara-norenzayan/">Ar ... Show More
50m 18s
Aug 2023
#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
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
40m 37s
Dec 2018
A psychological understanding of religious experience التفسير النفسي للتجارب الدينية
6m 9s
Mar 2019
The Origin of Religious Phenomena أصل الظاهرة الدينية
10m 29s
Jan 2019
The Argument from Religious Experience الحُجة من التجربة الدينية
3m 3s
Feb 2019
The will to believe ارادة الايمان
8m 45s
Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It presents two arguments in support of the existence of spirits and arguments that experiences of various sorts (perceptions, mediumship, possession, and animistic experiences) can lend justification to spirit-beliefs.
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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
من حلقة التجارب الدينية و المعجزات EP45: Religious Experiences and Miracles هناك العديد من التفسيرات السيكولوجية للتجارب الدينية، احد اشهرها واهمها على الاطلاق قدمها الطبيب وعالم النفس النمساوى مؤسس علم التحليل النفسي psychoanalysis سجموند فرويد Sigmund Freud اللى طرحها للمرة الا ... Show More
من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science فى العقود الاخيرة تحدى اخر للفكرة الدينية ظهر من العلم فى مجال علم النفس التطورى Evolutionary psychology اللى مجال دراستة بيركز على محاولة فهم الطريقة اللى اثرت بيها قوى التطور فى الماضى على تشكيل ادراك، وعى، وتصرفات ... Show More
من حلقة التجارب الدينية و المعجزات EP45: Religious Experiences and Miracles الحُجة من التجربة الدينية، هى حجة الانتقال من تجربة الاحساس بوجود الله لأثبات وجود الله، فى اقوى صورها. وبتستند على فكرة انه من الممكن فقط الاحساس بشئ ما من خلال اى تجربة فقط ان كان الشئ له وجود، وبالتالى ... Show More
من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science رؤية اخرى للعلاقة ما بين الايمان والعقلانية مشابهة لأيمانية كيركجارد، قدمها فيلسوف وعالم النفس الامريكى ويليام جيمس William James فى مقال شهير بعنوان "إرادة الايمان The will to believe" وجادل فيه ان على النقيض من اللى ... Show More