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Feb 25
Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman, "The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism" (Columbia UP, 2025)
In their book The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism (Columbia UP, 2025) Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman offer our beleaguered souls a breather. Together they tackle the question of what makes life worth living, and before you recoil at the sound of that question, which intentiona ... Show More
1h 8m
Feb 6
Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini, with Marleen Thaler
Today host Pierce Salguero sits down with Marleen Thaler, a researcher at the University of Vienna and University of Graz. Together, we investigate the history of the transformation of Kundalini from a Hindu goddess resting at the base of the spine to her modern manifestation as ... Show More
1h 3m
Jan 31
Federico Alvarez Igarzábal and Emmanuel Guardiola, "Video Games and Mental Health: Perspectives of Psychology and Game Design" (Transcript Publishing, 2024)
How do video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design? In recent years, the topic of mental health has gained tremendous importance for the games industry, affecting both the applied and entertainment games sectors. The former draws fr ... Show More
30m 15s
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
