Category: Religion

November 20, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Julia Kristeva and St. Teresa

Today’s fiction corner features Julia Kristeva’s new novel Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila. While Kristeva first made her name as a philosopher and critic, she has also written several novels, including Murder in Byzantium...

November 14, 2014

Francisco Varela and Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read an excerpt of an interview with Evan Thompson from the Wild River Review in which he discusses the influence of Francisco Varela on WAKING, DREAMING, BEING.

November 13, 2014

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read a blog post by Evan Thompson on the importance of dreaming in his own work and in the construction of a coherent concept of a “self.”

November 12, 2014

Evan Thompson talks to Tricycle Magazine

Read an interview with WAKING, DREAMING, BEING author Evan Thompson, excerpted from Tricycle Magazine.

November 11, 2014

The Dalai Lama’s Conjecture

Read the final section of Evan Thompson’s prologue to WAKING, DREAMING, BEING, cross-posted from the Mind & Life Institute.

November 11, 2014

Stephen Batchelor's Foreword to Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read Stephen Batchelor’s foreword to Evan Thompson’s WAKING, DREAMING, BEING: SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE, MEDITATION, AND PHILOSOPHY.

September 30, 2014

To the Point: A New E-book Series from Columbia University Press

                  Columbia University Press is proud to announce the launch of To the Point an exciting new e-book series that extends the scholarship of our authors for a growing global and digital audience. We present standalone chapters from the press’s...

August 29, 2014

H. H. Shugart on Comprehending the Earth

“Are we creating the intellectual environment for creative, synthetic, and revolutionary researchers that can push us across the old boundaries into new paradigms? … Sadly, the politicization and the businessification of science may be taking the intellectual and creative environment...

August 28, 2014

Can We Change the Weather? H. H. Shugart on the Peril and Promise of Geoengineering

One of the issues H. H. Shugart explores in Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job is whether and to what extent should humankind should see itself as “masters of nature”. In the chapter, “Making...

August 27, 2014

H. H Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth, takes the "Page 99 Test"

Earlier this summer, H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job took the Page 99 Test. Taken from a Ford Maddox Ford quote, the Page 99 Test asks authors to explain...

August 27, 2014

What Constitutes Compelling Evidence, and for Whom? — B. Alan Wallace

The following post is by B. Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice and Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. For more,...

August 26, 2014

Interview with H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth

“Science is not likely to produce an ethical basis for proper conduct in cases in which strangers in distant locations are damaged by an individual’s actions involving spending resources, extirpating species, or polluting air and ocean. Help in these matters...