Probing the punchline: what jokes tell us about ourselves‘Jokes are a way into profound truths about how we think, how we live with each other, and even about philosophy.’ Martin Cohen…Oct 27Oct 27
Thinking differently: ten maverick philosophersDown through the centuries, there have been philosophers who didn’t march to the regular beat of academia and weren’t afraid to take on the…Oct 24Oct 24
Closing in on that elusive Theory of EverythingOne of the greatest problems of science, a Theory of Everything, or unified field theory, to embrace and explain completely all aspects of…Oct 20Oct 20
Published inTreading the lineWhy a new spirituality is on the way‘In simple and stark terms, consciousness is the 21st-century starting point for a spiritual view of reality.’ Dr George C Adams JrOct 162Oct 162
UFOs — answering a call from the cosmos‘For nearly eight decades, the curiously compelling acronym ‘UFO’ — as an idea at work in the world soul — has shaped human belief and…Sep 302Sep 302
Wordplay: language, reality and being human‘Without words, events would cease to exist, and the medium of language would dissolve, leaving the message of our being untold.’ Serghei…Sep 10Sep 10
Our coming journey into inner spaceDoes the destiny of the human race this century lie in the discovery of the inner worlds of the mind?Sep 63Sep 63
Making sense of it all‘This universal mind is intelligence itself and is the source of the mysterious meaning that erupts from each of us every moment.’ Tim…Aug 30Aug 30
The Apocalypse? Let’s put an end to this archaic notion‘The apocalyptic prophecies of the Bible are fictions written after the event, and where the events they describe cannot be located in past…Aug 20Aug 20
Is this Booker Prize winner really that good?Two dystopian novels published in 2023, within a few months of each other, attracted my attention — one by an Irish writer who has found…Aug 161Aug 161