Elizabeth King, a budding young Chicago writer, has an interesting plaint in the Washington Post describing how tough it can be to shake off the indoctrination of religion in I’m Continue Reading →
Dr. Darrel Ray and his Secular Sexuality podcast! On this weeks installment I get interviewed about all things atheist and sexual and psychology and religion and the Pope and gay Continue Reading →
WHAT’S WITH IT WITH WOMEN AND WHY ARE WE SO DISINCLINED TO COMMENT? (Waz note: A second Dispatch from Down Under guest post. Enjoy!) It would be impossible to go Continue Reading →
Time magazine’s recent special edition: “100 Most Influential People of 2015” featured Malala Yousafzai and Pope Francis together side by side on the last page (152) of the Icons section. Continue Reading →
There’s a lot of ugly stuff going on in the world with IS (Islamic State) and Ebola dominating the headlines. I thought I’d write a bit on something real: Consciousness. Continue Reading →
William James… didn’t look like a firebrand, a revolutionary. James, one of the early pioneers of American psychology whose heyday was the late 1800’s didn’t appear to be much of Continue Reading →
Rachel Held Evans. Once again from within the conservative evangelical community Rachel Held Evans features a very progressive Xian mental health advocate Amy Simpson, who is doing some great work Continue Reading →
Michio Kaku youtube vid on consciousness: Wherein the theoretical particle/field physicist and science educator provides his own theory of consciousness. It’s a short 5 minute, entertaining video. As he recalls Continue Reading →
Neil deGrasse Tyson in one of his typically inspiring YT clips said we need to investigate why the 7% of the top scientists; the members of the NAS (National Academy Continue Reading →
An Empirical Analysis of Consciousness Two excellent videos will bring us up to speed on some of the incredible empirical work being done on consciousness in humans. A few philosophers, Continue Reading →
