William James

Miracles and Monks

Suza Scalora | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Dalai Lama, Positive Thinking, William James, Viktor Frankl, Dr. Norma Vincent Peele, Miracles, Buddhism, A Course in Miracles, Center for Living, Mindful Living, Healthy Living News

We've all experienced the strength of negative thoughts. If we are not aware in the present moment they can quickly sneak up on us and drag us down the rabbit hole of disconnection, despair and depression.

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Faith According To The Bible(s)

Christopher Lane | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Judeo-Christian Tradition, Bible Translation, William James, Religious Doubt, Faith, Bible Scholarship, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Bible, Christianity, Religion News

The devout understandably want to view their faith as inevitable -- as existing beyond chance, contingency and debate. Close examination of key passages in the Bible underscores, by contrast, that the book they worship is far from reliable.

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How OCD Helps Me Understand Certain Kinds Of Religious Experience

Matt Bieber | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Matt Bieber, William James, Ocd, Religion and Science, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Religion News

My experiences with OCD -- shot through with magical thinking as they may be -- are in some sense exactly parallel to certain kinds of religious experience. You can't talk me out of them.

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: John F. Kennedy, American Exceptionalism, Turner Thesis, Rugged Conformists, Walter Huston, Cooperstown, Amish, Frederick Jackson Turner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whiskey Rebellion, Theodore Roosevelt, Manhood at Harvard, Alexis De Tocqueville, Henry David Thoreau, James Fenimore Cooper, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Gary Cooper, Jean-Paul Sartre, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Humphrey Bogart, Emma Lazarus, William James, B. Traven, Trust, The Moral Equivalent of War, Kim Townsend, Natty Bumppo, Barack Obama, John Huston, Rugged Individualism, Hawkeye, Francis Fukuyama, High Noon, Reading Terminal Market, Self-Reliance, Autarky, Deerslayer, Mind, Religion News

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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2011 Has Started - Isn't It Time to Get Organized?

Tom Alderman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Kudzu, Chaos, William James, The Bellagio, Psychologists, Navajo Indians, Navajo, Flotsam, 2011, The New Year, Clutter, Healthy Living News

You've probably got it. I certainly do. Most of us have one. It is that kitchen drawer, closet, basement, attic or crawl space, where you'll find eve...

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On habits and how to change them

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William James, Technology, Living Green, Climate and Energy, Becc, Social Psychology, Behavior, Habit, Green News

Reprinted with permission from Grist.org. ...

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Is It Time to Quit Believing?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Athiests, Faith, Materialists, William James, Belief, Healthy Living News

No one ever claimed that God was tangible, like a rock or a tree. Gravity isn't tangible, either, but once the human mind decided to look for it, gravity became evident.

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The Quantum Brain, Spirituality, And The Mind Of God

Ervin Laszlo | Posted 05.25.2011

The spiritual experience usually comes about in altered states, but what does the recurring substance of the experience signify? What is that "something deeper and larger than ourselves" to which the experience seems to connect us?

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Sheepish In Carlyfornia

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hewlitt Packard, Barbara Boxer, John McCain, Einstein, Socrates, Carly Fiorina, Buddha, Sarah Palin, H.L. Mencken, Glenn Gould, Bach, Bill Zimmerman, William James, Augustine, Politics News

You may think that Carly Fiorina's "Demon Sheep" ad will hurt Fiorina's chances, but the video has given the senatorial candidate free publicity.

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Avatar: Pandora Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lsd, Adi Da Samraj, Depression, William James, Pandora, Adyashanti, Psychedelics, Ram Dass, Chaos Theory, Alan Watts, Proust, Spiritual Path, William Blake, Gaia, Avatar, Healthy Living News

Certain Avatar viewers are leaving the movie depressed at their inability to access a world as spiritual and beautiful as Pandora. The problem is not Earth, but rather these viewers.

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Suffering, Seeking & Sanity

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011

Over time, the object of my seeking evolved from merely looking for personal relief, to a grander, all-encompassing search for truth, God and enlightenment.

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Balanced Life -- Act the Way You Want To Feel

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Emotions, Philosophy, The Balanced Life, William James, Pragmatism, Psychology, Autonomy, Self-Regulation, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act.

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A $250 Billion Blunder?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William James, Trimtrabs, Dan Dorfman, Conrad Gann, Business News

If you're a bondholder, keep close tabs on the interest rate chatter. There could come a point when it's time to get out of the saddle.

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Q&A with Robert Wright (Part 2): Is Belief in God Any Weirder Than Belief in Electrons?

Terrence McNally | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Muslim, Zero-Sum, William James, Atheism, Physics, Non-Zero-Sum, Israel, Obama, God, Christian, Winifred Gallagher, Healthy Living News

For part 2 of my interview with Robert Wright, author of The Evolution of God, we discuss consciousness, physics, evolution, atheism, Obama and more.

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Atheists and the Will to Believe

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, William James, Einstein, Buddhism, Pew Poll, Atheism, Home News

An article in the Washington Post On Faith section in response to their question: "According to a new Pew survey, 21% of American atheists believe in ...

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