Nirvaneans - Spiritual Posthumans http://nirvaneans.blogspot.com/ Nirvaneans, or Spiritual Posthumans, are people who have attained the Nirvanic Viewpoint and...
Q&A with Sam Harris 1. In your book you seem to argue for a kind of religious intolerance. Do you mean to suggest that we need not respect a person's...
Interesting. He's fanatical about his dislike of fanaticism, and doesn't see the irony - or the danger! - in such a position. Additionally, Mr Harris'...
Yes, this is a good point. Saying that we are unsafe until everyone who has a religious belief that we should be converted or killed are themselves converted...
As far as my (psychological, not religious) teaching went, the idea of the Islamic Jihad comes from a scripture declaring that if someone threatens your faith...
Dear friends, I got the belated news about the creation of this group from my friend Remi Sussan who follows transhumanist forums. I'd like to present myself...
... Michel - Your work sounds great. A couple questions: Who is "Mr. Hughes"? Can we get a hold of the TV special on DVD? ... The special issue of our Journal...
Michel mentioned a forthcoming essay on relgion and transhumanism in Cybersociology, but makes sure to check out their 1999 issue http://cybersociology.com/ ...
http://www.edge.org/ The Edge asked 100 thinkers: "What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?" SCOTT ATRAN: "There is no God that has...
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_print.html RANDOLPH NESSE, M.D. Psychiatrist, University of Michigan; Coauthor, Why We Get Sick I can't prove it, but I am pretty...
Can there be a predisposition for fundamentalism? Do the faithful cope more easily with pain? Are they faster to recover from illness? Such are the questions...
Note to Trans-Spirit readers: I referred approvingly to Dr. Persinger's work in my Trans-Spirit presentation and paper, as many other researchers have done...
In this study does anyone know what was used as the determination of level of spiritual experience obtained? Any form of 'strong' spiritual experience from my...
... spiritual ... been ... responses? ... Excellent question, Mark. Unfortunately I have no answer for you - just runnin' across this for the first time. ...
Announcing the 2005 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute Applications are now being taken for the 2005 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute (MLSRI) to be...
NOTE: Go to the web page below for figures/graphics accompanying this paper: http://www.mindandlife.org/collaboration.html General purposes of the research...
THE ENLIGHTENMENT MACHINE by Brad Warner, author of HARDCORE ZEN http://www.hardcorezen.org/ I take back everything I said in my book and in this web page...
KENSHO SCHMENSHO! by Brad Warner http://www.hardcorezen.org/ So I’m in a book store the other day and I see this book called The Best Buddhist Writing of...
We will soon have machines and drugs which can give us any specific "Zen experience," such as satori. But what Warner is more right about is that it will be a...
WHAT THE BLEEP DO I KNOW (about new age-y movies)? by Brad Warner http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/WhatTheBleep.htm So I've been going and checking out what...
WHAT THE BLEEP PART TWO http://homepage.mac.com/doubtboy/WhatTheBleepPart2.html After I put up my review of the movie What The Bleep Do We Know, a reader named...
Prof. Hacck is only one presenter at this conference, but her presentation is of most relevance to our topic of discussion: "Fallibilism and Faith, Naturalism...
Reality check by Lizzie Murray http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyo/551/feature.asp Hardcore punk rocker turned Zen master Brad Warner leads a journey of ...
I agree that it will be possible someday to use technology to induce experiences of all kinds. It will also be possible, I think, to change the personality for...
... I think the ability to turn off and on, and amplify, backup, modulate and so on, parts of our personality will make the ephemeral nature of self-hood much...
Well fair do's in putting people off the 'quick fix' approach, and yes, Zen has nothing to do with a pay-per-view experience, a tape with a simple steady...
Sorry, heading out to see some live music, will catch up on the rest of the posts later, but his caught my eye, apologies if I;ve missed the point by not...
