Here's a dialogue on John Vervaeke’s scientific reconstruction of spirituality, and the existential insight that people, unlike imperso...

Here's an article about the ideological resources the world’s religions have for accommodating the modern rise of science and secular h...

Here's a dialogue on nonduality, Western and Eastern views of enlightenment, and the implications of regarding our personal minds as mi...

Read on about the mystic's obligation to explain whether we're slaves to nature’s evolution, trapped in some cosmic role, or bridge...

Here's an article that compares some countercultural and mainstream philosophies, showing how secular humanism is a counter-revolt agai...

Here's an article about the ironies and double standards of Daoism, and how human progress is possible in nature despite the Daoist’s i...

Here's an article that attempts to solve the mystery of consciousness by reflecting on the mind’s overall function as an intentional di...

Read on about the surprising lack of alienation in Chinese religions, the downside of Chinese pragmatism, and the potential for a disastrou...

Here's a lengthy dialogue I had with a monistic mystic on the nature of enlightenment and God. Should enlightenment be secular or relig...

Read on to learn about the con of mystical oneness, the demonization of humanists, and the heroism of existential rebellion against the u...

This article is about whether scientists know how to make life meaningful, whether they should they turn to philosophy and religion for w...

In “ Buddhists, Pessimists, and the End of Suffering ,” I question how the Buddhist gets around the problem of nihilism or how she motiva...

New Atheism isn’t so new anymore. As others have pointed out , what began as a rationalist backlash against the religious war between Isl...

Besides its great age, what distinguishes Hinduism is its inclusivity by way of its systematic, comprehensive approach to the question of...

Are you doing what you should be doing? Not just right now, but in general? How about your family, your town, your whole country? How abo...

Are you doing what you should be doing? Not just right now, but in general? How about your family, your town, your whole country? How abo...

Nominal Christians think of the life of Jesus as being paradoxical. According to the myths which are typically misread as historical narr...

The dominant religion of those living centuries from now will likely be pantheistic, because pantheism best reconciles atheism and theism...