From Plato and the Qur'an to mysticism and neuroscience, this article traces how reason, experience, and culture shape our deepest questions about existence Shabeer Ahmad Lone The Qur’an calls humans ...

There’s an almost fretful anxiety in the voices and writings of materialists when they discuss consciousness. Inevitably, they become frustrated and angered when theists point out science’s inability ...

Yes: Consciousness is totally dependent on the brain and comes out from it. Dynamics of the brain create awareness. The brain is the conscious mind. No: Mind and body are distinctly different; ...

I was recently asked by someone to describe who or what God is, and it is a good question. If you asked who or what Rev Gav is, then certainly you could describe me as a walking, talking, bag of flesh ...

The Rev. Duke Tufty, pastor, Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.: If God is a deity sitting on a throne, somewhere in the far off reaches of the sky and listening to everyone’s prayers I would ...

We each have an eye deep inside us, and it is all the same eye, and it is the universe's eye. The eye wants the same thing any eye wants: to see. The eye wants to see it all, especially that which is ...

The science of consciousness has not lived up to expectations. Over the summer, the neuroscientist Christof Koch conceded defeat on his 25-year bet with the philosopher David Chalmers, a lost wager ...

Consciousness is what we are most familiar with. Feeling the sun's warmth on our face, the joy of seeing someone we love, or the thrill of being on a rollercoaster—every single experience we ever had, ...

The Rev. Duke Tufty, pastor, Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.: If God is a deity sitting on a throne, somewhere in the far off reaches of the sky and listening to everyone's prayers I would ...