Conversations Beyond Science & Religion

With the recent attack on Israel by Hamas and the horrors of war spread throughout the media, it might help to remember that Islam and Judaism pray to the same God. Judaism traditionally teaches that one connects with...

In our current mechanical worldview, we view the brain as a biochemical machine consisting of intricate particles known as neurons. As an engineer’s design and technology limit the function of a machine, so the DNA...

In his groundbreaking 1993 book, The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Amit Goswami used the findings of quantum theory to argue that consciousness creates what we perceive to be the...

In his new book, Radical Loving: One God, One World, One People, Rabbi Wayne Dosick, PhD, combines inspiration with revelation, adds a few words of wisdom, and then splices in a series of enlightening tales exemplifying...

Throughout history, humans have always had extraordinary experiences we often called miracles—events that fill us with wonder and bafflement. The problem is that under our current scientific worldview, miracles are not...

As the case against materialism builds, the credentials of the opponents to this pessimistic view of the world continue to increase. This show's guest, Dr. Harald Walach, holds a double Ph.D in Clinical Psychology, and...

The Source with a capital S is a neutral, "new age" term referring to the ground of Being. But it has a richer meaning than the Big Bang of modern cosmology or Darwin's primordial swamp out of which life supposedly...

Along with Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin is one of the two leading scientists in our modern era. The topic of evolution dominates biology and has permeated our thinking far beyond Darwin's original conception of the...

Perhaps no other-worldly phenomenon captures the mind more than near-death experiences. We are all born with an innate hope that there is something beyond this physical world, and near-death experiences give us a...

The notion that we live in a hardened, physical material world, separated from mind, is ingrained into our consciousness. It is a such a common thought that as some have said, to accept the independence of the material...

Is science really a religion? Is religion a science? Modern science itself is based upon a set of unquestioned beliefs, such as the origins of matter, life, and consciousness. We take the scientific theories about the...

Crop circles are geometric, patterned formations mysteriously carved into farm fields. In a way, they are farm-sized snowflakes. They have been observed all around the world, but primarily in the United Kingdom. To see...

Although today science and angels stand on opposite ends of the credibility spectrum, this was not always the case. In the 16th Century, Dr. John Dee, court advisor and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, was considered...

Each of us is free to interpret the physical world however we want. At some point, experience and reason show one interpretation to be better than another. (This may be called the scientific method.) Then, that...

What if someone studied the paranormal not as fringe events or untrustworthy occurrences but instead as providing insight into the sacred? What if someone dispensed with the notions of "real" and "unreal," "natural" and...