Author: Nikolay Petrov

For me, moments of grace occur when, contra Pascal, the reason of the heart is at one with the reason of reason.

The Schwartzreport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives.

In the latter vision, life is deeply and inherently integrated. Though we may value our boundaries and exalt our differences, the deeper currents of life nourish the connective tissue of our collective existence.

Do we really need another ‘turn’ in academia and the study of religion? After all, it seems that when one or another turn has been proposed – whether linguistic, interpretive, narrative, pragmatic, or postcolonial – scholars often presented it as a kind of epistemic rupture with the past, a revolutionary paradigmatic shift that would drastically…

Orch OR can account for real-time conscious causal agency, avoiding the need for consciousness to be seen as epiphenomenal illusion. Orch OR can rescue conscious free will.

This article argues that Laszlo’s concept of the Akashic Field (A-fleld) does not render the concept of reincarnation either redundant or unnecessary, that reincamation is a fact of nature, something the universe is doing at this stage of its evolution. Not only is Laszlo’s theory compatible with the concept of rebirth, it actually strengthens that…

And hence the placebo-effect, as it showed in clinical trials that were necessary to prove the specific efficacy of these interventions, was considered a nuisance and, technically speaking, error variance to be minimised. Research and clinical experience showed how powerful such effects can be in practice.

In spite of our wish to reconcile science and spiritual insight, we are very far from even having clear questions to raise about the two approaches to reality. We wish these disciplines to be reconciled because they both appear to us to be significant and profound manifestations of the human psyche, and we imagine that…

Am I primarily a body which has, in response to accidental material forces and laws, produced a mind and a sense of self which can think and which has both self-consciousness and consciousness of other people and things?

All that can be said about most orthodox medicines is that they work unless they don’t. The same can be said about homeopathic medicines.

The work of researcher Jim Tucker and regression therapist Brian Weiss on past-­life memories suggests a transcendent or non-­reductionist view of human life. In this view, mental life or consciousness does not entirely reduce to the neural activity of the brain, and bodily death involves a return to a nonphysical realm.