The Global Spiral  is an e-publication of Metanexus Institute. Through articles, essays, book reviews, and news, the Global Spiral  explores humanity's most profound questions and challenges.
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July/August 2008
Volume 9, Issue 4

Conference 2008 Issue Subject, Self, and Soul:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to Personhood


Visual Explorations

The Mind and Its Now
by Stanley L. Jaki

“[The] astonishing speed which may enable man to catch the Higgs boson...will not catch the now.” more


“In other words, the complexity of the world we are facing today resists all our reductionist and fragmentary ideas, notions, and representations of reality. We are compelled to think beyond, across, and between the disciplinary boundaries.” more


“Foucault’s work... engages with such questions of singularity and the real in ways that challenge the trajectories of Badiou and Žižek...” more


“An ability to describe fictive parts of what is in reality a seamless whole is a useful exercise because the act of naming allows us to better appreciate the dynamic functioning of our intrapsychic and interpersonal experience.” more


“With the predominance of process and existentialist philosophies, not to mention postmodern and liberation theologies of a thousand different kinds (including feminism), the disembodied soul...seems to have vanished with the cloister and the hairshirt.” more


“Wisdom is not an abstraction. It isn’t a static state of peace, beauty, or justice...The quest for wisdom requires two key dimensions: a process for wise decision-making and a set of criteria upon which to base judgments.” more


The Myth of Religious Neutrality

The Myth of Religious Neutrality

A radical reinterpretation of the general relations between
religion, science, and philosophy.

By Roy Clouser

“It is by the theories of philosophy and the sciences that we probe the deeper nature of, and construct explanations of, all that we experience. The central claim of this book is that no such theory can fail to be regulated and guided by some religious belief or other.” more


Conference Select
Outstanding articles from the 2007 Metanexus Conference

“Modern science was born through a violent break with the ancient vision of the world. This break allowed science to develop independently of theology, philosophy and culture. But today, the extreme consequences of this break, incarnated by the ideology of scientism, become a potential danger of self-destruction of our species.” more



by Eric Weislogel

On the Impossible... more


by V. V. Raman

Mathematics and the Dynamic Aspects of the Physical World. more


by Emanuel Paparella

The Loss of European Spiritual Identity - III. more


by Jeremy Sherman

Means and Ends: Opening a can (and can’t) of worms. more

Spirital Capital
Templeton Advanced Research Program
Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program
Metanexus Global Network Initiative
TRL


Quotes:
"Rejection of creeds is not inconsistent with being possessed by a living belief. We have no creed in science, but we are not lukewarm in our beliefs! The belief is not that all the understanding of the universe that we hold so enthusiastically today will survive in detail tomorrow, but a sureness that we are on the road. So too in religion, we are repelled by the sort of confident theological doctrine that claims to have settled for all generations just how the spiritual world works, but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a way through the unseen world. Religion for the conscientious seeker is not all a matter of doubt and self-questionings. There is a kind of sureness which is very different from cocksureness."
-Sir Arthur Eddington, Science and the Unseen World