Michal Dowd and Connie Barlow have a new podcast on the Big Integrity model. As always, well worth listening to. A quick comment about something Connie Barlow mentions early in the podcast: She says that in eastern models, consciousness is primary and the universe comes later. In her understanding, based on western science, consciousness is born out of the universe. And those two don’t ...

... , ethical obligations toward all species follow. Although nascent and fragile, such evolutionary nature spirituality may eventually inspire a planetary, civil Earth religion. In this ... he arrived at such sentiments personally — and kindled a sensory, and sensible, nature religion. With its spirituality of belonging to the biosphere and kinship feelings toward other living things, such nature ...

... biology it is impossible to impart via heredity acquired characterists your spirituality has nothing to do with the spiritual state of your children. It's just not going to mean anything. On the other hand, the proposal ... punished with physical death as a consequence for his sins then that doesn't matter either because in evolutionary terms death and sin are not logically correlated in a ...

... ;decided" itself which way to go, and this decision will determine its evolution. The totality of possible evolutionary pathways must be imagined as a multiforked graph with free decisions ... these views. Although it does not deny spirituality and can even be used to formulate the concept of a deity, as we shall see below, it does not allow for a pre-established evolutionary plan. Evolution is ...

... evidence and careful observation indicate such feelings may exist. So too does evolutionary theory. Recall Charles Darwin' ... originate? Jane Goodall (2005. Primate spirituality. In The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. edited by B. ... engage in interdisciplinary discussions before we say that animals cannot and do not experience spirituality.  (The teaser picture of Jasper, an Asiatic ...

... began to understand how religious ritual fits into the evolutionary perspective. And it's my thoughts about those connections which I want to share ... helpful for making sense of religious ritual in an evolutionary context. I want to do more than that, of course, but simply listing those words is a good ... School 50th-Anniversary Report #2. Spirituality Research Symposium #1. On Recent Developments ...

... a “spiritual” reality. Wouldn’t this suggest that human spirituality must represent an inherent characteristic of our species, that is, a genetically inherited trait? ... ; beyond and independent of us, but rather as the product of an inherited perception, the manifestation of an evolutionary adaptation that exists within the hum an brain. And why would our species have evolved such ...

... history, Allah has been unfolding before you, no matter how imperceptibly, His created world through an evolutionary process. He has opened up new vistas of knowledge before you, and at certain points of history He has ... . In this way, the Holy Prophet (pbuh) retrieved morality and spirituality from the restrictions of monasticism and brought them into all spheres of practical life.   He ...

... of its 740 units from that of chimpanzees, suggesting that this tiny evolutionary fix may hold the key to why people can speak and chimps ... FOXP2’s thumb show signs of having faced recent evolutionary pressure, meaning they were favored by natural selection. This ... -Covering Gene — but Wade should really be writing about "the spirituality gene" or "the transcendence gene", ...

... the basis for understanding how life on Earth developed. But although evolutionary theory is often portrayed as antithetical to religion, it has not destroyed the ... The passage raises at least a little doubt as to how the father of modern evolutionary theory might have responded to the question on belief in Pew&# ... dialogue? December 1, 2009 — The spirituality of martial arts October 15, 2009 &# ...

... etc. work their "magic." No real knowledge of history, spirituality, nor a sense of the human condition are necessary. Research? Nah. Studying an issue? ... ;rugged individualism these geniuses attribute to themselves is beyond debate. They have won Darwin's evolutionary race to top. Just ask them. Debate over. This, ironically, is counter intuitive when you consider that ...

... is patient, love is kind. I believe there is something each of us can pull from that Bible verse. We may not agree on spirituality or the existence of God, but we can agree that love is one of the most ... After all, true social change isn't revolutionary -- it's evolutionary. That means we will have to continue our forbearance with those who oppose us -- from the black pastor who preaches ...

... despite being an atheist - having my thinking stimulated by good articles about spirituality, and, in particular, the origins of religious experience, and enjoyed your article (The Evolution ... that many atheists would likely rejoice if the prevailing belief was that religion was an evolutionary adaptation. It seems odd that you would not see that a scientific explanation of religion would appeal to ...

... ;s VALIS, is generated to keep humanity in a state of materialist trance and evolutionary stagnation. Mystics generally consider that understanding the motivations of either of these ... of Church and State has been sufficient to make it difficult even to think in terms of spirituality and political philosophy as a continuous sphere. Even hardcore Bible-belters are unable ...

... is patient, love is kind. I believe there is something each of us can pull from that Bible verse. We may not agree on spirituality or the existence of God, but we can agree that love is one of the most ... After all, true social change isn't revolutionary -- it's evolutionary. That means we will have to continue our forbearance with those who oppose us -- from the black pastor who preaches ...