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natural-supernatural split

Natural spirits

July 18, 2016

In a recent interview on 13.7, NPR’s opinion blog about “Cosmos and Culture,” theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser says, Spirituality is a word that has been kidnapped by religion and that invokes the existence of supernatural spirits and the like. He sees things differently: I use the word in a very different way, as an expression…  Read More…

Tagged With: matter-spirit split, mindfulness, natural-supernatural split, naturalism, nature spirituality, personality, relationships with nature, religious naturalism, spirit, spirits

 

What Is natural? What Is supernatural?

July 4, 2016

“Natural” and “supernatural” used to be easy to tell apart. The natural world followed laws of nature—in short, anything we can see and touch. The supernatural did not. Mind-body split The division makes sense if you accept the idea of Descartes (borrowed from Plato and the Greeks) that mind and body are separate. After Descartes,…  Read More…

Tagged With: animals, attitudes toward animals, cosmology, Darwin, Descartes, God, love, materialism, matter-spirit split, mechanical physics, mechanism, mind-body split, natural-supernatural split, scientific method

 

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