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Reply to Thomasmatus Posted by: SpiritualAtheist
Video duration: 519 seconds Global video hits: 140 I reply to thomasmatus's video on the weight of human testimony. Related: atheist, god, testimony |
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Psi and Science (1 of 3) Posted by: 0ThouArtThat0
Video duration: 585 seconds Global video hits: 939 Thomas Matus (http://www.youtube. com/user/thomasmatus ) and I discuss paranormal phenomena and why materialist science seems to dismiss what in any other realm of study would be considered compelling, or at least worth further investigation. Related: empiricism, epistemology, music, paranormal, psi, psyche, science, thomasmatus |
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Psi and Science (2 of 3) Posted by: 0ThouArtThat0
Video duration: 625 seconds Global video hits: 279 Thomas Matus (http://www.youtube. com/user/thomasmatus ) and I discuss paranormal phenomena and why materialist science seems to dismiss what in any other realm of study would be considered compelling, or at least worth further investigation. Related: empiricism, epistemology, music, paranormal, psi, psyche, science, thomasmatus |
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Psi and Science (3 of 3) Posted by: 0ThouArtThat0
Video duration: 339 seconds Global video hits: 419 Thomas Matus (http://www.youtube. com/user/thomasmatus ) and I discuss paranormal phenomena and why materialist science seems to dismiss what in any other realm of study would be considered compelling, or at least worth further investigation. Related: empiricism, epistemology, music, paranormal, psi, psyche, science, thomasmatus |
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Re: Psi and Science (3 of 3) Posted by: 0ThouArtThat0
Video duration: 458 seconds Global video hits: 290 adding context to the controversy not only does quantum physics contradict standard materialism, but Einstein's physics suggests that matter is really a fold in spacetime. So matter isn't "in" space, but IS itself a certain manifestation of spacetime. Related: empiricism, epistemology, music, paranormal, psi, psyche, science, thomasmatus |
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Psi and Science response to 0ThouArtThat0 Posted by: adorianvlad
Video duration: 600 seconds Global video hits: 69 not only does quantum physics contradict standard materialism, but Einstein's physics suggests that matter is really a fold in spacetime. So matter isn't "in" space, but IS itself a certain manifestation of spacetime. Related: empiricism, epistemology, music, paranormal, psi, psyche, science, thomasmatus |
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Ashram Diary - Introduction Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 591 seconds Global video hits: 462 Meeting Bede Griffiths in Rome, 1979, and remembering the origins of his ashram. See my blog: http://ashramdiar y.gaia.com/blog Related: ashram, bede, benedictine, christianity, griffiths, india, nature, shantivanam, wisdom |
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Transcendence & ground (Karl Rahner) Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 479 seconds Global video hits: 298 A couple of paragraphs from Rahner's "introduction to the idea of Christianity" that take us beyond naive theism into a reflection that may speak to the current debate Related: being, consciousness, experience, infinity, reality, transcendence |
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Re: Purpose of Life [Challenge] Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 395 seconds Global video hits: 190 Response to Braindiscovering: my recourse to mystical language ("cloud of unknowing" etc.) may be considered an avoidance of the real question. But I do try to release my working for purpose in order to find meaning, which is given with life. Contemplation of what is, is a way to meaning. Having contemplated, one should then share contemplation through deeds of love. Related: challenge, difference, influence, life, meaning, mysticism, purpose, thoughts, unknowing |
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Introspection and Experimentation Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 359 seconds Global video hits: 152 Brief reflection on our inner experience as the seat of truth, not only when we engage in introspection, but also when we engage in experimentation or observation of things and facts outside us. Related: body, experience, experiment, introspection, knowledge, mind, observation, science |
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The Creative Ground Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 336 seconds Global video hits: 148 Thoughts about the simple, eternal act at the origin of temporal beings. Nothingness and emptiness, order and chaos as signs of this origin. Related: being, chaos, creation, design, emptiness, nothingness, order |
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Re: Emerson: The Over-Soul (p. 2-2) Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 275 seconds Global video hits: 182 response to Matt's two-part reading from Emerson and thoughts on Kyle's thought-experiment (Searle's Brain) Related: catherine, genoa, god, of, prayer, upanishads |
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Embodiment and consciousness Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 572 seconds Global video hits: 124 Reflection on some basic premises of George Lakoff and others regarding the embodiment of all our knowing Related: archetype, consciousness, embodiment, hillman, lakoff, medieval, philosophy |
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Re: Schopenhauer Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 323 seconds Global video hits: 149 0ThouArtThat0 says, taking off from Schopenhauer, that will is exercised transactionally - our consciousness has freedom in communion. Question: influence of Upanishads in and through Shcopenhauer? Related: fact, freedom, meaning, part, schopenhauer, upanishads, whole, will |
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Knowing and being known Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 503 seconds Global video hits: 84 After mutual apologies between Jordan and Matt, entering into question of point-of-departure (axiom) and "major logic" (how we know) Related: art, epistemology, knowledge, logic, science, technique |
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Re: The Prisoner's Dilemma & Ambiguity Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 494 seconds Global video hits: 69 The common good may trump self-interest, but conscience is above all. Related: conscience, dilemma, environment, extinction, justice, prisoners, species |
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First Upload Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 361 seconds Global video hits: 102 Introduction by Thomas, with comment on recent exchange between 2bsirius and 0ThouArtThat0 on Vatican, extraterrestrials, and Giordano Bruno. Related: giordano, alien, aviation, bruno, extraterrestrial, music, science, space, spirituality, vatican |
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Re: Response: Death and the afterlife Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 375 seconds Global video hits: 99 Thanks to alexd for his thoughts about death, which are also about consciousness and change. At death, the saying goes, "Life is not taken away; it is changed." Re: movie "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" based on the life, illness, and death of Jean-Dominique Bauby Related: afterlife, bauby, change, consciousness, death |
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Re: Morality [Challenge] Posted by: thomasmatus
Video duration: 411 seconds Global video hits: 84 Are we inclined to the good? We learn the good by seeing the good in others. We cannot judge, because "...they know not what they do." Related: judge, atheism, faith, goodness, love, morality, not, religion, violence |
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