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Paradigm shift occurring in science, philosophy and spirituality
I do not blame North American natural scientists for feeling under siege by the Religious Right over evolution. Nasty legal and political battles have been plaguing the US as Biblical literalists...
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Parapsychology in a positive light
The paranormal in a positive light: By dismissing the paranormal as bunk, mainstream religions may be missing a golden opportunity, a new book suggests. The Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES (Posted to supplement...
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Secularization is best thing that ever happened to religion
Secularization is the best thing that’s ever happened to religion. That might seem like a shocking statement for both religious and secular people. But its implications become clear when we unpack new...
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No matter how smart they get, computers will never have a personality
No matter how smart they get, computers will never have soul Vancouver Sun ARCHIVES Saturday, March 16, 1996 Byline: DOUGLAS TODD Reposted in 2012 as counterpoint to new column, headlined: “B.C.’s Pat...
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Pat Churchland fights for supremacy of the brain
A biological experiment is turning out to have groundbreaking implications for ethics, as well as boosting the career of a high-flying B.C.-raised neuroscientist. In a study of humans playing a...
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$5 million to research afterlife: Challenging the academic stigma
I can hear the complaining already from people who think it’s idiotic to study the possibility of life after death, since, as some academics like to say, such concepts are just “magic.” But why not...
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Psychologist dives into seances and ‘contacting the dead’
Is it possible for the living to contact the dead? Capilano University psychologist Leonard George was determined to find out. The noted author and researcher travelled to upstate New York – to the...
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If "evil divides," how do we respond?
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – It’s being called the Pope Francis Effect. And one of the strongest features of the effect being created by the new pope, who has spent most of his life in this dynamic and...
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A Vancouver woman's journey into parapsychology
Little-known B.C. mystic Olga Park is the subject of a compelling new book by Metro Vancouver poet and college literature instructor, Susan McCaslin. Into the Mystic: My Years with Olga (Inanna...
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