Dr. Sam Parnia (with Josh Young), Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death (Harper One, 2013). "Howl, howl, howl! ... She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives ... This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so, It is a chance which … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 2)
(Continued from last week's post). This will be my last blog post for three weeks. I'm taking a short break to work on a rewrite of my novel The Color of Electrum. I'll be back on May 15, with the first of a two-part post on the precognitive dream reported by Mark Twain--one of the many … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 1)
Review of Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms, by Jeffrey J. Kripal; with Ata Anzali, Andrea R. Jain, and Erin Prophet. Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Has there ever been a book like Jeffrey Kripal's Comparing Religions? If there has, I haven't seen it, and in my 24 years as a professor of religious … [Read more...]
