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Psychology & Practice – SN Today #16

April 4, 2017January 1, 2017 by SNS Podcast

How should Spiritual Naturalists take the latest psychological science into account in building a spiritual practice?

Categories Free, Podcast Tags practice, psychology Leave a comment

Psychology & Practice – SN Today #16

January 1, 2017 by SNS Podcast

How should Spiritual Naturalists take the latest psychological science into account in building a spiritual practice?

Categories Free, Podcast Tags practice, psychology Leave a comment

Evaluating Others: Checking Our Bias

June 30, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

How we are irrational and what the science says we can do about it…

Categories Free Tags atheism, beliefs, communication, critical thinking, health, psychology, rationality, science Leave a comment

Learn to Live Intentionally

March 24, 2016 by Gleb Tsipursky

We know we only have one life to live so we better make it count, being intentional about our life choices…

Categories Free Tags communication, compassionate humanism, decision-making, faith, goals, living intentionally, nihilism, psychology, rational, rationality, religion, spirituality 1 Comment

The Atheist Who Spoke to God

June 1, 2015March 26, 2015 by Jeremy Mattocks

I felt I was right where I needed to be… Then I disappeared. I thought I had spoken with God.

Categories Free Tags dualism, experience, god, humanism, psychology, spirituality, transcendence 2 Comments

The Centrality of Emotion, Part 2: An Ancient Approach to Modern Science

January 16, 2015January 8, 2015 by B. T. Newberg

How can we discover a path that makes emotion genuinely central, but which is also rooted in today’s best scientific evidence?

Categories Free Tags emotion, psychology 2 Comments
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