Being: Latest articles
The latest articles for this subsite are:
- Atheism is a religion
- We have free will, so we can believe in whatever we choose, including if it cannot be proved.
- Pseudo-intellectualism
- Many people are held up as intellectuals and thought-leaders, but is what they are doing actually promoting clear thinking?
- Science, truth and rationality
- We have the capacity for logical thinking, and if it is to be useful to us, it has to be fed by facts, but how do we get those?
- Honest about honesty
- Many talk about being authentic and showing vulnerability as signs of being honest, but is doing those things really mean we are being honest?
- Masking identity
- There are many reasons people hide what they identify with so that they are more accepted.
- Personal choices
- We tend to believe that in relation to the rest of humanity, our personal decisions don't count for much, but is that really true?
- Spiritual teachers
- When getting seriously interested in spiritual topics, we will come across spiritual teachers. Who are they and what can we realistically expect of them?
- We are not not our personalities
- There is an often posited stance that our personalities are an impediment to spiritual growth, but that undervalues and undermines the reason why we incarnate.
- Karma and dharma
- Whatever we do has consequences, but how are those consequences shaped?
- Spirituality and society are intertwined
- Spirituality is often seen as separate from society, or that too much focus upon societal concerns will detract from spiritual growth.