In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a key idea is that man should become God, and that the universe will become deified with him. Here are som...

George Berkeley (1685-1753) George Berkeley, born in 1685 at Dysart Castle in County Kilkenny, and Bishop of Cloyne from 1734 to 1753, wrote...

Below is a post by my colleague Christine Fulcher, giving some of her views on education. The headmaster of my primary school made great p...

metachoric experience = experience in which the whole of a subject’s visual field is replaced by a hallucinatory one Our research on lu...

The essential feature of ethics — that is to say, respect for the right of the individual to have what he wants and to decide for himself wh...

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) The philosopher Herbert Spencer, commenting in 1851 on the possible effects of welfare, a century before the ...

Zoroastrianism, which takes its name from the prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra), is one of the world’s oldest surviving religions, and was ...

Maurice Bucke was a Canadian psychiatrist and a contemporary of the American psychologist William James. In 1901, Bucke published a book abo...

W.E. Henley’s poem Invictus was written in 1875. Originally the poem was published untitled; the name ‘Invictus’ was added by anthologist A...

Vladimir Horowitz (1903 - 1989) Pianist Vladimir Horowitz in a 1977 interview : When I’m on the stage I’m one person, when I’m out of t...