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Has Scientific progress helped much in the way of promoting Universalism ?

Universalism, a belief that our sphere of morality should extend to the wider world and beyond, and not limited to ourselves, is not related to our belief systems’; rather they are dependent on a complex interaction between our instinctive sense of morality and our subsequent moral choices. Science or religion are merely used as tools to justify our actions in this regard, but we alone are responsible for them.

The Current Global Financial Crisis : A Catastrophic failure of Spirituality ?

The current financial meltdown should perhaps be discussed more in terms of a collapse in public morality than an inevitable outcome of free market economic cycles.

How Quantum Physics rediscovered Consciousness

Imagine you tossed a coin into the air, and as the coin was in mid-flight, somebody said to you that it would land both heads and tails at the same time. You would doubt their sanity. But if that person were a quantum physicist, you might give them more credibility. And they, for their part,

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Does the future look bright for ‘compassionate’ meat-eaters ?

There is little doubt that meat is nutritious and tasty, and that humanity itself evolved from hunter-gatherer groups, with superior tools for killing animals being a crucial factor that put homo sapiens ahead of other human (humanoid) species. Yet instinctively to modern humans killing is ‘bad’, and we only need to look at the horror

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Synchronicity and the Secret of the Co-creator

Synchronicity and the Secret of the Co-creator Synchronicity: is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated occurring together in a meaningful manner [to the observer]. To count as synchronicity, the events should be unlikely to occur together by chance. If you believe synchronicity is simply coincidence, then you haven’t read

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Does a loving, forgiving God promote cheating ?

A new study (1) published in the quarterly International Journal for the Psychology of Religion carried out jointly by researchers from the Universities of Oregon and British Columbia, USA, suggests that a mean, punishing God actually deterred groups of college students from cheating on tests. By comparison, belief in a loving forgiving God had absolutely

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