
The mind is made of matter! So I’ve been told, and I don’t disagree. But I have to wonder what this really means. What is matter? The keyboard I type at is made of matter; I see it with my…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg Were our earliest human ancestors naturalistic? Some might assume so, reasoning that before the first gods were invented, people must have been naturalistic. But was that really the case? The column Naturalistic Traditions, hosted by…
Read MoreI was once a very bad witch. When I was trying to be a Wiccan, it was very difficult. I was 19 and the world was still pre-Internet. I knew no other Wiccans nor Witches nor Neo-Pagans. I did a…
Read More– by B. T. Newberg There are at least two people inside each of us: There is the rational, deliberate, conscious mind. It’s the one you can feel or even hear working when you puzzle out a tough math problem….
Read More(This is a brief excerpt from my book, The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy, published by Karnac and available for order online now.) Plato has a fine saying, that he who would discourse of…
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