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5 days ago · Books. The Sociology of Religion. Religion and the New Atheism. A Dictionary of Atheism. A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. Durkheim on Religion. Doubt, Atheism, and the Nineteenth-Century Russian Intelligentsia. On Freud's the Future of an Illusion. Reading Nietzsche. Marx on Religion. The Sociology of Religion.
5 days ago · In his short essay, The Future of an Illusion (1927), Sigmund Freud described religion as a fictive illusion that positions ‘God’ as the parent after the child realizes the shortcomings of the mother and father.
3 days ago · Time’s reality is questioned by both Einstein’s relativity and McTaggart’s logical arguments, which present different but inconclusive methods to understand time. Modern physics suggests time may be an illusion. Einstein’s theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of ...
5 days ago · In his book, The Illusion of Conscious Will, Wegner summarizes what he believes is empirical evidence supporting the view that human perception of conscious control is an illusion. Wegner summarizes some empirical evidence that may suggest that the perception of conscious control is open to modification (or even manipulation).
1 day ago · The essence of non-duality or oneness (in a nutshell, for now) is that there is no objective self or ‘doer’ inside our minds, directing our thoughts and our actions.
6 days ago · Seattle Times arts critic. It’s easy to imagine the Museum of Illusions as some sort of free-floating mirage, but it’s no illusion: It’s real and a new resident (i.e. not a pop-up) on the...
2 days ago · Except, the valley to the east is 20 years in the future, and the valley in the west is 20 years in the past. The same valley, the same people, but separated by time. Author Scott Alexander Howard
