Abstract
Convergences between science and spirituality was discussed. Cognitive psychology supposedly corroborated the Buddhist doctrine that the self is an illusion. Spiritual seekers employed mementos mori, like a human skull, to keep themselves mindful of death. Just as believers in a beneficent deity should be haunted by the problem of natural evil, so gnostics, atheists, pessimists and nihilists should be haunted by the problem of friendship.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | B7-B9 |
Journal | Chronicle of Higher Education |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 14 SEC.2 |
State | Published - 29 Nov 2002 |