Can you measure the weight of a human soul? No, but that didn’t stop Duncan MacDougall from trying. In the early 20th century ...

College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the ...

Laboratories are not usually where people go looking for proof of a soul, yet a growing group of high profile scientists is trying to drag that question under the fluorescent lights. From speculative ...

In my previous post, I explained why the traditional soul is a testable hypothesis about the nature and functioning of the human mind. What then can we conclude about the existence of the soul? In a ...

In a world on the cusp of massive change, uncertainty, and complexity due to artificial intelligence, I believe it’s necessary to remind everyone of what psychotherapy actually means, because its ...