New research published in Religion, Brain & Behavior provides evidence that holding mystical beliefs predicts a greater sense ...

Religion has long been a central part of life for many. But recent trends in the United States have revealed that increasingly more people are leaving religion. By 2070, many project that Christianity ...

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"There's just plenty of ways for us to pursue goodness and truth." Americans are becoming increasingly secular, with nearly 30% of adults reporting they are not affiliated with any specific religion, ...

And Mike McCullough, another prominent expert on the psychology of religion, finds that many people tend to become especially religious during the years when they have children, and then to become ...

Reincarnation is a core belief of the Hindu faith. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains that changing one’s body is like changing one’s clothes. I accept that possibility as I accept the idea of a ...

What if the day you leave religion is just the start of your real spiritual life? For most adults in the unmapped country beyond religion, it is much more than a convenient exit it’s a psychological, ...

Washington Post columnist Shadi Hamid entertained the concept of what society might look like if traditional structures are replaced by an individual-focused outlook. His opinion piece published ...

The evolutionary significance of religion is a hot topic. Several researchers have suggested that religious belief is one or another sort of parasitic meme that exploits the existing architecture of ...

In this paper, I try to show to what extent Wittgenstein’s thinking about the problem of the meaning of life was influenced by Tolstoy. I begin with the problem of what Tolstoy’s writings, especially ...

In a conversation with Nikhil Kamath, Elon Musk talks about collective consciousness, reality of the world, and what he thinks about spirituality.