The Ground
of Faith
*Exploring
Science, Mysticism and Experience Together
Note: Contributions to this journal need not reflect the views of the
Editors or of the Panel
Contents
Useful linksEarlier Issues from June 2003 to February 2013 below:
February
2008
The Paradigm Police
November 2007
"Sensing Murder" is no scam
September
2007
"You can kiss your career Goodbye"
July 2007
Near Death Experiences of children..and more
March 2007
Plato in the 21st Century
December 2006
*Dimensions of Love?*
October 2006
Looking again at spirituality
April 2006
... dying and emerging images of God
February 2006
“No Boundaries Awareness”
November 2005
"The Kingdom of Heaven"
September 2005
"Worshipping in Spirit and in Truth"
July 2005
"Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth."
April/May 2005
The Universal Christ
February 2005
The unclassified residuum
December 2004
A Complex Web of Meaningful Coincidence
October 2004
Invincible Sceptism
August 2004
The Anatomy of Joy
April 2004
What's so Amazing about Grace?
August 2003
The Whole-ly Spirit
June 2003
The One and the Many
* Worship in the Southern Hemisphere
the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies Inc
The Churches' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies
The Theosophical Society in New Zealand
The Scientific and Medical Network
From the Diocese of Christchurch
Editor: The Rev. Michael Cocks
Advisory Editor: Michael
Tymn
April 2013 issue: True Religion is this
Articles by Michael Cocks:
*Religiously observant Americans are better neighbours
*Trading clouds of glory
*Fundamentalism v. Scepticism: the Middle Way
Michael Tymn
* a nonbeliever convinces another nonbeliever of life after death
*The strange and bizarre of materialisation further observed
*Ectoplasm, hokey but true
*Scientist reports on 10 years work with mediums
article by David Howard
True religion is this…
Callum Cooper: Post death experiences and the emotion of hope
Michele and Robert Root-Bernstein: Einstein on creative thinking
Richard Cocks: Will computers ever be conscious?
Dimensions of consciousness: Dung beetles guided by the Milky Way
Ray Villard: Are we living inside a computer simulation
Patricia Doyle: Prophecy Spiritualism and the Old Testament
TANSA: Theology and the natural sciences, New Zealand
Pscience:: what new developments in scientific investigation promote understanding of psi?
A website exploring pre-birth experiences
February 2013 issue:
Articles by Michael Cocks:
*The Spiritual Belief that Unites Humanity
*What Kind of God Predestines?
*A Christian understanding of Incarnation
*Psychic Research and Spirituality
Michael Tymn
*Resurrecting Leonora Piper: How Science Discovered the Afterlife
*An Interview with the Author of “Resurrecting Leonora Piper”
*Where Was God During the Newtown Tragedy? A Philosopher Answers
*Is Dr. Eben Alexander Putting Science Back on the Right Track?
*From Skepticism to *Cynicism to Savage Antipathy
*Karl Pribram: The Holographic Brain
*The Rainbow and the Worm:The Physics of Organisms. Mae-Wai Ho
*GHOST EXCAVATIONS AT BURNSIDE BRIDGE:
John G. Sabol,
Our Help Comes From the Lord:Studies of Spiritual Care in Hospital Guided by Christian Mysticism by the Revd. Andrew Fisher
AECES: New afterlife website: Do explore
J.McDaniel: What is Process Thought?
Metanexus
Other Science and Spirituality Blogs
Science & the Evidence for Postmortem Survival:William Stoney
December 2012
Articles by Michael Cocks:
*Good and Evil in the Cosmic Cathedral
*Synchronicity - Who is the playwright?
*Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion/Science Set Free
*MEMORY and REMEMBERING
Michael Tymn
“The Last Frontier”: An Interview with author Julia Assante, Ph.D.
*A Korean Psychiatrist Sees Mental Health Benefits in Believing in Life After Death
*Paid Debunkers: How the Public Is Misinformed by the Media and Academia About Psychic Phenomena
*An Interview with English Author Trevor Hamilton
Guy Playfair
*Hallowe’en news from Flat Earth
David Howard
Spirit Communion Within The Anglican Communion
ACADEMY OF SPIRITUAL AND CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES, INC. (Formerly ASPSI)
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2012 PROCEEDINGS:
*THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE OF CARL G. JUNG
Rev Karen E Herrick, PhD, LCSW, LMSW, CADC
*Beyond 2012: Why do we keep torturing ourselves with these predictions?
James E. Beichler, Ph.D.
From the Internet
*The 13 Most Important Numbers in the Universe
Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen
*Bishop Spong: How the church invented hell to control people.
*Famous Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Near Death Experiences in Surgery
October 2012 Awareness of Spirit
Ian Crumpton on The Ground of Faith.
Articles by Michael Cocks:
*Is the brain a computer? Are computers conscious?
*Private Dowding
*Templeton's $5m project
*Boiling an egg
Michael Tymn
*Is $5-Million for Life After Death Research a Waste?
*The Best Evidence for Life After Death?
*Dr. R. Craig Hogan discusses the evidence for Life after Death
*Nihilism: What is it?
Science & the Evidence for Postmortem Survival:
William Stoney
AECES: New afterlife website: Do explore
J.McDaniel: What is Process Thought?
Brilliant Near Death evidence
Metanexus
Other Science and Spirituality Blogs
August 2012 How mind creates the world
Articles by Michael Cocks:
*Love;Seth, Stephen, and Conversations
*How mind creates the world
*Comparing Seth etc.
*Conversations with God
Michael Tymn
*What does telepathy between twins have to do with life after death?
*Does Pain Accompany Violent Death?
*More Witnesses to “Soul Mist”
*Dr. Peter Fenwick discusses dying, death and survival
SYNCHRONICITY AND PSI PHENOMENA: A SYNERGISTIC CONNECTION
Metanexus
Other Science and Spirituality Blogs
*Lois Isenman's Intuition In-depth blog
*David H Howard: Spirits Communion: The religion, philosophy and science of Spiritualism
*Elene Gusch: Elene Explores
June 2012: Seeking Answers to Prayer
Articles by Michael Cocks:*Shedding the skin of the snake
*Stephen spoke to us in his native Greek
*If the Future Can be Foretold
Stafford Betty:* Is Reincarnation True? Research of Ian Stevenson
Michael Tymn
*Finding the Truth in the Light
*Was DD Home like Babe Ruth, David Thompson like Nick Swisher?
*Difficulties in Spirit Communication Explained
Other Science and Spirituality Blogs
*Lois Isenman's Intuition In-depth blog
*David H Howard: Spirits Communion: The religion, philosophy and science of Spiritualism
*Elene Gusch: Elene Explores
Metanexus
William Grassie: *Conflicting Ideologies and Entangled Narratives
*Seeking Truth in the World of Competing Narratives
Reviews
*Elaine Pagels: Revelation: Visions, Prophecy and Politics
*Caduceus Journal UK
Video
*Juergen Ziewe: What is an awakened mind like?
Doctoral Dissertation
Theology and Natural Sciences Aotearoa (TANSA)
*Nikolaus von Stillfried: Consciousness and Quantum theory
April 2012: "FRAMEWORKS"
ARTICLES BY MICHAEL COCKS
Creativity and Rosemary Brown
(Elene Gusch: Delfina: Drama and Trauma with Fryderyk)
Truth is such a slippery customer
UFOs, are they softening us up?
Review: Transcending thr Titanic: Michael Tymn
Review: Is there life after death? Sjoerd Bonting
ARTICLES BY MICHAEL TYMN
Was Dr/Minister the Titanic's bravest man?
109-year-old scientist continues to pursue illumination
Dying words: Steve Jobs wasn't the only one
The problem with spirituality surveys
OTHER ARTICLES
Using the extraordinary experiences of the bereaved in the formation of a new identity Louis LaGrand
February 2012 The Second Coming?
God or Moral Nihilism: Richard CocksArticles by Michael Tymn
Clash of Civilisations: A. Miller
Are we supposed to know about life after death? Stafford Betty
Study of NDEs at Massey University NZ
Beyond the Nuts and Bolts: UFOs as the technology of Extradimensional Aliens
Dean R. DeHarpporte,
EXPLORATIONS IN THE FIELD OF PSI
DaleGraf Dale E. Graff,
James Padgett and the Philosophy of Progression
by Michael Nedbal, Ph.D. and Geoff Cutler,
HISTORY MADE AT MONTCABRIOL
by Dr. Ken S
December 2011: Experience behind the Science
Steve Jobs’ Final WordsStafford Betty
Articles by Michael Tymn
1.Why Red Indians so often "Control" mediums
2. New Zealand Priest Tells of Mediumship Experiences in New Book
3. Do Famous “Dead” People Communicate?
4. Life after Death and Super-psi do not conflict says physics professor
5. Art Directed by Spirits?
6. Will Simon Cowell Regret His “Insurance Policy”?
7. Has the Near-Death Experience Been Debunked?
8. Was Etta Wriedt the Best Medium Ever?
Articles on Synchronicity
1. Possible Causal Mechanisms in the Occurrence of Synchronicities:
by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD
2.Dale Graf, MS Physics
3. Synchronicity: Prof Victor Mansfield
4. Revisit our issue of October 2003 for a fuller account of writers on the theme of synchronicity,
Two futher addresses from the last ASPSI conference
A Jungian Psychological and Spiritual Passage
Rev Karen E Herrick,
In Light of Love: The Near-Death Experience and the Bible
by Scott D. Davidson
October 2011 A Course in Miracles
Hold to the goodArt directed by spirits
Studies in NDEs in NZ
Ave Roma Immortalis
The truth wears off
Robert Perry ACIM
Van Harskamp ACIM
Michael Tymn and Spirit Communicators
Michael Tymn and James Beichler
James Beichler: Apparitions R Us
Benjamin Zeller:Three physicists on religion.
August 2011 What is the afterlife like?
The Afterlife revealed
Michael Tymn is interviewed
An interesting NDE
EEs and the bereaved
The new sciences of religion
The sound of the cricket
The mediumship of Icelandic Indridi Indridason
Interview with Montagu Keen
Montagu Keen Materialises
End of life experiences: Simon Raggett
June 2011 "...one deep calleth another"
One
deep calleth another
Evelyn
Underhill
Swedenborg:
A Genius Who Explored the Afterlife
Medjugorje
Apparitions
Benjamin
Wiker
Francis
Bacon
The
soul and personal experiences
Tom
and Lisa Butler
Thirty Years on the Ghost Trail – John
Legg
The Watseka Wonder – Dr Keith Parsons
April 2011 Lessons from our Earthquake
White Crow Michael Tymn: Jane Katra
Michael Prescott: The million-dollar challenge.
Interesting article from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
The Dentures Man Rides Again.
White Crow
Michael Tymn: Journalist’s Book “Randi’s Prize”
Exposes How ‘Skeptics’ Distort Evidence for Paranormal
Activity.
The twelve most frequent modes of after-death contact
WhiteCrow Michael Tymn: The voices that converted a skeptical lawyer
The R101 Airship Keith Parsons
whitecrow Why Dr. Parnia’s NDE Test Will Likely Fail: Michael Tymn
Robert G. Mays, B.Sc. Suzanne B. Mays On the Scope of Analysis for the AWARE Study
February 2011 Praying for the Dead : The Ethics of Contact with the Dead
Editorial: Praying for the Dead: The Ethics of Contact with the Dead
White Crow Scientific Research Suggests Contact with the “Dead”
ASPSI The Case for the Return of Richard Hodgson
ASPSI Investigation of precognitive dreamer Christopher Robinson
More on Darryl Bem's landmark study on precognition
There is No Death
Exorcisms, Rescue Work and the Departed.
Roberta Tatom
Human Rights for the Earthbound Spirit
A Liturgy for the Transition of Earthly Friends
The Harp Came Back
George Chapman
Book Reviews
The Third Man Factor, The secret to survival in extreme environments. John Geiger. Penguin Canada 2009
You Might Already Know This ...
From our Readers:
Brian Longhurst
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
December 2010
Jung's “Collective Unconscious”
Experiences and Case Histories
Mysterious deathbed mists and light explained
When spirit entities take over the arm
“Preposterous People: Gerard Croiset”
'Not as explainers and conquerors, but as conscious participants in the universe'
ASPSI The Spirituality of Carl G. Jung
ASPSI Some Steps in Learning Process Thought
Call to the Inland
Paul Cull
Articles on Precognition
Free Will in a Precognitive Predetermined World
Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect
Articles on Synchronicity
ASPSI Synchronicity: A Probabilistic Time Ordering of Events
License Plate Synchronicity: An Experiential Account and Analysis
From our Readers:
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
October 2010
What is a saint?
Book Reviews: Conversations with a Jesus of Nazareth
Letters from a Living Dead Man
Amazing Discoveries about Gematria to be found in 21st chapter of John's gospel
Preposterous People: Dr Carl Wickland (Keith Parsons
Revisiting Survival : Is the Data still compelling
A Scottish Blessing
Letters to the Editor: Robert Sumutku
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
August 2010
From the Editor Religious Education
BRILLIANT NEW SCIENCE AND SPIRIT COURSE :
A series of articles by Michael E Tymn of the Academy of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies.
ASPSI THE DOWNSIDE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
ASPSI Chess game offers strong evidence for life after death
ASPSI 11-year-old medium shocks Unitarian minister
ASPSI Interviewing a hero: Sir Oliver Lodge
ASPSI Earthly mistakes fester in the afterlife
OTHER ARTICLES
A Theological Interpretation of Synchronicity, and other paranormal phenomena
Father of 'Reincarnated' WWII Pilot Says Christian Faith Undeterred
Did Consciousness Cause the Cambrian Evolutionary Explosion?
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
June 2010 The Rev John Hilton Stowell
Fires
The Revd John Hilton Stowell,
ANGELS
“Angels We Have Heard On High”
Hjalmar Gullberg's Tinget i Sig
How can Spirit become real for us who worship in church?
ASPSI An Interview with Dr. William J. Crawford Concerning the Mediumship of Kathleen Goligher
A Therapist's Spiritual Experience
Peinture mediumnique
MORE INTERESTING WEBSITES
Subversive Thinking
April 2010
To our clergy colleagues
More about the spiritual body
Lisa Williams in Christ church: A surprise
Lent can be a time to hone our awareness of God
Richard Dawkins: pseudoskeptic?ASPSI The Re-Education of Bennie Junot
ASPSI On the Physical Basis of ESP and Telepathy
ASPSI The Probability Laws of Parapsychology
Is There Such a Thing as Life After Death?
ASPSI Joe A. Nuzum’s Trilogy with Seamless Sterling Silver Rings: Presumed Psi Fission, Fusion and Linkage
Book Review: Karen Armstrong: The Case for God. by Sjoerd Bonting
Letters to the Editor
February 2010
The Spiritual Body
Fracture Surface Physics Indicating Teleneural Interaction
by Wilbur M. Franklin, Ph.D., Department of Physics,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
Apparitional Experiences:
Exploring crop circles; Suzanne Taylor
ASPSI From “Religion to Spirituality”
Let us Persevere by Camille Flammarion
Scientific research into Prayer:Causal effects of Intercessory Prayer;
Jeanetta W. Dunlap
Therapy for Sane Hallucinations, Part II
Six Philosophical Contentions For Which No Rational Argument Can Be Given
Evolution is a Fact and a Theory
GOD and DOG
December 2009
The Hamstringing of Christianity
Non-Separateness and the Present Moment: Two Impossibly Ordinary Ideas
ASPSI Feuds and Regrets in the Afterlife : Michael Tymn
ASPSI The Spirit in Out-of-body Experiences
ASPSI: What we can learn from the extraordinary experiences of the bereaved.
The Dark Mysteries of Consciousness: Paranormality within the greater universe
Soul Loss and Soul Making: Kabir Helminski
More on our October issue's the theme of Paranormal/Faith Healing
Causerie: “Finger of God”, and other healing ministries, by Michael Cocks
A Sermon on Spiritual Healing by Nate Cull
From “Patience Worth: A sorry tale” From the mediumship of Pearl Curran.
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
October 2009
Paranormal (Faith/Spiritual) Healing
For your interest:
Placebos Are Getting More Effective
To change the subject
Scientists have taken an image of a single molecule:
“The Resistance”
General articles
Test The Spirits – And Then...? (Prophecy,Channeling, and the Christian Paranormal): Nate Cull
ASPSI Requirements for Performing Valid Afterlife Research
Book Reviews
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
August 2009
"Theological Education and Paranormal Sciences"
We think that we are the only on-line journal tackling the Paranormal and Christianity.
ASPSI Was Michael Jackson overshadowed by spirits?: Michael Tymn
ASPSI Frederick W H Myers: Michael Tymn
When the silver cord is severed: Michael Tymn
New Ideas in Science: Thomas Gold
Scientificexploration.org
Subversive Thinking http://subversivethinking.blogspot.com/
Book Reviews
Charles Tart: The End of Materialism
Elizabeth Keane: Direct communications from the afterlife
Damian Broderick: Outside the Gates of Science
Victor MacGill: Towards a systems based spiritual philosophy for the 21st century.
Louis de Figueiredo: The Jospice Mattress
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
June 2009
Editorial: The Journal and the Klein Bottle
Michael Tymn: An “Interview” with Vice-Admiral W. Usborne Moore
Revelation and Inspiration of Scripture. Dennis Bratcher
39 Rules for Being a Scientific Change Agent versus a Crackpot
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself
Discovering the Laws of Psychic Science
Igor Sikorski
ASPSI A Case of Possession
From our readers:
Paul Cull writes: (see article about him in our April issue)
Reviews
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World by Jacalyn Duffin. Michael Grosso, reviewer.
A wonderful rant by Mary Midgely on Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
April 2009
From the Editor: I do believe help my unbelief
Searchlight Mike Tymn
Editor Synchronicity, a window into the Kingdom of Heaven
The paranormal phenomena called charismatic
Four articles and a sermon by Nate Cull
Slain in the Spirit
The Azusa Code
The Salvation Army and paranormal phenomena
Wesley’s Ghosts
Nate's Sermon
Paul Cull's Website
ASPSI An Interview with The Rev. William Stainton Moses Mike Tymn
St Stephen on gifts of the Spirit
Other relevant e-journals, blogs and publications
SurvivalAfterDeath.org.uk
Public Parapsychology
http://www.afterlifedata.com/
Victor Zammit's Weekly Treasure Trove
Electronic Voice and Instrumental Communication:
Book Review
Elaine Moss: Contact Points
February 2009
To seek God and be found by him
How would psychic research help both Conservative and Liberal Christians?
Articles
To seek God and let oneself be found by him
Bear with the Editor as he chases his tail.
Nate Cull:Three wishes
The Spiritual Walk
Robert F. Worth on a new generation of television preachers in the Muslim world.
ASPSI An “Interview” with Professor Robert Hare
ASPSI Make Dr Death your friend in 2009: Mike Tymn
December 2008
In a way, it is a painful thing, producing this journal:
BEYOND THE VEIL: EVIDENCE FOR LIFE AFTER DEATH: Boyce Batey
Time to Formulate the Laws and Hypotheses of Psychic Science Howard and Kelleher
To Die For! The afterlife as theoretical science James Beichler
It is not the case that we are little manikans Johan and Kristof Blumhardt
Blumhardt Wheat and Tares
Blumhardt on The Kingdom
Victor Zammit: Dialectical Spiritualism
A R Wallace Little change in the struggle against scientific and religious prejudice in the last 130 years
Dean RadinThe taboos of science: why science cannot handle the paranormal
Benedict Carey For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving
M J Stefey What Happens When We Die?
Grace Halsell Forcing God's Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture -- and Destruction of Planet Earth,
David Bohm and Plasma Life Forms
Bohm: “Thought runs you.”
Karen Herrick: Therapy for sane hallucinations
Townsend Brown
October 2008
ASPSI Articles from The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies
ASPSI Michael Grosso PhD: Mysticism and Life after Death
ASPSI P.M.H. Atwater: Is the afterlife what we think it is? A challenge from near-death studies
ASPSI Elene Gusch: The music of Rosemary Brown from a pianist's perspective Read
ASPSI Michael Tymn: Survival Research, Like shovelling sand against the tide of materialism
Articles and Reviews
It occurs to me: Nate Cull
Because The World Is Round: Nate Cull
SKEPTICO: Science at a tipping point
Lisa Williams interviewed on “LifeBites”
REVIEW: Parapsychology and the Skeptics: Chris Carter
Powers of 10: Zoom from the Micro to the Macro-Cosmos
“Tansatalk” New Science-Religion Blog in New Zealand.
For theological thought
“She'ol” and “Hades” mistranslated “Hell”
Thomas Merton: “The moral theology of the Devil.” From “New Seeds of Contemplation” 1961
An Essay on Anglican theology by the Editor
From our readers:
Louis de Figueiredo: Jesus was not buried in Talpiot
August 2008
The Re-enchantment of the Cosmos
Editor: The reenchantment of the Cosmos
The strange lack of Church journals investigating the Afterlife
Karen Armstrong on COMPASSION
TRIBUTE TO PSYCHIC RESEARCHER IAN STEVENSON
Awesome or Off-Putting: SPIRICOM
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - NATE CULL
THE REALITY TESTS
‘Very Different Butterflies’: The Scope for Deep Complementarity Between Western and Native American Science Sean Howard, Ph.D.
A gentler kinder purgatory
Review: Kenneth Ring: Lessons from the light
Sjoerd Bonting: A Biblical interpretation of NDEs
Consciousness and freedom: Richard Cocks
Chasing our tails: Skeptical arguments
God, science and religion today: L. de Figueiredo
Astronomer Discusses Evidence for Life After Death Professor Archie Roy
Meditation: “So radiate...” Nate Cull
Evidence for the impossible
June 2008
Cyclone Nargis, China's earthquaker and Theodicy
Editor: “Theodicy”
The New York Times (2008/04/20) exposes the Hydra that is the Pentagon.
Nate Cull: The semiotics of the Cross
Light Relief: crème that egg
ON THE OTHER HAND
Nate Cull: The wonderful thought of Leibnitz on the Monad.
Celebrating Pentecost
Spirit as water, wind, fire and earth's healer: by Steve Taylor
The third act of an eternal play can be seen in the garden: David Round in The Christchurch Press. May 2008
April 2008
“Getting out from under : moving towards a well grounded personal faith”
Sjoerd Bonting: On the need for a well-grounded personal faith.“Sensing Murder” and the November 2007 issue of The Ground of Faith
"Your Eternal Self" R. Craig Hogan
Ross Keane: The Experience of Doubt
Marcus Borg: A Portrait of Jesus, From Galilean Peasant, to the Face of God
Teshuvah, Metanoia: Nate Cull
Victor Macgill's spiritual pilgrimage
The Mind in Theological and Scientific Perspective
Sjoerd L. Bonting
Michael Hampson: God without God, Western Spirituality without the wrathful king
A. R. Wallace: Evolutionist and Spiritualist
Mike Tymn of the ASPSI
Victor Macgill: Evolution and Creationism
**The Paradigm Police**
February 2008
Look at your theological self in the mirror
Richard Dawkins and the Paradigm Police
Misreading the mind, By Jonah Lehrer
Art, Science & Truth: Jonah Lehrer
Opening the Stephen Box, Nate Cull
The Majesty and Misery of String Theory By Glenn Statile
Pathological Disbelief Brian D. Josephson Nobel Prizewinner Physicist
Resist the Non-Living Universe Assumption 2007-10-15
Some first-rate blogs, Science is a method, not a position
Book Reviews
The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos and Consciousness, Ervin Laszlo
Review of Christopher Hitchens' God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Review: The New Dispensation
Nate Cull January 17th, 2008
Experience
"Sensing Murder" is no scam
[November 2007]
I preach a sermon to myself
Articles:
"Sensing Murder" - Michael Cocks
Houdini knocks their socks off
Different kinds of fundamentalism:
The Most Holy Family Monastery: The heresies of Benedict XVI
Rustum Roy" Scientific Fundamentalism the most dangerous
Video: Multiple videos on science and religion
The Science of Eternity
Interview with Depak Choprah
Articles and comments from readers
Dr Elizabeth Keane (Brisbane) My experience with the pendulum
Rev Ian Crumpton: Voices on the margins
Norman Kjome
Book Reviews
'The sense of being stared at" Rupert Sheldrake. Reviewed by Nate Cull
Bohm and A course in miracles. Holiness and Wholeness. Nate Cull
Experience
Shared Near-Death Experience
You
can kiss your career goodbye
September
2007]
Fear,
the enemy of ResearchTossing out the meteorites
Articles
Initial Mystery in Science and Theology
About this journal, we could ask Are we veering into the Occult?
Nate Cull answers blog commenter “Cautious” in this way:
From a Few Genes, Life’s Myriad Shapes
Video: multiple videos on science and religion
Russell Targ: The End of Suffering
ARTICLES and COMMENTS from READERS
More highlights from NETWORK REVIEW of the Sc. and Medical Network
Book Review: Multiple reviews of landmark book: IRREDUCIBLE MIND
1. Special Announcement from Michael Murphy, Esalen Chairman, and Gordon Wheeler, Esalen President
Meaning-Full Disease : How Personal Experience and Meanings Cause and Maintain Physical Illness: Brian Broom
Experience
The harp that came back
Near Death Experiences of children..and more
Editorial: Scientific method and
this journalSome highlights from Network Review Spring 2007
About
the Journal of the Scientific and Medical
Network
1.1Professor
David Fontant,
Cardiff, discusses “Why the opposition to
evidence for survival?”
2.1
Nancy Ellen Adams and
Joel R. Primack, California. : The view from the
centre of the universe. (pp.7-10)
3.1
Robert A. Charman:
Minds, Brains and Communication. (p.11-19)
4.1
Alister McGrath
Oxford: The Twilight of Atheism (p.22)
5.1
Max Payne, Sheffield: The necessity of Spirituality p.24
David
Lorimer reviews Home with God Neale Donald Walsh
Book
Review
by Greg Stone
Video
Dr P M H Atwater
Near Death Experiences of Children:
1 Interview with Near Death Researcher
Can premonitory dreams save us from tragedy?.
An apparent prediction of the sinking of the Titanic.
Experience
An Interview with Sir William Crookes – Mike Tymn|outline
K'ung Fu Tzu[ 2007-05 ]
Editorial
Isn't Spirit the ground of Christianity?Edward Kelly, et. al's Irreducible Mind: Towards a psychology for the 21st century
Spiritualism in the Old Testament
Rev. G. Maurice Elliot
What--Really--Is the "Science and Religion Dialogue" All About?
Eric Weislogel
Kurt Gödel's Mathematical and Scientific Perspective of the Divine: A Rational Theology
Hector Rosario
Book Reviews
Richard Dawkins: The God DelusionReviewer Victor MacGill
Experience
The Most Awesome Spirit Story You'll Ever Read--K'ung Fu Tzu
Mike Tymn
Plato in the 21st Century
[ March 2007 ]
Editorial
Plato in the 21sr century, Michael
Cocks
In Brief; Plato
in the 21st Century
Plato's
Forms, seen as Dynamic and Interactive
Synchronicity,
Archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious
P.S.
What seems to be wrong with the Holographic Universe theory
Articles
Plato
and the Science-Theology Dialogue
Rev. Prof. Sjoerd L. Bonting, Nijmegen, Netherlands
1.
Approach
2.
Creation theology
3.
Insights from science
4.
Jesus Christ: appearance and reconciliation
5.
God's action in his creation
6.
Eschatology
Concluding remark
Books
What would truly non-theistic science look like?
Excerpt from “Triablogue”
the 'fine-tuned' cognitive terrain required by science is
religion-shaped
“In the Light of this Thing called Physics”
Experience"
A Veridical Death Bed Vision
An Interview with Psychical Researcher Dr. Gary Schwartz
Mike Tymn
*Dimensions of Love?*
[ December 2006 ]
Editorial
Dimensions of Love?
Is
Love ultimately an I-You with God?
Non-love
and its consequences
Articles
A Few Thoughts on Martin Buber's I and
Thou
Sjoerd Bonting: Are
we alone? Theological implications of possible extraterrestrial
intelligent life
Science and the Supernormal G
C Barnard
RadioOutThere.com
Akiane (US)--Gifted Young Artist and PoetBooks
Deborah Blum's Ghost Hunters
Philip Jacobs' One Self: Life as a means of transformation
Edward Kelly, et. al's Irreducible Mind: Towards a psychology for the 21st century
St. Stephen : Are you sceptical about the reality of the Stephen Experience?
Comments on a passage from the Stephen book Victor MacGill
Comparative Religion
Cosmic Harmony as Cosmic Sacrifice: A Scientific Hermeneutics of the Hindu Mysticism of Love
Augustine Pamplany
Looking again at spirituality
[ October 2006 ]
Guest Editorial
What is Spirituality and how do we apply it to expand the quality of life?Rev. L. Richard Batzler, Ph.D. (USA)
Articles
Keeping our feet on the ground
Michael Cocks
The Activity of the One Whole Victor Mansfield (Physicist) USA
What did Jung see in the Shroud? Louis C. de Figueiredo (Brazil)
The Shroud of Turin and the Resurrection Problem - An Anglican/Episcopal perspective Daniel R. Porter (USA)
Radio Interview *
RadioOutThere.Com: Produced & Presented by Barry Eaton.(NSW Aust.) Michael Cocks (N.Z.) - "The Stephen Experience" Channeling St. Stephen the First Christian Martyr
Book Review
Communion with a Saint Olive Jean Ashman (NZ)
o Here is an excerpt from her book, page 71:
Google Video
Multiple videos on science and religion
Interviewer Robert Wright
Podcasts on Faith and Reason
Bill Moyers
A Beginningless Universe
Science
A Cyclic Model of the Universe
Dr. Neil Turok
* To what extent should we place our trust in science?
Chris Bateman
Voices from the great beyond
Inter-Faith
A Connection of Views- A Forum Exploring World Religions
John Queripel (N.S.W., Australia)
Experience
Rebutting the Skeptics
Mike Tymn (Hawaii)
August
2006
**Now, as then**
[ August 2006 ]
The contents of this issue
Articles
*
E. Garth
Moore: Christianity and Psychical Research
* Miracles are
against known nature. - Michael Cocks
* The Sacred Energy
– Mass of the Universe: Bill Wallace
* Victor Zammit:
Quantum Physics and the Afterlife
* The Rev Dr. David
Bell: Astrology in the Bible
Book Review
Robin
Kelly: The Human Aerial
Google Video: multiple videos on science and religion
Experience
Friday
Report, June 30th. - Victor Zammit
June 2006 “I'm not dead”
[ June 2006 ]
EditorialSynchronicity and Spirit
Michael Cocks
Articles
Two valid but apparently contradictory modes in which we can view reality
Lawrence LeShan
* On the subject of love Steven Rosen
Sleepwalking with the Dalai Lama Vic Mansfield
The Cosmic Cathedral
Rt. Rev. Richard Randerson, Auckland, NZ
David Moore: "Only God is Catholic"
New Zealand Liturgy Bosco Peters
Fun with Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code
More on Meaningful Coincidence
Editors
Ways of looking at this separateness and oneness
Physicist John Bell: Bell's Theorem
Alain Aspect and Holography
Book Review
Pearson, C. et al's Scholarship and Fierce Sincerity
Experience *
Signs and Synchronicity Victor MacGill
Synchronicities raising theological questions Michael Cocks
Steven Rosen get s his musical notation o
Physicist David Bohm
marry Gertrud Svarén." o
"I'm not dead"
April
2006
... dying and emerging images of God
[ April 2006 ]
Editorial
Note from the Editors
Christian Worship in a world of dying and emerging images of God The Rev Bill Wallace
Teilhard and the Texture of the Evolutionary Cosmos Kathleen Duffy SSJ PhD
Dying, Death & After Death: Random Musing Concerning the Spiritually Challenged Michael E. Tymn
Practicing Death-The Key to Enjoying Life Michael E. Tymn
Harmony of the Universe – Einstein and Mozart Arthur I. Miller
Stephen §41 November 12, 1973 Universal theology underlying all religions
Book review
Sjoerd Bonting's “Creation and double chaos” Augsburg Fortress, 2005
A most useful website Inner Explorations
Experience
Rhea A. White
Founder/Director, Exceptional Human Experience Network
Editor, Exceptional Human Experience; EHE News
February
2006
“No Boundaries Awareness”
[ February 2006 ]
Note from the Editors
Books
* Sir William Osler's
A way of life and other addresses, Duke 2001
* Dr. Claude
Swanson's The Synchronized Universe
Thinking about Intelligent Design
Intelligent
Design: A Critique
Prof Sjoerd L.
Bonting MA PhD
*
Were
Human Beings Inevitable?
Prof. Richard Cocks
MA PhD
Creation
-- A Part of the Actual Essence of What God is
Victor MacGill
Further discussion about Boundaries
Reflections
on Boundaries Paper and Responses
Websites
The
Hitchhiker's Guide to Panentheism
Spiritual Metaphysics
Catholic Scientists
Take Issue with Cardinal's Message
Editorial
Immanence,
Mysticism, and the Church
The Church as a Schoolteacher
Wilber and 'No Boundaries'
Doubt
Stephen's Prayer
Praying
for the Water
Communications from our readers
From the
Rev. Earle F. Williams, MA(Oxon)
Experience
Dowsing
-- A Review
Anne Millar,
Cambridge
An Interview with
Anthony Rogers
An Out of the Body Experience
A Haunting
A Tragic Synchronicity
November 2005
"The Kingdom of Heaven"
[ November 2005 ]
Editorial
Note from the EditorsGeneral articles
Sjoerd L. Bonting Spirit and Creation
What this Journal has been suggesting about 'The Kingdom of Heaven'
The Kingdom of Heaven and Spiritual Development
James Fowler: Stages of Faith
Jim Marion's Seven Levels of Consciousness
A third classification of levels of consciousness Victor MacGill
The Rev. Dr. David Bell: Memory Beyond the Brain
St. Stephen: Do we experience Jesus Christ more when we die? -- or Experiencing the Kingdom
Jim Thornton on the Critique of Lloyd Geering's Christianity without God
Communications from our readers
The Rev. Terry O'Neil, Australia, writes
Editor's Comment
* Anna Clayton, Rev. Struan Duthie, Prof. R.M.Cocks
Experience
My experience Sjoerd L. Bonting
Celebrating Susy Smith’s Soul
Near Death Experiences and Pim van Lommel
How can we decide about the reality of an experience of a “dead” person?
Prof. R.M. Cocks: The Testimony of Witnesses
September
2005
"Worshipping in Spirit and in Truth"
[ September 2005 ]
Editorial
Note from the EditorsGeneral articles
Thomas Merton on St. John of the Cross
*Thoughts on myth, spirit, and our times: an interview with Joseph Campbell
by Tom Collins
Theme Articles
A new paradigm for cosmology – and for theology?
Rev. Dr E.A. Johnston, MA MTh DMin
Lloyd Geering's big problem with St. Paul. His Christianity Without God (2002) Michael Cocks The problem with celebrity
The Rev. Ian Crumpton, Presbyterian minister, comments
St. Stephen on The Point of Unfolding
Communications from our readers
From the Revd Judy Ryland, Macau
From an Anglican Clergyman in Australia
* The Rev. John A. Simpson, Australia
* Two poems from Anthony Buckley, London, UK
Remembrance Day 1994
CRASH
From the Rev. Jorie Manfield-Ryan, Australia
Gliding with Miss Lucy Three Son et Lumière
Prof. Elliott Benjamin (USA) writes Experience
Flight 811 Aeroplane Disaster (Christchurch Press)
July
2005
"Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth."
[ July 2005 ]
Editorial
Note from the EditorsGeneral articles
Episcopalian 'Catechism of Creation'
Culture and Spirituality Victor MacGill
A Spirituality Beyond Culture Paul Tillich
Theme Articles
Process Theology Rev. Barbara Vincent
(Two Songs)
peak Lord, for thy servant heareth" Michael Cocks
April/May
2005
The Universal Christ
[ April/May 2005 ]
Articles
Spirituality and the Cults Elliot BenjaminStephen's Teaching about Perfection Victor MacGill
St. Stephen Teaches about the Atonement Michael Cocks
Mapping the Way Michael Cocks
Reviews / Websites
Dennis Doyle's Celtic Christianity (quotes)
Tom Harpur's Cosmic Spirituality (quote)
Tom Harpur's The Pagan Christ (critique)
Michael Cocks & Victor MacGill
Editorial / Letters
Editorial Notes
The Holy Now / Beauty & Truth Laboratory Norman Kjome
Imagery of Life in the Crucifixion Story Peter E. Admore
On Stephen Anthony Buckley
February
2005
The unclassified residuum
[ February 2005 ]
New discoveries & the un-classified residuum. William Jamesno strict definition of science : Du Wan Kang
Behaviorism: Gary deMar
Stanford ency. on Behaviorism
Atheist becomes theist
Antievolutionist becomes evolutionist
St. Stephen on Christ
Commentary on Stephen
S. and every day life
Arguments for the validity of his teaching.
Spinoza's sub specie
How closely the philosophy of David Bohm, physicist, parallels that of Stephen
Letters to the Editors
We cannot make our belief in Spirit, dependent on science.
Dr Richard Cocks
On Martin Buber Joakim Thoreson
You're wacky before you succeed, afterwards you are a genius.
Norman Kjome
December 2004
A Complex Web of Meaningful Coincidence
[ December 2004 ]
-
Editorial
A
Complex Web of Meaningful Coincidence
Victor MacGill: Archetypes
Hymns by Bill Wallace
Poems by Goethe
by William Blake
by Vergil
Read these letters to the Editors
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Dr Chris Creswell and the Rev. Rob MacKay comment on the Anatomy of Joy. Patrick Furlong,
James Gasson challenges some of the ideas behind The Anatomy of Joy
Dr Bruce Nicholls: writes about a Science and Faith Forum of 7-8 university professors and scientists and the same number of theologians. "Our distinctive is that we claim the be evangelical, upholding the historic orthodox faith. We have founded a publishing company, Telos Books."
October 2004
Invincible Sceptism
[ October 2004 ]
SCEPTICISM
A (biological) breath
of fresh air
science and
religion links
August 2004
The Anatomy of Joy
[ August 2004 ]
Donald Stowell: Surprised by Joy
The importance of being a failure
June
2004
Thin Ice?
[ June 2004 ]
Editorial: Thin Ice?Let's skate
SMN Seminar on Stephen Experience
Xenoglossy
Matthew Manning's The Link
Matthew Manning's The Strangers
The Ghost of 29 megacycles
George W. Meek Electronic Voice
Anthony Buckley (U.K.)tells of a personal Near Death Experience: of an appearance of a dead nephew to a Buddhist friend.
Ineke Crawford (Rangiora) relates a haunting parallel to Matthew Manning's Strangers, below.
Anthony Buckley (U.K.)responds to the last issue on Grace.
Victor Macgill (editor) points out why reductionist science ignores other-dimensional phenomena
April
2004
What's so Amazing about Grace?
[ April 2004 ]
Editorial: What's so amazing about grace?
Jesus and SalvationGrace & Resurrection
Process Theology
Grace & Meaningful coincidence
David Bohm
Victor Mansfield
David Peat
Grace & St. Paul
February
2004
The Afterlife
[ February
2004 ]Editorial: The
Afterlife
Victor Zammit
Laboratory / Lawyer
NDEs and OBEs
Cross Correspondences
Anglic. & Psychic Res & RC & Psychic Research
After Damascus exper
Links:
Xenoglossy
Letters to the Editors
Victor Zammit
James Gasson
In January we invited readers who felt they had experienced a Damascus
event in their lives to tell us a little of what came of it.
Ineke Crawford, first Guardian of the Tauhara Centre, Taupo.
Phil Dyer, Wangapeka Retreat and Study Centre
George Moss, England
December
2003
After Damascus
[ December 2003 ]
After DamascusIt is Mind that moves between science, mysticism, and experience.
Scientists, Mystics and the Ground of Faith
Prof R.M. Cocks discusses the philosopher Ken Wilbur, and "The Death of Metaphysics"
Letters to the Editors
Letter from Richard Cocks PhD about no longer being a Holist
October
2003
Synchronicity, uniting matter and Spirit, a gateway to the direct
experience of the Divine
[ October 2003 ]
Definitions
of
Synchronicity.
Some writers on
Synchronicity / meaningful coincidence / miracle?
John Lilley
Arthur Koestler
Maria von Franz
Victor Mansfield
Jean Bolen
Alan Vaughan
F.David Peat
Carl JungScience and Synchronicity
Einstein-Podolski-Rose thought experiment
Bohm's phantasm universe
Karl Pribram The Holographic Nature of Reality
Experiences of Synchronicity Books coming together
Envying the musicians
Stephen on Synchronicity: The Five-fives
Editorial
Further Items of Interest
The Spirituality of the Unchurched
A famous quote by J B S Haldane
Huston Smith: Beyond Postmodernism
Nostradamus
Lincoln/Kennedy synchronicity Reinhold Niebur's Serenity Prayer
August
2003
The Whole-ly Spirit
[ August 2003 ]
Editorial: The Whole-ly SpiritAll intuition, all leading comes from Spirit, in and above All-that-is, and is holy.
Ways of regarding Spiritual Guidance
Can it ever NOT be the Holy Spirit?
"I fundamentally disagree with the premise that primary reality is 'one' and the perception of separateness is illusion rather than reality."
See: Letters to the Editors
The Rev Sue Pickering Spiritual Resources Ministries
Reductionism and Holism
The helpful and unhelpful philosophy that leads both to truth and to falsehood.
The Point of View of the One helps to make sense of quite a number of things that we talk about in Christianity
Science
Illuminating quotes from physicist Victor Mansfield. Look at his Home Page
Chaos Theory Victor MacGill " Becoming What We Already Are: A Complexity based vision of Spirituality, Identity, and Ethics".
Experience
The Singing Stone: A wonderful story of meaningful coincidence.
Oliver Sacks: The man who mistook his wife for a hat. Brain-damaged twins able to perform seemingly impossible mathematical calculations.
Stephen
Questioning St. Stephen on how both he and we may become apprised of knowledge without use of the physical senses.
Mysticism
Meister Eckhart
George Herbert
John Keble
Aldous Huxley
Alfred Tennyson
June 2003
The One and the Many
[ June 2003 ]
Our Guest writer: John Williamson"So it is not surprising that in our scientifically sophisticated world many people have experiences that can't be proved scientifically. There are many who regard all stories of supernatural experience as the product of a distorted mind or imagination".
Read his article on Time
Editorial: Science-Mysticism-Experience together The Ground from which religions and philosophies grow.
Physicists
For meditation Prayer, Psalm, Martin Buber
Iraq and Islamic Ummah (from The Guardian)
Some other writers in this field
The Rev Sir John Polkinghorne
Fr Diarmuid O'Murchu
Personal experiences of the Other-dimensional, reflected on and researched.
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