Consciousness and Personal Identity
Q: Do you distinguish between consciousness and personal identity in your perspective on human immortality? In other words, could a reasonable conception of continuation beyond our present life involve consciousness…
The Problem of Evil
Q: N.T. Wright in his book “Surprised by Hope” claimed that Teilhard’s “myth of progress” cannot deal with evil because it can’t stop evil, it doesn’t address the moral problem…
Changes in the Church: Momentary Crises or a New Epoch of Consciousness?
Q: Can you help readers/viewers come to an appreciation for just how the institutions, no matter which one, are holding us all back? It is a matter of story–more of…
For the Love of Matter: Mind, Matter and God
Q: In his book “Life 3.0″ Max Tegmark suggests that subjective consciousness is what computation of information feels like. He also holds the view that consciousness is an emergent property…
Love Out of Darkness
Question: How do we know if our thinking and doing is coming from the ground of love? I can feel this ground in silence but it is harder in the…
One Eye, One Self, One God
Q: Meister Eckhart and Thomas Merton have talked about how the “eye with which you see God is the eye with which he sees you.” In his book “The Experience…
Catholic to the Core
Q: Is the Omega Center “Catholic.” Is it in line with the institutional Catholic Church. Ilia: Recently, a question was submitted as to whether or not the Omega Center is…