Q&A

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Relational Holism

Q: “As a member of a Contemplative meditation and education group in our city which includes nuns, parish members and non active members in the rituals of the Church we…

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Being as Love

Q: “St. Thomas Aquinas focuses on God as the ground of Being. Is there any similarity with Teilhard’s message with Being at the heart of life? Also I love the…