Well I'm not a materialist; I don't believe the universe is just matter. I don't think matter could ever explain consciousness.
So given that, it's pretty natural to believe that there is an intelligence, a sentience, that composes and is behind the universe, that invents or designs it, if you...
What drew me to religion and spirituality in the first place was the deep sense of why... of the strangeness of existence. What the hell is all this?!? Does anyone else feel this way?
Literally, you're sitting at a keyboard or at a phone or something, looking at these words, perhaps looking...
The understanding of the mind is the most interesting and least explored domain, particularly when coupled with a belief that reality does have a fundamental mystery to it, that it is not mere matter, that there is a "something more."
A lot of people want to get at this "something more" in the...