August 17th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff
Not in any direct way, but it does so indirectly, by providing an argument against the philosophy called materialism (or “physicalism”), which is the main intellectual opponent of belief in God in today’s world.
June 14th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff
\"Seen from this perspective, the only reason to take European philosophy as the default tradition for our curricula is that it just happens to be, for contingent historical reasons, our tradition.\"
June 4th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff
An analytical look at the findings and methodologies of a widely aired recent study
January 27th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff
In the following excerpt from Sermons of the Guardian of Devotion Srila Sridhara Maharaja begins to speak about some of the numerous events that make Vasanta-pancami an especially holy day
January 18th, 2012 | by Harmonist staff
Often the line between renegade and reformer is a fine one. Here I offered Gauravani and Mantralogy a chance to draw the lines themselves instead of having others do it for them
December 11th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
To share Gaudiya Vaishnavism in a way that will resonate with a world that is reaping the fruits (some ripe, some spoiled) of reason and science necessitates an understanding of the essential spirituality that serves as the tradition’s basis
November 11th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
\"\'The Cloud of the Impossible\' is the experience that you simply can’t not enter, if you’re not going to settle for clichés and incoherencies, or repressed questions, in your spirituality
September 26th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
We must seek out pure acts of expenditure that have no benefit to our immediate survival, which undermine our sense of individuality, which go against pragmatically oriented reason; we must learn to give freely in the midst of life or have it imposed on us as we rush past teeth of fear into the flaming mouth of destruction.
August 30th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
Same-sex desire and even sexual activity have been represented and discussed in Indian literature for two millennia, often in a nonjudgmental and even celebratory manner, but a new virulent form of modern homophobia developed in India during the colonial period
August 18th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
Alain de Botton makes a case pessimism-derived happiness
July 13th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
Vrindaranya dasi addresses three of Harris’s arguments to show that while attacking fundamentalism within the religious traditions, Harris himself would benefit from a more nuanced understanding.
July 4th, 2011 | by Harmonist staff
Science is not only the enterprise of harnessing nature to serve the practical needs of humankind. It is also part of man\'s unending search for knowledge about the universe and his place within it.
