March 16th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Those who venerate the machine as superior to the human, who themselves can’t see what seems so perfectly obvious —that there is a difference between humans and machines— risk becoming full conspirators in the murder of God
March 13th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Queer life in the context of traditional Buddhist monastic ordination appears to be slowly changing
February 20th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
Rabbi Joshua Frankin, the Senior Rabbi at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, asked the new AI tool to write \"a sermon: 1,000 words about the Torah portion on the theme of intimacy and vulnerability.\"
February 6th, 2023 | by Harmonist staff
After a two-year push by over 400 musicians and record labels worldwide, the Grammy Awards will for the first time recognise the ancient musical practice of chanting
December 29th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
“Colonization left a huge damage psychologically, morally and emotionally,” said Jeffery D. Long, a professor of religion and Asian studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. “So much knowledge has been erased or distorted. It may be time to rediscover and understand the lost past.”
November 24th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
The meat paradox represents a form of cognitive dissonance, a term describing discomfort arising from a contradiction between one’s beliefs and behavior
November 14th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
A study recently published in Animal Behavior suggests that bumblebees, when given the chance, like to fool around with toys
November 7th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
For Hindu American students looking to practice their faith absolved of politics, there is a distinct lack of places to turn
August 29th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
As more Americans turn away from religiosity and toward spirituality and service, some see echoes of the Vietnam era’s disillusionment with American institutions and predict a resurgence of the religion
July 28th, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
Hinduism’s powerful goddess of death and the end of time, wanders through a pride festival in Toronto at night. She observes groups of people out on the town, takes a subway ride, stops in a bar. People take selfies with her. In the last frame, she is on a park bench where a man gives her a cigarette
July 21st, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
This historic event establishes a bhikshuni sangha — an order of fully ordained women — within Tibetan Buddhism for the first time
June 2nd, 2022 | by Harmonist staff
By Rohitash Chandra, originally published by The Conversation. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) methods have had immense success &hellip