Indian village where people speak in Sanskrit
March 30th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
The phrases most heard on the streets here are “katham aasthi” (Sanskrit for how are you?) and “aham gachchami” (I am going)
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Instant Gratification in an Impulse Society
February 26th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
Every citizen in postindustrial society will eventually confront how to cope with a consumer culture almost too good at giving us what we want
The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Volume I
February 19th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
Faced with the vast seas to be explored, the small band of professional translators of Sanskrit tend to feel like infants paddling on the Atlantic foreshore
The Subtle Sensations of Faith
February 5th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
“Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you.”
We Aren’t the World
January 22nd, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
Cross-cultural studies that suggest that the “weird” Western mind is the most self-aggrandizing and egotistical on the planet: we are more likely to promote ourselves as individuals versus advancing as a group
The Philosophy of Captivity
January 12th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
Human exceptionalism sees humans as the only beings worthy of moral concern
The Case for ‘Soft Atheism’
January 5th, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
If a “transcendent” should exist, all our categories for describing it are woefully inadequate
The Dangerous American Myth of Corporate Spirituality
January 1st, 2015 | by Harmonist staff
Every religion can get appropriated by the West’s consumerist ideology
Do animals cry?
December 22nd, 2014 | by Harmonist staff
When animals cry, are they crying, in the full human sense
Free Will: Mind or Soul?
December 8th, 2014 | by Harmonist staff
In this study, having a soul was a poor predictor of being seen as having free will or meriting blame
Consumption is All-consuming
November 20th, 2014 | by Harmonist staff
We primarily buy commodities neither on account of their utility nor as status symbols; we consume them in order to make our life pleasurable and meaningful
Is ‘Progress’ Good for Humanity?
November 13th, 2014 | by Harmonist staff
Sustainability-minded thinkers question whether the Industrial Revolution has jeopardized humankind’s ability to live happily and sustainably upon the Earth
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