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Radically different views of Death

April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am

A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com.  It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]

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Prayer Circles and the Power of Group Thinking in Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’

September 21, 2009 – 2:23 pm

(This is a continuation of my thoughts about The Lost Symbol from my previous post.) One of the themes taken up again and again in Dan Brown’s latest novel The Lost Symbol is the idea of power in group thinking and concentration.  Katherine’s character in particular is engaged in the scientific study of producing physical [...]

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