Such a simple point, but so difficult that materialists haven’t yet grasped the implications.

Such a simple point, but so difficult that materialists haven’t yet grasped the implications.

Such a simple point, but so difficult that materialists haven’t yet grasped the implications.

“While they began their research with the assumption that all that is really real is material, they found that all perceptions exist in our minds, whether physical or otherwise.  If we are to dismiss spiritual experience as mere neurological activities, we must also distrust all of our own brain’s conceptions of the material world.  If we trust our perceptions of the physical world, we have no rational reason to declare that spiritual experience is a fiction that is only in the mind.”

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What does it mean to the historical enterprise when texts are forced to fit the logic of a modern person, when…

What does it mean to the historical enterprise when texts are forced to fit the logic of a modern person, when…

What does it mean to the historical enterprise when texts are forced to fit the logic of a modern person, when modern logic is privileged at the expense of the logic of the subjects themselves?

This is a pivotal question for the study of history. I’m not surprised it’s April Deconick asking it. Social and cultural context is everything, folks.

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