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"I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still." — Sylvia Plath
"I am telling my life every time I write a page. Fiction is my confession." — Clive Barker
"The shape of your path was visible from the beginning." - Cormac McCarthy
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin
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Cup of Nirvana Blog
- Bruce Leininger’s “Definitive Proof” of Reincarnation January 17, 2022
- The James Leininger Case Re-examined (JSE Paper) January 15, 2022
- Conversation with Steinhart on Life after Death December 14, 2021
- Correspondence with Bruce Leininger December 4, 2021
- Crash and Burn: James Leininger Story Debunked November 20, 2021
- Interview on Arguments for Life after Death October 26, 2019
- You: A Review January 13, 2018
- Behind Her Eyes: A Review November 7, 2017
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Survival Book Published
After what has seemed like a very long wait, A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) was released earlier this month, quickly appearing on the Amazon Best Sellers list in the category of books in … Continue reading
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What’s Wrong with Survival Literature?
There continues to be a plethora of articles and books published on near-death experiences, children who claim to remember past lives, apparitional experiences, and mediums who deliver ostensible messages from the deceased. And here I refer not to the trumped … Continue reading
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Awakening Survivalists from Dogmatic Slumber
My Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) will be released in early November (a revised publication date). As readers of my blog are aware, while I think the classical empirical arguments for life after death … Continue reading
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Personal Reflections on Life after Death
In a couple of months my book A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival (Palgrave Macmillan) will be released. The book provides a philosophical engagement with a topic that has held my interest for much of my life … Continue reading
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The Naked Journey Into Now
Truth is a dancer, spinning you around, tossing you aside, taking all your breath. And at long last, when you think you’re about to die, you fall blissfully into her tender arms. Truth is a lover. Truth is a dancer. Sometimes truth appears as Krishna, sometimes as … Continue reading
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The Invitation
The following is an excerpt from my new book in progress Truth is Dancing: An Invitation from the Other Side of Consciousness. Chapter 1: The Invitation Beloved, for many days, indeed many years, I have often returned to you, reached … Continue reading
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Helen De Cruz Interview at Prosblogion
Helen De Cruz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at VU University Amsterdam, and former post-doctoral fellow at University of Oxford) has just published an interview with me about my spiritual journey and work as a philosopher at Prosblogion, an academic philosophy … Continue reading
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Three Poems
Friends: As most of you know, in addition to posting scholarly material in my blog, I also post poetry and contemplative explorations. In the past year I’ve published One Love, Presence, and The Deepest Silence. I realize that not all subscribers … Continue reading
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Truth is Dancing (New Book Project)
I want you to sit with your deepest pain, your most inescapable suffering. Call it forth even now. Be with it for a few moments if you can. I want you to see it, to see it clearly. I want … Continue reading
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No Exit for Survivalists?
Friends, My most recent blog “Survivalists in the Crosshairs” had over 500 hits within the first 24 hours, which surpassed my earlier high volume posts on near-death experiences (September 9, 2014) and the logic of survival arguments (June 4, 2014). Not surprisingly, I’ve received … Continue reading
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