TSN: Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2. BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here. BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here. Just 40 years after a famous TIME magazine cover asked 'Is God Dead?' the answer appears to be a resounding 'No!' According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion. Beliefnet is a lifestyle site that serves as your number one resource for faith, belief and spirituality. Visit our site daily for inspirational quotes, prayers for strength and words of comfort and hope. The aim of Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2. Enlightenment ideas in the light of advances in primarily cognitive neurosciences, evolutionary biology, physics etc. The word reconnaissance is used advisedly. Although reconnaissance now usually means a military information- gathering exercise, the preference is for original root - recognoscere - which roughly suggests 'to get to know again'. The hope is to explore our current sense of Reason, Truth, Belief, Human Nature, Progress, Virtue and the Good Life in this light. It could be argued that the Enlightenment was not quite the disaster that some critics have suggested, and that version 2. This is the sequel to Beyond Belief 1 - and the second in what we now are planning to be an annual series of conversations on this topic. There were over 3 million hits and over half a million downloads of some or all of the 1. You. Tube and hundreds of blogs and e- mails. Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2. TSN's educational mission - To Enlarge the Constituency of Reason. It will be highly interactive: the emphasis is less on formal presentation than on participation. Invitees play multiple roles - as presenters, panelists, and participating audience members. Above all, this is a conversation. Clearly, the religion/faith/belief issue will come up again - as it has most recently concerning Islamic science in the pages of Nature (with thoughts of Ziauddin Sardar's Commentary on 1. July, and Sam Harris' letter on August 2. But we would also like to consider exploring what Ed Wilson (with a nod to Condorcet) would call a Consilience direction. So as well as many of the participants from last year an additional contingent has been invited from the humanities "tribe" to help us better understand, amongst other things, The Sea of Faith, the Sleep (or Dream) of Reason, the Perils of Scientism, the possibly premature reports of the Death of Utopia and the reason for the recurrent calls for Re- Enchantment. We shall also re- visit some of last year's questions including: Can evolutionary biology, anthropology and neuroscience help us to better understand how we construct beliefs, and experience empathy, fear and awe? Can science help us create a new rational narrative as poetic and powerful as those that have traditionally sustained societies? If not God, then what? And we shall hopefully be weaving a rich tapestry including historical threads from sources including Spinoza, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Thomas Paine, William James, Beethoven, Bacon, Rawls and Alhazen. We really do think of this as an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of reason in formulating social policy. It is interesting that both ends of the political spectrum are currently gnashing teeth and blaming the others for either a "Retreat from Reason" or an "Assault on Reason". It would be refreshing to have a rational discussion about this! I got involved with Gaia because of Corey Goode. He fascinates me and I find him to be remarkably authentic and very straightforward. I love Gaia and have respect for the mission and purpose of the company that brings so.BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here. As you watch the conversation in Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0, it might help to know about one of the sources that was helpful to me in formulating the agenda. Feature articles, reviews, and previews, with a focus on independent film.
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