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Author: CH@el@

what makes a religious experience

What makes a “Religious” Experience?

Posted on April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe What makes an experience “religious?” The answer may seem obvious: an experience is “religious” if it concerns itself with religion…

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Cartesian Meditations is a later text of Husserl’s, first given as a series of lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1929

SoPheRE Update: The 2025 edition of the SoPheRE Webinar is Coming Soon

Posted on February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe Happy 2025! Our SoPheRE webinar is resuming this February, led again by Dr. Peter Costello. For the next webinar program,…

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SoPheRe Exploratory Workshop 2024 Report: Non-Objects

Posted on December 28, 2024December 28, 2024 by CH@el@

By Kyril Wolfe From October 28-30 of 2024, the Society gathered together in Pittsburgh for an exploratory workshop. Our organizers were our fearless…

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