Death appears to bring a human life to an end. But does it necessarily bring consciousness to an end? Across cultures and throughout history, people have described experiences suggesting that awareness may extend beyond ordinary physical existence. Near-death experiences, mystical states, communications apparently involving those who have died, and profound experiences surrounding death all raise the possibility that… Read more →

  Summary Could the Big Bang describe the beginning of our physical Universe without describing the beginning of Reality itself? Modern cosmology provides powerful evidence that the observable Universe developed from an extremely hot and dense early state approximately 13.8 billion years ago. The older Steady State theory, which proposed an eternally existing physical Universe that remained broadly unchanged on… Read more →

  Summary When does an individual human being become conscious? Science can investigate the development of the brain and nervous system and identify some of the biological conditions associated with conscious experience. It cannot presently establish whether consciousness itself originates within the brain, nor whether an individual consciousness may exist independently of the developing body. A deeper view therefore raises… Read more →