William James Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/william-james/ Dream Research & Education Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:19:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://bulkeley.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kb-100x100.png William James Archives | Kelly Bulkeley https://bulkeley.org/tag/william-james/ 32 32 Dreaming and the OA: “Listen to the Dreamers” https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-and-the-oa-listen-to-the-dreamers/ https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-and-the-oa-listen-to-the-dreamers/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:19:24 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=3847 I want the OA to be real. I think maybe it actually is real. A TV show of rare psychological insight and spiritual audacity (some have called it “bananas” and “bat-shit crazy,” but we’ll get to that), “The OA” reflects the brilliant creative collaboration of co-writers Brit Marling, who plays the eponymous lead character, and …

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]]> https://bulkeley.org/dreaming-and-the-oa-listen-to-the-dreamers/feed/ 0 Neuro-Nonsense: The Perils, and Promise, of Cognitive Science for the Study of Religion https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/ https://bulkeley.org/neuro-nonsense-the-perils-and-promise-of-cognitive-science-for-the-study-of-religion/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2015 01:03:03 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2978 This is the text of a paper I presented at “The Psychology of Religion/Religion of Psychology” conference held at the University of Chicago Divinity School  on March 6, 2015.  My paper was the first in a panel devoted to “Disjunctions Between Contemporary Psychology and Religion.” On July 17, 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced in Proclamation …

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