Essays

The End of Knowledge – Introduction to Vedanta

Vedanta has been called the science of spirituality. It’s one of the six schools of Indian philosophy and takes its inspiration from the literature of…
Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?

The cosmological argument for God. The cosmological argument is a formidable argument for the existence of God. It’s not a single argument but a family…
The Impossibly Hard Problem of Consciousness

In 1994 the philosopher David Chalmers raised questions about consciousness that ignited a zombie apocalypse. These weren’t questions no one had asked before. These were…
The Mystery of Existence — From the Cosmos to God

The question of why there is something rather than nothing is the most fundamental of all questions. This is not the question of why some…
Naturalism’s Folly – How a method morphed into a metaphysics

The idea we can neatly divide the world into the natural and the supernatural is a distinctively modern way of thinking. Many people take it…
Introduction to Hinduism – Harmony within diversity

Hinduism is the world’s oldest religion. One of its most characteristic features is its rich variety of opinions and practices. But underlying this diversity is…