The Age of Spiritual Machines

one’s culture. Through the Hmong it is a spiritual and a truly holistic understanding of the body, while the American biomedicine divides things into parts, like a car. These two systems while approaching the same field with different understandings, can have similar results. That…

ribbons of glistening dramatic collaborations, and utter simplicity. His work is very un-dimensional with variations in religion, written lexicography of the time, and the authorization of a new world through spiritual doggedness. Shakespeare’s life, a sweet harmonious journey conveys his spiritual alchemical process of his self-being. The pure Language of the World postulates no formal explanation, meaning it is not set into one formal language, possibly not even a language at all. With…

places to hang out, and our computers predict our preferences, helping us to do our daily work more efficiently. However, all of these digital assistants demonstrate only a tiny sliver of artificial intelligence, and it’s plain to see how we’re still ages away from Skynet and Blade Runner scenarios. Or are we? Since the beginning of the 21st century, there is no question that mankind has made tremendous progress in the field of robotics. While modern robots can now replicate the movements and…

year America entered the war. The entire country raised itself from the ground and stood proud not only against its enemies but for the ideals it stood for. World War Two brought on a new wave of American idealism and propelled the country into an age of world dominance. From there, their war changed to a fight for democracy in the west against the communists in the east. America turned from being the giant that knocked down Hitler, to being a child fighting small wars in countries barely anyone…

interest in the changes through time and the destruction of history because of the dominant population. Raised in a world of chaos and abuse, David Wojnarowicz came to distrust organized society and the religion shoved down his throat. At an early age, Wojnarowicz saw the horrors of the world, raised by an abusive father and an absent mother he became weary of societal structures. In starting in 1985, he began a new phase of works of which he referred to as “history paintings”. These new…

modern medicine and machines. But death is something that the living cannot control. Firstly, we create defense mechanisms to protect ourselves and to help up cope…

physicians, 250 nurses, 218 relatives and 246 lay people. A survey questionnaire was used concerning issues such as euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. The survey instrument included 13 questions and described issues such as religious and spiritual beliefs, euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and decision-making situations.” (Parpa, 2010). Within this research, It mentions how about 43% of doctors are fore physician assisted suicide, but only in the matter of if the patient is dealing…

come with them. Zeller inform use that “They targeted groups and individuals associated with new and alternative religions and holistic living in their mailing” (Zeller pg. 33, 2014), they introduced themselves as charismatic leaders with a new spiritual message to share with the world. They were able to recruit Clarence Klug with their approach. The second theme or characteristic of situational contingency is one’s close intragroup affective bonds with members in Heaven’s Gate. Lofland explains…

For this Bonus Raid, I decided to watch The Adjustment Bureau with my roommate, Mark Vos. This movie seems to represent a conspiracy theorist's dream in which a secret organization called “The Adjustment Bureau” controls all of human history and has designed a plan that includes each and every individual. The Bureau makes sure that no person deviates from this plan by either distracting us with little inconveniences or (in extreme cases) by messing with our brains in attempts to alter the way in…

a monastery (the home of monks where they live to dedicated there life to their spiritual vows) to begin his education. The first Dalai Lama was Gedun Drupa. Dalai Lamas believe that when they die their soul is reincarnated into the next Dalai Lama to help more people achieve spiritual highness, and thus is how there continue to be a praised Dalai Lama, because they believe they are still the same high level spiritual soul they once were just in another body. Also in the Ming dynasty they…