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Alan Lightman: Can Science Explain Spirituality?

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Immortality of Mathematics

For thousands of years, people have been reporting on these experiences and they've always tied them to God or the soul. And you present a lot of evidence from thinkers way back that you can derive a source for these experiences that isn't supernatural. So transcendence doesn't mean transcending the laws of nature. What does it transcend? It transcends the self.

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