November 25, 2025 - Catholic Insight

Psychedelics, Meditation, and Attention to the Mind: Sam Harris’s Recipe for a Post-Biblical Consciousness

By William HortonPosted on November 25, 2025Posted in Featured Highlights, Vox Populi, Apologetics, ChurchTagged contemplation, Sam Harris, Mindfulness

Sam Harris, on his latest tour, recently claimed that with a few psychedelics, his genuine instruction on how to attend to the nature of one’s mind, and proper meditative practice, we would no longer need the Bible—nor regard it with such reverence. For Harris, understanding scripture as the word of God is incompatible with true[…]

Catherine’s Pure Philosophy

By John Paul Meenan, EditorPosted on November 25, 2025Posted in Saints, Editor's Corner

In one of those ironies of God’s history – choosing what seems weak to confound the apparently strong – the patron saint of philosophers is a teenage virgin martyr from the fourth century. Catherine of Alexandria (+305) dedicated herself to study ‘from a young age’, as her disputed biography (written centuries after her death) relates.[…]

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