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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[…]

Crucifixion

By Michael D. O'BrienPosted on June 25, 2013Posted in BlogsTagged art, contemplation, Michael O'Brien, Crucifixion, O'Brien Studio

Our March artist, Michael D. O’Brien, was born in Ottawa in 1948 and is internationally renowned as the author of twenty books, notably the novel Father Elijah and eight other novels, which have been translated into twelve languages and widely reviewed in both secular and religious media in North America and Europe. Several of his non-fiction[…]