In a world increasingly dominated by logic, lab coats, and hard data, the concept of the soul often seems relegated to the realm of religion and folklore. But what if modern science is edging closer ...

College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the ...

In my previous post, I explained why the traditional soul is a testable hypothesis about the nature and functioning of the human mind. What then can we conclude about the existence of the soul? In a ...

Steven Pinker’s characterization of my op-ed “Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul?” makes little contact with its text (Letters, Oct. 30). My piece outlined the evidence for terminal lucidity among ...

In a world on the cusp of massive change, uncertainty, and complexity due to artificial intelligence, I believe it’s necessary to remind everyone of what psychotherapy actually means, because its ...