Michael James is a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950), whose method of self-investigation (ātma-vicāra) has profoundly influenced the modern understanding of non-dual philosophy. James first encountered Ramana’s teachings in 1976 while travelling through India. He soon settled in Tiruvannamalai, where he spent twenty years studying under Sri…
Fr. Michael Baggot is an Associate Professor of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an Invited Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Catholic Institute of Technology. He is also a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues and the Catholic Worldview…
Dr. Andrew Ter Ern Loke is a Singaporean Christian theologian and philosopher. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University and an elected Fellow of the prestigious International Society for Science and Religion He has made contributions to the fields of Systematic Theology, Science and Religion,…
Barry Beyerstein was a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. His research focused on brain-behavior relationships, with a focus on the topics of psychopharmacology, sensory psychophysiology, and critical assessments of claims of the paranormal and pseudoscience. He was a renowned skeptic of pseudoscience and the paranormal, heading the B.C. Skeptics Society.…
Eduard Volodymyrovych Shyfrin is a Ukrainian entrepreneur who is a co-owner of the Midland Group. From 1977–1983, he attended the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, earning a PhD in metallurgy. Shifrin spent many years studying the Torah and Kabbalah with a particular interest in the intersection of science and religion. He also published a…
Rahim Acar teaches philosophy of religion at Marmara University, Faculty of Theology. He received his Ph.D. at Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard University in 2002. He is a member of the Society for the Philosophy of Religion in Instanbul, Turkey. His publications include Talking about God and Talking about Creation: Avicenna’s and Thomas…
Ravi Gomatam is the Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute and the Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology. After obtaining his master’s degree in electronics engineering, Ravi Gomatam worked for a few years with Air India in Mumbai, on software development projects, including online crew scheduling. He then went to the USA, where he worked for…