Understanding the nature of aesthetics requires careful experimentation and innovative ways to reveal essence and tease out aspects of aesthetics. What are key...
video
Episode
Episode 1
Season 29
26:46
Watch
Across six short documentary films, Closer To Truth follows leading researchers as they investigate how artistic experience can evoke awe, meaning, and self-transcendence....
playlist
Topic Series
6 videos
1:10:12
Panpsychism is the extreme claim that everything in the physical world—all subatomic particles-are in some sense ‘conscious’ or have a basic kind of...
20:06
Our universe seems fine-tuned for life, with the constants of physical laws having to be within tight boundaries. Does this mean that the universe has a goal of...
5 videos
34:41
contributor
Does quantum mechanics play a necessary, if not sufficient, role in the specific generation of phenomenal consciousness—beyond quantum mechanics’ general role in all...
3 videos
53:00
42:26
News
10.22.25
Read
Almost all religions use art in their sacred spaces and many use art forms in their worship rituals. Certainly, there is powerful social cohesion at work. Can cross-religion...
Episode 4
Season 25
26:47
Many belief systems, religions in particular, use art for promoting their messages and furthering their missions. What makes art so effective in building and solidifying...
Episode 3
Understanding the nature of transcendence requires careful experimentation and innovative ways to reveal essence and tease out aspects of aesthetics. What are key...
Episode 2
What is the three-way relationship among mind, art, and transcendence? What is it about art that can elicit the sense of transcendence, going beyond the self, bursting the...
