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Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, PhD - Muslim: https://www.gtu.edu/faculty/kamal-abu-shamsieh Jaime Clark-Soles - Christian Baptist Rabbi Zac Kamenetz - Jewish, founded Shefa: https://www.shefaflow.org Don Lattin - moderator: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lattin A panel discussion at Psychedelic Science 2023, a conference held in Denver, Colorado in June 2023

Mind

Religious leaders given psilocybin say they "felt God"

Senior religious figures from a diverse range of faiths took psilocybin as part of a study on how people's worldviews influence their psychedelic experiences. Many said they felt the divine

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Anti-evolution books for sale in Dayton, Tennessee, where Professor John T. Scopes is on trial for teaching the theory of evolution in public schools. (Photo by ?? Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Humans

Magisteria review: How science and religion have a tangled past

Culture

'Dameskin' and a hinge taken from the door of St. Botolph’s church in Hadstock, near Cambridge

Humans

'Viking skin' nailed to medieval church doors is actually animal hide

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Hittite temple

Humans

3200-year-old shrine in Turkey may be an ancient view of the cosmos

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catfish

Humans

Non-kosher fish eaten in Jerusalem during early days of Judaism

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Great Isaiah Scroll

Technology

AI analysis shows two scribes wrote one of the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Dead Sea Scrolls fragment

Humans

DNA analysis sheds new light on ancient biblical Dead Sea Scrolls

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Scholars in Baghdad

Space

A Scheme of Heaven reveals what scientists can learn from astrology

Culture

figure standing in light

Life

Why almost everyone believes in an afterlife – even atheists

Features

Gelong Thubten

Humans

Buddhist monk Gelong Thubten on the science of mindfulness

Meditation and mindfulness are useful for modern life, says Gelong Thubten, because they can help us be less controlled by stressful thoughts and emotions

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Life

Richard Dawkins: How we can outgrow God and religion

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Environment

Religion must rise to the challenge of climate change too

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Humans

Most atheists believe in the supernatural, despite trusting science

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Humans

Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer

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