And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that…

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— “I find great benefit for the public (to learn) what Mr. Li has written here,” said Mark Thomas, assistant professor of Political Science at La Salle University. “The philosophy behind Falun Dafa, or Falun Gong, actually is very helpful. It brings a great value to society.” Thomas told The Epoch Times his comments…

My mother passed away in August, four days short of her 70th birthday. When we lose something we love, it’s easy to feel bitter, resentful, and cheated. It’s easy to feel that life is cruel, systematically robbing us of everything good until we’re left with nothing. While these feelings are understandable—forgivable even—they miss far more…

Don’t blame foreign influences for what’s wrong with America. The biggest problem isn’t communism or the World Economic Forum—it’s your high-school reading list. Classic American authors like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louis May Alcott are the real founders of American progressivism—and the source of America’s self-destructive woke culture. In this enlightening episode…

Don’t blame foreign influences for what’s wrong with America. The biggest problem isn’t communism or the World Economic Forum—it’s your high-school reading list. Classic American authors like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louis May Alcott are the real founders of American progressivism—and the source of America’s self-destructive woke culture. In this enlightening episode…

Don’t blame foreign influences for what’s wrong with America. The biggest problem isn’t communism or the World Economic Forum—it’s your high-school reading list. Classic American authors like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louis May Alcott are the real founders of American progressivism—and the source of America’s self-destructive woke culture. In this enlightening episode…

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Socrates turned the poets away from his utopian Republic. He claimed that the poets were too dangerous because they created illusions that led citizens away from the truth. The antidote he suggested was a philosopher king: a wise leader who would censor the poets and guide them in their creations. The…

Perhaps science will never be capable of proving without a shadow of a doubt whether or not the afterlife exists. But science is at least capable of determining how many people have reported experiences of the afterlife. Studies also show that many of the experiencers were not previously spiritual or religious people. Though these experiences…

Henry P. Stapp is a theoretical physicist at the University of California–Berkeley who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. He does not seek to prove that the soul exists, but he does say that the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics. It is not true to say…

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest NDEs are a common human experience. They have been recorded in the folklore of many cultures, and reported by people from diverse backgrounds and in widely varying circumstances. Whatever the explanations behind them, NDEs have a significant…