When I was a boy in school, I go back to this because my experience may not be - I do not know how typical it would be of children brought up in the United States in a religious environment - but my experience in England was quite fascinating. About you know, when as...

I don’t think I need to tell you that in a very special and peculiar way, Western man is hung up on sex. The major reason for this is that he has his religious background, quite unique among the religions of the world. I mean specifically Christianity, and in a...

Do you do what do you do do you put your mind into two watertight compartments one of which you're abreast of science in the modern world and all that kind of thing in the other compartment it's again nothing to do with that is it completely cut off think all religion...

Now as you know this is the great discussion going on in what we call today the new theology. The revolution within standard brand Christianity. Because you see for years and years the clergy the Ministry of the various churches such as Episcopalian, Methodist,...

The dreaming period is further subdivided into four stages. The first stage is the longest, and it is the best. During that stage, the dream is beautiful. The second stage is not quite so long, and is a little unsettling. There is an element of instability in it, a...

I want to start by giving what may be to many of you, a new definition of the word myth. As normally used the word myth means an idle tale, a fable, a falsehood, or an idea that is out of date, something untrue. But there is another older and stricter use of the word...

Imagine for a moment that it was your privilege to have a brief interview with God, in the course of which you were allowed to ask one question. What would you ask? Now you would have to think this over very carefully, because this golden opportunity would come to you...

I may take the liberty of beginning by saying something about myself and my role in talking to you about philosophical matters, because I wanted to be understood perfectly clearly that I’m not a guru. In other words, I talk about what we call these things and that...

So, let’s suppose then that Jesus had such an experience. But, you see, Jesus has a limitation, that he doesn’t know of any religion other than those of the immediate Near East. He might know something about Egyptian religion, and perhaps a little bit about Greek...

Some years ago, I had just given a talk on television in Canada when one of the announcers came up to me and said, "You know, if one can believe that this universe is in the charge of an intelligent and beneficent God, don't you think He would naturally have provided...