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How the Ouija board got its sinister reputation

October 26, 2016 Leave a Comment

Joseph P. Laycock By now, most have vague notions of the Ouija board horror narrative, in which demonic spirits communicate with – even possess – kids…The Ouija board, however, didn’t always have this sinister reputation.

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From Bodily Resurrection to Spiritual Machines: Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Part 2

March 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

Sylvester Johnson In a letter to new converts in Corinth, the provincial capital of Achaia, the messianic Jewish preacher Paul of Tarsus affirmed for his followers that they were assured a respectable existence in the afterlife. As an astute Platonist, Paul appreciated the ‘common sense’ that dictated material entities—the human body, in this case—could not participate in eternal economies of the spiritual plane.

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Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Heart: Learning About the New Age from After School Cartoons

March 12, 2014 Comments are off

  By Beth Singler “Captain Planet, he’s our hero, Gonna take pollution down to zero, He’s our powers magnified, And he’s fighting on the planet’s side.” Travel back with me now through the mists of time to when dinosaurs roamed

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