Part Three — Ascend? Ascend Where?

The God Spark — Part Three In Part Two, our conversation turned toward evil, responsibility, and whether divine intervention can be reconciled with free will. Which brought us to another question: why are we so determined to turn existence into a spiritual hierarchy?...

Part Two — But What About Evil?

The God Spark — Part Two In Part One, a question about ghosts led us into a conversation about consciousness, reincarnation, and the possibility that existence doesn’t require a predetermined purpose. But if we’re here simply because we can be, what...

Part One — Because We Can

The God Spark — Part One It began, as many of our conversations do, somewhere entirely different. We were talking about mind and consciousness, and whether the brain produces the mind or whether consciousness might be something more fundamental. Then Esther asked...