Alan Lightman's Interviews

Exploring Spiritual Materialism, Science, and the Wonders of Nature with Alan Lightman (Episode 144)
Paul Krauss MA LPC engages in conversation with Alan Lightman, PhD to speak about his excellent new book THE MIRACULOUS FROM THE MATERIAL: Understanding the Wonders of Nature. This is an episode full of rich conversation, teachings from Alan about natural phenomena, discussion of philosophy and spirituality and much mo
Einstein’s Dreams (Vintage, 1992) by Alan Lightman, set in Albert Einstein’s “miracle year” of 1905, is a novel about the cultural interconnection of time, relativity and life. As the young genius creates his theory of relativity, in a series of dreams, he imagines other worlds, each with a different conceptualization
67 - When Science Meets Spirituality (Ft. Alan Lightman)
Special guest Alan Lightman takes us through a fascinating discussion of consciousness, and tells us how he reconciles spirituality with his materialist views. Todays episode is sponsored by the International Space Station. Join the ISS National Laboratory this August in Seattle at the 12th annual ISS Research and Deve
A physicist whose world has no room for spirits, but who has experienced many eerily transcendent moments – both in nature and in his work – sets out to understand the unexplainable.
Alan Lightman, "The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science" (Pantheon, 2023)
Are science and spirituality incompatible? From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to that question... Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity and things larger than ourselves. But these experien
Can Scientists Be Spiritual? Alan Lightman | Into The Impossible Podcast
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/R5DXUZet7HE?sub_confirmation=1 Is the brain a computer? Where does the soul lie? Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Alan Lightman takes on the
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