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October 2020

• 326) Does science come from spirituality or is it made by man?

May 2019

• 325) Why atheism requires more faith than theism – MORE acronym

April 2019

• 324) The Convergence of Technology, Psychology and Spirituality

January 2019

• 323) Can near-death experiences be induced in everyone so they can be become repeatable experimental evidence?
• 322) Can ghosts be seen with gross eyes, as is sometimes reported after tsunamis?
• 321) Is the difference in consciousness between humans and animals because of brain complexity?
• 320) Is faith a cognitive function like memory or motivation or mood – can it be altered by neurochemical processes?

December 2018

• 319) Would a Prabhupada-bot, an artificial intelligence system that knows all of Prabhupada’s works, be equivalent to him or his books?
• 318) If genetically modified bacteria could clean the polluted Yamuna river, is that technology still bad?

November 2018

• 317) How can I see spiritually my scientific research for solving serious problems such as incurable diseases?
• 316) Are science and religion in conflict with each other?

August 2018

• 315) Science, Spirituality and Wellness – Existence, Emotions and Ethics
• 314) Can science free us from the evils of religion, as atheists argue?
• 313) Are religious people intellectually lazy and atheists more intellectually responsible?

July 2018

• 312) Is the world like a programmed algorithm of numbers?
• 311) Is everything insentient in the universe deterministic?
• 310) How can we explain UFOs?
• 309) How is atheism self-refuting?

June 2018

• 308) Did Krishna create the universe through the big bang or without it?

May 2018

• 307) Will God be understood by science in future?

April 2018

• 306) Has neuroscience shown that there is no inner seer?
• 305) Science & Spirituality – Why psychiatry can’t replace spirituality
• 304) Will future scientific progress explain consciousness and spirituality in mathematical terms?

February 2018

• 303) Teaching evolution in schools: what science explains and what explains science

January 2018

• 302) Is Reincarnation for Real – Evaluating the Evidence
• 301) With artificial intelligence advancing rapidly, what will differentiate humans from future machines?

December 2017

• 300) In the computer metaphor for explaining the self, comparing the soul with the user mixes the inanimate with the animate – isn’t it better to compare consciousness with electricity?

November 2017

• 299) Is God an invention or a discovery?
• 298) The driver controls the car, but the soul doesn’t directly control the body – can you explain?
• 297) What is the relationship between science and atheism?
• 296) Is criticizing science necessary for sharing Krishna-bhakti?

October 2017

• 295) Is hypnotic regression to past lives for real?
• 294) Science, Spirituality & Self-improvement

September 2017

• 293) Do scientific theories disprove spiritual truths?
• 292) Is spiritual science a valid branch of science?
• 291) My journey from material science to spiritual science – QA session
• 290) Are we omnivores who need to eat animals to maintain the food chain?
• 289) Love may be unscientific, but is it unreal?
• 288) Is anger reduced by becoming spiritual or by developing the brain’s frontal lobe that is associated with controlling emotions?
• 287) Can there be something called spiritual science?
• 286) Scientists are often aesthetic people and religion has often caused persecution and violence – how to understand?
• 285) Talk show – Virtual Reality and Spirituality
• 284) Do theists attribute to God things that are not explainable within our frame of reference?
• 283) Can we logically prove God’s existence – Backward and forward reasoning

August 2017

• 282) Understanding consciousness and its four levels – Jagruti, Svapna, Sushupti and Turya
• 281) Why doesn’t mainstream science accept the evidence for past-life memories?

July 2017

• 280) Is the self located in the brain?
• 279) Why can’t science measure love?
• 278) What is consciousness – why does science have difficulty in understanding it?
• 277) Why can’t scientists understand that our identity is spiritual?
• 276) Do we have free will?
• 275) Does scientific advancement make life seem pointless – why?
• 274) Are people who have out-of-body experiences out of their mind?
• 273) How sound is the scientific evidence of past-life memories?
• 272) Who are we – how can we understand the Gita’s answer from a scientific perspective?
• 271) What can we resist temptation?
• 270) How does the three-level model of the self explain near death experiences?
• 269) How does the three-level model of the self explain past-life memories?
• 268) When we perceive internally, how can we differentiate between the mind and the soul?
• 267) Who experiences love – brain, mind or soul?
• 266) How does the three-level model of the self reconcile science and spirituality?
• 265) Is there any proof for God’s existence?
• 264) As science fiction movies show robots with emotions, can’t scientific progress imbue robots with consciousness?
• 263) Is there proof of reincarnation from animal body to human body?
• 262) Adulation, distortion and denigration differentiate scientism from science
• 261) How can we explain tangibly what consciousness is?
• 260) When our consciousness goes up and down regularly, how is consciousness irreducible?
• 259) Different brain areas are activated when we have different emotions – doesn’t that show consciousness comes from the brain?
• 258) In past-life memories cases, how do wounds on the previous body manifest as birth marks on the next body?
• 257) Reincarnation – From Romance to Research
• 256) Does the default setting come from the mind or the brain?
• 255) Can we say that the brain processes various energies and one kind of energy processing leads to consciousness?

June 2017

• 254) When some people remember their past lives, where are those memories stored?
• 253) What is the role of science in Krishna consciousness?
• 252) Ghosts, Spirits & Reincarnation – Understanding how the invisible affects the visible
• 251) In past life memories, might the investigators be committing frauds?
• 250) What is the concept of a soulmate?
• 249) What happens to children who remember their past lives after they grow up?
• 248) Can children be trained to remember their past lives?
• 247) How can we see virtual reality in terms of spiritual philosophy?
• 246) Behind the book – Interview with Chaitanya Charan, author of “Demystifying Reincarnation”
• 245) Are past-life memories frauds? – Analysis with the case study of a Muslim-to-Hindu reincarnation 
• 244) Demystifying Reincarnation – Chaitanya Charan’s latest book is now available on amazon.com
• 243) How does telepathy occur?
• 242) Can the mind travel out of the body?
• 241) Reincarnation Research – Science, Pseudo-Science & Scientism
• 240) Reincarnation and the human quest for self-understanding
• 239) Light to see the world – Science, Spirituality and Life’s Big Questions
• 238) Do microbes forming on rocks demonstrate that life comes from matter?
• 237) Can future scientific advancement detect the existence of God?
• 236) What comprises science – what are the boundaries that define science?

May 2017

• 235) Gita 09.14 The claim – religion is an agreeable illusion – is atheists’ agreeable illusion
• 234) Gita 16.09 Developing better HD streaming may be individually meaningful but consuming what is streamed is hardly ever so
• 233) When science and spirituality never meet, how can they be reconciled?
• 232) Is research in reincarnation still going on?
• 231) Is reincarnation for real?
• 230) If science can’t answer some questions, why is everyone progressing along scientific lines?
• 229) Science can’t address God’s existence and spirituality can’t prove it – how then can science and spirituality be reconciled?
• 228) When mood swings are caused by hormonal changes, how can we control our moods by our determination?
• 227) Gita 15.10 The scientific torchlight shows matter clearly, consciousness hazily and God not at all
• 226) Have we humans thought up an anxiety-relieving entity God because we suffer more anxiety than animals?
• 225) How can we scientifically explain reincarnation?
• 224) Is there a scientific explanation of the benefits of eating prasad?
• 223) Can we scientifically prove the validity of scriptures?
• 222) What is the best way to present scriptural wisdom to scientists?
• 221) Science-Religion QA

April 2017

• 220) Just as a child learns by growth, can’t machines develop human features by technological growth?
• 219) 5 reflections for reconciling science and scripture

March 2017

• 218) Consciousness – our under-used inner power
• 217) Spirituality in the age of Science (Science – Modern)
• 216) Is the universe heliocentric or geocentric?
• 215) Spirituality in the age of science – The hard problem of consciousness
• 214) How can Vedic concepts be explained in scientific terms?
• 213) We use only 10% of the brain – what does this mean?
• 212) Are the mind and the brain interchangeable?
• 211) Is all the archaeological evidence wrong – did cavemen not exist?
• 210) Are scripture and evolution contradictory?
• 209) How can we reconcile contradictions between knowledge from science and knowledge from scripture?
• 208) Shouldn’t modern science be renamed as so-called science?
• 207) The more scientific people become, the more atheistic they become – is this true?

January 2017

• 206) When the mind is like software, then how can pills for treating the hardware – the brain – cure mental problems?

December 2016

• 205) How can I do PhD in science without getting carried away by it?
• 204) Paranormal phenomena and spirituality
• 203) Is there any relationship between telepathy and spirituality?

November 2016

• 202) Is a devotee teacher cheating students by teaching them scientific theories about creation?
• 201) Can’t future science explain consciousness?
• 200) ​How do medically dead people sometimes return to life?
• 199) What is the difference between near-death experience, out-of-body experience and after-death experience?
• 198) ​How does the Placebo effect work?
• 197) When artificial intelligence becomes as good as our intelligence, what will our purpose be?
• 196) ​Is there any evidence that chanting or bhakti-yoga decreases stress?

October 2016

• 195) ​Diwali meditation on Science and spirituality
• 194) ​Near death experiences demystified
• 193) ​QA on Science & Religion at Cambridge University
• 192) How does scripture explain evolution?
• 191) ​Are scientific claims of journey to other planets compatible with scripture?
• 190) Are there any evidences that consciousness is extra-cerebral?
• 189) ​Science vs Religion – Talk & QA
• 188) ​What near death experiences mean for all of us
• 187) ​Does science offer real knowledge – can we live today without scientific knowledge?
• 186) ​Why do scientists criticize spirituality and spiritualists criticize science?

September 2016

• 185) Spirituality in an age of science – Maximizing human potential
• 184) Spirituality in an age of science – Managing the messy mind
• 183) According to science, did everything come from nothing or from a singularity?
• 182) Is meat an essential source of proteins?
• 181) Are we taking a cow’s blood in the form of her milk?
• 180) Near-death Experiences – The evidence and the implication
• 179) Just as scientific truths are proven, can spiritual truths be proven?
• 178) ​How does scientific curiosity lead to theories like Darwinian evolution?

July 2016

• 177) ​God did it – is this scripture’s only explanation for all material phenomena?

June 2016

• 176) ​How can we reconcile the Vedic geocentric and scientific heliocentric models of the universe?
• 175) How many dimensions actually exist?
• 174) ​Are scientists hiding the secrets behind their inventions?
• 173) ​Science and spirituality are harmonizable

May 2016

• 172) The pointlessness of atheism

April 2016

• 171) ​Near Death Experiences – Where science points to spirituality

March 2016

• 170) How authentic are the Dwarka arcahaeological findings about Krishna?
• 169) Why does science treat mental problems medically, not spiritually?
• 168) If our feelings come from the soul, how does brain chemical deficiency cause depression?
• 167) Is the spiritual an energy like material energies such as thermal or electrical energies?
• 166) How do laws of nature invalidate design – don’t laws require a designer?
• 165) When scientists criticize intelligent design, how can we establish that God is the explanation for explainability?
• 164) When the Paramatma is present everywhere, how is he undivided?
• 163) Does the sequence of the Dashavatars reflect the theory of evolution?
• 162) Spirituality in the Age of Science

February 2016

• 161) What is the scientific evidence for incarnations other than Krishna?

November 2015

• 160) Are we apes because theres only 2% difference genetically between us and apes?

September 2015

• 159) Can science by its progress gain spiritual knowledge?
• 158) Did man go to the moon or not?
• 157) What is our approach to the theory of evolution?

June 2015

• 156) Does a science student need to give up all faith in science for practicing bhakti?
• 155) Does God play dice with the universe?
• 154) If science just uses pre-existing mechanisms how does that apply to computer codes and programs?
• 153) Does scripture have mathematical equation for relativity?
• 152) Do the Vedas already contain a Theory of Everything?
• 151) Hasn’t Stephen Hawking already come up with a Theory of Everything?
• 150) Can’t scientists experiment about origins using Large Hadron Collider?
• 149) Is science not needed to help people see the truth of Vedas as people want practical proofs that science can offer?
• 148) Science proves its faith as factual by experiment – so isn’t it a preferable way of gaining knowledge?
• 147) How do we reconcile science and spirituality when they are contradictory?

May 2015

• 146) Will accepting reincarnation make people more lazy or more responsible?
• 145) Can an OBE be repeated and experimented upon?
• 144) Are there any scientifically verified cases of past-life memories?
• 143) Are there any NDEs that conclusively prove the existence of the soul?
• 142) How do we counter the explanation of NDEs as mind-body split?
• 141) What are the proofs for reincarnation accepted by mainstream scientists?
• 140) Cant past-life memories be coincidences among the earth’s eight billion people’s stories?

March 2015

• 139) Gravity doesn’t make people fall in love
• 138) An equation represents a thought of God
• 137) How does Schrodinger’s cat paradox point to consciousness’ reality?

January 2015

• 136) Does the improbability of extra-terrestrial life support more the Christian conception of God than the Vedic conception?

December 2014

• 135) Don’t just sharpen the axe – reform the axe-holder
• 134) Don’t mistake the assumption to be the conclusion

November 2014

• 133) Claiming the assumption to be the conclusion is deception
• 132) What are phantom limbs – how do they prove the soul’s existence?
• 131) Why do you call your site spiritualscientist when there’s not much scientific content?

October 2014

• 130) How is Krishna consciousness a science?
• 129) Can science never prove the existence of God?
• 128) Why can’t we remember our past lives?
• 127) Don’t reduce all thinking to logical thinking
• 126) If all equations including those of quantum physics are thoughts of God, why does quantum physics not make sense?
• 125) Exploring various possible relationships between science and spirituality
• 124) How science and spirituality can be harmonized
• 123) If quantum physics is incomprehensible how does it work?

July 2014

• 122) How does atheism lead to abolition of our free will?
• 121) Scientism fosters not respect for science, but disrespect for humanity
• 120) Scientism makes it impossible for us to be scientific

June 2014

• 119) What does Einstein’s metaphor about science and religion mean?
• 118) Is science based on rational faith and religion on irrational faith?
• 117) Does religion require faith from start to end whereas science requires faith only occasionally?
• 116) Are science and spirituality at war with each other?
• 115) Is belief in God like belief in a cosmic teapot – undisprovable yet unreasonable?
• 114) When there are so many cases of past life memories, why don’t we find some people remembering their experience in heaven, hell or as animals?
• 113) Why are all forms of science not equally authoritative – why is evoluion less reliable than gravity when its all science?

May 2014

• 112) Do the Anthropic Principle and the multiverse theory make the design argument redundant?
• 111) Does the M-theory do away with the need for God, as Stephen Hawking claims in The Grand Design?
• 110) How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism?
• 109) Is belief in God a virus of the mind, as atheists claim?
• 108) Scientism is self-contradictory
• 107) How do we respond to scientistic fanatics who deny even emotions like happiness?
• 106) When the design argument is so logical, why don’t most people and most scientists accept God’s existence?
• 105) Is God improbable because he has to be more complex than his creation and complex things have very low probability of emerging?
• 104) Revelation is the complement, not the replacement, of reason (Countering Scientism 1)
• 103) Won’t the progress of science make the God-of-the-gaps redundant?
• 102) Does bringing God into science stop progress as does attributing plague to evil spirits?
• 101) Isn’t it better to be satisfied with the beauty of the garden without imagining a fairy at its bottom?
• 100) Is terminal restlessness caused by fear of Yamadutas?

February 2014

• 99) If people in Dwapara Yuga were ten times bigger, why don’t we see such fossils?

January 2014

• 98) Are spiritualists seeking a soul driving the brain like illiterates seeking a horse driving a car?

December 2013

• 97) When devotee-scientists’ books are criticized by mainstream scientists can we quote them as scientific evidence for KC?
• 96) Do instincts come from genes or from the Supersoul’s guidance?

November 2013

• 95) Does telepathy really happen? If yes, how?

October 2013

• 94) Does the Dashavatara conception – with aquatics in the start, semi-humans in the middle and humans in the end – support the theory of evolution?
• 93) Who has the proof or knowledge that incredibly well-designed natural crystals, the natural arches, or even complicated biological things were designed by someone ‘intelligent’?

September 2013

• 92) Can a scientist who accepts evolution practice Krishna consciousness?
• 91) Can science be spiritual? Can spirituality be scientific?

August 2013

• 90) QA on Science and Scripture 3
• 89) QA on Science and Scripture 2
• 88) QA on Science and Scripture 1

July 2013

• 87) Is obesity a medical problem or a behavioral problem?
• 86) Is science never wrong because it is objective and is religion subjective?

June 2013

• 85) With technology we can predict and prepare for natural disasters and save people, something that we couldn’t do in the past. So how can it be said that we are progressing in the wrong direction?
• 84) Scientists talk about end of the earth. Is such a thing true?
• 83) What is the deep meaning of philosophy? It cannot be ultimate as scientist give ultimate in mathematical formulae and experiments.
• 82) How can we say our spiritual experiences are not just chemical reactions?
• 81) Is the relationship between Krishna and the soul like that between two quantum entangled particles?

May 2013

• 80) What exactly does the random number generator experiment prove – does it demonstrate the power of prayer?

April 2013

• 79) What is the logical basis for inferring the existence of the subtle body?
• 78) Isn’t science better than religion because science is objective whereas religion is subjective?
• 77) If genes dont determine our behavior then why are some features of our behavior similar to our parents?
• 76) Has science debunked the four elements called fire, air, water, earth and ether?
• 75) Are scientists like people who refuse a readymade meal and want to cook a meal themselves?

March 2013

• 74) How do we respond to atheists who refer to god as a magician?
• 73) Is stating that god has created the universe like saying a magic fairy moves a car piston?

February 2013

• 72) Why are most past life memories found in children of families who already believe in reincarnation?

December 2012

• 71) Can neuroscience make people happy, thereby making spirituality unnecessary?
• 70) If scientific theories are incorrect how do the scientific inventions work?
• 69) Does the multiverse theory disprove the existence of God?
• 68) How do we respond to atheists who say that we have no proof for heaven?
• 67) How do we respond to atheists who say nature has no space for god?
• 66) How do we respond to skeptics’ claims that NDEs are products of culturally conditioned imagination?
• 65) When scriptural truths are branded by scientists ‘pseudoscience’, how do rationalistic people put faith on them?
• 64) Is the scientific claim that jellyfish are immortal true?

November 2012

• 63) Should spiritualists be afraid that scientific research may disprove their faith?
• 62) Is the mind a special material element to which material laws dont apply?

October 2012

• 61) How do we answer atheists who say that the order that we see in the universe is only apparent and actually the entropy principle ensures that disorder keeps increasing?
• 60) What is the Vedic perspective on a Harvard neurosurgeon’s vision of heaven during a near-death experience?
• 59) What is the one scientific discovery that can prove or disprove the Vedic view of the universe?

July 2012

• 58) Understanding the difference between science and scientism
• 57) Why does ISKCON criticize technology?
• 56) Technocentric World – Paradise or Hell?
• 55) Do scientific theories like the inflationary theory explain the origin of the universe?
• 54) What is the connection between quantum physics and spirituality?
• 53) Is the big bang theory contradictory to or harmonious with the Vedic account of creation?
• 52) During heart transplants does the soul remain the same or does a different soul come into the body with the new heart?
• 51) Why do many scientists propose an illogical concept like “something comes out of nothing?”
• 50) From the god particle to the godly particle
• 49) Does the discovery of the God particle disprove the existence of God?
• 48) In the God particle we trust (?) – Understanding the Collisions, Emissions & Omissions
• 47) Reductionism and Pantheism refuted

April 2012

• 46) What exactly are the stars?
• 45) Is there any explanation for Bermuda Triangle in the scriptures?
• 44) Does the soul go out of the body during out-of-body experiences?

March 2012

• 43) The Mystery of Reincarnation
• 42) How does hynotic regression provide evidence for reincarnation?

February 2012

• 41) How can one logically prove the presence of God?
• 40) Is seeing believing?
• 39) Science – “Two ” Short to Rope the Universe
• 38) SQ – Your Ultimate Intelligence

January 2012

• 37) How do we understand the count of 400,000 human species when the human population is much greater?
• 36) Do aliens really exist?
• 35) Science and Spirituality
• 34) When we have microscopes that can see sizes less that 1/10,000 , then how do we understand the statement that the soul can’t be seen through the most powerful microscope?
• 33) If consciousness comes from the soul, how does anesthesia make us lose consciousness?
• 32) Does every cell have a soul?
• 31) Has science disproved the Bhagavad-gita – does consciousness come from the brain, not the soul?
• 30) Do all sperms have soul?
• 29) Advanced Astronomy In the Shrimad-Bhagavatam

December 2011

• 28) Where Technology Falls Short
• 27) Foolososphy
• 26) Is Something Missing in Modern Education?
• 25) Happy New Year
• 24) How Everything Began
• 23) When Monkeys Start Typing
• 22) Made Just For You
• 21) The Symbiotic Factory
• 20) Think Before You Eat
• 19) Made For Each Other

November 2011

• 18) Atheism Refuted
• 17) The Respiritualization Of Science
• 16) A Science Of Values
• 15) Does genetics disprove reincarnation?

October 2011

• 14) Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
• 13) Can Science Discover Spirituality?
• 12) What is wrong with creating life?
• 11) What is the Vedic perspective on the creation of artificial life?

July 2011

• 10) Where Technology Falls Short…

April 2011

• 9) Are Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) hallucinations?

March 2011

• 8) Is there any scientific proof for the existence of the soul?
• 7) What is the source of consciousness: the brain or the soul?
• 6) Can robots be conscious?

January 2011

• 5) Don’t neuronal correlates of consciousness disprove the soul theory?
• 4) If consciousness comes from the soul, then why do brain states affect consciousness?

August 2010

• 3) Isn’t scientific knowledge preferable to spiritual knowledge because it doesn’t depend on faith?
• 2) Can science by its future progress discover spiritual truths?

July 2010

• 1) Why discuss unscientific things like God, soul and rebirth in this scientific age?