How Can We Vanquish Fear to Make Way for Positive Emotions?
While “positive thinking” won’t often help us address our biggest problems, a positive affect can help us expand our horizons.
While “positive thinking” won’t often help us address our biggest problems, a positive affect can help us expand our horizons.
We often forget that the question of “who am I?” is not a fixed one — it’s a contextual one.
As part of the 92nd St. Y’s “7 Days of Genius” Festival, get to the very heart of right and wrong with Professor Michael Shermer and Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman on “The Genius of Good and Evil.”
The video and audio from our panel discussion “Can Science and Religion Co-Exist?”
“Knowing” can be a big problem, because “knowing” prevents “learning.” And so perhaps that’s why the Rabbis urged us to do something very challenging – to “teach [our] tongue to say ‘I don’t know.’”
It’s inherently challenging for believers and atheists to have productive conversations. But one bright person interested in broadening the conversation is Sam McNerney, a science writer who focuses on cognitive science and an atheist interested in religion from a psychological point of view. So as two people with different religious outlooks we wondered: what can we learn from each other?
The question isn’t “how Jewish are we?” or “how religious are we?” The real question is, “How can Judaism help us to become better people and to create a better world?”