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Giulio Prisco joined: June 24, 2017
Giulio Prisco joined: June 24, 2017
Posts from Giulio Prisco
Extropy magazine archive, new mailing list Extropolis
October 15, 2020
Sir Roger Penrose wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 07, 2020
Streamlined and simplified cosmology for my next book: Summary
October 02, 2020
Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting
September 28, 2020
Turing Church newsletter #1
September 23, 2020
Terasem Colloquium, December 10, 2020
September 22, 2020
Terasem: My interpretation
September 20, 2020
Fundamental physical reality could be a neural network: Vitaly Vanchurin
September 17, 2020
Time beyond time, out of time
September 14, 2020
Book review: How to Build a Time Machine, by T. E. Willis
September 10, 2020
When billiard balls go back in time
September 08, 2020
Pigs in cyberspace: Neuralink and the noosphere
September 01, 2020
The multiverse of Everett: Spaghetti worlds in quantum sauce
August 25, 2020
Yes, Mr. Robinson, we can go to the stars
August 20, 2020
A History of Generation Ships in Science-Fiction
August 19, 2020
This essay contains multiple spoilers (in footnotes at the bottom) about several science fiction novels.Continue reading on Turing Church »
What a wonderful world
August 15, 2020
Time is real, real numbers are not: Nicolas Gisin
August 11, 2020
Turing Church: Next steps
August 01, 2020
Book project: Astounding universe, amazing grace
July 29, 2020
More thoughts on consciousness and afterlife in the cosmic ocean
July 24, 2020
Ultra-advanced natural Gods: Stanley Kubrick
July 12, 2020
The birds on my dead tree
July 09, 2020
More thoughts on the enigma of top-down (downward) causation (2)
July 07, 2020
Book project: Yet another spaceflight manifesto
June 22, 2020
The philosophy of Italian futurism: Riccardo Campa
June 11, 2020
NEOHUMAN #77 :: Giulio Prisco: Tales of the Turing Church
June 04, 2020
No Prof. Deudney, the skies are brighter than your lockdown
June 03, 2020
Mathematics and physical reality
May 31, 2020
Gödel and physical reality
May 28, 2020
Homework: Go to the stars and experiment with black holes
May 19, 2020
Who is Enoch Root?
May 13, 2020
More thoughts on the enigma of top-down (downward) causation
May 08, 2020
Blessed by toasters and washing machines? Not quite yet
May 04, 2020
Time loops and real quantum possibles: Ruth Kastner
May 01, 2020
The Force awakens: Star Wars spirituality and theology
April 27, 2020
This is how I make quantum sense of it
April 21, 2020
Thanks to our 400 followers!
April 19, 2020
Computational irreducibility in Wolfram’s digital physics, and free will
April 18, 2020
Stephen Wolfram proposes new framework for fundamental physics
April 15, 2020
Einstein, Michael Jackson & Howard Bloom (& Me)
April 06, 2020
Cosmodeism and futurist theology: Tsvi Bisk
April 05, 2020
Thoughts on David Deutsch’s constructor theory
March 31, 2020
Artilects at the Planck scale: Hugo de Garis
March 28, 2020
Robert Forward on God and the soul
March 24, 2020
Sasha Sagan (Carl’s daughter) on life after death
March 18, 2020
Cosmism and the possibility of technological resurrection: David Wood
March 13, 2020
Space and religion are the likeliest pathways out of decadence: Ross Douthat
March 06, 2020
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes (2)
March 04, 2020
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes
February 29, 2020
Muslim and Supermuslim: Toward Islamic transhumanism?
February 25, 2020
The space frontier and our divine cosmic destiny
February 21, 2020
Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Published!
February 08, 2020
The Expanse is great science fiction on the cosmic frontier
January 25, 2020
Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Public draft
January 16, 2020
Join the Turing Church Discord server
January 12, 2020
India Awakens presents: New book on physics and ancient Indian traditions
January 11, 2020
Happy 2020, and welcome to the magic twenties
December 31, 2019
Merry Christmas and happy 2020!
December 16, 2019
A virtual Turing Church on the Moon in VR
December 16, 2019
Cultural enablers and narratives for sustainable human expansion into space
December 09, 2019
Beam Me (my mindclone) Up to L5! Terasem Colloquium
November 25, 2019
Bergson and Einstein are still debating the nature of time and change
November 22, 2019
Getting to L5 in Our Lifetimes: Join the Terasem Twitter Colloquium
November 21, 2019
What the Bleep, revisited
November 13, 2019
On quantum supremacy, AI, mind uploading, technological resurrection
November 01, 2019
New book chapter (draft): In the beginning was the field
October 24, 2019
Praise for It Keeps Me Seeking
October 18, 2019
Chi ha Paura della pseudoscienza (whatever that is)?
October 13, 2019
Turing Church in The World Religions & Spirituality Project
October 08, 2019
Can we have free will & divine action AND many worlds?
September 27, 2019
Scientifically plausible pictures of God
September 03, 2019
The Mind in the quantum vacuum: A picture of God
August 28, 2019
There’s probably God. Now be happier and do something good
August 12, 2019
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality (3)
August 10, 2019
Apollo 11, 50 years ago
July 16, 2019
The simulation hypothesis is interesting BS: Ben Goertzel
July 10, 2019
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality (2)
July 04, 2019
My Greatest Concern for Sophia v10.0
June 24, 2019
Meta-survival; what comes after the low-hanging fruit
June 19, 2019
Our simultaneous desires for indefinite lifespans and thirst to explore the universe to its corners are meta-evolutionary forces.Continue reading on Turing Church »
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality
June 19, 2019
Thanks to our 300 followers!
June 17, 2019
Did Nature Create Human Beings to be the Earth’s Guardian Gods?
June 13, 2019
Can we Hack the Eurycosm in Favour of Human Flourishing?
June 12, 2019
Hacking the morphic field to ensure that organic life can continue to flourish in the universe indefinitely.Continue reading on Turing Church »
A Stab in the Dark at Extrapolating Morphic Resonance
June 08, 2019
Having faith in science
June 05, 2019
Working through some of my personal indecisiveness as well as some of the main ideological arguments against transhumanism.Continue reading on Turing Church »
The infrared memory of the universe hints at future Akashic physics
June 04, 2019
How Transhumanism Changed My Views on Teleology
June 03, 2019
I’ll speak at TransVision 2019, July 6–7 in London
May 31, 2019
An Open Letter to Ben Goertzel
May 29, 2019
Book review & interview: Transhumanism, by Roberto Manzocco
May 28, 2019
Why Non-Existence is Suffering, and Why We Shouldn’t Accept it as a Given
May 26, 2019
Immortality is a challenge and a goal post we will eventually cross with the aid of science.Continue reading on Turing Church »
My MTA 2019 talk: How to bring Eduardo back to life
May 24, 2019
Fedorov and Svyatogor: Christian and secular aspects of Russian Cosmism
April 04, 2019
Q/A on Q.A
April 03, 2019
Your many minds and your Mind in the MIND
March 28, 2019
Hopeful sense of wonder, wonderful sense of hope
March 18, 2019
The radical, daring and vital optimism of Christian Transhumanism
March 15, 2019
Code Name Jesus: From impersonal Logos to your personal God
March 08, 2019
Christian transhumanism can streamline and boost Christianity
March 04, 2019
More thoughts on afterlives in other Everett worlds
February 28, 2019
Reading Tales of the Turing Church in the lights of Eastern science and spirituality
February 23, 2019
Blinded by bad rationality and forced atheism
February 19, 2019
Technological resurrection: The meaning and value of early speculations
February 17, 2019
Support Turing Church
February 14, 2019
Turing Church projects
February 14, 2019
Transcript of my talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, RMIC Kolkata
February 07, 2019
Rewrite, by Gregory Benford: Your afterlives in other Everett worlds
January 28, 2019
Immortality or Bust: On the road to the future with Zoltan Istvan
January 24, 2019
God the struggling Artist: The theology of Norman Mailer
January 22, 2019
Tales of the Turing Church: Reactions and Reviews
January 21, 2019
Tales of the Turing Church: First reactions
January 03, 2019
Merry Christmas and happy 2019!
December 20, 2018
My book ‘Tales of the Turing Church’ is published
December 19, 2018
The Turing oracle: Creative randomness from the beyond
November 27, 2018
Personal consciousness as a strange attractor in the mindscape
October 24, 2018
Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen Hawking
October 22, 2018
Tales of the Turing Church: Public draft
October 13, 2018
Why Turing Church is a space religion
September 11, 2018
Tales of the Turing Church: Book draft for early readers
August 28, 2018
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (3): Tabloid transhumanism
August 21, 2018
Olaf Stapledon and the possibility of technological resurrection
August 15, 2018
A Big Bang in a Little Room, by Zeeya Merali: Frontier physics and religion
August 13, 2018
Thanks to our 200 followers!
August 11, 2018
Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope
July 27, 2018
The Secret, staring at you: Valentin Turchin
July 24, 2018
Physics needs a reality check: Review of ‘Lost in Math’ by Sabine Hossenfelder
July 19, 2018
Mormon Transhumanism is the real original Mormonism of Joseph Smith
July 11, 2018
Time travel through extra dimensions in the bulk
July 06, 2018
Journey to Eternity
July 04, 2018
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (2): Life and consciousness
June 26, 2018
Join the Turing Church Telegram group
June 22, 2018
Ether, quantum, chaos: Building blocks for transcendence
June 01, 2018
More thoughts on (non)deterministic chaos, divine action and free will
May 23, 2018
Riddled with gaps: How the Old One plays at dice
May 11, 2018
BBC Radio: The future of faith, with yours truly
May 03, 2018
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (1): The supernatural
May 02, 2018
Cryonics for uploaders: Carboncopies workshop, April 29
April 23, 2018
God and your cosmic consciousness in the quantum cloud
April 05, 2018
Cryonics for uploaders discussion: Video
March 29, 2018
Cryonics for uploaders: WTF is consciousness?
March 21, 2018
Deep neural networks in the quantum vacuum
March 19, 2018
Cryonics for uploaders: Meeting in Second Life, Sunday March 25
March 16, 2018
Cryonics for uploaders: The Brain Preservation Prize has been won
March 13, 2018
VIDEO: My talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, Kolkata, February 10, 2018
February 27, 2018
Under the spell of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
February 19, 2018
My talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, Kolkata, February 10, 2018
February 05, 2018
East Meets West
February 01, 2018
London Futurists: video conference on technological resurrection
January 22, 2018
Turing Church Updates
January 19, 2018
Temporal Resurrection
December 29, 2017
More thoughts on time, causation, reality, mind, and Mind
December 27, 2017
Merry Christmas and happy 2018!
December 23, 2017
The physics of infinite bottlecaps
December 20, 2017
Make yourself a Christmas present: Join the Mormon Transhumanist Association
December 16, 2017
Down in the fractal depths of quantum matter and space-time
December 12, 2017
The elephant in the Christian Transhumanist room
December 10, 2017
Philosophy of Immortality: Ninavism, by Juliusz M. Kowalski
December 08, 2017
Terasem Colloquium in Second Life, December 10, 2017
December 04, 2017
Space-Time, Matter, Mind, God: Samuel Alexander’s natural theology
November 24, 2017
Set in stone: Free will vs. superdeterminism
November 21, 2017
Thanks to our 100 followers!
November 14, 2017
Eligo, ergo sum: The quest for the physics of free will
November 01, 2017
Transhumanist Reincarnation and Nirvana
October 09, 2017
Congratulations to LIGO and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates
October 03, 2017
Mad scientists wanted for research on Irrational Mechanics
October 02, 2017
Simulation physics and theology for Qubitzers
September 27, 2017
I Cosmisti Russi: Il futurismo esoterico di Nikolaj Fedorov e dei suoi seguaci, finalmente in…
September 15, 2017
Book review: Technological Resurrection, by Jonathan Jones
September 08, 2017
Concepts of God and the Kingdom inspired by highly imaginative science
September 04, 2017
Building Gods
August 29, 2017
Let’s start walking the sacred walk to the stars
August 18, 2017
Memories of the Universe
August 13, 2017
VIDEO: Terasem’s 12th Annual Workshop On Geoethical Nanotechnology, Second Life, July 20, 2017
July 21, 2017
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: David Orban
July 18, 2017
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: David Brin
July 17, 2017
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: Yalda Mousavinia
July 10, 2017
Terasem’s 12th Annual Workshop On Geoethical Nanotechnology, July 20, Second Life
July 06, 2017
Immortality, Resurrection, Mind-Uploading, try ‘Tyaga’ and Selfless Love
July 04, 2017
Thoughts on the possibility of Islamic Transhumanism
June 29, 2017
Extropians 1997: Max More and Nick Bostrom on transhumanism and religion
June 23, 2017
Vacancy notice: Cosmic engineers in God’s control room
June 10, 2017
OMG, I guess perhaps I might be… a dry Mormon?
May 25, 2017
From Elon Musk to Joseph Smith: a material simulation hypothesis
May 19, 2017
All those Everett worlds
May 05, 2017
A correction to the ‘Dry Mormon’ story
April 28, 2017
Racing Worlds: A visual model for downward causation in physics
April 21, 2017
Holy Ghost in the Cloud: Christian transhumanism and simulation theology
April 19, 2017
Scientific concepts of afterlife sketched in ‘The Discovery’
April 08, 2017
The faint, almost silent voice of the heart
April 06, 2017
Posts from Giulio Prisco
-
Extropy magazine archive, new mailing list Extropolis
-
Sir Roger Penrose wins the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
-
Streamlined and simplified cosmology for my next book: Summary
-
Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting
-
Turing Church newsletter #1
-
Terasem Colloquium, December 10, 2020
-
Terasem: My interpretation
-
Fundamental physical reality could be a neural network: Vitaly Vanchurin
-
Time beyond time, out of time
-
Book review: How to Build a Time Machine, by T. E. Willis
-
When billiard balls go back in time
-
Pigs in cyberspace: Neuralink and the noosphere
-
The multiverse of Everett: Spaghetti worlds in quantum sauce
-
Yes, Mr. Robinson, we can go to the stars
-
A History of Generation Ships in Science-Fiction
-
What a wonderful world
-
Time is real, real numbers are not: Nicolas Gisin
-
Turing Church: Next steps
-
Book project: Astounding universe, amazing grace
-
More thoughts on consciousness and afterlife in the cosmic ocean
-
Ultra-advanced natural Gods: Stanley Kubrick
-
The birds on my dead tree
-
More thoughts on the enigma of top-down (downward) causation (2)
-
Book project: Yet another spaceflight manifesto
-
The philosophy of Italian futurism: Riccardo Campa
-
NEOHUMAN #77 :: Giulio Prisco: Tales of the Turing Church
-
No Prof. Deudney, the skies are brighter than your lockdown
-
Mathematics and physical reality
-
Gödel and physical reality
-
Homework: Go to the stars and experiment with black holes
-
Who is Enoch Root?
-
More thoughts on the enigma of top-down (downward) causation
-
Blessed by toasters and washing machines? Not quite yet
-
Time loops and real quantum possibles: Ruth Kastner
-
The Force awakens: Star Wars spirituality and theology
-
This is how I make quantum sense of it
-
Thanks to our 400 followers!
-
Computational irreducibility in Wolfram’s digital physics, and free will
-
Stephen Wolfram proposes new framework for fundamental physics
-
Einstein, Michael Jackson & Howard Bloom (& Me)
-
Cosmodeism and futurist theology: Tsvi Bisk
-
Thoughts on David Deutsch’s constructor theory
-
Artilects at the Planck scale: Hugo de Garis
-
Robert Forward on God and the soul
-
Sasha Sagan (Carl’s daughter) on life after death
-
Cosmism and the possibility of technological resurrection: David Wood
-
Space and religion are the likeliest pathways out of decadence: Ross Douthat
-
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes (2)
-
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020): Inspiring quotes
-
Muslim and Supermuslim: Toward Islamic transhumanism?
-
The space frontier and our divine cosmic destiny
-
Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Published!
-
The Expanse is great science fiction on the cosmic frontier
-
Tales of the Turing Church, second edition: Public draft
-
Join the Turing Church Discord server
-
India Awakens presents: New book on physics and ancient Indian traditions
-
Happy 2020, and welcome to the magic twenties
-
Merry Christmas and happy 2020!
-
A virtual Turing Church on the Moon in VR
-
Cultural enablers and narratives for sustainable human expansion into space
-
Beam Me (my mindclone) Up to L5! Terasem Colloquium
-
Bergson and Einstein are still debating the nature of time and change
-
Getting to L5 in Our Lifetimes: Join the Terasem Twitter Colloquium
-
What the Bleep, revisited
-
On quantum supremacy, AI, mind uploading, technological resurrection
-
New book chapter (draft): In the beginning was the field
-
Praise for It Keeps Me Seeking
-
Chi ha Paura della pseudoscienza (whatever that is)?
-
Turing Church in The World Religions & Spirituality Project
-
Can we have free will & divine action AND many worlds?
-
Scientifically plausible pictures of God
-
The Mind in the quantum vacuum: A picture of God
-
There’s probably God. Now be happier and do something good
-
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality (3)
-
Apollo 11, 50 years ago
-
The simulation hypothesis is interesting BS: Ben Goertzel
-
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality (2)
-
My Greatest Concern for Sophia v10.0
-
Meta-survival; what comes after the low-hanging fruit
-
The Mind: Consciousness and free will in the bedrock of reality
-
Thanks to our 300 followers!
-
Did Nature Create Human Beings to be the Earth’s Guardian Gods?
-
Can we Hack the Eurycosm in Favour of Human Flourishing?
-
A Stab in the Dark at Extrapolating Morphic Resonance
-
Having faith in science
-
The infrared memory of the universe hints at future Akashic physics
-
How Transhumanism Changed My Views on Teleology
-
I’ll speak at TransVision 2019, July 6–7 in London
-
An Open Letter to Ben Goertzel
-
Book review & interview: Transhumanism, by Roberto Manzocco
-
Why Non-Existence is Suffering, and Why We Shouldn’t Accept it as a Given
-
My MTA 2019 talk: How to bring Eduardo back to life
-
Fedorov and Svyatogor: Christian and secular aspects of Russian Cosmism
-
Q/A on Q.A
-
Your many minds and your Mind in the MIND
-
Hopeful sense of wonder, wonderful sense of hope
-
The radical, daring and vital optimism of Christian Transhumanism
-
Code Name Jesus: From impersonal Logos to your personal God
-
Christian transhumanism can streamline and boost Christianity
-
More thoughts on afterlives in other Everett worlds
-
Reading Tales of the Turing Church in the lights of Eastern science and spirituality
-
Blinded by bad rationality and forced atheism
-
Technological resurrection: The meaning and value of early speculations
-
Support Turing Church
-
Turing Church projects
-
Transcript of my talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, RMIC Kolkata
-
Rewrite, by Gregory Benford: Your afterlives in other Everett worlds
-
Immortality or Bust: On the road to the future with Zoltan Istvan
-
God the struggling Artist: The theology of Norman Mailer
-
Tales of the Turing Church: Reactions and Reviews
-
Tales of the Turing Church: First reactions
-
Merry Christmas and happy 2019!
-
My book ‘Tales of the Turing Church’ is published
-
The Turing oracle: Creative randomness from the beyond
-
Personal consciousness as a strange attractor in the mindscape
-
Maximum Jailbreak, and the legacy of Stephen Hawking
-
Tales of the Turing Church: Public draft
-
Why Turing Church is a space religion
-
Tales of the Turing Church: Book draft for early readers
-
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (3): Tabloid transhumanism
-
Olaf Stapledon and the possibility of technological resurrection
-
A Big Bang in a Little Room, by Zeeya Merali: Frontier physics and religion
-
Thanks to our 200 followers!
-
Prisoner of bad philosophy: Carl Sagan couldn’t allow himself to hope
-
The Secret, staring at you: Valentin Turchin
-
Physics needs a reality check: Review of ‘Lost in Math’ by Sabine Hossenfelder
-
Mormon Transhumanism is the real original Mormonism of Joseph Smith
-
Time travel through extra dimensions in the bulk
-
Journey to Eternity
-
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (2): Life and consciousness
-
Join the Turing Church Telegram group
-
Ether, quantum, chaos: Building blocks for transcendence
-
More thoughts on (non)deterministic chaos, divine action and free will
-
Riddled with gaps: How the Old One plays at dice
-
BBC Radio: The future of faith, with yours truly
-
Things I have (sort of) changed my mind on (1): The supernatural
-
Cryonics for uploaders: Carboncopies workshop, April 29
-
God and your cosmic consciousness in the quantum cloud
-
Cryonics for uploaders discussion: Video
-
Cryonics for uploaders: WTF is consciousness?
-
Deep neural networks in the quantum vacuum
-
Cryonics for uploaders: Meeting in Second Life, Sunday March 25
-
Cryonics for uploaders: The Brain Preservation Prize has been won
-
VIDEO: My talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, Kolkata, February 10, 2018
-
Under the spell of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda
-
My talk on Physics and the Indian Spiritual Tradition, Kolkata, February 10, 2018
-
East Meets West
-
London Futurists: video conference on technological resurrection
-
Turing Church Updates
-
Temporal Resurrection
-
More thoughts on time, causation, reality, mind, and Mind
-
Merry Christmas and happy 2018!
-
The physics of infinite bottlecaps
-
Make yourself a Christmas present: Join the Mormon Transhumanist Association
-
Down in the fractal depths of quantum matter and space-time
-
The elephant in the Christian Transhumanist room
-
Philosophy of Immortality: Ninavism, by Juliusz M. Kowalski
-
Terasem Colloquium in Second Life, December 10, 2017
-
Space-Time, Matter, Mind, God: Samuel Alexander’s natural theology
-
Set in stone: Free will vs. superdeterminism
-
Thanks to our 100 followers!
-
Eligo, ergo sum: The quest for the physics of free will
-
Transhumanist Reincarnation and Nirvana
-
Congratulations to LIGO and the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates
-
Mad scientists wanted for research on Irrational Mechanics
-
Simulation physics and theology for Qubitzers
-
I Cosmisti Russi: Il futurismo esoterico di Nikolaj Fedorov e dei suoi seguaci, finalmente in…
-
Book review: Technological Resurrection, by Jonathan Jones
-
Concepts of God and the Kingdom inspired by highly imaginative science
-
Building Gods
-
Let’s start walking the sacred walk to the stars
-
Memories of the Universe
-
VIDEO: Terasem’s 12th Annual Workshop On Geoethical Nanotechnology, Second Life, July 20, 2017
-
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: David Orban
-
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: David Brin
-
Terasem workshop in Second Life, July 20: Yalda Mousavinia
-
Terasem’s 12th Annual Workshop On Geoethical Nanotechnology, July 20, Second Life
-
Immortality, Resurrection, Mind-Uploading, try ‘Tyaga’ and Selfless Love
-
Thoughts on the possibility of Islamic Transhumanism
-
Extropians 1997: Max More and Nick Bostrom on transhumanism and religion
-
Vacancy notice: Cosmic engineers in God’s control room
-
OMG, I guess perhaps I might be… a dry Mormon?
-
From Elon Musk to Joseph Smith: a material simulation hypothesis
-
All those Everett worlds
-
A correction to the ‘Dry Mormon’ story
-
Racing Worlds: A visual model for downward causation in physics
-
Holy Ghost in the Cloud: Christian transhumanism and simulation theology
-
Scientific concepts of afterlife sketched in ‘The Discovery’
-
The faint, almost silent voice of the heart