Closer To Truth

Is the world we experience truly real, or is it more like a dream we haven't yet woken up from? Michael James, a leading scholar and translator of the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, explores how Ra...

8 Apr 34min

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. I like arguments about God, whether based on science, philosophy or person...

1 Apr 27min

Support the show with a tax-deductible donation of any amount so we can continue exploring the world's biggest questions without the need for paywalls.   Can physical facts about the brain account for...

25 Mar 27min

Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls.   We like pushing boundaries, trying to discern existence, searching the...

18 Mar 27min

Contribute what you can to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls. Explore diverse theories of consciousness, like materialism, dualism, pa...

11 Mar 26min

Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywall   What kinds of afterlives do the world’s religions offer? Soul/spirit in he...

8 Mar 26min

Life after death is a haunting and deeply personal longing. Can we explore life after death in relation to theories of consciousness, ranging from strict materialism to imaginative philosophy to ancie...

25 Feb 27min

Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped. Our capacity, as conscious subjects, to make things explicit, so that what-is presents itself as “that-it-is” or “that-...

18 Feb 25min