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October 14, 2025
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Podcast: Evidence For the Existence of the Human Soul

Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary argue that there is abundant scientific data demonstrating the immaterial existence of the human person and that this reality continues after we die
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October 14, 2025
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Philosophy of Mind
The human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local. Read More ›
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August 24, 2025
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Why Don’t Near-Death Experiences Support One Belief System?

On the Truthful Hope podcast, Jacob Vazquez and Denyse O'Leary discuss the way people of different faiths see what they themselves recognize
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August 24, 2025
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Near-Death Experiences, Philosophy of Mind, Religion
The mind that is having a near-death experience is separated from the body, relying on its own concepts. It is not necessarily a channel of divine truth. Read More ›
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August 17, 2025
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Why Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now

Medical science can attest that a patient was actually dead, by clinical standards, during the time when an NDE is reported
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August 17, 2025
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Near-Death Experiences
One consequence is that near-death experiences are now treated as a phenomenon worthy of study, rather than a folk or occult belief. Read More ›
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Two Scientists in the Brain Research Laboratory work on a Project, Using Personal Computer with MRI Scans Show Brain Anomalies. Neuroscientists at Work.
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July 29, 2025
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Can Faith and Neuroscience Align? Yes, Says Science Writer

If both faith and neuroscience are honestly seeking the truth, says Denyse O’Leary, they will find much that is mutually supportive
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July 29, 2025
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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
That is the key message behind the new book, The Immortal Mind (2025), of which she is neurosurgeon Michael Egnor’s co-author. Read More ›
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May 31, 2025
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Michael Egnor: Science Offers Evidence of an Immaterial Mind

At the Knight and Rose show, he and co-author Denyse O’Leary talk about how split-brain surgeries, veridical near-death experiences, and terminal lucidity challenge materialist views of the mind.
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May 31, 2025
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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
In their book, The Immortal Mind, Egnor and O'Leary argue that an immaterial, immortal soul best explains human consciousness, free will, and abstract thought. Read More ›