Am I A Materialist?
Channel: Rev Jonathan Barlow Gee
Date: 2023-06-30

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Do you define yourself as a materialist?

Not necessarily. When I wrote the MPDR in 2002, I was comparing ancient concepts about the soul and cosmology to modern scientific theories about the same. That work is undeniably “metaphysics” as a branch of philosophy, and traditionally - including modernly - “metaphysics” has been scorned by “materialists” as being too “philosophical” or even outright “theosophical” (even though metaphysics preceded theosophy by thousands of years). Aside from the topics that interest me being anathema to modern “materialism” I have no qualms with “materialist science.” Then again, I do not distinguish the “paranormal” as a separate typeset of phenomenology.