James Austin

James Austin is Professor Emeritus of Neurology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is the author of Chase, Chance, and Creativity and the author or coauthor of more than 130 publications in the fields of neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, and clinical neurology.

IdeasMagazine | On Translation

The Semantics of Samadhi

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. —Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is that light comes into the soul? —Henry…

By James Austin

Summer 1998

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