Talks

This category provides video and audio recordings of Dr. Ron Miller giving talks and seminars, as well as some casual insight, meditations and discussion.

The New Atheists

Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America in 2009 on The New Athiests. Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are two representatives of a new wave of atheism in the post-9/11 world. Troubled by the fanaticism threatening our world, from both some Muslims in the Middle East and some Christians in …

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North Shore Unitarian Church

A Conversation of Civilizations

This talk by Dr. Ron Miller was recorded at the North Shore Unitarian Church in Deerfield, Illinois. Ron discusses how it’s not so much the circumstances that determine our experience of the world, but the attitude we take toward the circumstances. Ron then wraps this concept around Islam in today’s world. The center of this …

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Sex and Spirituality

Dr. Ron Miller speaks at the Theosophical Society in America in 2008 on Sex and Spirituality. Two models of spiritual growth were in competition in the early Christian centuries. The first Ron calls “blessed participation” and it comes from the biblical tradition as understood in Judaism. The second he dubs “holy abstinence” and comes from …

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