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Reflections Volume XI

Table of Contents

  • Genesis of the Individual: The True Original Sin?
    *First Place Winner of the Prestigious Bassen Prize, 2011*
    Thomas Rule
  • The Near Death Experience
    *Second Place Winner of the Prestigious Bassen Prize, 2011*
    Erik Edgren
  • Desire Is as Desire Does: A Path of Suffering or a Path Towards Enlightenment
    Janelle Renée
  • To Build a Cathedral
    Lauren Lola
  • Radiohead’s Kid A and the Mystic Experience
    Brent Schrodetzki
  • Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for Western Medicine
    Rebecca Kim
  • We Should Believe in Tyler Durden: A Reflection on Consumerism
    Jeremy Dutra
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