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Non-Fiction Books: back to top
Vadiraja's Refutation of Sankara's Non-Dualism: Clearing the Way for Theism (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass).
Faith of a Skeptic. Being marketed.
Fiction: back to top
The Rich Man (novel) (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984).
Sing Like the Whippoorwill (allegorical fable, with illustrations by Sylvia Zimmerman) (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987).
Sunlit Waters (allegorical fable, with illustrations by William Baker) (Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1990).
Thomas (novel) (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1998).
"The Philosopher's Death" (short story), Philosophy Now, Issue 60 (March/April 2007), pp. 50-54.
The Imprisoned Splendor (novel). Being marketed.
Better Than Cool (novel). Being marketed.
Selected Scholarly Articles: back to top
"Nagarjuna's Masterpiece: Mystical, Logical, Both, or Neither?" Philosophy East and West, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 1983), pp. 123-138.
"The Impact of Psychical Research on Ultimate Questions," The Journal of Ultimate Reality and Meaning, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 1984), pp. 21-33.
"An Analysis of Non-Symbolic Experience: The Mystic in Everyman," Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1984-85), pp.193-217.
"The Kern City Poltergeist: A Case Severely Straining the Living Agent Hypothesis," Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 52, No. 798 (October 1984), pp. 345-364.
"God and Modern Science: New Life for the Teleological Argument," International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 29 (December 1987), pp. 409-435.
"The Glitch in John Hick's Interpretation of Religion," Problems in the Philosophy of Religion: Critical Studies of the Work of John Hick, ed. Harold Hewitt, Jr. (New York: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 98-103.
"The Great Chain of Being in the Lives of the Faithful: The Status of Purgatory Today," Fragments of Infinity: Essays in Religion and Philosophy: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Huston Smith, ed. Arvind Sharma (Dorset, England: Prism Press, 1991), pp. 21-30.
"Making Sense of Animal Pain: An Environmental Theodicy," Faith and Philosophy, Vol 9, No. 1 (January 1992), pp. 65-82.
"Sankara's Fatal Mistake," Asian Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1994), pp. 3-7.
"The Anthropic Teleological Argument," Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, eds. Michael Peterson et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 198-210. Also included in Second (2001) and Third (2007) Editions.
"A Death-Blow to Sankara's Non-Dualism?" Reprinted in Indian Philosophy: A Collection of Readings, 5 volumes, ed. Roy W. Perrett (Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000).
"Going Beyond James: A Pragmatic Argument for God’s Existence," International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2001), pp. 69-84.
“Jung’s Synchronistic Interpretation of the Near-Death Experience: An Unnecessary Mystification,” Journal of Near-Death Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Summer 2004), pp. 261-268.
"Mind, Paranormal Experience, and the Inadequacy of
Materialism," International
Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (September 2004), pp.
373-392.
"The Mounting Evidence for ‘Demonic Possession’:
What Should Psychiatry’s Response Be?" Journal
of Religion and Health, Vol. 44 (Spring 2005)
"Professor Teaches
Religion With Enlightened Approach."
Interview of Stafford Betty by Michael Tymn.
The Searchlight, Vol. 15, No. 2 (June 2006), pp. 1-2, 8-9.
"Offering Pakistan a helping hand: A global disaster fund can refurbish the U.S. image," National Catholic Reporter, Viewpoint, January 13, 2006.
"Are
They Hallucinations or Are They Real?
The Spirituality of Deathbed and Near-Death Visions."
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, Vol. 53, Nos. 1-2
(2006), pp. 37-49.
"Life after death is not a red herring." America, Vol. 195, No. 6 (September 11, 2006), pp. 25-26.
"The Near Death Experience as Evidence for Life after Death: A Dialogue." Philosophy Now, Issue 59 (January/February 2007), pp. 22-25.
"How to Expose Fourth and Fifth Graders to Religion and Spirituality in a Public School Classroom." International Journal of Children’s Spirituality, Vol. 12, No. 3 (December 2007), pp. 325-330. Co-authored with Southey Lewy.
"'Spirit release” is a different kind of therapy," National Catholic Reporter, Viewpoint, December 28, 2007, p. 20.
"Accounts of Afterlife from the Dead: How Useful Are They for the Dying?" The Journal of Spirituality and Paranormal Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 6-13.
"Letter to a Reluctant Atheist." America, Vol. 198, No. 12 (April 14, 2008), pp. 17-18.
"Eckhart Tolle’s message is positive. But is it Christian?" National Catholic Reporter, Feature, April 28, 2008, pp. 22-23.
"What Buddhists and Christians Are Teaching Each Other about God." CrossCurrents. Vol. 58, No. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 108-116.
"A Kinder, Gentler Purgatory." National Catholic Reporter, June 27, 2008, pp. 17,24.
"Why an Investigation of Paranormal Experience Should Be an Essential Component of a Course on Death." Scheduled for Teaching Death and Dying (Oxford U. Press), ed. Christopher Moreman.
"Ultimate Justice: An Empirical Study of Karma and Rebirth -- and a Reflection." Under review.
"A New Way to Reason to God: The Argument from Extrapolation." Under review.