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The mission of the Magis Center is to create content that helps people find higher purpose in life, an awareness of their transcendent dignity, a sense of the transcendent providential power who guides them, and a determination to live ethically responsible lives. To that end, the Magis Center produces and distributes media that provides contemporary commentary on timeless topics.

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The Stages of Christian Mysticism: A Summary (Spitzer Scholarly Article)

The three major stages of mystical life are described in detail by ancient monastic authors as well as contemporary mystics and scholars of mystical life.
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Newman and the Divine Origin of Conscience - Part 1 (III.B God’s Presence to Our Consciousness)

Newman argues that there is a God, because there is a moral obligation. When he analyses his conscience, he finds it involves the idea of a Father and a Judge.
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NASA Briefs on Discovery of Seven Planets Orbiting Red Dwarf

Yesterday, NASA held a news briefing on the discovery of seven new planets, at least three of which are in the habitable zone.
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The Transcendentals – Part I (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: Introduction to #4-8)

We all have a remarkably similar experience of the sacred and good power, as well as a remarkably similar experience of the evil powers who are against it.
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The Transcendentals – Part II (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: Introduction to #4-8)

As St. Augustine noted in his Confessions – God has created us for perfect truth, love, goodness, beauty, and home, and only He can fulfill these desires within us.
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The Awareness of the Sacred in the World (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: #2)

The second of eight indications that mankind has an interior sense of God, is a certain awareness of sacredness in the world.
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The Numinous Experience (Indication of the Interior Sense of God: #1)

The Numinous Experience is the first of eight indications of the interior sense that each and every human being has of God. What is the Numinous Experience?
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The Human Desire for God (Indication of the Interior Sense of God)

Around the world there is a consistent awareness of and belief in a deity which stands at the foundation of the world’s religions.
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Science and the Shroud of Turin [Spitzer Scholarly Article]

The Shroud of Turin is a burial shroud that apparently covered a man who suffered the wounds of crucifixion in a way very similar to Jesus of Nazareth.
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God and Modern Physics—A 12-Part Series

Fr. Spitzer begins his series of videos with this fundamental question: "What Can Science Teach us about Creation and Design?"
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From Nothing To Cosmos [Study Guide]

This document contains an extensive overview of the evidence from contemporary science for the existence of God.
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The Remarkable Evidence of a Transcendent Soul

In this video presentation, Father Spitzer takes us through the growing body of evidence for the reality of a transphysical human soul.
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