Medical gas research often involves the study of molecules under extraphysiologic conditions, that is, conditions that do not exist in nature. This "supernatural" nature of medical gas research sometimes produces results that appear to be almost "magic" to those schooled in traditional physiology"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".-Arthur C. Clarke.

It has been reported that Asian people have negative views of mental illness, including beliefs that it is incurable and shameful. Asian people also tend to attribute causes of mental disorders to factors less susceptible to personal influence such as supernatural factors, and are likely to have an external health locus of control which reflects beliefs that health outcomes are a product of ext...

COVID-19 arguably had far-reaching implications for Christianity and the church as an institution. Issues around social distancing lockdown directly impacted articulation religious expression, while understanding of pandemic virus were mediated through constructions religio-spiritual beliefs. Given this, study sought to explore some neo-Pentecostal leaders’ messages in South Africa regarding no...

The author condemns the “hegemony” of scientifi c materialism, comparing it to the dominance of scholasticism during the Middle Ages. He points out that if we are to regard religious entities and spiritual experiences as “supernatural” and imaginary on the grounds that they cannot be measured and described objectively, then we must regard all our experience of the world as equally supernatural ...