"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.""Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
-C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis is known these days for his children's stories, The Chronicles of Narnia. People seem to have forgotten that he was one of the greatest Christian Apologists of the modern era. He taught at Oxford University and, for many years, had a radio show on the B.B.C. that was very popular. Most of the episodes are now collected in small books that can be hard to find although some, like his famous Mere Christianity, are still in print and selling very well.
Mr. Lewis had a huge impact on me as a young man. I own many of his books and always wished that I could hear some of those old radio shows. One day I sat down to search for them and found out that only one episode had survived. In fact, there are only two recordings of his voice that I could find.
So, in tribute to the only other philosopher besides Srila Prabhupada whose books I have collected, here is the only surviving episode of Beyond Personality. It originally aired on March 21, 1944. The talks in this series were collected in a small book by the same name and published in 1945.
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