It will not be “you” who chooses the next lifetime but your spirit; its location is not likely to be their top priority.
While your human consciousness will remain intact after your death, it will gradually merge with the permanent consciousness of your spirit, a process that will be complete by the conclusion of the life review.
Depending on your affinity with your spirit and the significance of your lifetime, “you” might remain near the surface of their identity for some time, ...
Professor Connie Levina Yuen of Athabasca University, Canada asks her pupils to reflect on how AI is used. Where is the line between assistance, or at a higher level, where is it an opportunity? How do we balance innovation with responsibility?
Curiosity, critical thinking, and developing an interest in ‘Listening rather than in Broadcasting’ are approaches in thinking that are close cousins of Reflection.
ATTITUDES OF MIND and FEELING
THAT CAN BE ENHANCED BY OCCIDENTAL MEDITATION
TRAITS, ACTUATING PRINCIPLES, PERSPECTIVES AND ATTITUDES
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The check list below ticks a few boxes about slight changes of thinking that with effort and placing emphasis on the advantages of reflection we may induce in ourselves, and which can be of value in any number of situations.
Many truths are not in their nature complex, and common sense can pierce through reams of recondite research. The intelligent ...
She was four years old when she told her parents: "I died giving birth. I left three children and a husband in Mathura. I want to go home." They thought she was confused. Then the husband showed up at their door.
This is the story that made India question everything they knew about life and death.
Delhi, 1930. A four-year-old girl named Shanti Devi refused to eat the food her mother prepared.
"That's not how you make it," she said, frustrated. "You need more cumin. And you have to ...
THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL STAGE
Questions below are simply a few suggested subjects for debate
Truth is buoyant – it will surface at some point and become obvious to all.
Chinese proverb
For Aristotle, there was a wisdom that brought people closer to divine rationality, ‘sophia’. This wisdom was for thinking about questions such as the nature of the divine, ethics or the function of the state.
William Bates
I think the subject which will be of most importance ...
Roy Maunder thinks there is no fundamental difference between Eastern and Western Philosophy
This link is to a paper on the modification of DNA through remote Intention. It concludes that it is possible to interact at distance on the nucleus of cells – all the billions of cells in our bodies have DNA – whose activity depends on DNA.
This link ( https://www.aipro.info/drive/File/224.pdf ) is to to the ‘Modulation of DNA Confirmation by Heart-Focused Intention.’ This paper shows that there is an increase in heart coherence when people are instructed to generate feelings of love ...
I’m an ordinary bloke. So why do I think there might just be something in the ‘unseen world’ that might be ‘t/here’.
When I was five years old, I told my Nanny that we did not know how long my parents would keep us at home so we might as well make preparations to leave. It wasn’t just a stray remark. It was a profound belief that persisted up till my twenties. As a teenager my wealthy parents visited me at boarding school and, without any antecedent conversation about the subject, made me ...
Dennis Bardens was the least likely ghost chaser. He was a man with his wits about him, plugged right into the unforgiving present. He knew human nature in all its foibles. He had been a spy behind enemy lines during WW2; perhaps his ingrained suspicion of how people could behave went into the notice he hung on his front door in Horbury Mews, Kensington: ‘OUT TO LUNCH….BACK IN FIVE YEARS…PLEASE WAIT!’ His was a ready wit. He was a distinguished journalist and broadcaster – the initiator of ...
Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist whose book Your Brain is Boss draws on scientific research to show how sensible ways of living our lives can be based on, and are explained by, our biological makeup. It is a self-help manual shot through with erudition, fascinating facts and wisdom. Dr Shaw challenges many taboos, often with pithy aphorism; she for instance debunks those who would scoff at the Unseen World by pointing out: ‘The absence of evidence is not evidence of ...
One of the conundrums that nowadays particularly intrigues the reflecting world in that of consciousness. We all have it but what is it and what if anything is particular to the human race in possessing it? Is it likely that we alone have the key to understanding what is going on - - or perhaps the key is illusory?
