The Virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation

Mysticism

So much to say about mysticism, so many lifetimes needed to understand all about it! All the institute can offer is a snifter; some paths that may suggest themselves as worthy of your tracking along them.

At the heart of it

“It is the mark of a civilised person in a situation that is not too fraught that he or she will make time and space to reflect. The more one does it, the better one gets and if it is a habit one’s whole way of life can be transformed.”

Justin Glass, Founder

Consciousness

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?
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See Also

  • Chopra Foundation, The (opens in a new tab)

    Robert Thurman shows that many Buddhist concepts go hand in hand with understandings from physics, biology, and psychology. No theory about reality is ‘ultimate’. Quantum theory demonstrates that matter is not primary. We are in a non-dual world. One cannot say that ‘reality’ fundamentally is either consciousness or matter. This has a bearing on beliefs about an immortal self.