Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
The Virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation
Science
The furthest reaches of the mysteries surrounding some of the deep questions of life may be beyond our ken to answer at present but science is peeling back some of the outlying shrouds.
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
In the 1970s a popular card that was often perched on office manager’s desks read: ‘LOOK ALIVE! YOU CAN BE REPLACED BY A MACHINE!’ It may have been ahead of its time.
Our bodies impinge on our minds, but how? Does the mental realm dominate our physical world or vice versa, and how?
MEDICINE
Lourdes
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a ...
Who in the West sits up at the name of Ms Youyou Tu?
Malaria is a killer epidemic with records in ...
Non-duality and the implications for Fee-Will and the passage of time.
Non-duality, frequently rendered from the ...
It is a strongly held view of many people that there is no such thing as an Afterlife: all we have is here in earth and when we die, it is curtains on any existence we can have. To someone postulating this, and it is usually with confidence, the question can be put: ‘How do you know?’ It is unlikely to elicit from the sceptically minded anything resembling a proof.
Astral Travel is thought by many to be in the realm of the Mystical if not the downright fanciful. That is not ...
Morphic Resonance arguably forms part for some people of a new orthodoxy in their faith. Ideas and character are transmitted via vibrations and pictures in a way may be largely independent of genetics.
Dr Lynda Shaw is a cognitive neuroscientist whose book Your Brain is Boss draws on scientific research to show how ...
The furthest reaches of the mysteries surrounding some of the deep questions of life may be beyond our ken to answer at present but science is peeling back some of the outlying shrouds.
The ‘magic’ of the world may lose its magic as we understand more about it but it can be magical if imaginatively portrayed.
SCIENCE BASED THEORIES THAT SHOULD HAVE IMPACT ON OUR BELIEFS
This link is to a paper on ...
What possible deductions in philosophical or spiritual terms can be made from recent scientific findings about ‘Supersolids’ and ‘Entanglement’?
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