What is Consciousness? – part 1 of 3
I’ve been invited to contribute to the on-line magazine Science to Sage. It’s a graphically rich magazine that shares the works of a number current thinkers and artists. Each issue is themed and the March …
Domain
A little housekeeping. Since I launched this blog in 2007, I’ve had a general plan to migrate it to a self-hosted rather than free blog when stats reached a certain level. That was delayed some …
The Real News
If you read a typical newspaper or watch TV News, you’ll hear a litany of drama. What’s wrong and who’s to blame. So much of it is not even news at all but projection – …
Bad Habits?
One of the more ironic expectations of enlightenment is something like “enlightenment will fix it” or “enlightenment will fix me.” Now, loosing identification with the ego in awakening can be a big change. But in …
A Little History
I began this blog in ’07 at a time when I was active professionally on-line in web technology. My spiritual journey was also in a new and rapidly unfolding place. As such I chose to …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Unity and Brahman
There’s another key way of differentiating between Unity and Brahman. In Cosmic Consciousness or Self Realization, we recognize ourselves as the Seer or Observer. In Unity, we recognize the same Seer in the objects of …
Expectations and Experience
Expectations can have a strong effect on our experience of life. If we have heavier feelings about life, we’ll tend to have lower or darker expectations. Because what we put our attention on grows stronger, …
Best of the Season!
As the new year rises from the long night of the past, I thought I’d share this story, in case you hadn’t heard it on this side of the ocean. A Love Story @ TED …
Culturing the Feelings
In another forum, I made the following comment as some of the “enlightenment fundamentalists” were categorically discounting energy work. I think it worth noting an observation. In India, they have historically had a profound devotional …
Components of Consciousness
If we understand that all experiences are derived from consciousness and arise in consciousness, we have a deep sense of the nature of the world. From that, you may view all as consciousness. This perspective …
Testing if we Live in a Computer Simulation
British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper in 2003 that suggests the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. (future offspring) Using logic, he determined that if …