Coming Soon…
In a couple of weeks, I’m having a conversation with Gareth and Eva on the Endless Possibilities podcast. I’ll post the conversation when it’s available. In the meantime, you might enjoy their recent conversation with …
Category: Science
Awe
In the past, I’ve spoken of the value of culturing gratitude. In my case, this shifted my emotional tone, allowing deeper letting go and acceptance, helping set the stage for awakening. This isn’t about making …
Pursuing Virtue
We define a virtue as a moral excellence or goodness. We express our virtues as character strengths we can offer the world. “The number of potential character strengths profiles is exponentially greater than the number …
The Biology of Not Enough
In a recent article, Kavitha Chinnaiyan made some interesting observations around early childhood development. She noted that our mental narrative-making has biological roots. That every childhood has trauma simply because our caregivers couldn’t be there …
The Aura
The aura is a term often used to describe the energy field surrounding the physical body. It’s coloured according to the activity of the chakras, dominant thoughts in the mind, emotions, and physical sensations. However, …
The 4 Characters
Most of you will be familiar with some basics of our brain physiology. Our brain is hemispheric: it has 2 distinct halves that are biologically similar but behave somewhat differently. We sometimes describe them as …
Modes of Transportation
Forms of transportation develop a lot through the ages. You have basic transportation like walking, carts, and horseback riding. Then we have wind powered devices like windmills and sail boats. Then there are machines using …
Vimanas
[I originally wrote this article in the summer of 2020 but it got lost in my annoyance with the translation. Trimmed.] Vimanas are ancient flying machines. I’ve recently read a translation of the Vymaanika Shastra …
Levels of Nothing
I’ve discussed the difference between emptiness, a quality of space within consciousness, and nothingness, in nirguna (quality-less) Brahman. Recently, I ran into a clip discussing nine “Levels of Nothing” by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. It was …
The Vastness
Science does not yet know the size of our universe. The new James Webb telescope has found galaxies older than the current Big Bang model for the age of our universe. Science is limited by …
Sentience
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been developing more rapidly than most people realize. There are already AI chatbots like Replika that you can hold conversations with. However, these are of the programmed response variety. They’re surprisingly …
On Time and Gravity
I’ve spoken before about time. Physics models time as a fourth dimension of spacetime. I agree time has some properties similar to space but also some that are quite distinct. For example, time flows whereas …