Science meets Spirituality in Consciousness
I’m finally getting around to reading Rupert Sheldrake’s 1999 book, “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home” and I’m pleased to find that it’s well worth the time invested. As simply a collection of anecedotal tales of animals that were glad to see their owners, the book wouldn’t be worth much, except perhaps [...]
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“We create our own reality, but there is a subtlety. We do not create reality in our ordinary state of consciousness, but in a non-ordinary state of consciousness.” – Amit Goswami, PhD I’ve written in several posts that science has been proposing that consciousness is the real basis of reality, not matter. By science I [...]
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I’ve been reading a book from the Institute of Noetic Sciences – IONS – titled “Living Deeply.” It’s a study of the process of transformation in people’s lives, the kind of transformation that is life changing because it changes our consciousness, or our world view. The authors define consciousness as how we perceive the world, [...]
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It’s not often that human society goes through a radical change in world view. In fact, that last time it happened was about 400 years ago. Then, as now, most people were completely oblivious to the transformation while it was happening but within just a few generations people were looking at the world quite differently. [...]
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In science, for the last 200 years the dominant belief underlying the description of the universe has been materialism – the belief that the universe’s basic structure is matter and everything that exists has developed from matter blindly following natural laws of evolution. This includes human consciousness and our inner sense of self, which are [...]
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