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Dying quickly if not dead


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stephenw, 2024-12-02, 03:00 PM

Here is an account of where the battle stands.  It is not a religious debate but a science one.  Whittmann is an active researcher and writes well.  I was encouraged to see Kastrup's take listed as one of the prominent competing theories.   But, it is surely over as to Physicalism's impact on scienc

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Dvaita (Dualist) Vedanta


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Sci, 2024-12-01, 11:21 PM



Quote:In this last part in the trilogy about Vedanta, we explore the life and teachings of Madhvacharya - the founder of the school of Dvaita (dualistic) Vedanta.

The previous parts are as f

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Healing past-life grief, pain and loss


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Valmar, 2024-12-01, 12:50 AM

What is love? What is grief? To take a powerful quote from the game God of War: Ragnarok:

Quote:"The culmination of love is grief, and yet we love despite the inevitable, we open our hearts to it....To grieve deeply is to have loved fully."

When it came to the idea of feeling love.

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The surprising reality hidden beneath language and thought


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Sci, 2024-11-30, 05:14 PM

The surprising reality hidden beneath language and thought

Steven Pashko, PhD 

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In our quest for meaning and self-understanding, language remains a valuable tool, but we mu

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An ecology of spirits


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Valmar, 2024-11-24, 08:24 PM

Well, profound set of experiences will eventually lead to an expansion of mental horizons that lead to new concepts... including a large set of thoughts that demand writing down as the mental possibilities begin to writhe out of control, begging for release in some format, hahaha...

The happy rambl

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The curious nature of spirits


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Valmar, 2024-11-23, 06:31 AM

My experiences with my loong spirit has given me quite some perspective...

From what I've gathered so far, spirits tend to undergo evolutions of astral(?) incarnations... perhaps in a similar sense to how souls have been noted by some to go through evolutions of incarnate form ~ so many lifetimes a

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The lost music with which the world worlds


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Sci, 2024-11-22, 05:33 PM

The lost music with which the world worlds

Arthur Haswell, BA
 
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...Of course, we listen to music more than ever. But the way we attend to music is entirely cordoned off, reserved solely fo

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Iain McGilchrist & DC Schindler: Is Love the Source and Sustenance of Everything...


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Sci, 2024-11-20, 05:12 PM



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Iain McGilchrist and David Schindler respond to a question about a passage from CS Lewis's book, The Discarded Image, then delved into a discussion of the passage and its implications for understanding the nature of God a

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The Influences & Influence of Robert Anton Wilson with Richard Metzger


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Sci, 2024-11-19, 07:46 PM

What Magic is This? : The Influences & Influence of Robert Anton Wilson with Richard Metzger

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It has been quite some time since What Magic is This? has had the chance to ta

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All matter is a cognitive ‘hallucination,’ even the brain itself


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Sci, 2024-11-19, 05:45 AM

All matter is a cognitive ‘hallucination,’ even the brain itself

Aditya Prasad

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Neuroscience has conceded that the same cognitive structures that generate dreams also ge

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