Death: The End of Self-Improvement

By Joan Tollifson

This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening.

What If There Were No Future?

By Peter Russell

Some Overlooked Consequences of Accelerating Change

The Path of Unbecoming

By Maya Luna

It's okay not to have New Year's resolutions

A Fifth Force of Nature

By Mike McKrae

Physicists See Hints of X17, an Elusive Particle That Could Be a New Force of Nature

Why Materialism is a Dead-End

By Bernardo Kastrup

How misunderstanding matter has led us astray

What is Truth?

By Éric Baret

Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.

The Real Scandal of the Birth of God

By Kaitlyn Hardy Shetler

Sometimes I wonder if Mary breastfed Jesus. if she cried out when he bit her

In Honor of Ram Dass
1931–2019

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am.

Physics is Pointing Inexorably to Mind

By Bernardo Kastrup

So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications

Quantum physics study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist

By Alessandro Fedrizzi and Massimiliano Proietti

Observers are powerful players in the quantum world.

Earth as Goddess

By Thanissara

A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa

Quarks: Basic Building Block or Quantum Illusion?

By Shawn Radcliffe

A new model suggests that these subatomic particles may not be so fundamental after all.

The Four Essential Points of Letting Go in the Bardo

By Pema Khandro Rinpoche

It’s when we lose the illusion of control—when we’re most vulnerable and exposed—that we can discover the creative potential of our lives.

Rumi Was Once a Twelve-Year-Old Refugee

By Pouria Montazeri

Little do Rumi Western admirers know, he was once a twelve-year-old refugee when his family emigrated from Balkh (modern day Afghanistan).

Are the Past and Future Real? The Physics and Philosophy of Time

By Elizabeth Fernandez

What is happening right now? Is your “now” the same as my “now”?

We are in the Death Phase Now: Do Not Run Away

By Jessica Hesser

Fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling, much is being undone.

The World is our Field of Practice

By On Being

Krista Tippett and Rev. angel Kyodo williams touch upon some of the richest themes of the zeitgeist

The Cosmic Web

By Becky Ferreira

Galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models.

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself

Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

By Natalie Wolchover

Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

A Humbling Path

By Jeff Foster

You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.

Hope is an Escape

By Eric Baret

Hunter of Phoenix, no one can be. So take back your trap, for here, wind is all you’ll ever catch.

The Kiss we have Always Wanted

By Ajaya Sommers

The revelation of Being Here while residing in a human body is infinite.

Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World

By Philip Ball

Recent experiments have put relatively large objects into quantum states, illuminating the processes by which the ordinary world emerges out of the quantum one.

To Walk in Beauty

By Keith Salmon

Living in harmony with the rhythms and interrelationships of the Natural World is essential

An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature

By Emerging Technology from the arXiv

Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology.

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch

By Philip Ball

The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles.

The Goddess of Never Not Broken

By Julie JC Peters

You know that feeling when you have just gone through a breakup, or lost your job, and everything is terrible and terrifying and you don’t know what to do...

After SAND

Can we love when we grieve? Can we love when we are in pain? Can we love when our home is burning? 

In the Presence of the One, We Are All Yellow-Faced

By Pouria Montazeri

Ever since the tender age, I’ve had this passionate love affair with the aspen trees

Politics, Activism and Awakening

By Joan Tollifson

Politics is usually a hot-button subject, one that can trigger bitter arguments, end marriages,

The Impossible Predicament of Being Alive

By Robyn Lynn

The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.

Quantum Trajectory Theory

By Philip Ball

A recent test has confirmed the predictions of quantum trajectory theory, which describes what happens during the long-mysterious “collapse” of a quantum system.

David Bohm, Implicate Order and Holomovement

By David Storoy

David Bohm was one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, and a fearless challenger of scientific orthodoxy.

The Mother Mantra, the Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality

By Selene Calloni Williams

Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening

A Net of Gems

By Keith Salmon

We are born with a yearning to find our place

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

What are intermediate-mass black holes?

By Jake Parks

We've detected puny, stellar-mass black holes. And we've detected giant, supermassive black holes. But what about those in the middle?

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

Embracing the Flame of Longing

By Mirabai Starr

The Tragedy of Science and a Way Out

By David Paul Gontar

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

Intimate Relationship as a Spiritual Crucible

By John Welwood

Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…

The Geography Of Sorrow

By Francis Weller

On Navigating Our Losses: Interview by Tim McKee

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part III

By Bayo Akomolafe

The way isn’t forward, it’s awkward

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett

Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.

We Can Still Be Crazy

By Pema Chödrön

We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.

Alone to All One

By Philip Marvin

The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part II

By Bayo Akomolafe

How we see the problem is part of the problem

Parā

By Christian de Vietri

I praise the Supreme Goddess Parā, the Illuminative Insight Intelligence Force of Consciousness

Tandava the Cosmic Dance

By Daniel Odier

Tandava means totality. It means the path is absolutely non-dual, because we integrate everything and we don't refuse any aspect of the human being

How Science and Nonduality Helped My Recovery from Brain Injury

By Tom Bunzel

What Climate Collapse Asks of Us - Part I

By Bayo Akomolafe

In this (very, very) long essay, Bayo Akomolafe investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

Consciousness in the Many-Worlds Interpretation

By Philip Ball

The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of quantum mechanics.

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

On the Mystery of Being

Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Can Neuroscience Understand Free Will?

By Brian Gallagher

“Of course we do. We have no choice.”

Bypassing Spiritual Bypass: Re-Association as a Spiritual Practice

By Brent Morton

The purpose of therapy is to help the client acknowledge, experience, and bear reality

White holes: Do black holes have mirror images?

By Bill Andrews

These black hole opposites would spew energy, be impossible to enter, and might even answer some of the universe’s fundamental questions.

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crisis - Part II

By Kavita Byrd

Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Cultivating Equanimity In Uncertain Times

By Miranda Macpherson

Once you begin to taste the freedom of your true nature and are no longer bound by your ego identifications, your way of being can become significantly more graceful.

He Invented a Surgery and Cured Himself

By Ryan Prior

This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years.

Spiritual Traditions Fail the Global Crises - Part I

By Kavita Byrd

Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now

A secular way

By Emer Gentway

Can one understand nonduality without naming it?

The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected

By Shawn Radcliffe

Discrepancies in measures of expansion may point to new physics

Grief is Healing in Motion

By Toko-pa Turner

Grief is the response to a broken bond of belonging

Pause for a Moment

By Jeff Foster

Don’t try and be “spiritual.” Don’t seek any particular state or feeling.

What the World Really Needs

By Shakti Caterina Maggi

What seems to be your inner reality and what is apparently happening out there in the world is actually one thing.

Quantum Darwinism: Moving From the Quantum to the Classical World

By Shawn Radcliffe

The “fittest” quantum properties make the most copies of themselves.

On Spiritual Bypassing and Relationship

By John Welwood

Spiritual bypassing is a term I coined to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community I was in, and also in myself.

Sex, Zen, and Poetry:
The Life of Ikkyu Sojun

By Chris Kincaid

Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels

Adventures in Frequency

By Peta Morton

Multi-dimensional Cymatics with David Schiermeyer

The Gospel of the Beloved Companion

By David Lorimer

This book is the first translation into English of what purports to be the complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

Mindful Thoughts for Stargazers

By Shawn Radcliffe

Astronomer and Ex-Zen Monk Mark Westmoquette's Book Review

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

"I Am Lion": A New Film Explores Consciousness and Sentience

By Marc Bekoff

An interview with award-winning filmmakers about their fascinating documentary.

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

Gentleness is a state of consciousness.

Is Reality Real? How Evolution Blinds us to the Truth About the World

By Donald Hoffman

We assume our senses see reality as it is—but that could be just an evolved illusion obscuring the true workings of quantum theory and consciousness

Trauma as a Pathway to Spiritual Surrender

By Shawn Radcliffe

Trauma and spirituality share a profound connection, according to psychologist Peter Levine.

When the Mind is Quiet, it Shall Know Love

By J. Krishnamurti

Life is relationship, living is relationship, yet very little attention is given to the question. What is your relationship with another?

Love Language: The Inter-Spiritual Heart of the Mystics

By Mirabai Starr

For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”

The Practice of Gestation

By Beverly Lanzetta

The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.

What are primordial black holes?

By Alison Klesman

Birthed in the first second after the Big Bang, these as-yet-unseen objects could offer answers to astronomers’ outstanding questions.

Relationship is the Fundamental Truth

By Rabindranath Tagore

Light as the radiant energy of creation started the ring-dance of atoms

Mental Inner Game: Mind—Opening Frames for Peace and Creativity

By Alexandra Sheren

“You can not open your heart, it is already open. It is the mind that is closed, and which must open to the heart.”

Integrating the Shadow in Awakening

By Amoda Maa

The striving for spiritual attainment while excluding the personal dimension of life, is often a big error on the path of spiritual inquiry.

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

By Walt Whitman

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams

Physicists count sound particles with quantum microphone

By Stanford University

Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound

Consciousness is Intrinsic in the Universe

By Paul Mulliner

It’s easy, during our everyday life in the world, to forget how extravagantly remarkable a human being actually is.

If music breathes new life into old blood...play on!

By John Stuart Reid

Testing a 2,500-year old hypothesis

Past and Future Have Different Probabilities

Arrow of time points forward in quantum systems

Why Scurry About Looking for the Truth?

By Lao-Tsu

It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part V

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

New human multisensory integration model for its exploration.

A Legacy for Dark Times: Becoming a Balm for All Wounds

By Vera de Chalambert

Some of the greatest nondual insights about the human condition were offered to our world in no ancient scroll

4,000 Exoplanets Mapped in NASA Stunning Video

In less than 30 years, humanity has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets

The Living Edge of Surrender & Why You Don’t Need to Amputate your Ego to Find Enlightenment

By Lori Ann Lothian

Entering into that territory where the practices that have sustained us no longer can guide us in the terrain we are in.

The First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglement!

By Fiona MacDonald

In an incredible first, scientists have captured the world's first actual photo of quantum entanglement

A Little Doodle from SAND19 Italy

By Riccardo Manzotti

Chris Field's presentation viewed by Riccardo Manzotti

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part IV

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Could crossmodal senses be one key to unlock the true nature of physics?

Mystical Experience: The True Language Of Religion And Of Feminism?

By Matthew Fox

In feminist theology therefore, the issue is not about exchanging pronouns but about another way of thinking of transcendence.

Star Stuff

By Shawn Radcliffe

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin on the Mystery of Stars

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part III

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Why adept meditators would be invaluable to studies

Things Don't Happen for a Reason

By Maya Luna

Life doesn’t need a reason For happening It simply blooms forth

The Ego and the Universe

By Maria Popova

Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part II

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

It would be useful to add adept perceivers to the studies.

Quantum Physics as a Spiritual Path

By Paul Levy

The universe is dreaming us up and we are all dreaming our lives into being.

Can Humans Directly Observe the Quantum World? Part I

By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg

Some of physics' remaining secrets may actually relent through the human senses.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks Available Online

By Shawn Radcliffe

The true extent of da Vinci’s Renaissance mind is captured in the surviving notebooks...

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

A Planetary Sense of Love

By Krista Tippett in On Being

Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sense of what “love” is and means.

When Is Sex a Spiritual Practice?

By Deborah Anapol

Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...

The Poor Joke

By Wei Wu Wei

Bondage is being dependent, tied up, limited. On, to, by, what?

In Everything...

By Joan Tollifson

The leaves of the cottonwood tree across the street...

This Little-Known Quantum Rule Makes Our Existence Possible

By Ethan Siegel

It's not only a big deal; it's the biggest deal of all.

One Must Dance Naked

By Alfred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

Scientists Map the Wood Wide Web

By Shawn Radcliffe

Underneath the ground exists a vast “social network” that connects trees and other plants to each other.

Every Act a Ceremony

By Charles Eisenstein

Every word a prayer. Every walk a pilgrimage. Every place a shrine.

Only One Question

By Eric Baret

All questions can be reduced to one question.

Solving the Vacuum Catastrophe

By Shawn Radcliffe

Quantum field theory has made some incredibly accurate predictions about the universe, but it has also made some of the worst.

The Path of Reality

By Nathalie Delay

The path of reality is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...

Quantum Biology: Photosynthesis - An Interview with Chris Fields

Q:  How do quantum phenomena take part in photosynthesis and why is it important?

Can the Effects of Trauma Pass Down Generations?

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren

The Cosmic Dance

By Sunil Mehrotra

On dark summer nights, away from city lights, I love to stargaze and imagine that I am dancing with the stars.

Nondual Evolution

By Jose Diez Faixat

During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.

Nonduality and Mindfulness — Two Great Traditions that Go Great Together

By Michael Taft

In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.

The Profound Activity of Questioning

By Eric Baret

Asking a question is being the most active you can be. It means being humble. Humility is the most active attitude.

We are not our brain: How to break the spell of the neurosciences

By Riccardo Manzotti

What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?

Trees have a Regular "Heartbeat"

By Shawn Radcliffe

New research now suggests that trees may have a “heartbeat” that pumps water from their roots.

Multiple Realities Can Happily Co-Exist, Suggests Study

By Shawn Radcliffe

Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.

Transe Learning: A New Transpersonal Methodology

By P. L. Lattuada

In order to understand Transe Learning, we start by thinking about the object of our research. The transpersonal methodology has the object of Self-realization, but what is the Self?

Waking from the Meme Dream

By Susan Blackmore

Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.

Brain Biases Prevent Action on Climate Change … But Can Help, Too

By Shawn Radcliffe

Climate change is one of the biggest and toughest problems facing human society. Unless the rise in average global temperates is stopped soon

Far Right or Far Left, It’s Exactly the Same

By Eric Baret

I have this concern about what is happening in the world. If we take nonduality really seriously, it seems like we are not concerned about the exterior.

OUR LADY. OUR FRIEND.

By Jeff Foster

We stand on sacred ground today. Perhaps even more sacred than yesterday’s ground.

Raising a New Generation of Super-Children

By Peta Morton

In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.

Let the Moon Be Free – Conversations on Kashmiri Tantra

By Eric Baret

Shaped and sustained by the nondual tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, Eric Baret’s words take us back to the simple observation of our felt sense of emotion and, ultimately, to pure listening.

The Pilgrimage of “Who Am I?”

A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho

Thoughts on Addiction and a Contemplative Life

By Richard Simonelli

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous says that alcohol is “cunning, baffling and powerful” in its cause of the disease of alcoholism.

Healing Your Belly Could Also Heal Your Brain

By Shawn Radcliffe

There are many things that affect our mental health, from work-related stress to past traumas to whether or not we meditate each day.

Review of “Wild Mercy” by Mirabai Starr

By Maggie Caffery

Mirabai Starr’s new book, reviewed by Maggie Caffery

We Need Courage, Not Hope, To Face Climate Change

By Kate Marvel

In the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the end.

‘Art of Life’ Award Winning Documentary

A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions in deep integrity with one's essence

I Have Tried In My Way To Be Free

By Philip Marvin

His first album came out in 1967 when I was a very impressionable young teenager in the midst of the so-called “summer of love” of that year.

In Spirit: Photography and Metaphysics, Reflection of the Self

By Mariette Raina

It was in the first half of the 19th century that photography was born, an invention that would revolutionize the world of image, and by extension, representation. Today, the camera has become current currency.

You Shouldn’t Try to Pigeonhole Quantum Physics

By Tom Siegfried

Just when you thought quantum physics couldn’t get any weirder, it violates the pigeonhole principle.

Realizing the Transpersonal Self

By Paul Mulliner

If we take a focus of attention inward regularly, we can realize intuitively that our conscious awareness, rather than being separate from the world as it seems to be, exists as a field of consciousness everywhere in all space.

One Strange Rock Documentary Offers Much Wonder and a Little Bit of Strange

By Shawn Radcliffe

When it comes to creating documentaries about the grandeur of the Earth, “strange” is a difficult bar to reach.

Effortless Being

By Peter Russell

Behind all our endeavors lies the desire to feel good—to be happy, feel content, relaxed, and at ease. No one wants to be in pain or to suffer unnecessarily.

An Interview with SAND Founders Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo

New Dimensions Radio has generously agreed to let us repost this podcast from 2013. It introduces Maurizio and Zaya to those of you who may not know them, and tells the story of the early days of the SAND conference ten years ago.

The Energetic Field of Om Namah Shivaya

By Rodney Birney MD

The chant Om Namah Shivaya is a love song, to ourselves. A love song we sing to our own deepest inner nature. In this song we recognize that we are the source, like a hologram, a piece of god that also represents the whole.

The Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

There is one fundamental presumption upon which our world culture is founded. This basic presumption states that experience is divided into two essential elements – a subject and an object – joined together by an act of knowing, feeling or perceiving.

Events In a Far Galaxy Modify Your DNA

By Stephen Battersby

Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…

The Gentle Art of Blessing

By Pierre Pradervand

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;…

Spirituality and Heavy Metal? Oh Yes!

By Chris Grosso

Look deeper. Look deeper at your mala, your skateboard, your yoga mat. Look deeper at your records,…

This Sacred Game Has Been Rigged Against Us

By Scott Kiloby

The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.

Near-Death Experiences are Real: A Rebuttal

By Lynn K. Russell

Just as artists are driven to create, scientists need to prove that something is as it seems. Their mantra is, don’t tell me, show me through repeated tests that arrive at the same results every time.

Binaural Beats

By Alexandra Sheren

These days people have lost their connection with many powerful elements of energy and nature, sound being one of them—as a means of healing and brain entertainment.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

Black Holes and the Arrow of Time

By Shawn Radcliffe

In our everyday life, time flows in one direction—forward. When you put a frozen pizza in the hot oven, the pizza heats up. When you hit a baseball, it flies over the wall (if you’re having a good day at bat). When you knock a coffee mug off a table...

Exhausting the Mind

By Jean Klein

Question: When we say that we must come to the end of the mind, that we must exhaust the mind, is it a necessary process, something which must happen, or is it possible to have an insight without the mind being exhausted?

The Foundation of World Peace

By Rupert Spira

I have to confess that I was a little taken aback at breakfast this morning when Ellen and I sat down, and Zaya and Maurizio came to sit down with us.

The Holographic Principle

By Donald D. Hoffman

The most famous case study in science, prior to Freud, was published in 1728 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society by the English surgeon William Cheselden, who attended Newton in his final illness.

What Can We Learn from Our Own Technology

By Tom Bunzel

Our own deeply held beliefs and definitions of technology are impeding us from evolving consciously…

On Grace and Polemics

By Chris Castle

I am a seeker who feels he has arrived, in that, these days, I both intellectually and feeling-wise, experience a oneness that is a great joy and comfort

Is Your Shaman Sketchy? Sham Shamans

By Kristen Eykel

Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.

The Wound of Love

By Maya Luna

Today I gave up on healing my trauma

It’s Time to Allow Vibration to Have its Way

By Greg Sipp

For well over a century, scientists have been wrestling with what quantum mechanics has been revealing to us about fundamental reality

The Hardest Problem: Decoding the puzzle of human consciousness

By Susan Blackmore

Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?

Book Review: The Fellowship of the River, by Joseph Tafur

As far as I know, this is a first: a book about ayahuasca and plant medicine and shamanism...

The Neurobiology of Love

By Shawn Radcliffe

For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…

The Tao of Jazz

By Peter Jezard

Music is created from energetic patterns of tonal and rhythmic interval. It is the ratio of these intervals…

The Secrets of Ramanujan’s Garden

By Georgi Johnson

What is the source of scientific inspiration?

Everything is Self

By Nick Roach

Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…

The World Beneath Your Feet Is Teeming With Life

By Shawn Radcliffe

Beneath your feet lies an enormous subterranean biosphere of bacteria and other forms of life, surviving…

The True Mirror – A Reflection of our True Nature

What’s wrong with mirrors? Most people know that they are backwards, reversing left and right sides,…

Can the Future Affect Our Decisions in the Present?

By Shawn Radcliffe

In physics, time exists but it has no preferred direction.

Robert Lanza: Consciousness Is the Key to Understanding Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In order to understand the true nature of reality, science must first recognize the importance of consciousness, says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem-cell biologist whose work has earned him high acclaim.

Math Has its Own Brain Region

By Josh Hrala

How did great mathematicians like Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein make the leap from understanding basic mathematical concepts to answering fundamental questions about the Universe?

The Brain-Heart Connection: Emotions, Feelings and Health

By Shawn Radcliffe

The heart is essential to our life, pumping oxygenated blood throughout our body. But it’s also the…

Truth Will Set You Free: Time Does Not Exist

By Hans Meijer

When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always.

Art & Spirit in Mathematics: The Lessons of Japanese Temple Geometry (part I)

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Imagine for a moment being in a church where mathematics groups meet regularly to solve geometry problems…

brain-heart

By David Storoy

According to Ervin Laszlo, the coherence of the atom and the galaxies is the same coherence that keeps living cells together, cooperating to form life.

New Theory Says We Are All Multiple Personalities of a Cosmic Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…

It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

By Mark Wolynn

A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

The Science of Happiness: Why complaining is literally killing you

By Steven Parton

Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours...

Why Believe in Rebirth?

By Dr. Jeffery D. Long

In a now famous conversation between Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama, Sagan, a scientist and renowned…

The Paradox of Free Will

By Peter Russell

One of my earliest ventures into philosophy, back in high school, concerned the question of “free will versus determinism.”

Illusions and the Mind’s Reality

When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.

The Bread Crumb Trail of Inherited Family Trauma

By Georgi Johnson

Although we might believe that our suffering is a private affair, this haunting, background agony could…

Sadness Without an Object

By Eric Baret

Sadness is one of the deepest emotions and it must be kept without an object.

Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept

By Michael Taft

Many traditions and mystics talk about nondualism. But what is nondualism, and how have people—from different religions in different parts of the word—described this concept over time?

If Everything is Consciousness, is Everything Conscious?

By Rick Archer

At this year's conference I'll be moderating a discussion between Bernardo Kastrup and physicist Christopher…

You Must Die to Live

Awakening is not a walk in the park. It is a ride through hell.

The Divine Mother Durga

By Laura Amazzone and M.A.

Durga is a Goddess of Strength and Justice who brings compassion, peace, calm and order to the chaos, destruction and conflict in any situation.

Why I Quit Ayahuasca Shamanism After 11 Years and 1,000 Ceremonies

By Tina “Kat” Courtney

I’m alive because of Ayahuasca. I am connected, soulful, expanded, and spilling over with self-love, mostly because of the blessing of attending around 1,000 sacred plant ceremonies.

The Historic Einstein-Tagore Meeting: Is Truth Independent of us?

By Shawn Radcliffe

It was on the edge of Berlin on July 14, 1930, that science and spirituality came together in one of the most intellectually stimulating conversations in history

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part III)

By Maria Syldona

As the process of manifestation (involution of Ultimate Reality into becoming the physical Universe) begins, the tattvas (principles, states of consciousness) that logically appear first are those of what is called the Pure Creation and pure knowledge.

You Are Not Your Thoughts

By Shawn Radcliffe

In the quest for our true identity, what could be more authentic than our own thoughts?…

Where will I find you?

By Georgi Johnson

image by Android Jones Where will I find you? Where will I find you, my friend? In an accusing forest…

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu...

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.…

The Flow of Time in a Timeless Universe

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you were to stand outside the universe—outside both space and time—and look at your life, you would see your birth, your death and every moment in between laid out as distinct points.

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part II)

By Maria Syldona

An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.

Inclusion of Consciousness May Solve 100-year-old Physics Problem

By Ben Werner

Quantum physics tells us that the state of a subatomic particle can only be known when the state of the particle is measured

Embracing Existential Loneliness and Waking Up To Non-dual Aloneness

By Nic Higham

At 3:03 a.m. on August 8, 1983, I was born into isolation—I spent the first two weeks of my life in an incubator,

Non-dual Kashmir Shaivism – The Science of Ultimate Reality (Part I)

By Maria Syldona

Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…

Tantra and the West

By Dr. Sthaneshwar Timalsina

Tantra in the Western imagination stands for exotic and orgasmic rituals coming from India and Tibet that blend sex and meditation.

The Ego Cannot Love

By Eric Baret

Love, we can’t talk about because it is what is. It isn’t an objective experience, it’s what is here at every moment, except when I pretend to love or when I want to be loved.

Science Pointing to Nonduality

By Mark Gober

Most of my life was spent as a materialist. I regarded physical matter as the basis of reality. From matter emerged biological organisms such as humans, which developed brains, and out of the brain emerged consciousness.

How Does an Awakened Person Perceive the World?

By David Loy

Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.

The Holographic Future: From Science Fiction to Reality

By David Storoy

Since childhood I have been fascinated by holograms. The reason was the science fiction movie Star Wars and in 1984 I watched it for the first time.

Modern Physics is Stagnating, Not in Crisis

By Shawn Radcliffe

Over the past century, the total number of physicists has grown exponentially, as has the number of…

Being Love Rather Than Searching For It

By Dorothy Hunt

We may be longing for love but afraid of love, afraid of being seen to be flawed, unworthy, unlovable; we may fiercely guard our separation.

One Simple Question: What is Energy?

By Israel Erez

It was 18 months ago that I stumbled upon a short video on YouTube talking about the basics of Quantum Field Theory.

Science and the Existence of Ether

By David Storoy

The existence of an ether – an all-pervading medium composed of a subtler kind of matter – has been taught by mystic philosophers throughout the ages.

Falsifiability: How to Distinguish Between Science and Nonscience

By Sean Carroll

In a world where scientific theories often sound bizarre and counter to everyday intuition, and where a wide variety of...

Van Gogh's Turbulent Mind Captured Turbulence

Scientists have discovered a distinct turbulent fluid pattern, surprisingly close to Kolmogorov’s equation, hidden in many of Van Gogh’s paintings.

Idealism and Emergent Spacetime

By Bernardo Kastrup

Scientific American recently published a very interesting essay by philosopher Susan Schneider. It offers an argument against panpsychism—

Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time?

By Bernardo Kastrup

Time is a contentious topic in physics. Some physicists, such as Julian Barbour, argue that it doesn’t even exist. Others, such as Carlo Rovelli, hold that it arises as a secondary effect of deeper quantum processes.

Lovemaking and Altered States of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…

Can Humans See Magnetic Fields?

From Aristotle on, we have been conditioned to believe we have only five senses, even after science has established that we could have thousands.

The Spirituality of Science

By Lynn K. Russell

Quantum particles, the foundation of the universe, are like naughty children playing catch me if you can with scientists in a game with no rules.

Nondual Psychotherapy

By Chuck Hillig and Chuck Hillig

Although I’ve been an ardent devotee of Ramana Maharshi since 1970, I’ve also worked as a state-licensed psychotherapist in California since 1978.

Consciousness isn't a Mystery—Matter is.

By Galen Strawson

It is precisely science that makes the key point shine most brightly: the point that there is a fundamental respect in which ultimate intrinsic nature of the stuff of the universe is unknown to us — except insofar as it is consciousness.

How Can Wholeness Be In Crisis? Inquiring into the Human Predicament

By Terry Patten

The most radical understanding of reality points first to radical wholeness, to the prior unity of all opposites and conditional experiences.

Emotions as Energy Flow and Information

By Matt Licata and Matt Licata

There is such a deeply rooted belief that we must do something with intense surges of feeling and emotion as they wash through: understand them, determine their cause, link them to some life circumstance or person, transform them, transmute them...

Consciousness Expanded by Psilocybin

Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, scientists were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects.

The Dalai Lama and the Atlas of Emotions

By Georgi Johnson

Emotions are tricky entities. They confuse the mind and disturb perception, isolating an individual in a private sense of reality. So what to do with them?

The Dakini Speaks

By Jennifer Welwood

My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.

Sex Chromosomes Aren’t the Whole Story

By Shawn Radcliffe

For almost 100 years, children have been taught in school that the anatomical sex of a baby is determined by the X and Y chromosomes, also known as the sex chromosomes — XY is male and XX is female.

The Myth of Enlightenment

By Jinen Jason Shulman

There is a pervasive myth about enlightenment which, although repeated by many spiritual teachers, has its origins in a view of spirituality that arises from the misconceptions of the unhealed ego.

When the Ground Falls

By Jeff Foster and Jeff Foster

A relationship ends unexpectedly, success turns to failure overnight, a loved one dies, you receive a diagnosis out of the blue, and you suddenly feel a profound groundlessness, a deep uncertainty, the sense that your world is spinning out of control.

Don't Follow your Feelings

By Gail Brenner

I know what it’s like to live a life driven by emotion, and believe me, it won’t make you happy.

Maha Ati

By H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into...

Emotions Shape Our Physical Reality

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

The Fish, the Net and the Water

By Mauro Bergonzi and Mauro Bergonzi

Once the fish said to the turtle: “I have heard about a huge thing that is called ‘the ocean.’ Does it really exist?

The Greatest Contradiction of Common Sense

By Bernardo Kastrup

This essay is about a shocking contradiction in our common sense about the nature of reality; a contradiction that you are probably totally unaware of. Becoming aware of this contradiction has the potential to change your life.

Where Does Pain Exist in the Mind?

By Shawn Radcliffe

We live in a reality generated by our brain. From the euphoria of falling in love to the beauty of a newly blossomed flower, what we experience with our senses is a representation of the world, not the world itself.

Through the Lens of Perception

By Shawn Radcliffe

In recent years scientists have been exploring the effects that stress and emotions have on our cells — in particular, on our chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA.

Epigenetics: What Are We Really Handing Down to Our Children?

With new discoveries in epigenetics now making headlines, many of us are asking an important question: What are my children really inheriting? Can my baggage, the unfinished business I don’t deal with, pass on to my kids?

Homeostasis, Feelings, and the Rise of Culture

By Shawn Radcliffe

When people talk about the evolution and development of all that makes humans “unique,” one thing that often gets overlooked is our feelings.

An Examination of Ethics and Spiritual Teaching

By Rick Archer

It’s a safe bet that everyone reading this article has read accounts of spiritual teachers engaging in questionable behavior. Many of you may have been on the receiving end of such behavior.

Krishnamurti on Love

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. The seeking for security invites insecurity.

The Mind of Plants: Thinking the Unthinkable

By Monica Gagliano

Across all species, individuals thrive in complex ecological systems, which they rarely have complete knowledge of.

Infective Heredity: You Are Not Who You Think You Are

By Shawn Radcliffe

According to Charles Darwin, you are the product of your biological mother and father, just as they were the product of their biological mother and father, and so on back to the earliest days of humans and to all the species that came before.

The Myth of Good and Bad Emotions

By June Gruber

One idea in the study of emotion and its impact on psychological health is overdue for retirement: that negative emotions (like sadness or fear) are inherently bad or maladaptive for our psychological well-being, and positive emotions (like happiness...

The Pathless Path

By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein

Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein

The Soul of an Octopus, A Book Review

I grew up as a student biologist with the unquestionable rule that you do not talk about animal behavior in human terms.

The Tantric Gift of Math’s Mystery

By Jeanric Meller

Is math an invention of the human brain? Or does math exist in some abstract world, with humans merely discovering its truths? The debate has been raging since the time of the ancient Greeks.

Your Reality Is Shaped By Your Subconscious

By Shawn Radcliffe

Even before the birth of modern neuroscience, Sigmund Freud theorized that what we call objective reality is actually shaped in part by our subconscious. And he was able to do this simply by observing the behavior of people from the outside.

A Life of Zen: Ikkyū, the Crazy Cloud

By Surendra

Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?

The Polyvagal Theory and the Role of the Unconscious

By Shawn Radcliffe

The way you react to the world and to the people around you is driven much more than you realize by unconscious aspects of your brain and body.

The Fiction of Being

By Mark Matousek and Mark Matousek

Every life is a work of fiction. That’s what I tell my memoir students. People come to me wanting to tell their life story, the narrative that sums them up, the myth that captures their essence.

The Path of no Path

By Peter Russell and Peter Russell

Spiritual teachers with non-dual leanings say that there is no path to enlightenment. There is nowhere to get to; you are already enlightened, you just do not know it.

The Mirror of Relationship

The mystics of all traditions have taught us that love is not to be sought; love is what we are. Love is what is here in each and every moment.

The Buddha Awakening, Integral Expanding and a Second Axial Age for Humanity

By Duane Elgin

This article explores untapped potentials for Integral Theory that can emerge from recognizing the original nature of the Buddha’s awakening.

The Secret Language of Trees

By Shawn Radcliffe

by Shawn Radcliffe If you look at a forest through a Darwinian lens, you’ll see individual trees battling…

The Many Ways We Deceive Ourselves

By Shawn Radcliffe

One of the central goals of yoga is seeing the world clearly. But when it comes to knowing ourselves, we often lack self-awareness about our real nature.

There's No Such Thing as Ego

By Peter Russell and Peter Russell

I don’t have an ego. And neither do you. That doesn’t mean you and I don’t get caught up in egocentric thinking and behavior, but that we are mistaken in thinking of the ego as some separate individual self, some “thing” in the mind.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

By Donna Thomas

Its great that ACEs are high on the agenda for organizations that support adults, children & young people.

I No Longer I

By Aldous Huxley

from "Island" by Aldous Huxley Somewhere between seeing and speaking, somewhere Between our soiled and…

Nondual Logic

By Andrew Lohrey

By Andrew Lohrey In first year philosophy I was never taught there was more than one kind of logic.…

Nothing Will Ever Fulfill You

Art: stained glass by Iris Let the Mother wash away all your small dreams of transcendence. Rest into…

Protesting From Inner Peace

By Jeff Foster

"Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox." Being…

Consciousness as Light and Space

By Patrick Howe

By Patrick Howe Does Consciousness Originate In The Human Brain? The scientific view of consciousness…

You Only See Mirrors

Excerpt from Let the Moon Be Free, by Eric Baret What disturbs you in the presence of someone else is…

Loving Awareness: Truth Beyond Thought

By Dorothy Hunt

Nondual Awareness moves as Love Nondual awareness has been called the underlying, non-conceptual unity…

Can Gut Bacteria Control Your Mood?

By Shawn Radcliffe

You are never truly alone. Everywhere you go, you carry trillions of microbes inside your gut. These…

Relationship with the Silence

By Paul Mulliner

by Paul Mulliner The conventional explanation for the existence of consciousness is that it’s generated…

And God Created Man In His Own Image

By Nick Roach

by Nick Roach The title is from the Bible, Genesis 1:27. The passage goes on to say “...in the image…

A Madcap Baul

That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now…

Poem by Fernando Pessoa

By Fernando Pessoa

By Fernando Pessoa (writing under the heteronym Alberto Caeiro) The astonishing reality of things Is…

The Two Selves Within Us

By Rajeev Kurupati

By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…

Updated Schrödinger’s Cat Thought Experiment Breaks Quantum Theory

By Shawn Radcliffe

Physicist Neils Bohr once said, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”…

If Thoughts and Feelings Could Speak

By Dhyana Stanley

I remember the moment the teaching to “see” rather than ignore thoughts and feelings became real for…

The Heritability Challenge to Evolution and Materialism

By Ted Christopher

An Opening for Religious Perspectives With enormous certainty science has presented its material-only…

Even Atheists Have a God

By Sunil Mehrotra

I started out an atheist and I now believe in God. Not a God that is in heaven but a God within me.…

Happy are those who know

Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…

Post Personalism in Art

By Patrick Howe

“May your life be guided by curiosity and a passion to see the world with fresh eyes.” Presence Prime…

A World of Emotion

By Nick Roach

“Everything is one! Everything is one!” Say the above to anyone interested in any branch…

Oxytocin Enhances Spirituality: The Biology of Awe

Oxytocin has been dubbed the “love hormone” for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more.…

Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses — and What Happened Was Profound

By Ryan F. Mandelbaum

When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy, they commonly feel…

From Spiralling Ecstatically This

proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes - gifted with…

Truth is an Orgasm You Can't Fake

Everyone is suddenly a 'spiritual teacher' these days pushing the proverbial crack of 'empowerment'.…

In the Quantum World, the Chicken and the Egg Can Both Come First

By Shawn Radcliffe

Philosophers, biologists, and barroom thinkers have all pondered one of the greatest mysteries of our…

Sound and The Subtle

By Silvia Nakkach

Transforming Consciousness and Emotions through Mantra and Raga Yoga Western culture is notorious for…

The Sayings of Old Man Tcheng

French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…

Do Quantum Phenomena Require Conscious Observers?

By Shawn Radcliffe

Quantum mechanics is known for its strangeness, from cats being dead and alive at the same time, to…

Subjectivity of Perception: Using Illusions to Alter Pain

By Shawn Radcliffe

“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert Many people with chronic pain have…

A Higher Perspective on Climate Change

By Thomas Hübl

The answer to climate change is embedded in the problem, says spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl. But to…

What Neuroscience Says about Free Will

By Adam Bear

Image by digitalbob8/Flickr It happens hundreds of times a day: We press snooze on the alarm clock,…

Can You Boost Your Intelligence By Thinking Like an Algorithm?

By Shawn Radcliffe

Intelligence is big business. Browse any bookstore or smartphone app store and you’ll find hundreds…

Dark Energy May Be Incompatible With String Theory

By Natalie Wolchover

String theory permits a “landscape” of possible universes, surrounded by a “swampland” of logically…

Freedom through intimacy

The Edge of the Auroraphoto by O Chul Kwon by Robert Augustus Masters Intimate relationship promises…

I Am a Fairytale

By Sunil Mehrotra

Who am I? “Tat Tvam Asi,” say the Vedas. Thou art That. The journey of self-discovery is a journey inward.…

I Witnessed My Maker

By Mansur al-Hallaj

I witnessed my Maker with my heart’s eye. I asked, ‘Who are You?’ He answered, 'You!’ For You one cannot…

Message from Hopi Elders

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people…

Wishing well? The Practice: Bless.

By Rick Hanson

Why? Lately, I've been wondering what would be on my personal list of top five practices (all tied for…

John Cage: Silence

By Paula Marvelly

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing. “I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that…

Knowing the Unseen Cosmic Organism

By Paul Mulliner

image: paul mulliner 10_6_18 In recent years, many attempts have been made to explain how the large…

You Reading This, Be Ready

By William Stafford

by William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining…

The Yoga of Saundarya: Touching Reality Through the Experience of Beauty

By Gioia Lussana

The aesthetic experience (rasa), which the Kashmiri masters describe as a real training for the yogic…

Modern Physics’ 21st Century Dry Spell

By Shawn Radcliffe

Modern physics has achieved many breakthroughs since the early 20th century — the theory of general…

Emotional Sentience: Katherine Peil

Katherine Peil reveals some of the fascinating discoveries of her lengthy inquiry into the nature of…

Flavor of Peace

By Igor Kufayev

It is Siva Himself, of unimpeded will and lucid consciousness, who is ever sparkling in my heart. It…

Consciousness

By Mauro Bergonzi

The primacy of consciousness

The Astounding Pulse of an Exploding Star

Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, this close-up image reveals the beating heart of one…

Exclusive interview with Dr. Allan Wallace

In this exclusive interview with Dr. Allan Wallace we discuss consciousness, mathematics, practicing…

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

By Joan Tollifson

Sometimes in the world of spirituality, people get the mistaken idea that thinking is bad, memory is…

Love is the Dance

By Dhyana Stanley

As so many of us, I was conditioned to feel that giving love was better than receiving love – that receiving…

The Qualitative Science of the Heart

By Kabir Helminski

There's something beautiful about being together with a group of people whose main interest is understanding…

Info-virus

By Andrew Lohrey

In theory and practice most scientists have failed to distinguish between ‘information’ and 'meaning.’…

The True Nature of Experience

By Rupert Spira

image: Joel Santos Our Essential Nature of Being, Knowing and Happiness Let us start with our self.…

What Is Love?

By J. Krishnamurti

So when you ask what love is, you may be too frightened to see the answer. It may mean complete upheaval;…

The Soul of Nature

By John O'Donohue

How can we ever know the difference we make to the soul of the earth? Where the infinite stillness of…

Getting Closer to Truth With Art

By Nathalie Delay

My work is not conceptual. It is the reflection of my emotion before the perfection of nature. Beauty…

Michael Pollan on the New Science of Psychedelics

By Shawn Radcliffe

For many people, psychedelic drugs are intimately connected to the 1960s American counterculture, with…

The Meaning of Life

Some of you may have received an email recently inviting you to send in your response to the question:…

The Thing Is

By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Written after Ellen Bass’s poem of the same name. To trust life, that is the thing. To trust it even…

How the Brain Continually Changes and Reorganizes Itself

By Gary Weber

Brain map Until the 1970s, it was strongly believed in the emerging neuroscientific community that there…

The Insiders' View of AI: Faggin and Frenkel

One of the highlights of the SAND17 conference, this discussion starts by introducing Federico Faggin,…

If Thoughts and Feelings Could Speak They’d Say, “Please, just see me.”

By Dhyana Stanley

For most of us awakening is a process. There may be a glimpse or realization of our natural state but…

The Hydra: What the Brainless Can Teach Us About the Brain

By Shawn Radcliffe

Stefan Siebert and Charles David Scientists have long described brains as being made up of neurons that…

Heart Transplant

By Sunil Mehrotra

“The Caterpillar is the first character who really makes an effort to guide Alice on her journey. Since…

Science and Consciousness Just Wed — Should this Union Be Annulled?

By Jonathan Bricklin

The union of Science and Consciousness was recently celebrated in Tucson. After 11 biennial sessions…

A Shift To Biosphere Consciousness

By Chris Agnos

A new generation is rising and with it different views on how we define freedom, power, and community.…

Robert Adams: Silence of the Heart

By Paula Marvelly

Edward Muzika, Robert Adams. Photograph:  Wikimedia Commons All is well and everything is unfolding…

Syntropy: The Spirit of Love

I have twice been in the audience at SAND conferences when Ulisse di Corpo presented the ideas that…

Is Social Media Addiction Real?

By Shawn Radcliffe

The internet has given us many amazing things — easy access to vast amounts of information, the ability…

Political Roots and Genetic Evidence for the Indian Caste System

By Gerard D.C. Kuiken

Photo by Zaya In this extract from his book svābhāvikasūtra: The Roots of the Bhagavadgītā, Gerard Kuiken…

Singularity

by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?…

Hsin Hsin Ming: On Trust in the Heart

by Seng-ts’an (China, 529 - 606) Translated by Richard B. Clarke The Great Way is not difficult for…

Science Will Never Know Consciousness: Rupert Spira

Rupert Spira has earned a reputation as a master and clarifier of the nature of consciousness. In this…

God is a Mathematician

By Sunil Mehrotra

Mathematics is abstract, symbolic, structured and precise. It is true everywhere and always and mathematical…

Being Understanding

By Jean Klein

We have come together to find out what we mean by truth, or our real nature, globality. This inquiry…

Grand Narratives: Unplugging from the Big Story

By Donna Thomas and PhD

Our personal stories tend to become entangled with the grand narratives that shape and crystallize our…

Wholeness and the End of Suffering

By Todd Lorentz

“Life is suffering" ... so declared the Buddha more than 2500 year ago. No truer than this is what we…

The Fabric Of Reality

By Nissim Levy

The Hebrew bible opens with the following passage in the book of Genesis: In the beginning God created…

Complementarity: Approaching Reality Through Paradoxes

By Shawn Radcliffe

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may…

Love is a Practice

By Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine

Love is an energy, a Shakti, that calls us to unify ourselves internally, merge body and soul, and form…

In the Morning I Remember

By Alain Joly

Here is a beautiful prayer composed by Adi Shankara around the 8th century. These three verses, meant…

The Linguistic Demon of Space-Time

By Bernardo Kastrup

Time and space are one of the greatest conundrums of both science and philosophy, and have been so since…

Are Emotions Hard-Wired or Constructed?

By Shawn Radcliffe

There’s a scene in the movie Star Trek III where Spock, a logical and rational Vulcan, is relearning…

Streaming Beggars

By Jeannie Zandi

Now that you have moved into my heart, taken the doors off their hinges and removed the windows, glass,…

Centuries of Meditations

By Thomas Traherne

Here are six extracts from Centuries of Meditations - a brief introduction to the 17th century divine…

Consciousness is Cosmic

By Paul Mulliner

image: paul mulliner 2018 Consciousness, our capacity for conscious awareness, is cosmic not personal…

Praying to Self, a chapter from his new book, Seeds of Awakening

By Peter Russell

We usually think of prayer as an appeal to some higher power. We might pray for someone's healing, for…

The Mysticism of Music

By Pier Elias Amidon

What is music? What happens when music touches us? If we could somehow float above planet Earth and…

The Feeling of Safety in Relationship

A Primer on Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, By Ron Manley, Ph.D. Although his first book on Polyvagal Theory…

Balancing the Material and Transcendent in Our Lives

By Shawn Radcliffe

Science enables us to study the world with precision and order, breaking it down into its component…

We ARE the Universe: Neil Theise

Neil Theise, practicing pathologist and leading stem-cell researcher, explores the nature of consciousness…

Should Quantum Anomalies Make Us Rethink Reality?

By Bernardo Kastrup

Inexplicable lab results may be telling us we’re on the cusp of a new scientific paradigm Every generation…

Experiential Methodology in Consciousness Research

By Amrit Srecko Sorli and Steve Kaufman

Introduction 20th century science considers the scientific picture of the world to be “objective” -something…

The Dual in the Crown: Story consciousness and locating the self

By Donna Thomas

As human beings, we are conditioned to identify with forms, especially our ‘internal’ forms such as…

You Perform Miracles Every Moment—If You Didn’t You’d Cease to Exist

By Joseph Selbie

One of the timeless claims of religions is that many saints, sages, and saviors can, seemingly, defy…

The End of the World and What Remains

By Joan Tollifson

I open the window and the smell of blossoms wafts in. A friend calls, someone whose intelligence and…

Fully Awake and Fully Human

By Amoda Maa

There’s a new conversation emerging in spirituality today. What was relevant thousands of years ago…

Physicists Entangle Particles Across Time

By Shawn Radcliffe

If you thought that the quantum phenomena of particles being “entangled” across vast distances of space was strange, that’s nothing.

Reality is a User Interface: Donald Hoffman

In a brilliant presentation, with game changing ideas flowing faster than we can take them in, cognitive…

Nondual Christianity – Seriously?

By Cynthia Bourgeault In fall 2009, I was on a homebound flight from San Francisco that happened also…

Expecting It All: An Honest Look at Modern Love

An interviewed with Esther Perel by Kate Green Tripp, Managing Editor for 1440 Multiversity. 1440: You…

Buddha’s Brain: The New Neuroscience and the Path of Awakening

By Rick Hanson and Rick Mendius In a way, the methodologies of Buddhist thought and science are essentially…

Awakening to the Dance of Our Divinity - and Humanity

By Dhyana Stanley In spiritual circles, even in the non-dual community, the term ‘humanness’ sometimes…

Today Is Too Wild for Answers

By Matt Licata

The contradictory feelings of hope and hopelessness, meaning and flatness, anxiety and rest. The shakiness…

Sentient Robots, Conscious Spoons and Other Cheerful Follies

by Bernardo Kastrup Contemporary science fiction seems obsessed with ideas such as downloading consciousness…

The Chance Events That Gave Rise to Humans

By Shawn Radcliffe

Humans are the only creature on Earth to have left the planet, trading our comfortable terrestrial existence…

Now: The Physics of Time

Credit: agsandrew | Shutterstock You are reading the word "now" right now. But what does that mean?…

Tripping Over Joy

What is the difference Between your experience of Existence And that of a saint? The saint knows That…

Against My Insistence on Nonduality

by Jason Shulman It has occurred to me, after a lifetime of studying the perspective of nonduality,…

Fakhruddin ‘Araqi: Divine Flashes

Resa Abbasi, A Sleeping Woman. by Philip Brown SUFISM IS A wisdom teaching grounded in Primordial Reality.…

Shame—Dissolving This Driving Force Behind Addiction Through Mindfulness

By Scott Kiloby

Scott Kiloby begins a 4-part Webinar Series on Sunday March 11. Here’s a short article to introduce…

Thinking Outside the Quantum Box

Credit: PM Images Getty Images by Bernardo Kastrup The counterintuitive predictions of quantum theory…

All Life Needed to Get Started Was Good Old Physics

By Shawn Radcliffe

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There’s no doubt that quantum mechanics is weird. Over the years, this field’s attempts to describe…

Words Of Wisdom From Adyashanti About These Troubled Times

This election certainly has stirred up a lot of emotion in people. Mostly fear and anger, as far as…

Are we Ready for the Illusion of Free Will?

By Gary Weber

"Free will" continues to be a hot topic in questions and comments with many, many folk. "Free will"…

Time Might Only Exist in Your Head, Say Physicists

Universal time doesn’t add up. Out of all the pressures we face in our everyday lives, there’s no denying…

Open The Mind, And It Will Be Flooded With Light

Maharaj: All waiting is futile. To depend on time to solve our problems is self-delusion. The future,…

The Meaning of Life ~ Angela Farmer

By Nicolae Tanase Q: Angela, what is the meaning of life? Angela Farmer: At the age of three or four…

Silence is not God

For silence is not God, nor speaking; fasting is not God, nor eating; solitude is not God, nor company;…

Love is a Place

love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a…

Devastation to Transformation

By Unmani Hyde

Photo by Olivier Malcor Waking up to the truth of your nature as Life itself is nothing less than total…

What Is Quantum Mechanics?

Around a century since the accidental birth of the field of quantum physics and we are still in the…

Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

By Shawn Radcliffe

You are the infinite potentiality, the inexhaustible possibility. Because you are, all can be. The universe…

Loss and Revival of the Timeless Wisdom

By Peter Russell

We live in unprecedented times. Science is answering age-old questions about the nature of reality,…

Reconciling the ‘I’ and the ‘We’ in the Story of Separation

By Giulia Boccaccini

Shot by Giulia in Brighton, UK, 2016 Hi friends, We have all woken up to a new reality this week. We…

The End of Suffering - Thich Nhat Hanh

Buddhism speaks of Nirvana, which is the cessation of all suffering. Nirvana means the cessation, the…

The World is as You See It

By Igor Kufayev

When one sees from the Heart, one's vision is said to be adjusted... When the Earth shakes, the tremor…

The Luminosity of Being Present in the Body

By Amoda Maa

Contrary to what the egoic mind may like to believe, liberation from the suffering of pain and loss…

Awakening, a Shift in Perception

By Prajnaparamita

photo: Chishou Nakada What is the difference between one who is enlightened and one who is not? There…

Wave Particle Duality, The Observer And Retrocausality

By Menas Kafatos

What Happens When We Are Separate

By Paul Smit

Non-duality, also referred to as advaita, literally means ‘no two’. This implies that everything is…

The Leading Edge of The Unknown in the Human Being ~ Ken Wilber

An exclusive 90 min talk by Ken Wilber made especially for SAND 16 TRANSCRIPT Hello, my friends, this…

To Anyone Who Thinks They’re Falling Behind In Life

By Jamie Varon You don’t need more motivation. You don’t need to be inspired to action. You don’t need…

Deep inside of each one of us...

photo: Fernand Hick Deep inside of each one of us is light that is utterly peaceful and quiet. It is…

Buddha on the Möbius Strip ~ Rohit Gupta

The design for a new Buddhist temple in Tiachang, China, is based on the Möbius Strip Surfing between…

This is Your Brain on Communication

Neuroscientist Uri Hasson researches the basis of human communication, and experiments from his lab…

The Anomaly of Consciousness

By Peter Russell

photo: Ruth Chudaska-Clemenz Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning…

Now and the Physics of Time ~ Richard A. Muller

Time is elusive and enigmatic. The moment now is ephemeral. Quandaries and confusion about time date…

Happy are those who know:

Happy are those who know: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…

The True Nature of the ‘Unconscious’

By Bernardo Kastrup

photo: Steve Ray We intuitively associate our psyches with the contents of consciousness. Whatever I…

‘True Knowledge’ - Kabir

This, I’ve discovered, is true knowledge— Those who scramble to get into a boat Sink like a stone midstream,…

The World Is As We See It

By Amoda Maa

photo: Sherman C We do not see the world as it is but as we believe it to be. We come into this world…

Feeling Like Shit as a Gateway to Grace

By Jeff Foster

Photo: Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai Sometimes, despite your best efforts and intentions, despite your…

Holding Space

image by upliftconnect.com When we “hold space” for another person, we open our heart and offer them…

Look, it cannot be seen...

photo: Song Young Lee Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard - it is…

Notes on the Sensuality of Sensation ~ Godfrey Devereux

Sex is perhaps the most problematic of all human activities. The sex drive is a powerful, natural and…

Fall in Love with Yourself

By Will Pye

Photo: Annemieke Stuij If I could give you one experience, it would be the experience of being loved—not…

Science and Spirituality ~ Jeff Lieberman

"Maybe I’m not a human being that has consciousness. Maybe I’m consciousness that is shaped into a human…

Love is Here

By Jeff Foster

Love has nothing to do with the other person. It is closer to you. Love is electricity, raw, wild, uncontainable.…

Infinite Potential: What Quantum Physics Reveals About How We Should Live

By Lothar Schäfer

There are many big questions to be curious about, and one of the most fascinating is this: What makes…

The Biology of Wonder

The disconnection between humans and nature is perhaps one of the most fundamental problems faced by…

The Dream Must be Interpreted

photo: Adrian Donoghue This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like…

Fear of Not Knowing

By Marcelo Gleiser There are questions that may not be answerable, which brings us to the complementary…

A Hippie in Bhairava’s Clothing: The Dangers of Cultural Appropriation

By Christopher Wallis

The American yoga and kirtan scene is rife with cultural appropriation that implies insensitivity to traditional Indian culture.

Does the Brain Filter out a Wider Awareness? ~ Marjorie Woollacott

The human brain has amazing capacities. It contains billions of neurons, allowing it to process vast…

Oriental Medicine and Quantum Physics

By Menas Kafatos

What does western science, in fact the best science we have, quantum mechanics, have to do with oriental…

Beyond the Law of Attraction

By Jeff Foster

Photo by Marcus Bjorkman Okay, so you've manifested the perfect life: the beautiful car, the thrilling…

Beware of the Blank State ~ Jean Klein

You said the other day that first one knows the objectified silence and later one comes to real silence…

Dissolving in What Is

Thou wert absorbed in Thine Own Self, hidden from me; I passed whole days in seeking Thee out But when…

How To Not Be Killed By Death ~ Alan Watts

Video by David Lindberg "You have to get away from all that madness for a while because we become insane,…

Everything Is Always Perfect, if You Have the Right Point of View

By Tim Van Vliet

I learned from being financial markets trader as well as from being a father of four, that perception…

Radiance Sutras

Where Body Meets Infinity by Lorin Roche This is Part 3 of a series. Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here…

A Taste of SAND16 - An Evening of Devotional Music and Poetry

Join us at SAND16 for Friday evening program Featuring Deepak Chopra and Fanna-Fi-Allah (Sufi Qawwali…

A Taste of SAND16 - The Universe and the Luminous Mind

Join us for the opening night of SAND16 Oct 20, 2016 7:00pm - 10:00pm PDT, Cost: $55 The Universe and…

The Future of Well Being with Deepak Chopra

Join Deepak as he creates a roadmap for "higher health," based on the latest findings in both mainstream…

Radical Gratitude: the End of Separateness

By Will Pye

To see clearly is to be grateful - to simply notice that life is a gift, eternally present and infinitely…

The Future of Well Being Deepak Chopra for Members

Deepak Chopra, as he discusses the future of well-being and takeaways from his new book, "The Future…

A Sensory Prayer

May the touch of your skin Register the beauty Of the otherness That surrounds you. May your listening…

Who You Really Are – Can Never Be Lost

By Jeff Foster

Photo by Elena Shumilova When everything falls apart and you feel totally lost and abandoned, what can’t…

Neuroscience Backs up Plato after 2300 years

By Olivia Goldhill Painting by Raffael In 2008, neuroscientist Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s…

The Embodiment of Awakening

By Amoda Maa

Very often, enlightenment happens in the mind as a recognition of the absolute truth of emptiness in…

To Perceive is to Create

By Will Pye

We typically imagine the act of perception involves something out there to perceive and something in…

In the End: The Beginning - Jay Ramsay

In the End: The Beginning By Jay Ramsay There is something in the end there is no avoiding That is more…

Intelligence Beyond Thought ~ J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm

By Shawn Radcliffe and Jeanric Meller In 1980 Indian spiritual philosopher J. Krishnamurti met with…

Beloved I Am Listening

Reflections On The Vijnana Bhairava Tantra by Lorin Roche This is Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1 here…

Nāgārjuna and the Greek Philosophers

If you study philosophy from different parts of the world for any length of time, you will eventually…

The Divine Mother's Yoga

by Eva Khattab Introduction – Lament for Humankind Thomas Berry speaks eloquently on the Earth’s behalf.…

Will a Pear-Shaped Nucleus Ruin Time Travel?

Physicists have confirmed the existence of a new form of atomic nuclei, and the fact that it’s not symmetrical…

SAND16 Live Stream

Join us virtually in the SAND main conference room! We will be streaming daily from Thursday Oct. 20th…

The Love Song of Devi and Bhairava

by Lorin Roche I first met the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra in 1968, when I was 18 and working in a physiology…

Where Is the I? ~ Alan Watts

Image from creative-arte.tv By Allan Watts “While you are watching this present experience, are you…

How Epigenetics Mediates Between the Environment and Our Genes

By Shawn Radcliffe

Norrbotten, the northernmost county in Sweden, seems an unlikely place for scientists to find evidence…

Meditation, Hypnosis, and Free Will

Image from Pindyurin Vasily In a new twist on the classic “free will” experiment, meditators, average…

How Much More Can We Learn About the Universe?

By Lawrence M. Krauss As a cosmologist, some of the questions I hear most frequently after a lecture…

Zen Boyfriends: Woes of a Wannabe Goddess

Image by kevincredible.com By Mariana Caplan Finding love in California as a wannabe goddess in a sea…

The Wisdom of Insecurity ~ Alan Watts

image from academyofideas.com By Allan Watts “If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the…

The Wonder of Unknowing

By Mauro Bergonzi

Beyond science and non-dualism   We usually describe the world in terms of trees, mountains, rivers,…

The Limits of Quantum Mechanics

by Tara McIsaac The present framework of quantum mechanics has reached its limit, said Professor Emeritus…

The Origin of Consciousness

The Attention Schema Theory (AST), developed over the past five years, seeks to explain the evolution…

Let Love Do It ~ Matt Licata

By Matt Licata Contemporary research in the fields of neuroscience and trauma have revealed that suffering…

Spiritual Bypassing by Robert Masters

Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual practices/beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved…

A Symphony of Black Holes

Astronomers discovered a group of black holes mysteriously aligned.  This beautiful animation shows…

If Life Can Make it Here, it Can Make it Anywhere

By Will Ferguson If the origin of life is common on other worlds, the universe should be a cosmic zoo…

Why Your Life is not a Journey ~ Alan Watts

A look at our deadening conditioning and a reminder to savor every precious second of life! Still as…

Wormholes Between Quantum Mechanics and Relativity?

image by shutterstock One of the most stubborn problems in physics today is the fact that our two best…

A Fifth Force Of Nature?

By Alfredo Carpineti A few months ago a curious experimental result was reported where Hungarian scientists…

The Taste of Mystery

For a physicist, there is nothing more exciting than an experiment that fails to behave. The thrill…

The Self-Organizing Universe - An Interview with Neil Theise

In this interview Neil Theise discusses how he has uncovered conscious, self-organizing universe though…

Building Solidity From Quantum Weirdness

By Shawn Radcliffe

One of the biggest pastimes of quantum physicists is pondering the nature of reality. However, when…

3 Days after Death, Genes Live On

Zhi-Khro mandala, a part of the Bardo Thodol's collection, a text known in the West as The Tibetan Book…

Living Is Life’s Only Purpose

From I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, translated by Maurice Frydman image from Yoga Magazine…

The Quantum Eraser, Persistence of Information and the Delayed Choice Experiments

By Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

Image from briankoberlain.com The quantum eraser is a clever experimental design, in which first a quantum…

Worker Of The Universe - Rabindranath Tagore

It is only the revelation of You as the Infinite that is endlessly new and eternally beautiful in us…

Follow the Threads — Mindful Awakening

By Michael Taft

Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam When I started meditating in my teens, I believed in Enlightenment.…

The Disappointment of Awakening

By Matt Licata Much is being said these days about healing and spiritual awakening, and the causeless…

Cellular Healing of Inherited Trauma

By Georgi Johnson

Our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children through our genes.…

Entanglement, Chaos and a Butterfly's Wing

By Georgi Johnson

"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who…

Consciousness from Coma or Deep Sleep

Full consciousness seems to involve the incremental awakening of the components of person-hood and identity.…

Time Slices: What is the Duration of a Percept?

When we play a game of ping-pong (especially with two balls at once), we move with astounding speed…

Alice in Quantum Land - Part Two - The Dissolving of Space and Time

By Peter Russell

Read Part One (...) The voice from nowhere continued, telling Alice how Einstein's insights threw more…

Science and Spirituality of Gender Fluidity

By Georgi Johnson

“Once a young woman asked me, “How does it feel to be a man?” And I replied, “My dear, I am not so sure.”…

Living Quantum Computers - an Interview with Chris Fields

Q: Which kind of biological system would make a good candidate for a quantum computing element and why?…

Allowing Life To Reveal, Florian Schlosser

Florian Schlosser will be speaking at SAND Italy 2016 The Absurdity Of Self-Improvement If you are involved…

The Courage to Live without Knowing How

By Unmani Hyde

The truth is that I don’t know. When I don’t just blindly believe my thoughts and the socially accepted…

Life as a Meditation

by Jac O' Keeffe You do not need a calm life that is free of chaos to be aware. Life does not need to…

Dark Side of the Moon - Spiritual Teaching & Identity

By Georgi Johnson

A popular misconception around spiritual teachers is that their work is complete: they are free, happy…

Alice in Quantum Land - Part One - The Universal Constant of Action

By Peter Russell

“Good morning, Alice,” a voice said.  Or at least it seemed like a voice. Alice rubbed her eyes.  She’d…

Alive and Groundless

by: Matt Licata From the perspective of exhaustion and the longing for rest, it is compassionate to…

Will Particle X Be the Next Physics Revolution?

“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” — Isaac Newton We become so familiar with…

Shantena A. Sabbadini: Consciousness is Primary

In his 2015 talk at SAND Italy and subsequent interview, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini offers  a scientifically…

A Conscious Cosmos with Peter Russell

By Georgi Johnson

This is part II of an interview of Peter Russell - Read part I "Any intelligent fool can make things…

Sing a Song of Mooji

By Georgi Johnson

"A sage may have nothing. He is empty, but the force of his mere presence alone will draw those to him…

The Path of the Heart an Interview with Mirabai Star

In this interview Mirabai Starr discusses questions such as: Is it necessary to be on a spiritual path…

An Ever-Changing Self - Neuroscience Backs Buddhism

By Olivia Goldhill While you may not remember life as a toddler, you most likely believe that your selfhood…

Why is Quantum Physics and Relativity a Difficult Marriage?

Why is Quantum Physics and Relativity a difficult marriage? Because it happens everywhere at once! How…

The Biology of Anitya

All things, especially living ones, are marinating in the river of time. We see and understand that…

The Universe in Three Minutes

See the entire evolution of the cosmos as we know it in less than three minutes. More than 13 billion…

Free and Easy: A Spontaneous Vajra Song

By Venerable Lama Gendun Rinpoche Happiness can not be found through great effort and willpower, but…

A Conscious Chaos? A Dialogue with Peter Russell

By Georgi Johnson

Peter Russell’s latest outreach initiative comes in the form of an elegant and poignant short animation…

Nonlocality Gets a Boost - David Bohm Revisited

The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics asks us to believe that particle don't have locations until…

Are Black Holes Holograms?

Daniel Odier in Conversation

Naropa: The Dauntless. Tibet. This interview by Lea Horvatic was first published in the Sutra Journal…

An Indigenous Approach To Healing Trauma

The Healing Power of Listening in Stillness Indigenous Water Desana Dancers By Jonathan Davis People…

Science & Spirituality as Interdependent - the 17th Karmapa

By Georgi Johnson

Dissolving the “Other” in Emptiness: The 17th Karmapa  Speaking in Geneva on May 22nd, 2016, the 17th…

When Love Cracks you Open

By Jeff Foster

Love does not always feel safe because love is pure potential and pure presence and in pure presence…

The Mystic Dance Tandava, Daniel Odier

image: Goddess Kali Ma from www.danielodier.com Daniel Odier was born in Geneve in 1945. He is a novelist,…

The Advaita Perspective On Panpsychism, Rupert Spira

A wonderful discussion on panpsychism and how it is different from the nondual view of consciousness…

Leading Neuroscientists and Buddhists Agree: “Consciousness is Everywhere”

image from www.complexitygraphics.com By Sam Littleface Wallace New theories in neuroscience suggest…

Conquering the Fear of Oblivion (in 15 minutes)

By Bernardo Kastrup

image from buzzfeed.com Most people fear death. And amongst those, most do so because death seems to…

Let Life Explode in Silence

By Mauro Bergonzi

The view from Titignano castle, at SAND Italy. Since the idea of a separate ego is just a mental construct,…

Are Consciousness and Awareness the Same?

Is consciousness the same as awareness, or do the two words refer to different dimensions of perception?…

Fully immersed in 'not knowing'

By Michael Taft

All sensory experiences of the external world, your own body, and your own thoughts are just brain-generated…

Two the Love Story of One

SAND is honored to publish the new book "Two the Love Story of One" by Prasanna. In the Ocean of Love…

Sense of Self

By Richard Lang

Photo: Caras Ionut Our sense of self – who we see ourselves to be – is highly infectious. We cannot…

Love's Deeper Commitment

By Jeff Foster

Let’s not commit to a future together.

Mysterious Planet Nine

Astronomers see a lot of evidence for a planet, ten times more massive than Earth, orbiting the sun…

Mindful Awakening: The Cost Is Just Everything

By Jessica Graham

art: Autumn Skye Morrison "Remembering Eternity"There are certain defining moments throughout spiritual…

Where Relativity and Quantum Physics Meet

Where relativity and quantum physics meet: A new theory of inertia that could revolutionize space travel.…

Interview with Gopi Krishna on Consciousness and Kundalini

This article was first published at the Sutra Journal A visionary thinker and writer whose life spanned…

Does Brain Imaging Corroborate or Contradict Materialism?

By Bernardo Kastrup

Straw-man picture by Clyde Robinson. Reproduced under CC BY 2.0.The two essays I wrote prior to this…

Life Cannot be Thought

By Eric Baret

In time it becomes evident that life is not a concept. That life cannot be thought.

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Vikram Zutshi In Conversation With Evan Thompson This article was first published at the Sutra Journal…

How Deeply Do You Want To Go ?

By Dorothy Hunt

How deeply do you want to go in your spiritual life? Are you satisfied with a glimpse now and then of…

time (t) = 0 is Pure Awareness

By Jayant Kapatker

To understand and interpret science properly, it is important to understand what we mean by t (time)…

Kriya Yoga in the Light of Recent Findings in Neuroscience

by Marshall Govindan This article was first published at the Sutra Journal Recent advances in neuroscience…

Relativity versus Quantum Mechanics: The Battle for the Universe - Part 1

Distant Aeons 2 - Illustration by Owen Gildersleeve by Corey S. Powell It is the biggest of problems,…

Clear Mind, Open Heart, Transparent Body

By Scott Kiloby

“There is no end to the depth of this freedom.” I remember hearing Gangaji say that many years ago.…

The Veda Of Physics: Reconciling The Observer And The Observed

By Subhash Kak

How can conceptions that came up several thousand years ago in India be of relevance to modern physics?…

Complex Ideas Can Enter Consciousness Automatically

New research provides further evidence for 'passive frame theory,' the groundbreaking idea that suggests…

Can Gut Bacteria Shape Our Emotions?

By Shawn Radcliffe

People have long talked about trusting your ‘gut instinct.’ Or described nervousness as having ‘butterflies…

Genetic Changes Carry Trauma’s Effects Across the Generations

By Shawn Radcliffe

For survivors of extreme trauma, those experiences can have long-lasting effects on their physical and…

Today in the Market Place

By Dorothy Hunt

Today in the market place, I will love you in the lemons and caress you in the smooth-skinned apple.…

Spanda: The Pulse of Consciousness

photo: Sergio Smiriglio "Both dynamic and creative, this divine power is Spanda — the vibration of consciousness."…

The Universe Within

The fundamental atoms that make our hands, feet, and brains serve as the fuel for stars. It isn't merely…

A Cognitive Science View Of Abhinavagupta’s Understanding Of Consciousness

“Consciousness is at the very center of our epistemic universe, and our access to it is not perceptually…

Ten Misconceptions about the Shoreless Ocean and its Waves

By Dorothy Hunt

That a wave has a solid, permanent, separate “self,” separate from the Ocean that gives it its life,…

A Poetic Contemplation of Physics, Book Review

By JOSEPH PESCHEL Rovelli portrays the universe as a strange place where space-time, the present, the…

The Psychology of Spiritual Seeking, Trauma and Addiction, Gabor Maté

In this interview Gabor Maté shares his perspectives on the psychology of spiritual seeking, trauma,…

A New Take On Bohmian Mechanics

In Bhom's universe, something happening in a distant galaxy is influencing you right now and vice versa,…

Science and Mysticism

By Dave Pruett "We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are between stories."…

Retrocausality: Can the Present Affect the Past?

The present moment is the source of a chain of interdependence. This absolute point includes all changing…

Awakening: The Great Divorce

By Jeff Foster

By Jeff Foster When you awaken, what disappears is your interest in maintaining a consistent 'image'.…

A Kind Of Knowing - Bob OHearn

by Bob OHearn There is a kind of knowing, like a tender touching without hands, that impregnates the…

DṚG-DṚŚYA-VIVEKA - Wisdom of the Seer and the Seen

Belur, Karnataka - photo by Vikram Zutshi An Inquiry Into The Nature of the Seer and the Seen, the Way…

Fritjof Capra on Science and Spirituality

By Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. Cameron Gray A new conception of life I was trained as a physicist and spent…

The Perception of Continuous Time is an Illusion

By Tyler MacDonald A new study proposes that the crystallized structure of time is discrete and our…

Laozi and Quantum Physics an interview with Shantena Sabbadini

Shantena Augusto Sabbadini (http://www.shantena.com) worked as a theoretical physicist at the University…

Let’s Rethink Space

Does space exist without objects, or is it made by them? By George Musser Space is brutally egalitarian.…

To Be Conscious of Consciousness. Mirror Neurons and Human Freedom

By Georgi Y. Johnson With the discovery of mirror neurons, it could be that a new neural network is…

Enter One Lyrics by Sol Seppy

After a storm I wanna be brave And keep you warm And not fade away As we float from the shore Into the…

Ṣad Darśanas - Six Views on Reality

by Dr. Jeffery Long This article was first published at the Sutra Journal For many centuries, Indian…

Are Singularities Real?

It’s hard to imagine infinity: something that is, by definition, larger than everything you can imagine.…

Excerpts from “Emptiness, Relativity and Quantum Physics” by the Dalai Lama

Image credit: Josh Felise In brief, the principle of dependent origination can be understood in the…

Paralogical Thinking

By Tim Freke

In this article standup philosopher Tim Freke articulates the nature of ‘paralogical’ thinking, which is the foundation of the philosophy and practices he shares to guide people to a ‘deep awake’ state.

Why Are We Still Here?

The BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica has led to significant new results on the early universe. Photo:…

Not Resisting Resistance

By Peter Russell

The building where I used to run a meditation group was on the same street as a fire station; one could…

The Mystery of Metamorphosis

By Shawn Radcliffe

photo: Muhammet Ceylan "What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."…

The Treasure at the Heart of Pain

By Gail Brenner

Image by Nataliorion Yes, I know it hurts. Whether you feel sad, scared, lonely, or regretful, it weighs…

The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection

Since the start of the war on drugs many decades ago, the drugs themselves have often been blamed as…

In Search of Time’s Origin - Part 2

By Zeeya Merali However, Genovese still had to confirm the second part of the hypothesis: that when…

Sewing Lesson

image by Dina Belenko between clouds and abyss the garment of self is sewn with the patient enemy time…

Lisa Randall: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

By Shawn Radcliffe

Star Trails over Green Lake by Dan Barr Dark matter is already known to be everywhere. But in her new…

Relativity versus Quantum Mechanics: The Battle for the Universe - Part 2

Large Hadron Collider - Rex Features << Part 1 by Corey S. Powell A bigger vision If you are looking…

Is the Future Already Written? - Part 2

<< Part 1 By Zeeya Merali Time off from Time Even though Ellis had reservations about time and…

Vijnana Bhairava Tantra

Bathe deeply in that ocean of sound which is even now vibrating within you, resonating softly, permeating…

In Search of Time’s Origin - Part 1

By Zeeya Merali Rearrange the following words to tell a coherent life story: A man dies, later he gets…

Huh?

image by Christian Wig row row row the boat I listened at the bankless river that no longer flows for…

Is the Future Already Written? - Part 1

Mipan/iStock By Zeeya Merali George Ellis is not afraid to rock the establishment. In his youth in South…

What Does Quantum Theory Tell us About Free Will?

By Chris Fields and Chris Fields

One often hears that quantum theory saves free will from classical Newtonian…

Entanglement and the Continuity of Space-Time

By Shawn Radcliffe

image by Jai Youn Ryu Quantum entanglement and wormholes may give rise to the fabric of reality, according…

On the Nature of Reality, the Self, Time, Space and Experience

By Menas C. Kafatos and Deepak Chopra

In this article we address the nature of Reality, universal Consciousness and the subjective Self found in monistic systems of India, particularly in many sūtras of Vedanta and Kashmir Śaivism.

The Challenge of Relationships

By John Prendergast

photo by Valerie Tirard by John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. Relationships tend to be the most challenging…

Study Challenges Theory of Consciousness

By Shawn Radcliffe

Ascent of Angels by Brad Goldpaint Over the past decade scientists have made progress in identifying…

The Emptiness and Potency of 108

By Newcomb Greenleaf

Buddhism and mathematics two paths to our sacred number maverick mathematician / vajrayana Buddhist…

Seek and Ye Shall Not Find

By Peter Russell

image by gkindshivani "Seek and Ye Shall Find!" In daily life this may be true; the more we search for…

The Invitation

By Dorothy Hunt

When God comes in your house it is only by your invitation, but even your invitation is God's, for she…

Self-Realization Is In Every Moment, Nirmala

Good Morning by Jungwoo Kim by Nirmala Recently, I was talking with a teacher and friend about self…

The Ties That Bind: Relationships and Our Immune System

By Shawn Radcliffe

photo: © Chi Hung Cheung Thirty years ago many scientists would have scoffed at the idea that your health…

Dismantling the Fantasy

“Our appearance, direction, and actions simply happen. This realization is freedom. From that point…

Artist With Synesthesia Sees What She Hears And Turns It Into Art

Radiohead - Karma Police, painted by Melissa McCracken Melissa McCracken synesthetic artist that sees…

Love Is for Giving, Nirmala

by Nirmala What is love and where is it found? We search for love and try to get love, and yet it seems…

Is Beauty in the Eye of the Mathematical Beholder?

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.” ~ Bertrand Russell If beauty…

Universe, Life, Consciousness by Andrei Linde

If quantum mechanics is true, then one may try to find the wave function of the universe. This would allow us find out which events are probable and which are not. However, it often leads to problems of interpretation.

Coming from the Advaitic/Awareness Teachings? Special Pointers

By Greg Goode

When I began to study the emptiness teachings in earnest, I had already been familiar with the advaitic…

Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

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