Mar 3–6, 2022
With Alexandra Sheren
The award-wining music short "Portraiture"
With Sam Harris and Iain McGilchrist
Sam Harris speaks with Iain McGilchrist about the differences between the right and left hemispheres.
It starts with Being Human—and moves on from there
A selected set of talks from the Talks on Trauma series, parts 1 & 2
By Science and Nonduality
Why are we here? Where did it all come from?
By Judith Butler
Creating an Inhabitable World for Humans Means Dismantling Rigid Forms of Individuality
By Rainer Maria Rilke
We pass away, till at last, our passing is so immense that
By Aldous Huxley
Knowledge vs. Understanding and the Antidote to Our Existential Helplessness
With A.H. Almaas and Thomas Hübl • Thurs. January 27, 2022 10–11:30am PST
A Live Online Community Conversation Facilitated by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo
With Gail Brenner • Feb. 12, 16, 19, 23 & 26, 2022; 9–11am PST
Finding Ease and Well-Being in Daily Life; A 5-Part Live, Online Series
A pre-recorded 4-part Video Series with Stanislav Grof
By J. Krishnamurti
Simple life does not consist in the mere possession of a few things
By Adyashanti
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave.
By Oliver Burkeman
A growing chorus of scientists and philosophers argue that free will does not exist.
By Jonathan O'Callaghan
The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
By Hafiz
Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred.
By David Crookes
Can our brains help prove the universe is conscious?
By Thomas Nail
Consciousness may be an emergent property from a bunch of background chatter.
By Lao Tzu
By Matt Licata
There’s a fantasy that we’re supposed to know what to do with our lives.
By Laura Johnson
In these times of layered and intersecting personal and collective traumas...
She was a Sufi mystic who lived in the eighth century
By Rabia al Basri
In my soul there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church where I kneel.
By Eric Baret
What is dark is the so-called spiritual quest.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.
By Federico Faggin
Two excerpts of his new book
Let this darkness be a bell tower
By Christian de Vietri
She is the primordial Word, the very essence of the highest reality,
By James Parker
I know, I know: It’s good for you.
By Scott Barry Kaufman
Self-enhancement through spiritual practices can fool some of us into thinking we’re evolving
By Jeff Foster
It's simple. When you feel sad, just feel sad.
By Andreas Kluth
A new type of experiment could get us closer to grasping human consciousness.
By Adam Grant
Book Review
By NPR
A gunman barricaded himself inside a one-room Amish schoolhouse
By Ephrat Livni
Philosophers and mystics have long contemplated the disconcerting notion that the fixed self is an illusion.
By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
She is the mystery of light being born into matter
By Khalil Gibran
You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus.
By Sky Nelson-Isaacs
This addresses a fundamental challenge within the standard theory of quantum mechanics
By Howard Thurman
The true purpose of all spiritual disciplines is to clear away...
By Jonathan Riley
How can Yoga help us to better understand our emotions?
By Cecilia Payne
O Universe, O Lover, I gave myself to thee
By Alessandro Fedrizzi & Massimiliano Proietti
Each of us may be able to experience totally different realities.
By Nathalie Delay
Silence is a practice—a discipline or a passion...
By Mariette Raina
Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit...
By Jennifer Chu
To understand ourselves and our place in the universe...
By Jean Klein
At certain moments, when alone, we feel a great lack deep within ourselves.
By Università di Bologna
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
By Pesha Gertler
Finally on my way to yes, I bump into all the places where I said no
Love, as it is usually understood, is an absence of friendship.
By Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha
For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings worked through trauma communally through ritual practices.
By Davide Castelvecchi
Hints of twisted light offer clues to dark energy’s nature
Total silence in which there is neither the observer nor the thing observed is the highest form of a religious mind.
By David Shariatmadari
If you read this book, you'll change the charities you donate to
By Peter Evans
No matter where we start with quantum theory, we always end up at a conundrum
By Stephen Mitchell (translator)
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born.
By Merlin Sheldrake
Fungi have long supported and enriched life on our planet. They must be protected as fiercely as animals and plants.
By Stephen & Ondrea Levine
Many people suffer from relationship senility. The mind has become utterly fatigued from trying.
By Chelan Harkin
Now I drink dark chocolate and let the moon sing to me.
By Thomas Hübl
What we think of as destiny is in fact the unintegrated past
By Fred Bahnson
Among the contemplatives
By Peter Taylor
Mindfulness may seem like a difficult practice
By Daniel Oberhaus
Jim Woodward’s peers have long dismissed his ideas about gravity and inertia. Now he believes he has the data that will prove him right—and could make interstellar travel possible for humans.
By John Favini
Scientists are slowly understanding collaboration’s role in biology
By Dr. Russell Kennedy
A doctor explains “Cognitive Bypassing” & how it’s keeping us trapped in our trauma.
By Joel Millward-Hopkins
Why do we allow the logic of the market to occupy our minds?
By Maria Popova
Meanwhile, someplace in the world, somebody is making love and another a poem.
By Michelle Starr
Just three orbiting black holes can break time-reversal symmetry
By Michael Brooks
Jeremy England says spiritual ideas can inform our scientific quest for the origin of life.
By Herman Hesse
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
By Amoda Maa
An excerpt from her latest book
By Jeremy England
The origin of life can’t be explained by first principles.
Goodall’s mystical experience occurred in the forest of Gombe
By Julia Mossbridge
Tech is driving a quiet but quickening scientific revolution
By Bayo Akomolafe
the Anthropocene calls upon a radically new ontology
By Gabrielle Roth
Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth
By Jonathan Tennenbaum
An interview with renowned physicist and Big Bang theory critic Eric Lerner
By University of Tübingen
Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time
By Lalla
I wearied myself searching for the friend with efforts beyond my strength
Meditation is what you are when you stop pretending to be
By Jerry Diamanti
When I look at someone I don’t see him alone
Physicists describe a way to merge quantum theory with Einstein’s special theory of relativity
By Dan Hurley
The quantum internet will blow your mind. Here’s what it will look like.
When we cling to continuity, there is the fear of death.
By Fred LaMotte
I voted.
Life is too intense to anticipate
By Dan McKenzie
Let me count the ways...
By Andrew Colliver
Unbelief is good medicine.
By University of Surrey
Electromagnetic energy in the brain enables brain matter to create our consciousness
By Adam Smith
Another universe existed before ours – and energy from it is coming out of black holes, says Nobel prize winner
By Shekhinah Mountainwater
In the beginning is Goddess
All dictators are thinking people.
By Dan Falk
A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a thoughtful scientific debate
By Monica Timbal
An excerpt, and an exclusive gift to our community
By James Cooke
The place of consciousness in the natural world is arguably the greatest mystery facing modern science
By James Gleick
For silence is not God, nor speaking
First priority is to stop being at war with yourself.
By Andrew Dansby
Book Review: The brain is the next frontier
By Mary Oliver
By William Waters
Just an old man who has benefited from the teachings of many
By Cell Press
Maybe it's both, argue researchers
By Maya Luna
Intensity is to be open to facts, without any comment
By Yasunori Nomura
We may soon have a new understanding of nature
By Kaitlin Shetler
and with that sentence the world stops
By Zeeya Merali
A laboratory demonstration of the classic thought experiment could overturn cherished assumptions about reality
It is very important not to focus on perception
By Grant Currin
The ancient Greeks dove into this question. But what do modern scientists think?
During my pregnancy, my midwives lent me a book that suggested parents-to-be engage with birth art...
By John Muir
No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable...
By Deb Dana
A Three-Part Exercise to Create Safety and Trust
Yoga does not bring understanding, but understanding may bring you to yoga.
By Michael Meade
All meaningful change requires a genuine surrender.
By Stephen Livine
All that exists does not for long.
By Betsy Polatin
A Manual for Being Human: An Epic Journey to Your Expanded Self
You live with your body now and you attend to your body needs in a functional way
By Paul Swanson
Where do you see a window you can open for a subtle sacrament to slip into your day?
By Paul Sutter
The Big Bounce theory was once thought impossible. But two physicists have just resurrected it.
Brain and body are two very sweet concepts
By Zvi Ish-Shalom
COVID-19 and the Narcissistic Plague of America
By Judith Blackstone
The Healing Ground is the psychological aspect of the Realization Process.
By Pir Aga Mir
This is the time for gnosis. There is no guru and no disciple.
If you feel something is sacred, it means that it's easy for you to relate to.
By Tristan Greene
The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
By Jim Davies
Stories, fiction included, act as a kind of surrogate life.
We see the game. The jig is up.
By Ethan Siegel
Along with the counterintuitive picture of reality, many myths and misconceptions have arisen
By Natalie Wolchover
New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
It is your inner beauty which is revealed by the show.
In Kabbalah, the primary way that hidden truths are revealed is through disrobing
By Kris Vieira
A cathedral community envisions vibrant spirituality for the 21st century
By Tam Hunt
Panpsychists see no obvious line between mind and no-mind.
By Scott Kiloby
Many on the spiritual path rightfully long for a sudden point in time when a shift happens
By Bernardo Kastrup
The emptiness of existence finds its expression in the flitting present as the only manner of real existence.
Separation and no separation are concepts in the mind
By Nicoletta Lanese
Physics theory could predict human behavior
By Kelly Wendorf
What would you do if you suddenly realized you were a racist?
By Greg Hammer
We are amidst the third month of the coronavirus pandemic, heading for month #4
By David Whyte
When your eyes are tired, the world is tired also
By Joan Tollifson
May we all have compassion for every one of us being exactly as we are in each moment
Practicing in the middle of a very charged emotional situation
By Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered.
In a new paper, physicists argue that axions could explain why the universe isn’t empty
Dearest one, do not look for silence with the mind.
what happens after death is a flat earth question
By Charles Eisenstein
A myth is not the same thing as a fantasy or a delusion.
Where can you help? Where can you get help?
By Jean Houston
Life is allied with myth in order that we may advance along an evolutionary path
The world is not aggressive
By Conor Purcell
In some versions of quantum gravity, time itself condenses into existence.
By Isobel Whitcomb
"There's really no research that supports that point of view,"
‘Pilgrim’ might be the word that most accurately describes us
By Carly Minsky
Scientists believe that mysterious dark matter is key to forming galaxies in the cosmos. Now, a recent series of bizarre findings threatens to undermine everything we think we know.
By Donna Jackson Nakazawa
More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with a string of autoimmune diseases
To watch a show with the Hridaya, the open mind, the open heart, can bring us closer to truth than yoga
Of the 2 trillion galaxies contained within our observable Universe, 94% are already forever beyond our reach
By Reuters
Scientists have detected a mid-size black hole - considered the "missing link" in the understanding of these celestial brutes
By Louise Erdrich
Leave the Dishes
By Jane Whitlock
We would play shower games like ‘I will remember you every time I …’ We would prepare a death ‘nursery.’ There’d be a great playlist.
The laws of physics imply that the passage of time is an illusion. To avoid this conclusion, we might have to rethink the reality of infinitely precise numbers.
Emotions are at the core of tantric teachings
By David Cates
You can’t have the life you want without letting go of the life you have
Contrary to its self-conception, Extinction Rebellion is not actually about climate change.
By Jack Kerouac
We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds.
By Ryota Kanai
Contents of consciousness are the results of active reconstruction of the reality.
By Stephan Bodian
Human life as we’ve known it has ground to a halt, and we’re faced with an unprecedented crisis—and an unprecedented opportunity.
What is Tantra? What is Yoga?
If you were to go as far out into space as you can imagine, what would you encounter?
Now that the rope has snapped, do we tie its ends back together?
By Shawn Radcliffe
One of the great unsolved problems of modern physics is coming up with a theory of everything
Today we let go and be nerds...
By the Fetzer Memorial Trust
A message from our sponsor
By Matthew Fox
A Sign of Our Times or How the Black Madonna Is Shaking Us Up for the Twenty-First Century
By Francis Weller
Uncertainty has come into our homes and found its way into each of our lives.
The first question is always “Who am I in relation to the current situation?”
A Link Between Dark Matter and Antimatter Could Be Why the Universe Exists
Just a murmur whose poor thoughts won't reach the edge of the page.
By Kevin Hartnett
A new proof in computer science also has implications for researchers in quantum mechanics and pure mathematics
Could you explain the difference between Tantra, Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism?
By Louise Lerner
A surprise discovery shakes up our understanding of gene expression
By Lynn Ungar
What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath—the most sacred of times?
By University of New South Wales
Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough
Nondualism and idealism aren’t purely Eastern insights, but the metaphysical and spiritual root of the West as well
By Philip Perry
There is no dark matter. Instead, information has mass, physicist says
What do you mean when you say there's nothing to be done?
By Rafi Letzter
No one really knows what happens inside an atom.
It was a powerful motor and well tuned; it took the hills easily, without a stutter, and the pick-up was excellent.
I grew up with trauma followed by 20 years of addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Quantum Physics is Fine, Human Bias About Reality is the Real Problem
By Stephanie Pappas
Any theory of quantum gravity is going to have to grapple with some weird time stuff.
“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”
You wouldn’t find baseballs entangled in such a way that hitting one affects another miles away.
If you are seeking true Reality, since Reality is All, it must be here, now.
By Joanna Macy
We’re in collapse now, but it doesn’t have to be a total collapse.
By Eleonora Di Valentino
In a curved universe, no matter which direction you travel in, you will end up at the starting point
You who are not yet aware, become the possessor of awareness.
By Aristos Georgiou
Scientists discover psychedelic DMT creates waking dream state in brain
By Imma Ramos - The British Museum
Exhibition curator Imma Ramos explains how this radical South Asian philosophy has been opening up new ways of seeing the world for 1,500 years.
I am in love with this blessed mess of our humanity, more than ever.
By Pema Chödrön
Times of chaos and challenge can be the most spiritually powerful…
By Mike McRae
Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.
By Chameli Ardagh
What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.
By Éric Baret
For me it is irrelevant, but let’s say for the Kashmirian tradition, as far as my teacher expressed…
By University of Vienna
The new study demonstrates a bizarre quantum effect at never-before-seen scales
By Teddy Macker
It seems we have made pain some kind of mistake, like having it is somehow wrong.
By Yonsei University
New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error
This book celebrates the great stripping process of aging, dying and spiritual awakening.
By Peter Russell
Some Overlooked Consequences of Accelerating Change
It's okay not to have New Year's resolutions
By Mike McKrae
Physicists See Hints of X17, an Elusive Particle That Could Be a New Force of Nature
How misunderstanding matter has led us astray
Seeking is an expression of truth, it’s not a way. Yoga does not bring us to truth, truth expresses itself through yoga.
By Kaitlyn Hardy Shetler
Sometimes I wonder if Mary breastfed Jesus. if she cried out when he bit her
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.
So-called “information realism” has some surprising implications
By Alessandro Fedrizzi and Massimiliano Proietti
Observers are powerful players in the quantum world.
By Thanissara
A conversation with African healer and guide Baba Mandaza Augustine Kademwa
A new model suggests that these subatomic particles may not be so fundamental after all.
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.
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).
By Elizabeth Fernandez
What is happening right now? Is your “now” the same as my “now”?
By Jessica Hesser
Fear is raging, systems and structures are crumbling, much is being undone.
By On Being
Krista Tippett and Rev. angel Kyodo williams touch upon some of the richest themes of the zeitgeist
By Becky Ferreira
Galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models.
By Ellen Emmet
There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself
Three physicists wanted to calculate how neutrinos change. They ended up discovering an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.
You will be humbled. Oh yes. Brought to your knees. Many, many times.
Hunter of Phoenix, no one can be. So take back your trap, for here, wind is all you’ll ever catch.
The revelation of Being Here while residing in a human body is infinite.
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.
By Keith Salmon
Living in harmony with the rhythms and interrelationships of the Natural World is essential
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.
All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,
The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles.
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...
Can we love when we grieve? Can we love when we are in pain? Can we love when our home is burning?
Ever since the tender age, I’ve had this passionate love affair with the aspen trees
Politics is usually a hot-button subject, one that can trigger bitter arguments, end marriages,
By Robyn Lynn
The impossible predicament of being alive, the great wound that will not heal.
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 was one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, and a fearless challenger of scientific orthodoxy.
By Selene Calloni Williams
Tradition and secret practices of mystical marriage and reawakening
We are born with a yearning to find our place
By Thomas Merton
With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success
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?
Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,
By Mirabai Starr
By David Paul Gontar
By John O'Donohue
We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.
By John Welwood
Living with someone we love, with all the joys and challenges, is one of the best ways…
On Navigating Our Losses: Interview by Tim McKee
The way isn’t forward, it’s awkward
Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.
We may think meditation will improve us, but it’s really about accepting ourselves as we are right now.
The delicate dance between loneliness, solitude and communion
How we see the problem is part of the problem
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
In this (very, very) long essay, Bayo Akomolafe investigates the work and contributions of “postactivism” in our unique times
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.
When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.
Contemporary Insights on the Convergence of Science and Spirituality
By Brian Gallagher
“Of course we do. We have no choice.”
By Brent Morton
The purpose of therapy is to help the client acknowledge, experience, and bear reality
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.
By Kavita Byrd
Why Our Spiritual Traditions Have Failed to Respond to the Global Crises – And How We Can Change That Now
By Tom Hirons
Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways
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.
By Ryan Prior
This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years.
Discrepancies in measures of expansion may point to new physics
By Emer Gentway
Can one understand nonduality without naming it?
By Toko-pa Turner
Grief is the response to a broken bond of belonging
Don’t try and be “spiritual.” Don’t seek any particular state or feeling.
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.
The “fittest” quantum properties make the most copies of themselves.
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.
By Chris Kincaid
Ikkyu Sojun decided to be true to himself and that meant regular trips to brothels
By Peta Morton
Multi-dimensional Cymatics with David Schiermeyer
By David Lorimer
This book is the first translation into English of what purports to be the complete Gospel of Mary Magdalene.
Astronomer and Ex-Zen Monk Mark Westmoquette's Book Review
By Rabindranath Tagore
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
By Marc Bekoff
An interview with award-winning filmmakers about their fascinating documentary.
By Derek Walcott
By Pierre Pradervand
Gentleness is a state of consciousness.
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 and spirituality share a profound connection, according to psychologist Peter Levine.
Life is relationship, living is relationship, yet very little attention is given to the question. What is your relationship with another?
For decades I was conditioned to believe that to engage a mature spiritual life I needed to “pick one tradition and go deep,”
By Beverly Lanzetta
The contemplative spirituality of via feminina begins with the practice of gestation.
By Alison Klesman
Birthed in the first second after the Big Bang, these as-yet-unseen objects could offer answers to astronomers’ outstanding questions.
Light as the radiant energy of creation started the ring-dance of atoms
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.”
The striving for spiritual attainment while excluding the personal dimension of life, is often a big error on the path of spiritual inquiry.
By Walt Whitman
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams
By Stanford University
Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound
By Paul Mulliner
It’s easy, during our everyday life in the world, to forget how extravagantly remarkable a human being actually is.
By John Stuart Reid
Testing a 2,500-year old hypothesis
Arrow of time points forward in quantum systems
By Lao-Tsu
It vibrates in every thing and every not-thing, right off the tip of your nose.
By William C. Bushell Ph.D. and Maureen Seaberg
New human multisensory integration model for its exploration.
By Vera de Chalambert
Some of the greatest nondual insights about the human condition were offered to our world in no ancient scroll
In less than 30 years, humanity has discovered more than 4,000 exoplanets
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.
By Fiona MacDonald
In an incredible first, scientists have captured the world's first actual photo of quantum entanglement
By Riccardo Manzotti
Chris Field's presentation viewed by Riccardo Manzotti
Could crossmodal senses be one key to unlock the true nature of physics?
In feminist theology therefore, the issue is not about exchanging pronouns but about another way of thinking of transcendence.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin on the Mystery of Stars
Why adept meditators would be invaluable to studies
Life doesn’t need a reason For happening It simply blooms forth
Alan Watts on Becoming Who You Really Are
It would be useful to add adept perceivers to the studies.
By Paul Levy
The universe is dreaming us up and we are all dreaming our lives into being.
Some of physics' remaining secrets may actually relent through the human senses.
The true extent of da Vinci’s Renaissance mind is captured in the surviving notebooks...
By Master Hongzhi
Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.
By Krista Tippett in On Being
Astronomer Natalie Batalha embodies a planetary sense of what “love” is and means.
Recognizing that our bodies and our sexuality are sacred is a good way to begin undoing the split between sex and spirit...
By Wei Wu Wei
Bondage is being dependent, tied up, limited. On, to, by, what?
The leaves of the cottonwood tree across the street...
It's not only a big deal; it's the biggest deal of all.
You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.
Underneath the ground exists a vast “social network” that connects trees and other plants to each other.
Every word a prayer. Every walk a pilgrimage. Every place a shrine.
All questions can be reduced to one question.
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 is not a path, for it is an exploration of life in all that it is...
Q: How do quantum phenomena take part in photosynthesis and why is it important?
New research shows that the physical effects of trauma can be passed down to children and even to grandchildren
By Sunil Mehrotra
On dark summer nights, away from city lights, I love to stargaze and imagine that I am dancing with the stars.
By Jose Diez Faixat
During recent decades, the apparently solid view of the mechanistic and materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks.
In the context of American spiritual practice nondual traditions and mindfulness traditions appear to be in sharp contrast.
Asking a question is being the most active you can be. It means being humble. Humility is the most active attitude.
What are we? A soul? An immaterial mind? A flow of energy? Are we our bodies or neural patterns in our brains?
New research now suggests that trees may have a “heartbeat” that pumps water from their roots.
Two realities can exist at the same time, at least in the quantum world, suggests a new study.
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?
By Susan Blackmore
Wake up! Wake up! Errrr, ummmm, grrrrggr, Oh yes, I’m awake now. Wow, that was a weird dream.
Climate change is one of the biggest and toughest problems facing human society. Unless the rise in average global temperates is stopped soon
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.
In a leafy, seemingly conventional corner of suburban Essex in southeast England ordinary children are learning in the most extraordinary of ways.
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.
A short conversation with Brazilian author Paolo Coelho
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.
There are many things that affect our mental health, from work-related stress to past traumas to whether or not we meditate each day.
By Maggie Caffery
Mirabai Starr’s new book, reviewed by Maggie Caffery
By Kate Marvel
In the current political climate, audiences want to be told that everything will be all right in the end.
A documentary about the art of living outside of conventions in deep integrity with one's essence
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.
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.
By Tom Siegfried
Just when you thought quantum physics couldn’t get any weirder, it violates the pigeonhole principle.
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.
When it comes to creating documentaries about the grandeur of the Earth, “strange” is a difficult bar to reach.
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.
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.
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.
By Stephen Battersby
Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the…
On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth;…
By Chris Grosso
Look deeper. Look deeper at your mala, your skateboard, your yoga mat. Look deeper at your records,…
The word “spirituality” has caused a lot of suffering over the centuries. Moral self-righteousness is often tagging along side that word.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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?
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.
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.
By Tom Bunzel
Our own deeply held beliefs and definitions of technology are impeding us from evolving consciously…
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
By Kristen Eykel
Shamanism is, by its very nature, a little on the dark side.
Today I gave up on healing my trauma
By Greg Sipp
For well over a century, scientists have been wrestling with what quantum mechanics has been revealing to us about fundamental reality
Might we humans be the only species on this planet to be truly conscious?
As far as I know, this is a first: a book about ayahuasca and plant medicine and shamanism...
For anyone who has watched a friend fall in love, Nietzsche’s words from Thus Spoke Zarathustra might…
By Peter Jezard
Music is created from energetic patterns of tonal and rhythmic interval. It is the ratio of these intervals…
What is the source of scientific inspiration?
By Nick Roach
Many great masters have said “Everything is Self,” and this phrase is repeated regularly during spiritual…
Beneath your feet lies an enormous subterranean biosphere of bacteria and other forms of life, surviving…
What’s wrong with mirrors? Most people know that they are backwards, reversing left and right sides,…
In physics, time exists but it has no preferred direction.
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.
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 heart is essential to our life, pumping oxygenated blood throughout our body. But it’s also the…
When we ask ourselves why we think time exists, most of us would say: because we see everything changing, always.
By Newcomb Greenleaf
Imagine for a moment being in a church where mathematics groups meet regularly to solve geometry problems…
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.
From the comfortable seat of our bodies (and built-in brains), it’s easy to think that consciousness…
By Mark Wolynn
A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to articulate what happens to us.
By Steven Parton
Sometimes in life, all the experience and knowledge simmering around in that ol’ consciousness of ours...
By Dr. Jeffery D. Long
In a now famous conversation between Carl Sagan and the Dalai Lama, Sagan, a scientist and renowned…
One of my earliest ventures into philosophy, back in high school, concerned the question of “free will versus determinism.”
When it comes to the world around us, what we perceive is not always what is actually there.
Although we might believe that our suffering is a private affair, this haunting, background agony could…
Sadness is one of the deepest emotions and it must be kept without an object.
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?
By Rick Archer
At this year's conference I'll be moderating a discussion between Bernardo Kastrup and physicist Christopher…
Awakening is not a walk in the park. It is a ride through hell.
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.
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.
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
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.
In the quest for our true identity, what could be more authentic than our own thoughts?…
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, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system.…
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.
An extraordinary and profound personal experience illustrates the tenet that the Model of Manifestation describes both the Universe – and a human being.
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
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,
Kashmir Shaivism encompasses a vast territory of wisdom and knowledge about the universe and a human…
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.
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.
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.
By David Loy
Obviously, that’s an important question for nondualists including Advaitins and Buddhists.
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.
Over the past century, the total number of physicists has grown exponentially, as has the number of…
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.
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.
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.
By Sean Carroll
In a world where scientific theories often sound bizarre and counter to everyday intuition, and where a wide variety of...
Scientists have discovered a distinct turbulent fluid pattern, surprisingly close to Kolmogorov’s equation, hidden in many of Van Gogh’s paintings.
Scientific American recently published a very interesting essay by philosopher Susan Schneider. It offers an argument against panpsychism—
By Tara MacIsaac
Between quantum physics and neuroscience, a theory emerges of a mental field we each have, existing in another dimension and behaving in some ways like a black hole.
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.
People have tried many ways to alter their consciousness — meditation, psychedelic mushrooms, LSD, rituals…
From Aristotle on, we have been conditioned to believe we have only five senses, even after science has established that we could have thousands.
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.
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.
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.
By Terry Patten
The most radical understanding of reality points first to radical wholeness, to the prior unity of all opposites and conditional experiences.
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...
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.
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?
By Jennifer Welwood
My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Chögyam Trungpa 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...
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.
By 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?
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.
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.
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?
When people talk about the evolution and development of all that makes humans “unique,” one thing that often gets overlooked is our feelings.
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.
The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear. The seeking for security invites insecurity.
By Monica Gagliano
Across all species, individuals thrive in complex ecological systems, which they rarely have complete knowledge of.
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.
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...
By Stephen Bodian & Jean Klein
Stephen Bodian interviews Jean Klein
I grew up as a student biologist with the unquestionable rule that you do not talk about animal behavior in human terms.
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.
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.
By Surendra
Please, please don’t worry. How many times do I have to say it?
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.
By 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.
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 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.
This article explores untapped potentials for Integral Theory that can emerge from recognizing the original nature of the Buddha’s awakening.
by Shawn Radcliffe If you look at a forest through a Darwinian lens, you’ll see individual trees battling…
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.
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.
By Donna Thomas
Its great that ACEs are high on the agenda for organizations that support adults, children & young people.
from "Island" by Aldous Huxley Somewhere between seeing and speaking, somewhere Between our soiled and…
By Andrew Lohrey
By Andrew Lohrey In first year philosophy I was never taught there was more than one kind of logic.…
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"Deep acceptance of the way things are is the source of all creative change. The perfect paradox." Being…
By Patrick Howe
By Patrick Howe Does Consciousness Originate In The Human Brain? The scientific view of consciousness…
Excerpt from Let the Moon Be Free, by Eric Baret What disturbs you in the presence of someone else is…
Nondual Awareness moves as Love Nondual awareness has been called the underlying, non-conceptual unity…
You are never truly alone. Everywhere you go, you carry trillions of microbes inside your gut. These…
by Paul Mulliner The conventional explanation for the existence of consciousness is that it’s generated…
by Nick Roach The title is from the Bible, Genesis 1:27. The passage goes on to say “...in the image…
That is why, brother, I became a madcap Baul. No master I obey, nor injunctions, canons or custom. Now…
By Fernando Pessoa
By Fernando Pessoa (writing under the heteronym Alberto Caeiro) The astonishing reality of things Is…
By Rajeev Kurupati
By Rajeev Kurupati The 13th century Persian mystic, Rumi, expresses a distinction between the two selves…
Physicist Neils Bohr once said, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.”…
By Dhyana Stanley
I remember the moment the teaching to “see” rather than ignore thoughts and feelings became real for…
By Ted Christopher
An Opening for Religious Perspectives With enormous certainty science has presented its material-only…
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: Behind all words, the Unsayable stands; And from that source alone, the Infinite…
“May your life be guided by curiosity and a passion to see the world with fresh eyes.” Presence Prime…
“Everything is one! Everything is one!” Say the above to anyone interested in any branch…
Oxytocin has been dubbed the “love hormone” for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more.…
By Ryan F. Mandelbaum
When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy, they commonly feel…
proud nowhere of earth’s most prodigious night blossoms a newborn babe:around him,eyes - gifted with…
Everyone is suddenly a 'spiritual teacher' these days pushing the proverbial crack of 'empowerment'.…
Philosophers, biologists, and barroom thinkers have all pondered one of the greatest mysteries of our…
By Silvia Nakkach
Transforming Consciousness and Emotions through Mantra and Raga Yoga Western culture is notorious for…
French paraphrase of the original Buddhist text by J. Garillot (1974), translated by Else van den Muyzenberg.…
Quantum mechanics is known for its strangeness, from cats being dead and alive at the same time, to…
“There is no truth. There is only perception.” ~ Gustave Flaubert Many people with chronic pain have…
The answer to climate change is embedded in the problem, says spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl. But to…
By Adam Bear
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Intelligence is big business. Browse any bookstore or smartphone app store and you’ll find hundreds…
String theory permits a “landscape” of possible universes, surrounded by a “swampland” of logically…
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Who am I? “Tat Tvam Asi,” say the Vedas. Thou art That. The journey of self-discovery is a journey inward.…
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…
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people…
By Rick Hanson
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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…
image: paul mulliner 10_6_18 In recent years, many attempts have been made to explain how the large…
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