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Teilhard and Other Modern Thinkers on Evolution, Mind, and Matter (part I)
- by Peter B. Todd
- in Cognitive Sciences, Dialogues
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In his The Phenomenon of Man, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin develops concepts of consciousness, the noosphere, and psychosocial evolution. This article explores Teilhard’s evolutionary concepts as resonant with thinking in psychology and physics. It explores contributions…
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The Silence Between Mind and Liberation
“There isn’t really such a thing as silence,” Robert Zatorre, an expert on the neurology of sound. “In the absence of sound, the brain often tends to produce internal representations of sound.” “Letting go” of the mind is as much an essential part of meditation as noticing your thoughts in the first place, in the same way that realizing that the handle of a pot is hot, allowing you to release your grip on it.
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Panel on the Nature of Fundamental Reality moderated by Deepak Chopra
- by Science and Nonduality
- in Dialogues, SAND 15, SAND Talks, Videos
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A panel with Edward Frenkel, Bernardo Kastrup, Menas Kafatos, Julia Mossbridge and facilitated by Deepak Chopra. For centuries philosophers and scientists have debated on the nature of fundamental realityand also the mind body problem and the…
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Reflections on mind, matter and awareness, Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira reflects on the importance of exploring the root sense of separation in the healing of our relationships. From an early age Rupert was deeply interested in the nature of Reality. For twenty years he…
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The elevator pitch of a world in consciousness
- by Bernardo Kastrup
- in Dialogues, Philosophy
- 2 Comments
Bernardo Kastrup It strikes me how often discussions about the nature of reality get muddled in misunderstandings arising from concepts. Words like ‘mind,’ ‘consciousness,’ ‘subjectivity,’ and even ‘world’ can evoke all kinds of unintended meanings, depending…
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Mind and Self: On Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras
- by Subhash Kak
- in Dialogues, Experiential, Spiritual Paths, Yoga
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Vasiṣṭha’s Yoga What you have called the body does not exist in the eyes of the sage. Even the conception of the world as dream is not correct since there is no dream in the infinite…
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Love Is a Place – Rupert Spira – Part 4 of 4
- by Rupert Spira
- in Dialogues, Retreat, SAND Talks
- 10 Comments
The only activity the separate self is really engaged in is the discovery of peace, freedom and happiness. It first tries to do this by uniting with objects, substances, states and relationships, but at some point…
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The linguistic con game of the ‘mind/matter duality’
- by Bernardo Kastrup
- in Dialogues, Philosophy
- 23 Comments
I have recently been accused of proposing a metaphysics that simply replaces one form of reductionism with another: instead of reducing everything to matter, I allegedly ‘reduce’ everything to mind, the supposed polar opposite of matter….
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