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Death and the Pure Mind
While watching a video on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Andrew Holecek, the instructor, showed us a diagram of the Bardo states. Six Bardos and Three Bodies Bardos in Tibetan Buddhism are…
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The Modern vs The Integral Worldview
We are now in a battle between two worldviews, the Modern and Integral, and the fate of the planet hinges on the winner. I want to briefly explore both worldviews and then apply…
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What is Reality?
In my last two articles on the Myth of Materialism, I made the case that reality is not material, but non-material. In fact, the belief in materialism is a bigger leap of faith…
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The Myth of Materialism-Part II
In my last article exploding the myth of materialism, I focused on quantum physics and its claims that atoms are not solid entities like billiard balls or BBs, but rather almost completely empty…
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The Myth of Materialism-Part I
The modern age is very materialistic and scientific. We won’t believe anything that is not empirically verified. If we can’t taste it, touch it, hear it, see it, or smell it—it doesn’t exist.…
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The Dark Side of Positive Thinking
Positive thinking fits nicely into the matrix of the post-modern, post-truth world we are now living in. Post-modern existential philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger tore away the certainties and truths on…
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Nietzsche’s Ubermensch: The New Human
If we’re to ever save this planet and our democracy from Climate Change and the host of other problems we face, we will have to rise above only focusing on our everyday lives…
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“But He Doesn’t Believe He Lost”
I was watching Bill Maher the other night, the day after the first televised session of the January 6th congressional committee. He had former U.S. Counselor to Trump, Kellyanne Conway on. They were…
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The Noosphere and the Extraordinary Realm
Last weekend I watched a short video entitled The Extraordinary Realm. It was part of a series of videos cosmologist Brain Swimme has made, and continues to make, for a group he started…
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Climate Change, Nihility and the Religious (Spiritual) Quest
In my last article I wrote about the difference between knowing from the mind and knowing from the heart. I talked about how knowing from the mind or reason detaches us from the…
