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Softening the Grip of the World
This is my second article on Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga. In this article I want to give practical advice on how to soften the grip this “solid” world has on us, allowing…
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Lucid Dreaming and Dream Yoga
A while back I wrote a handful of articles on death. One of them covered, briefly, the eight stages of death as outlined in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. At the end,…
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The Evolutionary Hump
I have come to realize there is an evolutionary hump that we as individuals, as a society, and as a species need to get over if we are going to continue into the…
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Evolutionary Magic
The basis of my philosophy is evolution. Matter evolves, life evolves, even consciousness and self-consciousness evolve. Everything evolves. That in and of itself is not a particularly bold statement. The scientific evidence for…
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Does Humanity Have a Death Instinct?
The psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, included the death instinct in in his psychology. He did it reluctantly, but he noticed there were certain self-destructive impulses in humans that he couldn’t explain, like the impulse…
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Do We Love the World Enough to Save It?
Let me ask you a question before we begin. When you look out at the world around you, what do you see? How do you relate to it? How Do You View the…
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The Kali Yuga
The Kali Yuga is the fourth and present age of the world cycle of yugas according to Hinduism. It represents an age of darkness and depravity in humanity that leads to the destruction…
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Cataclysm: A Natural Power of the Universe
In one of his video courses, entitled, The Ten Powers of the Universe, cosmologist, Brian Swimme discusses these powers which include, synergy, emergence, transmutation, transformation among others. They all sound pretty positive, but…
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Overcoming Our Fear of Death
What’s our real fear of death? It is the fear of our nothingness. We are afraid that when we die, we, as a self, will be annihilated, gone from existence forever. That fear…
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The Eight Stages of Death
Have you ever wondered what happens after you die, or even what happens as you are dying? Death is a Difficult Topic for our Materialistic Society Perhaps not. Death is not a popular…
