Consciousness explained?
This short video clip offers another explanation on consciousness, not from the present scientific perspective, but from a spiritual perspective of a particular spiritual tradition.
I grew up in an environment of lack. At the tender age of 5, I remembered watching my mother looking all over the house and under the sofa set in our small living room for a five cent coin to pay the vegetable vendor – vegetables that she had wanted to buy to cook our…
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A prominent scientist who had previously dismissed the possibility of the afterlife says he has reconsidered his belief after experiencing an out of body experience which has convinced him that heaven exists. Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis. During his illness Dr Alexander…
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It is said that the ordinary man sees himself in the world but the enlightened man sees the world in himself. What this means is that the ordinary man is fully engaged and immersed in the material world of senses. He lost himself in it, to the extent that he is not aware that he…