Learning
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Our Lived Life
Should we base our life on abstract ideas, or should our “lived life” dictate those abstract ideas? Off the cuff, many of us say, of course, our lived life should dictate those ideas.…
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Ken Wilber’s Pre/Trans Fallacy
One of Integral philosopher, Ken Wilber’s, most important contributions to philosophy is his concept of the Pre/Trans Fallacy. Before this fallacy, mystical states of oneness were dismissed by modern rational people as a…
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This Magic Moment
A while back I wrote an article entitled “The Absurd Good Feeling” linked here: Absurd Good Feeling. Absurd Good Feelings are intense feelings of well-being that spring out of the blue for no…
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Dancing With Our Dharma
In my last article, “Krishna Tells Us How to Live on a Withering Planet” (Link: Krishna) , the conclusion was, we have to reconnect to our immortal souls, and when we do, our…
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Evolutionary Magic VII: Oxygen–From Killer to Energizer
Over the last three articles I’ve written on Evolutionary Magic (EvoLMagIV, EvolMagV, EvolMagVI) I have covered one of the most remarkable periods in our evolutionary story. First off, is the emergence of life…
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Who Am I?
A while back I wrote an article for Medium entitled, “The Absurd Good Feeling”. Here’s the link: Absurd Good Feeling It was about how once in a while, out of the blue, I…
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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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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…
