Philosophy
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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…
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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…
