Psychology
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Quantum Physics and Kierkegaard
I realize this is a strange combination: Quantum Physics and Danish existentialist philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), but I think Kierkegaard’s ideas in relation to proving God’s existence are relevant to how we interpret…
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Marx Embraced Capitalism
The above title may sound strange to some people. Didn’t Karl Marx hate capitalism and seek its overthrow? Yes, he did, but he also saw it as a needed step on the way…
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Do Christians Really Believe in Free Will?
Allan Watts asked the question, many of us do, “Are humans free beings or determined beings?” Christians maintain that human beings have free will, however corrupted and fallen we are. On the other…
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What Living in the Now Means
There are a lot of misconceptions about what “Being or Living in the Now” means. For one thing, a lot of people think Being in the Now means just acting on any whim…
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The Parable of the Blue Sky and the Clouds
It’s amazing to think that our real fear of death is really a fear of life. It is a fear of who we really are. Our fear of death is at bottom a…
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The Bardo of Dharmata (After-Death)
After we have officially died, meaning the journey of our physical body and the appearances of this life have ended, the journey of the mind continues into the Bardo of Dharmata. This is…
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Distracted from Distraction by Distraction
The title is taken from the first of T. S. Eliot’s” Four Quartets,” Burnt Norton. It describes the plight of modern humans. We spend all of our time running away from ourselves by…
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The Bardo of Dying
The Bardo of Dying is what the previous three bardos of life have been preparing us for. It is where the pedal hits the medal so to say. It is here we take…
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The Bardo of Meditation
The Bardo of Meditation is where we focus most directly on realizing the nature of mind. It is here that we develop the practices to confront the nature of our mind and learn…
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Harmonizing With the Cosmic Flow
A few articles back I drew on the work of physicist, Sarbmeet Kanwal, who explored and wrote on Quantum Evocation (linked here: Quantum). It offers a new paradigm to replace the deterministic Newtonian…
