David Paul Boaz What are the neurobiological influences of mindfulness meditation on human behavior; how do these influences effect our sense of self-ego-I; our brain structure a...
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Category: Consciousness Studies
An adequate cosmology will be written only when an adequate philosophy of mind has appeared. —E.A. Burtt Disquieting Quiescence: Tales From the Dark Side. For recent quantum cosmology...
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Primordial Wisdom Mind Truth is one; many are its names. ————————–—Rig Veda The Wisdom of Mindfulness Meditation. T...
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Our titular concern: with the collapse of local objective spacetime reality, what is real? Who am I being here in time? Our venerable quantitative Standard Model of particles and forces with its two i...
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The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao. —Lao Tzu What are the five healing qualities, characteristics and benefits of mindfulness meditation as told in the great wisd...
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Without past, present, future; empty awake mind. —Ju Mipham Neuroscientists and Zen Masters agree: the not so conscious cogniti...
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Being Happy Now For no small matter is at stake. The question concerns the very way that human life is to be lived. —Plato, The Republic, Book I “Come and See...
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Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once. ...
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Primordial Consciousness: Dzogchen Panpsychism Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them does not exist. —Werner Heisenberg Panpsychism. There is now abroad in th...
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On a freezing eve deep in November of 1619, after an intense day of prayer and meditation, the brilliant twenty-three year old French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes (1596–1659) had an...
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Who or what is it, this diaphanous relationship we call consciousness? The problem of consciousness is the most pressing scientific, philosophical and social challenge confronting our post-postmodern,...
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Let us briefly review our primordial wisdom tradition’s notion of the Two Truths and its connection to consciousness, and to consciousness studies. For the Buddhist Madhyamikas, relative truth (samv...
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