I’m beginning this essay with a humorous true story I heard on a podcast with Michael Levin (54 mins mark). Michael is a developmental and synthetic biologist and distinguished professor at Tufts University. The story is as follows: Michael
When I thought about our fear of awakening, I thought about a comedian, who when asked at gunpoint: “your money or your life?” After thinking for a while replied: Well——- Faced with a similar choice: our reality or an
Ideas appear as if—- can it be? — outside myself? Gentle, loving, inspiring. Whispering wisdom but from where? I am the one who listens wondering from where, if not here, the ideas I hear out of no-where appear. A stranger
I want to begin by defining dissociation. “Unless you first know something you cannot dissociate it. ²Knowledge must precede dissociation, so that dissociation is nothing more than a decision to forget. ³What has been forgotten then appears to be fearful,
When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream. - A Course in Miracles The perceptual mind is a split mind with two interpreters: the ego or Spirit. The ego is afraid of
In April of this year I participated in an essay contest sponsored by FQxI (Foundational Questions Institute), whose advisory board and members are composed of top scientists worldwide. The essays were to respond to the question: “How could science be
Of one thing you were sure: Of all the many causes you perceived as bringing pain and suffering to you, your guilt was not among them. (T-27.VII.7:4-5) The story we have accepted about the world, how it
I would like to start this essay with a brief discussion of the role of time in our experience of the world. Quite frankly without our experience of time nothing happens. And the direction we perceive time, going from past
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