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@PrudenceLouise1 · 5 months ago
Why Consciousness is Such a Big Deal - understanding the spiritual worldview
Consciousness is a hot topic these days, but most of the popular discussion misses the point. It either misunderstands the hard problem of consciousness, or sidesteps it. One example of the sidestep...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 5 months ago
The Elegant Simplicity of Idealism
The best explanations of the world are not only the most accurate, they’re as simple as possible. There is an elegant simplicity to Einstein’s e=mc2, and yet it encapsulates a profound truth. This pr...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 6 months ago
Why I'm not a Naturalist
Naturalism is the cultural dogma of the modern world. It’s a story that’s repeated so often, people accept it without questioning its truth. The naturalist story says that as scientific knowledge adv...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 6 months ago
Wealth Addiction - The cost of being rich
No one ever thinks having lots of money will harm them. We may think it will have undesirable side effects, like making us a target for thieves and scammers, or causing relationship troubles with fri...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 7 months ago
The Search for Knowledge - where will it end?
All human beings search for knowledge. What is the end of that search? Can we discover knowledge that will bring our search to its conclusion? Is there a foundational truth that explains all other th...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 9 months ago
God is Love
When some people hear that God is love, it arouses the image of a benign old gentleman. An inoffensive chap who is insipidly polite and agreeably kind. This superficial idea comes from the dogma of m...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 9 months ago
The Rational Path Leads to God
Everyone has heard the propaganda that theism is irrational. We’re told belief in God is wishful thinking. A security blanket for people who can’t cope with the harsh realities of life. But this pat...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 10 months ago
The Practice of Yoga - Stretch your understanding
In the West, yoga is understood as a method to achieve physical and mental well-being. But yoga offers so much more. It promises us freedom from all suffering, a state of eternal bliss. Yoga is a spi...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 11 months ago
The Universe is a Spiritual Black Hole - Exposing the illusion of the material world
The term black hole is a misnomer. A black hole isn’t empty space, it’s the opposite. It’s a region of space so dense even light can’t escape its boundary. When viewed from the outside the space ap...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Perfection of Free Will - surrender to divine love
The will is the power which moves everything in the conscious world. How you choose to move and interact with the world is determined by your will. While our limited sphere of influence moves accordi...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Problem of Evil and Suffering - Is there a solution?
The problem of evil is often called the rock of atheism. This describes its enduring power to cast doubt on the existence of a loving God. While we think of it as a logical problem, its force reaches...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Fulfilment of Consciousness - Moving in harmony with the divine
The conscious dimensions of nature are the substance of reality . The conscious self within your body is the substance of what you are, and the same principle applies to the whole of reality. The fi...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Insidious Cult of Scientism - the power of cultural indoctrination
We can’t avoid cultural conditioning. We absorb it through psychological osmosis. From the moment of our birth, we’re immersed in social interactions which instil the cultural values and beliefs of ou...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Silence of the Cosmos is the Sound of Freedom - The human search for meaning
Human life is an existential crisis. We do what we can to avoid it. We try to ignore it, outsource it, delegate it, divert our attention from it or deny it exists. But they’re all feeble and futile a...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
Heaven is not a Geographical Location
In the spiritual view of reality, the inner dimensions of the world are primary. The foundation of the world is consciousness. Instead of the naturalist view that consciousness is a state of matter, t...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 1 year ago
The Substance of Reality -Consciousness filtered through space-time
In the modern world, naturalism exerts a potent influence on our way of thinking. The exuberance produced by the success of science caused an overconfidence in its ability to explain the world. As sc...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
The Inner Dimensions of Nature
There is a lot of debate about the characteristics of nature and the existence of the supernatural, but through it all the concept of nature is often obscure. We may use the same word, but often we’re...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
The Law of Karma - Cosmic justice or natural law?
The doctrine of karma is sometimes interpreted as a system of cosmic justice. God is the chief prosecutor enforcing his laws through reward and punishment. Suffering is divine retribution for sin, and...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Seeing Jesus through a Hindu Lens -A portal to the divine
Many religions gain truth about divinity through revelation. We can use logic to infer the divine exists, but inference isn’t direct knowledge. If the nature of the divine was apparent to our senses,...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
How to Construct a Worldview - A blueprint for building tolerance and humility
Human beings need a worldview to function. A worldview isn’t a single belief or even a collection of beliefs. It’s the widest possible view we can take of reality. A worldview is an interpretative fr...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Can all the Different Religions be True? - The harmonious outlook of religious pluralism
There is a wide diversity of religious claims and practices. Conceptions of the divine range from the God of Abraham to Hinduism’s impersonal Brahman. This diversity exists between religions and with...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Reality Maximization - Anselm’s ontological argument for God
In days of yore people knew how to talk about Being with a capital B. Existence had gradations, modulations and all manner of expressions, some greater, some lesser. This was common sense to the peopl...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Universes from Nothing? - Scientific euphemisms and equivocations
The question of cosmic origins is a perennially popular question, but most theists think we have known the answer for thousands of years. God is the ultimate cause of the cosmos. While there’s room t...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
God of the Gaps - Engineering God in the scientific image
From both sides of the debate God of the Gaps is used as a disparaging critique of an argument. The non-theist often considers the accusation sufficient to refute the argument. The theist is keen to a...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Reflections on the Nature of Faith - Transcending the limits of the intellect
Faith is sometimes described as belief without evidence. Non-believers promote this idea, but many believers also say this is the substance of faith. If we had evidence, why would we need faith? But...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
The Impossibly Hard Problem of Consciousness - The philosophical zombie apocalypse
In 1994 the philosopher David Chalmers raised questions about consciousness which ignited a zombie apocalypse. These weren’t questions no one had asked before. These were questions that rattled the e...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Introduction to Bhagavatam - India's devotional jewel
While the  Bhagavad Gita  is well known outside of India, the Bhagavata Purana, or Bhagavatam, is a hidden gem. Bhagavatam means  The Book of God . While much of the Vedic literature is esoteric and...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
Dharma - Linking the cosmic order to personal destiny
Dharma is a Sanskrit word which means to support and preserve. It’s the essential quality on which something rests, that quality which makes it the type of thing it is. The dharma of something defines...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
The Presumption of Atheism on trial
It’s become fashionable to say atheism has no burden of proof. It’s said atheism is the default assumption and the onus is on the theist to prove, not on the atheist to disprove. While this idea has...
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@PrudenceLouise1 · 2 years ago
The End of Knowledge - Introduction to Vedanta
Vedanta has been called the science of spirituality. It’s one of the six schools of Indian philosophy and takes its inspiration from the literature of the Upanishads. Upanishad means  to sit nearby ....
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