In answer to the title…well, that depends on the practitioner. However, Insight meditation does aspire to it, although perhaps to a different version of it than does the yoga meditation of my last post. So, to get down to basics, Insight meditation is a contemporary name for Vipassana Meditation, which…
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Non-dualism has become an increasingly popular spiritual idea in the West, but long before it bumped up against our shores it has been known in India as Advaita Vedanta. A Single Consciousness So, just what is Advaita Vedanta, or non-dualism? Essentially, it’s the belief that all souls exist within a…
In this blog post, I’m going to discuss some possible theological ramifications of quantum physics’ wave particle duality. I’ll admit that these ideas may seem bizarre, yet they’re being circulated by some first-rate physicists, so deserve our consideration. It’s also helpful to remember that the strange is only strange until…
Is Energy God? Energy constitutes matter, constitutes our thoughts, constitutes virtually everything within the universe, and has been an active player since the universe’s creation. Could energy, therefore, be considered “God”? It’s certainly a question that merits investigation. But to better understand energy, we first have to take a fleeting…