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Spiritual awakening for skeptics
The blogs below are based on my experiences and reading. I hope they’re beneficial — or at least entertaining!
Sanity is a numbers game. During a spiritual awakening its incredibly important to both redefine, and maintain sanity.
A spiritual awakening is a spiral path. Zen is about cutting some rings out of the spiral.
A mystic is someone who has (or claims to have) direct experience of the divine. Mysticism is practices and behaviors which reinforce that experience.
Science is one way to know things, spirituality is another, they do best when they are integrated.
Lots of people are mildly psychic and don’t know it. Generally, they tend to hide in plain sight.
Channeling is the direct transcription of spiritual information from a higher source.
On a spiritual path psi abilities tend to converge into an integrated sense of the world as “more-than”.
Many people mistake spirituality for conformity. They are not the same thing. Use SciHub for free access to any primary research paper.
Samadhi is a sanskrit word used in the Hindu tradition to indicate cosmic consciousness.
Ho'oponopono is an ancient Hawaiian healing prayer. A mantra for reconciliation and forgiveness.
A basic blog to introduce the concept of kundalini to people who don’t know anything about it.
The experience of psi and psychic phenomena can be one of the most distressing aspects of a spiritual awakening for a scientist.
One of my favorite scientific constructs is the idea of model-dependent realism.
Memento mori is Latin for “remember you must die”. It is a great starting point to discuss zen which is all about skipping to the end.