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Category: 2019

  • New Concepts of Matter, Life and Mind

    In light of the current, revolutionary advances in the natural sciences and in the study of consciousness, the concepts of matter, life, and mind have under-gone major changes. This paper outlines some basic aspects of these changes, taking in turn the emerging concept of matter, of life, and of human mind and consciousness. The concept…

  • Dude, where’s my paradigm shift?

    I asked some of the leading figures in the field of transpersonal psychology and empirical spirituality. Has the long-awaited paradigm shift not happened because of weak evidence, or institutional and psychological resistance?

  • What If Consciousness Comes First?

    The key to resolving the hard problem of consciousness lies in the following observation. While physical properties cannot explain consciousness, consciousness is needed to explain physical properties.

  • Communication of the “Objective Reality” as Signal to the Senses

    Consciousness cannot be articulated. In the unconditional state it is inexpressible. However, this Transcendental Reality could be naturalized internally by the human brain, which has been evolutionarily primed to do this. On the other side, externally, this has been a spontaneous happening in nature.

  • Essay of the Month: Andrew Lohrey’s ‘A New Paradigm’

    Harold Walach, the author of the Report, has written an excellent exposition of the current distortions that have erased consciousness from mainstream science. I would respectfully suggest, however, that the paradigm of scientific materialism does not only erase consciousness, it also erases, ignores or forgets about language, meaning and mind.

  • Cosmology of Esotericism

    The following is taken from the author’s forthcoming book How To Run A Planet: Global Governance for an Inclusive and Sustainable World. It is presented here as a contribution to the Galileo Commission debate on expanding the scope of science beyond a narrow materialism and naturalism.

  • Atheism is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says

    Marcelo Gleiser, a 60-year-old Brazil-born theoretical physicist at Dartmouth College and prolific science popularizer, has won this year’s Templeton Prize. Valued at just under $1.5 million, the award from the John Templeton Foundation annually recognizes an individual “who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life’s spiritual dimension”.

  • I Think, Therefore I’m Wrong? Did Descartes make a mistake?

    Science is wonderful, but the worldview it offers is incomplete and too impersonal, but not everybody sees that… Not yet anyway… Spread the word!

  • Zero-Point Energy State of the Brain

    The Galileo Commission for expanding the scope of Science (https://galileocommission.org) launched in 2018 has taken up this issue seriously. At this specific Galileo Moment, the author who happened to be a member of the Advisory Board of this Commission, has chosen zero-point energy state of the brain as an important central issue for this purpose…

  • Neural Correlates of Induced Light Experience

    Altogether, our results provide first neuroscientific evidence underlying the phenomenological experience of induced light.