Four Key Elements Of “True Love” According To The Teaching of The Buddha
Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist Monk explains the four key elements of "true love" according to the teaching of the Buddha.
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The Art of Happiness: an explorative study of a contemplative program for subjective well-being
In recent decades, psychological research on the effects of mindfulness-based interventions has greatly developed and demonstrated a range of beneficial outcomes in a variety of populations and contexts. Yet the question of how to foster subjective well-being and happiness remains open. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of an integrated mental
The Lord Protector Abolishes Christmas
For the first time since the restoration of the Monarchy in England in 1660 Christmas has been abolished in many parts of the country.
No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity 24-hours After Clinical Declaration of Death among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in apparent tukdam, a putative postmortem meditation state
Recent EEG studies on the early postmortem interval that suggest the persistence of electrophysiological coherence and connectivity in the brain of animals and humans reinforce the need for further investigation of the relationship between the brain’s activity and the dying process. Neuroscience is now in a position to empirically
Death, Money, and the Dueling Frauds: Trump and Biden
When The New York Times and CNN recently referred to the staged town hall spectacles of Biden and Trump as dueling events, they inadvertently revealed the truth that US presidential elections are America’s favorite movie and that the corporate media is in the entertainment business.
While it is ludicrous
Manifesting Your Vision Through “The Law of Attraction”
My Thoughts On “Spiritual Narcissism”
Narcissism, in a nutshell, is self-absorption to the extent that it will adopt any set of rationale to protect the ego which often includes a degree of self-deception.
Extraordinary Cases of Children Remembering Their Past Lives
Reincarnation is a fascinating subject that has remained on the fringe of scientific study for too long.Fortunately, it has recently begun to attract serious interest from the scientific community.
Unconscious learning underlies belief in God, study suggests
Their research, reported in the journal Nature Communications, is the first to use implicit pattern learning to investigate religious belief.
Our reality isn’t physical. It’s Spiritual Mental & Immaterial
Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University Richard Conn Henry published a paper in the journal Nature titled "The Mental Universe" emphasizing how metaphysics plays a central role in understanding the nature of our reality. Are we metaphysical beings? What impact does our collective consciousness have on our
The Dream of God: How Do Religions See Lucid Dreaming?
Lucid dreaming (LD) only began to be scientifically studied in the last century, but various religions have highlighted the importance of LD in their doctrines for a much longer period.
Court Rules NSA’s Bulk Phone Data Collection Was Illegal
A National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program has been ruled unlawful, seven years after it was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Dynamics of the Sphere Model of Consciousness: Silence, space, and self
The Sphere Model of Consciousness (SMC) delineates a sphere-shaped matrix that aims to describe the phenomenology of experience using geometric coordinates.
Immersion, Absorption, and Spiritual Experience: Some Preliminary Findings
Many traditions have utilized silent environments to induce altered states of consciousness and spiritual experiences.
Understanding the nature of oneness experience in meditators using collective intelligence methods
Research on meditation and mindfulness practice has flourished in recent years.