Synchronicity versus Accident
posted by Avtar Singh on October 18, 2008 at 06:38 PM
In one of his previous posts Deepak raised the question regarding the relationship between synchronicity and accident. Following are some insights from the consciousness-integrated holistic scientific perspective.
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Big Bang Never Happened
posted by Avtar Singh on September 16, 2008 at 07:47 PM
Something cannot be created from nothing - is the main thrust of the theories presented by cosmologists/scientists at the Crisis in Cosmology Conference (CCC) held at Port Angeles, Washington from September 8 thru 12, 2008. The conference was attended by more than fifty scientists from across the world.
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Global Cures
posted by Kanika Sethi on August 29, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Some of you may have caught Deepak Chopra's show on Syrius/XM radio a few weeks ago when he spoke with Vikas Sukhatme, a renoun physician and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School. Vikas and his wife Vidula have started a brilliant organization called Global Cures.
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Is the Universe (including life) a Purposeless Accident? Science of Purpose: Part 2
posted by Avtar Singh on August 11, 2008 at 06:11 PM
Accidents happen only in time. Most of us mistake the 4% visible matter in the universe as the entire universe ignoring the 96% of the invisible universe (dark energy and dark matter). Since time is a relative property only of matter, no more than 4% of the universe could be subject to time and possibly an accident; the rest majority 96% of the universe is eternal existence beyond time and free from any accidental uncertainties. Since time is a stubborn illusion (relative reality of matter) from the universal point of view, the accidental universe(s) is no more than an illusion of the materialistic mind or ego.
Objectivity of Consciousness
posted by Avtar Singh on August 08, 2008 at 06:26 PM
There is a widespread (mis)understanding that consciousness or conscious experiences are purely subjective. This (mis)understanding is a direct artifact of the subjectivity (disguised as objectivity) of the mainstream scientific approach limited to Object-ism or materialistic measurements alone.
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Can the Mystery of Consciousness Be Solved Objectively?
posted by Deepak Chopra on August 05, 2008 at 01:05 PM
Is the Universe (including life) a Purposeless Accident? Science of Purpose: Part 1
posted by Avtar Singh on August 04, 2008 at 06:40 PM
There is a widespread (mis)understanding of science that the universe and life are accidents without any purpose and meaning. Is it true that science is fundamentally incapable of showing purpose to the universe? The consciousness-integrated Holistic Science provides answers.
Genes at the Crossroads
posted by Deepak Chopra on July 19, 2008 at 08:33 AM
For years the general public has been receiving optimistic predictions about how genetic research will change everyday life. In particular, there have been promises that all kinds of human behavior -- including overeating, belief in God, altruism, happiness, and depression -- can be linked to genes in a one-to-one correspondence, i.e., a single gene providing the key to a behavior. Hence the obesity gene or the gay gene, even the faith-in-God gene.
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Mars!
posted by Carter Phipps on May 26, 2008 at 10:34 AM
Of all the things that can be said, good and bad, about our current civilization, surely one of the best and most hopeful signs of cultural evolution is the fact that we spend money on and care about projects like this.
Panacea to Pain and Suffering - A Holistic Scientific perspective: Part 4
posted by Avtar Singh on May 18, 2008 at 01:59 PM
The biggest miracle of nature is the capability of the human mind to comprehend the universal laws of an orderly cosmos. Once it is realized that the certain and eternal laws of the universe govern matter, human life, and mind, the path to alleviate suffering is illuminated. An in-depth understanding of these laws unfolds the path to a seeker liberating him/her from the dogmas and misleading incomplete interpretations of the incomplete material-only science and dogmatic religion.
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Pain and Suffering - A Holistic Scientific perspective: Part 3 - The Science of Consciousness, Good & Evil
posted by Avtar Singh on May 12, 2008 at 07:41 PM
The universe is a cosmos not a chaos or an accident (a blunder-full artifact of the incomplete quantum mechanics). The cosmos that includes mind and consciousness as fundamental entities beyond matter is governed by an orderly and certain set of laws. The relativities and dissolution of pain/pleasure and suffering/happiness are also governed and explainable by these universal laws without the need for quantum mysticism, metaphysics, or dogmatic religion.
Pain and Suffering - A Holistic Scientific perspective: Part 2 Ego – An Enemy or Friend?
posted by Avtar Singh on May 09, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Ego is founded on its illusory friendliness of the true self or consciousness. After all, it helps us in our evolutionary struggle for survival and/or dominance over others. It helps us accumulate wealth, power, and fame perceived as the successes of the material world.
Pain and Suffering - A Holistic Scientific perspective: Part 1
posted by Avtar Singh on May 07, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Evil is often (mis)understood as the root cause of pain and suffering, which are nothing but symptoms of the ego disease. Dogmatic religion has devised an illusive enemy – “Evil” to mislead humanity away from the root cause of pain and suffering. In order to understand the root causes and remedies of pain and suffering, one must understand the underlying universal laws that govern the universe and life in it.
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Spooky Action at a Distance: DNA's "Impossible" Telepathic Properties
posted by Renee Reeser Zelnick on April 27, 2008 at 05:57 PM
I'm sure this is old news for this crowd:
DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.
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Absolute Certainty or Not?
posted by Avtar Singh on April 13, 2008 at 11:53 AM
One of the widespread and mistaken interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM) is that there is an inherent uncertainty in nature that disallows existence of the absolute certainty in the universe.