species to live - an atmosphere, food, water and the right temperature for us to survive - are perhaps uniquely provided to support the specific need for our biology and chemistry to work - following on from Professor Cox's introduction to the series in which he stated that -
SCIENCE has a responsibility
2 explain - spirituality.…
e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality
in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach
beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully
took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic
biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions
of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory
of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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f ever-greater complexification and that we are part of that evolving process. We're aware of the Darwinian notion of biological evolution and accept the scientific evidence about how life has evolved. And some of us are even aware of the notion of cultural evolution, the recognition that culture has been developing over time through a series of stages.
BUT very few of us are really awake to the notion of spiritual evolution.
Seeing evolution as a spiritual unfolding that has an exterior and an interior, and understanding that our own experience of subjectivity is the leading edge of the interior of that creative process, is a very recently emerging idea.
Traditionally, spiritual teachings pointed to a static attainment. The aspiration for enlightenment was the aspiration to come to rest in a steady state—in nirvana, in heaven. But when spirituality is reinterpreted from an evolutionary perspective, it is the aspiration for infinite becoming. The evolutionary impulse is an infinite reaching towards the future that affects the way we think about everything. Now we are no longer looking for spiritual liberation and release beyond the world, or after we die. We realize that the spiritual release is found in unconditionally, radically, and totally embracing the creative process of infinite becoming, as ourselves. It's a very different orientation to spiritual liberation.
~ Andrew Cohen…
n ordering that comes from a new Blue that is visioned and designed from a higher perspective of post-modern or 2nd tier thinking. The new Pope is shifting into Green and out of the jesuitical punitive mode of Blue and much of Christianity elsewhere has made that shift somewhat. Some parts of Islam have too, and the parts that you complain of regularly have not and are still in Red-Blue tribal and one-right-way thinking.
The necessary shift comes from a revisioning of spirituality which could still have a Christian perspective or any other religious tradition as its language, but is seen from a quite different sense of the relationship between human body and the spiritual world.
This is what I am articulating in "The Science of Possibility".
We have to reframe the old division between physical/material and energetic/spiritual in a way that recognises that we are simultaneously both, and that a part of our being lives at the interface. It gets called soul, as if that is separate or higher self, as if that is purely internal. The reality is that we are continually oscillating in and out of the layer of connectedness, because our electrons and positrons are moving back and forth between matter and source energy. Some people perceive the porousness of this boundary; most do not. Science does not know how to recognise it even though the evidence is abundant. For a healthy future, Western Civilisation needs to allow this viewpoint to reframe its view of religion in a way which recognises that all religions are cultural metaphors that assist us in interpreting our relationship with each other and the Divine realm. When that happens, all viewpoints will be chioces and all equally right. All will provide a useful moral fabric and none will require us to fight over them.
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ns of the findings, and a high degree of intuitive methodological sophistication. As well as engaging personally in dialogue with Western scientists and encouraging scientific research into Buddhist meditative practices, he has led a campaign to introduce basic science education in Tibetan Buddhist monastic colleges and academic centers, and has encouraged Tibetan scholars to engage with science as a way of revitalizing the Tibetan philosophical tradition. His Holiness believes that science and Buddhism share a common objective: to serve humanity and create a better understanding of the world. He feels that science offers powerful tools for understanding the interconnectedness of all life, and that such understanding provides an essential rationale for ethical behavior and the protection of the environment.
His Holiness summarized these ideas in his Nobel prize acceptance speech:
"With the ever growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things. This understanding is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive action on the pressing global concern with the environment."
A complete biography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama is available on the website of the Tibetan government-in-exile.…
"the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion". So reality is
ultimately TIMELESS. This sounds pretty bizarre from the view of classical physics, but from the view of consciousness theory and spirituality, it fits in perfectly.
ART OF SPIRIT - Awaken!
Einstein’s theory of relativity was based on two principles. These include the principle of relativity, which states that the laws of physics don’t change, even when objects move at constant speeds relative to each other. It also looked at the principle of the speed of light. Einstein observed that the speed of light is the same for everyone, regardless of how their movement related to the light source. Einstein's theory explains that if two objects are moving through space and want to compare what they can see, the only thing that matters and helps determine this comparison is how fast the two objects are moving relative to each other.
According to Einstein, “the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion”. This is just another example that reality is more strange and incredible that what we experience day to day. There’s so much more to discover about this Universe and we’re only just getting started.
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