[This is an initial draft of some interesting thoughts relative to the question of postmortem survival. Raises more questions than[…]
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Meditation, Monasticism, Buddhism, Materialism – Preliminary Thoughts
Twenty five hundred years ago, Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha, had some deep insights and created powerful techniques that would[…]
Read moreReincarnation Overview
A colleague of mine, Jim Tucker, M.D., psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, wrote this excellent review of reincarnation. Tucker[…]
Read moreCan We Have a Trans-Traditional Spirituality that Includes Openness and Intelligence?
Some of you may know the web radio show Buddhist Geeks. Various Buddhist teachers are interviewed about once a week[…]
Read moreValidating Unusual Experiences
Dr. Charles Tart Mindfulness Dr. Charles T. Tart, Mindfulness, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Lecture 4, Part 16 of 18 parts.[…]
Read moreScience and Spirit: Where I’m Coming From and How I’m Doing It:
I have been involved in a discussion on a professional list of “spiritual leaders” about the evidence for reincarnation and,[…]
Read moreDeath and Me
One of the folks on a discussion list I’m on was talking about her difficulties in accepting the reality of[…]
Read moreSpirituality Without the Spiritual?
My wife Judy and I have just completed a 6-day retreat on Dzogchen approaches to liberation with lama Tsoknyi Rinpoche,[…]
Read moreToward An Evidence-Based Spirituality for the 21st Century
Many of you know that one of my primary interests is building bridges between first-class science and first-class spirituality, so[…]
Read moreWhere Do All Those Images and Dreamlets Come From?
After a long meditation retreat last month, my curiousity about one aspect of my meditation exprience led me to write[…]
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