Tip Of The Tongue I've been feeling curious, as of late, about the experience of not-quite-but-almost remembering something: of having it right on the tip of the tongue, so to speak. In these moments, there's the distinct sense of knowing that I know something--of almost palpably feeling the presence of this information, pressing up from who-knows-where--yet the final revelation of it has yet to …
Science & Spirit
Jung, Pauli, Pythagoras: Spherical Mind
For a really fun ride -- that's likely to blow your mind (in a good way!) -- have a look/listen at this talk by B. Alan Wallace, in which he playfully/seriously introduces his Special Theory of Ontological Relativity. Topics touched upon include: * the so-called "placebo effect" and pitfalls of being a flat-minder; * the correspondence between physicist Wolfgang Pauli and psychologist Carl …
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Interstitium: Hidden In Plain Sight
It's hard to deny that -- regardless of its occasional (or even frequent) illnesses and injuries -- the human body is a truly magnificent creation: All those moving parts, all those bones and muscles, organs and systems, arteries and veins, all those 37.2 trillion cells .... somehow working in concert, dancing together, maintaining a mostly harmonious relationship. It really is quite …
Plus-One
Geometry Consider (as pictured above) the event of a three-dimensional sphere passing through a two-dimensional plane. From the point of view of the plane, how this event unfolds is as the seemingly miraculous appearance of a dot, which then expands into a circle, whose diameter continues to expand for a while, and then -- for no apparent reason -- stops expanding and begins to contact, until it …
All Waves & Ripples
In the previous post, we explored perception through the lens of western science and Buddhist Madhyamaka reasoning. We learned a bit about how the human body-mind records sensory data; and were introduced to some fascinating experiments which offer pretty convincing evidence for nonlocal communication. The Confounding Genius Of Madhyamaka Reasoning Madhyamaka reasoning can seem quite complex and …
Touch
Mind-Touching It was once suggested to me that: “Mind travels faster than the speed of light.” Immediately I felt this to be true, both at the level of the “essence of mind” – i.e. the deepest “substance” or “true nature” of mind which is pure awareness – as well as via more relative levels of functioning. At the level of the “essence of mind” (i.e. pure awareness) “faster than the speed of …