SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Reality is not physical

I find it quite enlightening when you get shown that science, if it is free to think and not regulated by profit interests and dogmatic paradigms and power politics, now is so advanced that it can, with scientific terminology, realise and express deep existential truths that I know from a totally different context, that of deep meditation states and spiritual practices that go beynd just cult, blind belief and obedience. If you leave behind both the merely mechanistic thinking in classical science and the theistic tyranny in mass religion replacing lived spirituality, then you realise that you approach one and the same centre with both ways, just coming from different directions. The intellect then in satisfied peace, the emotions in unsettled, living fulfillment. No rivalry - but mutually supporting coexistince of both. Gaining completeness this way holds the promise of realising that we are whole and that evertyhing is whole and that there never was and never can be any separation of anythign from anything. I said often that maybe we must rethink our understanding of space travelling as a journey not into an imagined outward space, but into our inside space: our awareness, our mind. Which is in the end one and the same: not two spaces, but one whole space.

When I studied in the 90s, I once had a - friendly - "clash" with my prof in a running lecture about "mind". His view was that it is the result of the brain's activity, I confronted that with the opposite view of that the existence of the brain and everythign that is maybe is the result of "mind" preceding it. It was a good gobble, and all others were well-amused. :)

When Buddha once was asked whether there is something individual in us, an individual soul, that survives our death he answered with a clear and sounding "No". But he also said there is a bigger being exceeding our individual existence, a non-being as he called it that is all and everything and so is infinitely bigger than our indiviuidual state of self-awareness during our lifetime, or our conception of an individual soul. This is called the Athman and An-Athman, the Being and Non-Being. Its just terminology, the limited reach of words. I love it when I see this being reflected in concepts and conclusions from modern science. It is so satisfying and fulfilling, and gives me a deeper peace of mind. Another way of saying: All is good, nobody needs to try to reach anywhere - not only are we already there but we never have been away.

And we can experience in our lifetime that this is so. Its all about expressing - and more important: experiencing - one and the same truth in oh so very many different ways. Which forms the spice of life and the joy to be. Most of us experiencing this get gifted without trying or intention or "practice". We see it in the beauty of the silent landscape laid out before our eyes. The peace of mind falling upon us when watching the face of a sleeping cat (or squirrel :). The sequence of notes in that melody that find an echo in something that is so incredibly deep inside of us. And it always has one thing in common: it is completely beyond words and thoughts. Pure experiencing. Just being this moment. Just being the witnessing itself, no longer being a witness. No more separation between subject and object and process. It all melts away, just disappears.

We are blessed that we live in times where our culture as a whole can come to these insights, where science and spirituality can meet together, and where some of us enjoy the freedom to find these and realise them. Many people on this globe live in too oppressive circumstances, may it be by human force, may it be by existential dire, that this freedom is impossible for them to be enjoyed. Whereas earlier in time the knowledge had just not been there.

Be thankful.