QUESTION: What was your purpose in starting the Blog?

ANSWER: After some initial refusal to do anything of the kind (and the very ugly name Blog, to start with!),…

REALITY’S PURPOSE: WAS A FAMOUS MODERN SCIENTIST A CLOSET MYSTIC?

Here are excerpts from the over 20-year-old interview of the recently late Freeman Dyson, Professor of physics and mathematics at…

The following excerpt is from a paper by Dr Muhammad Mahroof Shah* who publishes books and papers on mysticism and…

QUESTION: Your references to ‘mere’ humans have been criticised but you have not stopped using the expression. ANSWER: Well, ‘it is what…

A Nietzsche enthusiast scolded me on the Internet. She implied Nietsche dealt with real reality and said, “mystics make up…

Hard as they are to describe, if I had to use one word to paint a picture of a mystical…

QUESTION: Are you against all religions? ANSWER: Your question lead me into a contemplative reverie that has produced a more…

QUESTION: You sometimes mention “hungering and thirsting after righteousness”. You have said this refers to what you call “Seekers”. ANSWER: The…

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QUESTION: When I talk about your posts, not just read them, there is a lot more about them than you…

Mind versus humanity. Some scientists believe the brain is limited to feedback from the senses’ experiences of matter and the…

I’m going to attempt a review of the new, main scientific conclusions Psychology Today‘s recent article, “Have You Had a…

“The scientist’s religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an…

Many mystics report the overwhelming experience of an all-enveloping love beyond all human conception. This experience exposes mere human love…

7.3 The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned,…