Tag: philosophy
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The Transformation Of An Empath: From Spiritual Sponge To A Conscious Mirror
Over a period of past few decades, I have been repeatedly told that I am an “empath,” and that most of the problems arising in my life are due to my inability to enforce boundaries necessary for such a personality trait. This weblog provides a transformative journey from being a sponge who indiscreetly absorbed everyone’s…
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From Neurons to Numinosity: The Biology of Awakening
Journey to Wholeness For centuries, the image of the serene meditator—the monk in deep contemplation, the sage in unwavering peace—has been a symbol of a life beyond the mundane. We have looked upon such figures with a mixture of awe and mystery, often attributing their radiant equanimity to a divine gift or a superhuman feat…
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The Art Of Dying
It is natural to dwell on mortality after reflecting on the aging process. The following is a synopsis of my current writing project: a manuscript on the Art of Dying. What Is Death? Death can be defined in many ways: most relevant being the neurological and spiritual/religious definition. Neuroscience treats death as the permanent loss…
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Schrodinger’s Cat : Not This, Not That
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.” – Isaac Asimov Here is a post I wrote up a little while ago, but had forgotten to make visible. I had initially jotted down these ideas in order to prepare a paper for the Consciousness Conference in Tucson, but eventually did not present at the…
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My struggles with Father Time
I haven’t written. There is no excuse really, except that I am Time constrained. Not writing, for me, is like not brushing my teeth, or not showering. Writing cleanses, and when I don’t write, I feel uncleansed, messy, disorganized. Thank god for my journal, else I’d be even more disoriented than I currently feel. Over…
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On Aging, Death and Dying
I haven’t been writing much lately. It seems that the words have died, that there is a dearth of meaningful emotions, of consciousness. In exchange, and as a compensation for that lack, I have experienced a slew of defensive strategies unfolding in my psyche, pushed into the external world. The psyche, it seemed, went round doing the…
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Further Thoughts on Hope…
I had planned on writing a more detailed expose on Hope after my return, but demands on my time are many, and so for now my psyche can only bring forth this brief piece. I am confident that the rest will show up in some shape or form in my subsequent writings, for the part of…
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The Observer and Observed Effect
I don’t have much to write this week, except about a personal experience and resulting insight. So this will ramble, but bear with me, please. I noticed during my meditation that thoughts arose in my mind only as a consequence of the differentiation between the Observer and the Observed. As long as I am able to separate the…
Madhu Sameer 