Thursday, April 14, 2011

Consciential Evolution: Personal Effort and Prioritization

We are constructing our future with each second. What we are living through now is a result of our patterns of thought, sentiments, and attitudes of our past — our thosenes. This obviously includes the past of this life and of our previous lives. Life is the way we make it – a product of what we ourselves generate and create. An indisputable reality: it does not matter where we go, we are always with ourselves. We can never succeed in running from ourselves. As a result of this, our lives are made in accordance with our intimate state. We can be in a beautiful and pleasant place, but if we are not internally satisfied, no external comfort can compensate. Living a happy life with nothing but wisdom and fraternity is a sign of higher evolution. Evolution is very democratic. The same rules apply to everybody.

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Sunday, April 10, 2011

A Reasonable Argument for God's Existence

"Suppose you took scrabble sets, or any word game sets, blocks with letters containing every language on Earth and you heap them together, and then you took a scoop and you scooped into that heap, and you flung it out on the lawn there and the letters fell into a line which contained the words, 'to be or not to be that is the question,' that is roughly the odds of an RNA molecule appearing on the Earth."

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Friday, April 1, 2011

The Power of Suggestion

Research published last year by psychologists at Harvard and Yale universities raises the possibility that even our weight is susceptible to the power of suggestion. The study looked at the health of hotel chambermaids over a four-week period. Half of subjects were told at the start that their work counted as good exercise that satisfied the recommendations of the US surgeon-general. A month later, they had lost weight and gained other health benefits such as lower blood pressure. Their uninformed colleagues showed no change.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

The Liberating Spiritual Eye

A yogi who through perfect meditation has merged his consciousness with the Creator perceives the cosmical essence as light; to him there is no difference between the light rays composing water and the light rays composing land. Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over the light rays of earth, water, fire, or air. Long concentration on the liberating spiritual eye has enabled the yogi to destroy all delusions concerning matter and its gravitational weight; thenceforth he sees the universe as an essentially undifferentiated mass of light.

- from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Thursday, March 24, 2011

The Time Machine

“As physicists, our experiments deal with subatomic particles,” said Mallett. “How soon humans will be able to time travel depends largely on the success of these experiments, which will take the better part of a decade. And depending on breakthroughs, technology, and funding, I believe that human time travel could happen this century.”

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