My parents decided not to expect me to join a temple or church. They admitted they didn’t know anything definitive about God and The Universe. Some of the last things they said to me (before they died) suggested that they hadn’t found their truth about the ultimate. They asked me then what I had found …
Tag Archives: life and death
THE PROBLEM WITH IDENTITY
Identity—the unique point of view a person comes into the world with and lives throughout their lives with—becomes a major stumbling block in my understanding of where any sort of awareness goes after death.
A Boundary Between Life and Death?
The research I published (see EXPERIMENT) is a low energy analog of the expanding universe (Analogs are analogies. And analogies can be represented by mathematical functions that model behaviors—behaviors that might be similar to one another).
CONSCIOUSNESS: CONTINUOUS OR DISCONTINUOUS?
For something to exist, like an experience of awareness, part of an apparent continuous consciousness, there must be a relationship across at least one boundary (one difference in potential, or at least one signal/transfer of information). A relationship exists when we sample our environment and it responds to our sampling (the same can be said …
Embracing The Other Within Us
Many of us look out at the universe and think, Wow, it’s so vast, so big. Upon seeing the vastness of outer space, immediately we say, “It makes me feel so small.” Why do so many of us resonate with that sentiment?
Love and Loss
Is there a difference between reaching into the past to find someone you loved but can no longer reach and reaching into the future to find someone you love (or might love), but might never meet? Let me give you an example. People around me are forever mourning the loss of touch with a …
God
Where, might you ask, do I stand on the existence of God? I ask back: Does a businessman accept that any system can be managed effectively by both top down and bottom up leadership and organization? I believe in both. The bottom up is, perhaps, the natural selection way relationships or boundaries have of creating …
Identity
[I’m throwing out lots of ideas and questions here that I hope to clarify in later postings.] What if it’s not how we got to be us, but our unique configuration that determines our unique consciousness? So, does the shape, independent of anything else, determine our unique perspective? The above idea might make sense, …
The Union of Opposites 