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Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by Luisi Pier Luigi
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed by Donald S. Lopez Jr
azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-11-02 | Author:Donald S. Lopez Jr.

And as science changes, does Buddhism, renowned for its doctrine of impermanence, remain ever the same? Historians have duly documented the various transformations of Buddhist thought that have occurred across ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Embracing Mind: The Common Ground of Science and Spirituality by Wallace B. Alan & Hodel Brian
azw3 |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan & Hodel, Brian [Wallace, B. Alan]

We touched previously on research into the relationship between perception and the imagination. Studies of the brain and nervous system have revealed that in many cases the same neural systems ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences by Wallace B. Alan
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

THE SHAMATHA–VIPASHYANA SEQUENCE Buddhaghosa’s compilation of the ancient commentaries on the Connected Discourses of the Buddha includes a simile describing the practice of vipashyana without the support of shamatha as ...
( Category: Neurology January 22,2015 )
Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by Wallace B. Alan
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-08 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The Many Worlds of Ontological Relativity An essential feature of quantum reality is that it includes the physical world as a whole that does not consist of parts. We can ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
Twelve Examples of Illusion by Jan Westerhoff
azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Jan Westerhoff

Blurred ball The motion-blur effect also arises for our eyes. Of course these do not work like a camera by shooting a picture during a fixed exposure time. What happensis ...
( Category: Linguistics January 22,2015 )
Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by Wallace B. Alan
azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The intertwining between imagination and perception can now be explored in greater detail, in terms of the dynamic relationship at their emergence in any moment of experience. Husserl realized that ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity by B. Alan Wallace
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

If memories are indeed stored in a continuum that precedes this life, we might well ask, why is it that we do not remember our past lives? Tibetan Buddhism likens ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by Dalai Lama
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-09-13 | Author:Dalai Lama

The joy of meeting someone you love, the sadness of losing a close friend, the richness of a vivid dream, the serenity of a walk through a garden on a ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )
The Scientific Buddha: His Short and Happy Life (The Terry Lectures Series) by Lopez Donald S
azw3 |eng | 2012-09-25 | Author:Lopez, Donald S. [Lopez, Donald S.]

INTERLUDE A Primer on Buddhist Meditation An essential element in the modernization of meditation is the claim that a particular form of practice is not “religious.” It may be “Buddhist,” ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
Death By Black Hole by Neil deGrasse Tyson
mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Astronomy January 17,2015 )
God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

150 GOD: THE FAILED HYPOTHESIS for carbon production by only 20 percent.27 Nobel laureate physicist Steven Weinberg has noted that this "is not such a close call after all."28 The ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 6,2015 )
Abacus and the Cross by Nancy Marie Brown
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Nancy Marie Brown

After his dazzling performance, the new abbot of Bobbio accompanied the emperor and Archbishop Adalbero to Rome. There, at an Easter synod, Gerbert saw his Catalan friend Miro Bonfill, bishop ...
( Category: France December 29,2014 )
Descartes' Bones by Russell Shorto
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Russell Shorto

The skull of Descartes. Across the forehead, in Swedish, is an accusation of a theft in 1666 that began the skull’s peregrinations. Above it is a poem in Latin celebrating ...
( Category: History & Surveys December 27,2014 )
Evolving out of Eden by Price Robert M. & Edwin Suominen
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Price, Robert M. & Edwin Suominen [Price, Robert M.]

Jesus Christ Superchimp? We have seen (and boy, have we seen) the difficulties that modern genetics poses for traditional theology’s understanding of Adam and Eve as the parents of the ...
( Category: Science & Religion December 2,2014 )

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