The What of Spirituality We all have two selves, the Real-Self and the Ego-Self. We will go into the detail of what are exactly these, but firstly remember that attention can be focused on either of them. Normally, in our regular experience of life, we only experience of focusing our attention on the Ego-Self. So, …
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The Logic behind “Spirituality”
Let's start with understanding "What is Ego?" Your ego is what initiates the voice within that "I am this...", "I know this... I know that...", "I am better at this than somebody else..."... "I am not better at this than somebody else" ... "I am bad at this"..."I want to be as better as him …
The Psychology of Human Relationships, according to Transactional Analysis
Human-beings have this eternal problem of what is to be done with their waking hours! Essentially at an egoistic level, humans are always stimulus-hungry, recognition-hungry and structure-hungry. All waking hours are used in managing these three requirements in this world. Stimulus-Hunger: this is to avoid sensory starvation Recognition-Hunger: this is to avoid emotional starvation Structure-Hunger: …
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The Core of Hinduism – I am neither the Body nor the Mind – The Ultimate Truth or A Self-hypnosis?
You can disagree with it, but you cannot not appreciate the beauty of the core of the Hindu philosophy. Hindu philosophy at its core essentially says that as a 'Being', we are not the 'body' and we are not even the 'mind' too. We are that which uses both the body and the mind to …
Three Key Spiritual Learnings from Early Upanishads
The Upanishads is one part of the larger Hindu spiritual learnings from the 500BC. In the early period of this COVID lockdown, I took time and read about one-quarter of the text. I didn’t know much about the text before I started reading except for its popularity. When I started, I was expecting that the …
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Are we machines designed to search to feel good?
Let's look at this riddle: When a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear the fall, does the tree fall make a sound or not? The answer is "No". The tree doesn't make a sound because there is no animal 'ear' around to hear that. Yes, the tree fall …
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Consciousness cannot have evolved – Bernardo Kastrup
This is a beautiful article by Bernardo Kastrup, a computer engineer, and philosopher. The link to the original article at IAI is here. The overwhelmingly validated theory of evolution tells us that the functions performed by our organs arose from associated increases in survival fitness. For instance, the bile produced by our liver and the …
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