Seeking Something Meaningful, Intimate, and Richly Present in the Divine Experience of Life? There is much that has been lost in human being’s search for a more abundant life. We hope to present ideas, resources, insight, and practices that can bring greater awareness, understanding, and experiences to help us move toward becoming more fully human through a multi-disciplinary approach using science, religion, psychology, research, and social sciences.
Rumi wrote extensively about love. Love beyond our wildest comprehension to imagine. Love that cannot be confined to any one person and defies definition. Meet Rumi (one of the world’s most-read poets) through the mind of renowned translatrr of Rumi’s poetry, Coleman Barks.
Studies have shown that performing one random act of kindness a day will reduce your stress, anxiety, and depression. Your body is flooded with the same hormones that make you and the other person you’ve helped calmer, healthier, and happier.
This seasonal yet always appropriate article covers a summary of my journey into the power of love and its evolutionary framework.
Moving into the realm of what might be, Dr. Richard Davidson, researcher and founder of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, wondered how a monk dead for seven days, could have entered a meditative state known as thukdam, during which his consciousness would wisp away into a spare, luminous awareness.
Author Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence) talks about research done by Neuroscientist Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin. Richardson studied Olympic-style mediators who have achieved 62,000+ hours of meditation. Here is a brief look into the stunning never before seen in science results they have found in their subjects’ brains — Gamma waves.
I reluctantly trudged over and stood before him. He was smiling down at me and looked like the typical American Catholicism Fabio Jesus seen on holy cards. “Are you my Master Teacher?” I mumbled. He nodded and smiled. “I AM,” he said. “GODDAMN IT,” I said to myself and looked down at the ground. I was seriously distraught.
INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the interconnectedness of the universe and our place within it are truly far-reaching. Bohm proposed a theory unifying relativity and quantum mechanics, two seemingly-opposed explanations of observable phenomena. Why was this revolutionary thinker shunned by mainstream scientists of his day?
“It took science awhile to catch up to the mystics. The ancient mystics already knew that the physical world is basically an illusion and that all things are connected. Quantum Theory, in particular, helped cement what the mystics already knew.
Science is about quantifying observable things. We learn a lot through that method. But there’s also an inherent wisdom we’re all capable of tapping into. Human consciousness gives us a type of “knowing” that we can’t quantify or even explain.”
When we think about how to be happy, we often ask “How can I help myself?”. One less obvious question, and perhaps a far more important one, is “How can I help someone else?”. That might sound idealistic or naïve, but it’s actually a great way to boost self-confidence and motivation. Helping others doesn’t just make them happier, it also makes us happier. When you need a boost in morale, your best bet may be to extend a hand to someone who needs it.
In the meantime, don‘t bother asking questions about enlightenment and emptiness, but rather, Love vastly. Love with all your heart. Make love your name, your breath, the thing that impels you forward irresistibly.
Wash everyone and everything in love. Drown in love yourself. Die in it.
