Category: "Science and Spirit"

Transcending the Third Dimension — Part Two

Today, we continue our self dialogue in exploring our evolution through the third dimension and our opportunity to transcend it…..  (Click here to read part one) So picking up where we left off–regarding our evolution — you say that ultimately humanity will transcend the third dimension.  What exactly does that mean? Well, in my thinking, [...]

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Transcending The Third Dimension — Part One

Today, we use the time tested method of the self dialogue to explore very quickly humanity’s evolution through the third dimension and our opportunity to transcend it. First off, what you mean by the “third dimension”? The third dimension is this physical reality in which we find ourselves living. The sense that I am right [...]

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Where Were the Books on the Starship Enterprise?

Think about it.  Do you recall Kirk or Spock reading a hardcopy book?  Hard-core Trekkies might be able to point out an episode where a physical book was used, but it certainly doesn’t stand out in my memory.  What I recall is that every time they needed information, some device provided it. I’ve seen a [...]

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Our Fingers Point to the Moon Just As Our Religions Point to God

Boston University professor of religion Stephen Prothero’s essay in a May 17 edition of the Christian Science Monitor (Stop Thinking That All Religions Are Essentially the Same) surprised me to the degree he misses the mark by dismissing what mystics and Huston Smith mean regarding the ultimate unity of religions and his failure to understand [...]

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Time for Us to Allow New Perspectives to Emerge — a Whole People Discipline

Today we look at Stewart Brand’s recent book “Whole Earth Discipline”, PBS’s Frontline series episode “Vaccine War” and how our evolution is calling for us to allow new perspectives to emerge.  We hold beliefs and opinions dearly.  We think we know what is right and can point at others and say they are “wrong”.  Today, [...]

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Science and Spirituality Inch Closer Together?

  I have written here many times about how one aspect of our ultimate evolution involves bringing together science and spirituality.  We see the bridging of these fields in the cutting-edge philosophy of integral theory which shows the legitimacy of both inner ways of knowing as well as external.  The scientific theory of Spiral Dynamics [...]

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It’s Time to Stop Look and Listen… Really Listen

Did you ever have a day where you kept getting the same message over and over?  Yesterday was one of those days for me.  The message was to listen… to deeply listen. Twitter, Chopra and Nightline I found myself on Twitter late in the morning.  I was composing “my tweet” to post for others to [...]

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The Umpteenth Secret of “The Secret”: Align Your Rider and Elephant

Or, I thought about calling this “Beyond the Valley of the Secret”… so much as been written about “The Secret” and the “real way” to use it that I hesitated to reference The Secret in the title, but then I thought, “What the heck?  This really is about using the Law of Attraction in a [...]

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Is There Sex in Heaven?

That’s the provocative title of a book written by a friend of mine a back in 1998.  I’ve never met Lee Eric Smith in person, but somehow we became Internet friends 10 years ago.  At the moment I don’t exactly recall how we connected, but somehow I ended up buying his book and corresponding with [...]

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