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Through the Wormhole: “Is There a Creator?”

The video above is the episode titled Is There a Creator? from the science program series Through the Wormhole, hosted by actor Morgan Freeman. It will stimulate your mind into thinking about how the episode’s various scientific conjectures approximate the … Continue reading →

Video | Posted on May 17, 2013 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways | Tagged awareness, brain, consciousness, cosmology, cosmos, creation, creator, experience, God, meditation, mind, Morgan Freeman, mysticism, neuroscience, Oneness, reality, religion, science, self, Spirit, spirituality, Through the Wormhole, universe | Leave a comment

Jeremy Narby and The Cosmic Serpent

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

I was listening to public radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge (TTBOOK) program today, which featured a very interesting interview of anthropologist, author and researcher Jeremy Narby. In the interview, Narby talks about his experience with the powerful hallucinogen … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Contemplation/Meditation, Mind, Mysticism, Oneness, Transformation | Tagged Amazon, animal, anthropologist, anthropology, Ashaninka, Ashaninka Indian, awakening, awareness, ayahuasca, being, biodiversity, brain, change, consciousness, Cosmic Serpent, cosmos, DNA, enlightenment, experience, hallucination, hallucinogen, human, human being, humanist, illumination, invisible, Jeremy Narby, kamarampi, knowledge, materialism, materialist, medicinal, mind, mysticism, Narby, neuroscience, perception, Peru, Peruvian Amazon, plant, reality, religion, science, Serpent, spirituality, states of consciousness, transformation | Leave a comment

The Secret You

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

Who are you? What makes you aware? Watch this documentary and see how science is trying to understand awareness in the course of its search for consciousness. Check out our related other blogs: Dr. Alexander’s NDE Baby Minds Mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mind, Mysticism | Tagged action, awareness, babies, baby, body, brain, brain imaging, brain scan, coma, comatose, consciousness, documentary, emotions, experience, fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional MRI, life, magnetic resonance imaging, mental, mind, mirror, MRI, neuroscience, out-of-body, perception, reality, recognition, scan, self, self-awareness, selfhood, sleep, soul, spirituality, thinking, thoughts, unconscious | Leave a comment

Dr. Alexander’s NDE

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

Would you call the NDE (Near-Death Experience) testimony of a credentialed, respectable medical professional a mental episode of pure fantasy or even sheer lunacy? Meet Dr. Eben Alexander. A successful neurosurgeon, who has taught at Harvard Medical School and other … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Contemplation/Meditation, Mind, Mysticism, Oneness, The Mystical Life, Transformation | Tagged afterlife, awakening, awareness, belief, brain, Christianity, consciousness, death, enlightenment, experience, God, Joel Goldsmith, life, medicine, mind, mysticism, NDE, near death experience, near-death, neuroscience, Oneness, reality, science, self, soul, spiritual practice, spirituality, The Infinite Way, universe | 7 Comments

The REAL 12-Step Program to Spiritual Recovery

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

I came across a recent post at The Huffington Post, titled “The Untethered Soul: Twelve-Step Guide to Spiritual Awakening,” by Michael Singer. The post is about twelve steps to Self-realization. I believe the twelve steps outlined there constitute the real … Continue reading →

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Locating the “Interpreter” Ego in the Brain

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

Based on my research and readings in neuroscience, I have come to suspect that it is the functionality of our brain’s left hemisphere which gives rise to the human mind’s construct of our human ego. Neuroscience has recognized that the … Continue reading →

Gallery | Tagged awareness, belief, brain, consciousness, contemplation, emotions, evolution, experience, human condition, left brain, left brain hemisphere, life, michael gazzaniga, mind, neuroscience, perception, reality, right brain, right brain hemisphere, science, self | 4 Comments

Higgs Boson Found!

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

Last December 2011, I wrote a blog about the Higgs Boson, the “God particle.” Today, CERN researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have formally announced the discovery of the Higgs Boson in a press conference attended by theoretical physicists … Continue reading →

Gallery | Tagged awakening, awareness, CERN, christ consciousness, consciousness, cosmology, God particle, hadron collider, Higgs Boson, Large Hadron Collider, mysticism, peter higgs, reality, science, self, spirituality, theoretical physicists, transformation, universe, zero point field | 4 Comments

2012: Year of “The One Power” — Dragon Power

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

The global spiritual awakening of our species finally found its outlet and external expression in 2011 last year (The video below was featured in a related 2011 blog. Click the 2011 link to read it.). This is what the end … Continue reading →

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Do you believe in duality?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

Do you believe in duality, in the pair of opposites? Do you believe that good and evil exist objectively as opposing forces in the world? Do you believe in the reality of both light and darkness, such that darkness is … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Contemplation/Meditation, Mind, Mysticism, Oneness, The Mystical Life | Tagged awareness, belief, consciousness, darkness, dualism, duality, evil, God, good, illusion, life, light, mind, Oneness, opposites, polarity, poll, reality, spirituality, survey

The Genie Is Out of Its Bottle!

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Marc of Contemplative Pathways

A very recent article posted online at The Times of India has gotten me all excited over the public expression of a view I have long upheld as spiritual truth (it is a basic teaching of The Infinite Way and … Continue reading →

Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism, Oneness, The Mystical Life | Tagged 2012, Advaita, Ascension, awakening, awareness, consciousness, cosmology, cosmos, creation, enlightenment, God, Hinduism, illumination, life, mysticism, nondualism, Oneness, physics, quantum field, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, reality, religion, science, source, Spirit, spirituality, The Infinite Way, universe, Upanishads | 2 Comments

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