--- In [email protected], bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > When I say Vedic science, I was not referring to the > stories, but to the reality, the core teaching of the > Vedas, that bliss consciousness is all that there is > or ever was -- phenomenal reality is just maya, not > really existing, "creation" (which never took place, > just as there was never any water in the river of a > mirage) is just the apparent play of that infinite > awareness. "Be without the three gunas" through > practice of Trancendental Meditation, and you get a > ringside seat as the eternal silent witness of all the > phenomenal activity without suffering due to being > attached to the ups and downs of creation.
Boy, I find this metaphysical view compelling. I found it compelling the very first time I heard it in the context of MMY's teaching, and nothing I've heard since has even come close. How anybody can think of it as a "religious belief" is beyond me, unless you're using such a broad definition of "religion" that the term becomes virtually meaningless. Western > scientists will never understand the deep mysteries of > creation until they see awareness as the basis of > creation and unfold unlimited awareness on their own. > All the theory-spinning going on now in physics is > just stumbling in the dark, and top scientists know it, > which is why fundamental physics is described as being > in "crisis." > http://www.nyas.org/publications/UpdateUnbound.asp?UpdateID=41 And this is a terrific article, I think, exceptionally clearly written. If the writer has the nature and mechanics of awareness/consciousness in mind as the basis of the foundational work he says needs to be done, it isn't evident, but it sure does fit the shape of the hole in scientific thinking he describes. He does mention Roger Penrose as one of the people working in this area, though, which just may be a hint. I loved this passage he quotes from Nobel Prize- winning physicist Steven Weinberg: "Most advances in the history of science have been marked by discoveries about nature, but at certain turning points we have made discoveries about science itself ... Now we may be at a new turning point, a radical change in what we accept as a legitimate foundation for a physical theory ... The larger the number of possible values of physical parameters provided by the string landscape, the more string theory legitimates anthropic reasoning as a new basis for physical theories: Any scientists who study nature must live in a part of the landscape where physical parameters take values suitable for the appearance of life and its evolution into scientists." Seems to me "anthropic reasoning" points directly to the problem of awareness. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
