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Spirituality

The Spiritual Quest

The article “Spiritual Quest” is one of the chapters in
Whispers from the Other Shore: Spiritual Search - East and West
by
Ravi Ravindra
(Halifax, Canada: Shaila Press, 2000).

The struggle to know who I am, in truth and spirit is the spiritual quest. The movement in myself from the mask to the face, from the personality to the person, from the performing actor to the ruler of the inner chamber, is the spiritual journey. To live, work, and suffer on this shore in faithfulness to the whispers from the other shore is spiritual life. To keep the flame of spiritual yearning alive is to be radically open to the present and to refuse to settle for comforting religious dogma, philosophic certainties, and social sanctions.

Consciousness

Matter, Mind and Consciousness
Recent trends in science and philosophy
by Rajeshwar Mukhopadhyaya

In the recent times there has been a radical change in the approach of science. Developments in relativity, quantum physics and neuro-science have changed the way people looked at the universe. The mechanistic model of mind-matter dualism of Descartes and the realism of classical physics have been put to quetion at the wake of relativity and quantum mechanics. The theory of relativity completely discarded the absolute description of any event of the physical universe by the methods physical sciences. The absolute describtion of reality started eluding the scientists who had to be contented withe the relative knowledge of reality. On the other hand, the birth of quantum mechanics ushered in the concept of indeterminacy in science.

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Artikel 1.
Can Yoga Really Transform Consciousness?

Many people think that by walking the spiritual path, our consciousness evolves. But in yoga, changes occur in brain biology, not in consciousness. Spiritual progress through yoga is the result of changes in the biology of the brain and nervous system. The state of the brain and body will determine if any living organism will be able to tune into different dimensions of consciousness or not.