I think what is happening here is that since in popular Christianity (sometimes even contrary to the Bible), things that are not understood are avoided, usually by one person saying something along t…

My understanding is that traditionally, Tibetans took them to be real, but there are also more advanced teachings that say they're to be understood as states of mind. The two are not necessarily mut…

Dr. Ken Ring published a paper in the Journal of Near-Death Studies (Summer, 1993) concerning near-death experiencers who, while out of their bodies, witness real events that occur far away from thei…

I personally do not believe that the six realms are actual "places" that exist outside of ourselves. That being said, I do not know for sure that they do not exist outside ourselves but I'd…

-- complete jerks and assholes - or is the imagined halo of peace and joyfulness really something real?

CAUTION: This piece contains a potentially offensive point of view if you're an average American.

A fellow at New York City's Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death. Last week Parnia and his colleagues at the Human Consc…

Some excerpts from a great Dzogchen practice book (which I highly recommend: 'The Cycle of Day and Night', which is about integrating the practice from waking to sleep) by a great Dzogchen master, Ch…

Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he li…

Point One: Remove the stick from your ass.