Hello, my friends.
So today I have a very very...
Well, I'm saying important,
but it may not be important to you,
but from my side, I have an important message
to share with you.
And this is,
in a way,
the next chapter of my life.
I just returned from
a very wonderful pilgrimage
in the Indo-Tibetan border.
And I had a lot of time
to go to various monasteries
and also a lot of time
to reflect and a lot of time
to meet some luminaries
or influencers.
And we might say in
both the world of Science
and the world of Spirituality.
And I came back
with a commitment to myself,
and that commitment to myself
and I'm sharing it with you,
is that I am going to, in
this phase of my life, pursue
something that
my entire life
I've been leading up to.
And that is a reformation,
a renaissance
for both science
and spirituality.
And what I want to do
is create a global Sangha,
or a forum, both online
and offline.
That starts with three things
Seva, Service; Sangha, Community;
and Sadhana, spiritual practice.
And I want to create an ecosystem
starting with New York, but spreading across the world
for a deeper understanding
of the nature of reality. The
the deeper understanding
that could liberate us from existential suffering,
but also a deeper understanding of where
science and spirituality come together,
why they need their information, and
also the limitations of both
the spiritual
and the scientific approach
to understanding reality.
Because both spirituality as
practiced right now to some extent,
but also as explained right now,
spirituality has limitations
and so does science.
So if we create a global movement
for this reconciliation, this renaissance,
and we actually start creating
people who are knowledgeable
in this new paradigm
and also who are good examples
of what to know and discern,
the ultimate goal, of course, is
not only to
get rid of,
to the extent we can,
get rid of human suffering, but also
to help create a critical mass for a more peaceful,
just, sustainable healthier world.
So let me share with you
my thoughts, and I'd love your feedback as well.
So science is a very powerful tool
for understanding the natural world.
It is based on certain assumptions,
however, that limit its scope.
And the most fundamental of these assumptions
is what we might call the subject object split,
which is an artificial divide
between the observer and the observed.
The divide
is so deeply ingrained in our culture
and has led to a reductionist
view of the world, particularly in science,
where everything is seen as separate
and distinct from everything else.
Furthermore, science assumes
matter to be the ontological primitive,
but matter is
a word invented by humans for our species-specific
perceptual activity in consciousness.
No one has ever experienced
a substance called "matter".
Instead, what we experience are our personal
perceptual activities.
As I said, these are species specific
and science is based on
therefore what is
called naive realism, which is a belief
that the picture of the world we see is the look of it,
when in reality it's only a human look
and a very species specific look.
And yet we call it objective reality.
On the other hand, spirituality and religious
doctrine are also incomplete in that
in their current form
they are Earth centric and view
God as the Creator,
which is a human centric view for a species only
on this planet, as far as we know,
Homo sapiens.
This perspective limits our understanding
of the universe, which is vast and contains.
Now we are being told, possibly billions
of habitable planets in 2 trillion
galaxies.
So in my view, and that of many
wisdom traditions,
the ground of all being is
of course pure consciousness.
Pure consciousness is a field
of infinite possibilities
where everything is entangled and where
everything is self-organizing
and self evolving.
It is the root of all experience.
It is the root
of all experience in every species,
in every knower and every form of knowing.
Consciousness is fundamental, without cause,
it is spaceless, timeless,
formless, infinite, incomprehensible.
You've heard me
say this before, and maybe you're tired of it.
And yet this incomprehensible,
infinite, formless,
fundamental reality makes all things
perceivable and knowable.
But you, as consciousness,
are neither perceivable,
nor conceivable.
I therefore believe that only consciousness
can be conscious and that nothing perceivable
or conceivable is inherently
or independently conscious.
Biological organisms,
including human beings, are not conscious.
But we are an experience in fundamental consciousness.
This is a very important point.
Even the brain is not conscious.
It is a construct experience in consciousness.
Memories, for instance, are not in the brain
but exist as potential in consciousness.
Only when memories are actualized
do we see the neural correlates in the brain
which are experienced in consciousness.
So putting all this together,
both science and spirituality, need to undergo
a reformation or renaissance to better understand
the nature of reality.
Science needs to move beyond
its reductionist view of reality.
Spiritual spirituality needs to move
beyond its earth centric view
and embrace the vastness
of the universe, which
contains billions of habitable planets
and ultimately both science and spirituality,
after all, are seeking the same truth.
And it is only by working together that we can achieve
a more complete understanding of the nature of reality.
So why bother?
Why bother?
What if
matter is not matter?
How does that change things?
What if matter is
part of the dreamscape?
Does it matter
that matter is not material?
And does it matter that every perceivable
and conceptual entity
is in reality
an illusion of moving
transient illusion?
Does it matter?
What does this have to do with
issues like birth and death?
With issues like reincarnation?
If that exists of recycling
with multi
dimensions, with other lokas or locations
in spacetime as part of the dreamscape,
what does this have to
do with what we could say?
Our onward journey into different
dimensions of spacetime,
lokas, dreamscapes,
and our ability to reconstruct
our bodies, extend our health span,
and also reconstruct
our experience of the universe?
If this idea appears to you,
let's pursue it
both as a new paradigm,
but also as a practical way
to address existential dilemmas.
That is what's true identity.
Does the divine exist
and what is the meaning of death?
Are there other dimensions?
And do we do we as awareness,
have a journey,
not only across
the fabric of space time, but
that which is beyond
the fabric of spacetime.
In which are constructed.
The dreamscapes
that appear as locations
in spacetime, in the world of causality.
I find
this a very worthy endeavor
right now in my particular
stage of life.
If you like the idea,
we can start and start
right here in New York City
and then, you know, slowly
expand it both online and offline
as global community,
starting with Seva, service
Sangha, community, Sadinah,
deep spiritual practice going beyond
just, you know,
going beyond
the conventional practices that have brought us this far,
but engaging very deeply in reflective inquiry,
looking at the limitations of rational thought
and the capacities
of the human brain
and how we can go beyond those.
And the realm...
at all times,
of infinite possibilities.
Let me know your thoughts.