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Question: In a rapidly deteriorating situation, like in this country and the world today, why are the most aware people that I know of really feeling the need to get into heavy political and social action? What is our responsibility? This seems to take on two manifestations: one, it divides people even worse, and the...
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Written by David Ulrich / Header photograph by David Ulrich This article was originally published by PARABOLA magazine. Having been born and raised a Catholic, I was taught that I could be filled with God’s grace by living a good life, free of sin. I can never forget my catechism class when they likened...
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Seeing through the veil that our senses and our thinking minds make real, seeing behind the mask to true self, feels like the highest aspiration of humanity. Because, as we are able to do that, it’s as if we are able to find our rightful place in the order of things. We recognize a harmony...
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The part of us that we all call ‘ego’ is a very fragile structure, prone to fear. It’s a structure that is created of mind, of learned neural patterns. It is, on one side of what Freud referred to as the ‘id’, or the ‘impulse life’, while societal structures are on the other side. This...
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Listen to Dr. Rick Hansen on the latest podcast episode of Mindrolling with Raghu Markus The Buddha didn’t use an MRI to become enlightened. Many other people have also gone far along their own paths of awakening without advanced technologies. Still, 2,500 years after he walked the dusty roads of northern India, scientists have discovered...
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