This is a highly useful text on the subject of Advaita but it brings out the hidden problem that haunts the great and magnificent legacy of the yogas and Advaita in the Indian tradition: the concep… Source: The will an illusion…?//Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita: Waite, Dennis  – 1848+: The End(s) of … Continue reading The will an illusion…?//Back to the Truth: 5000 years of Advaita: Waite, Dennis  – 1848+: The End(s) of History

We had a post yesterday on free will, citing Alternet, but this essay shows that the research the article pointed to has been challenged and that the issue of free will has not been refuted by neur… Source: Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No | Mind Matters – 1848+: The End(s) of … Continue reading Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No | Mind Matters – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The academic world has finally produced some critics of Darwin, but as this review shows, the world of biology is so confused the critiques can’t register. The reviewer here becomes so sophis… Source: picking holes in…Picking Holes in the Concept of Natural Selection | BioScience | Oxford Academic – 1848+: The End(s) of History

The differences between panpsychism and naturalism are subtle but critical. As panpsychism’s popularity grows, insight will be better than rage and ridicule. Source: A Darwinian Biologist Resists Learning To Live With Panpsychism | Mind Matters

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This material contains the key to sorting out the confusions in the history of Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastarianism and Buddhsim. It won’t make any sense at first and requires up to six mon… Source: The confusing history of monotheism, using the eonic model to assess its overall pattern in world history. – 1848+: The End(s) of … Continue reading The confusing history of monotheism, using the eonic model to assess its overall pattern in world history. – 1848+: The End(s) of History

I am not a christian, take atheism/theism in stride, and think that Christianity fading away is inevitable in the long term. But the condition of secular humanists, a flock tended by the new priest… Source: so what, so can secular humanism…//Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems  … Continue reading so what, so can secular humanism…//Religious Trauma Syndrome: Former Christian explains how organized religion can lead to mental health problems  – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Basically, during the Axial Age (800-300 BCE) some break-through thinkers (like Isaiah or Buddha) oriented us toward a “new, transcendent principle (God, Logos, Nirvana) that was the telos of human… Source:  Habermas has totally misunderstood the Axial Age…??? Importance of studying the ‘eonic model’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History

I am a student of science bar none, but I have also learned from the larger sphere of culture and global diversity the limits of science and its failure so far to provide a world view that can stan… Source: science, scientism and the failure of reductionism…//Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience  – 1848+: The … Continue reading science, scientism and the failure of reductionism…//Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience  – 1848+: The End(s) of History 

By comparing white supremacy in the U.S. to the caste system in India, her new book at once illuminates and collapses a complex history. Source: Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker This already classic study is relevant to this blog with its critique of the legacy of caste in India, … Continue reading Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste | The New Yorker