While early Western scholarship often portrayed Buddhism as a rational philosophy emphasizing individual meditation and ethical discipline, contemporary research increasingly recognizes vocal practices including sutta recitation, paritta chanting, mantra repetition, and devotional invocation as crucial vehicles for transmitting doctrine, cultivating virtues, regulating mental states, and...
In response to the intractability of the hard problem of consciousness, a number of scientists and philosophersin particular Bernardo Kastrup, Steve Taylor, Donald Hoffman, and Iain McGilchristhave advanced arguments for new forms of idealism which challenge the basic tenets of scientific materialism.The central claims are thatin spite of the impressive achievements of contemporary science and...
To deepen our understanding, not simply of great madnesses but of the nature of mind itself, we must use our instruments as coolly and boldly as those who force their aircraft through other invisible barriers. Disaster may overtake the most skilled. Today and in the past, for much lesser prizes, men have taken much greater risks.