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SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY <br>THE SCIENCE OF SOUL AND METAPHYSICS OF MINDClick to add more text here<br>

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Prof Suresh Kumar.S[Management scientist]<br>

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(No header) <br>• science is based on logic and empiricism <br>• The above have inherent flaws <br>• That is due to intrinsic nature of humans <br>• The self that grounds knowledge is illusory<br>

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The self and reality are not known by introspection-HUME<br>

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Theory determines measurement-EINSTEIN<br>

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What we have in mind is what we tend to measure or observe<br>

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Jamesian psychology of stream of consciousness and subjective awareness<br>

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stream of self referential thought leads to unity of consciousness and self continuity<br>

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our self sense is an illusion in brain or at best a virtual reality due to brain biology<br>

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ancient indian metaphysics of self and world as illusion or virtuality<br>

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mental images are only crude approximations of reality that we internalize<br>

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(No header) <br>• self is what subjectively differentiates <br>• self has a localised space time perspective <br>• this kantian intuition of space-time is built into our brains <br>• we can experience a more primal self and truer reality <br>• this what spirituality enables in us through our brains<br>

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true spirituality is the ultimate science and transcends limitations of reason and senses<br>

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true spirituality is based on accessing perception-meditation continnuum in brain<br>

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(No header) <br>• our ergotropic action-mode leads to self consciousness <br>• our meditative receptor mode can lead to pure consciousness <br>• ancient yoga based sleep breathing practice can enable this <br>• this is described as mystic meditation <br>• we transcend our brain and body in mystic pure consciousness<br>

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pure conscoiusness contrasts with self consciousness<br>

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it is characterised by absence of thinking<br>

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there is a more objective perception of reality since subjectivity of self is subdued in mystic mentation<br>

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mystic pure consciousness is an ecstatic and blissful state of inner vision and true insight<br>

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pure intuition can provide truer perception of self and reality transcending the subjective self<br>

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pure consciousness enabled by eastern meditation based on true mystic yoga can inhibit brain activity<br>

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primal integral self sense can ground a less subjective reality perception for cognition of absolute truths<br>

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(No header) <br>• scientific studies and empirical evidence tend to substantiate mysticism <br>• this is an altered consciousness state inducing deep sleep like state <br>• this happens in awareness and balances emotion and cognition <br>• this is different from hallucinatory or dreaming sleep state <br>• metaphysical quality of mind is experienced more ecstatically<br>

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dreaming sleep has unity with wakeful thought in terms of contents<br>

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the world is like a dream when we are along a perception-emotion hallucination continuum<br>

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dreaming sleep state is unified with wakeful thought at the hallucinatory end<br>

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the perception meditation continuum in contrast leads to an objective,real and oceanic perception of reality<br>

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(No header) <br>• mind has a metaphysical subjective domain <br>• it also has a me-self physical domain <br>• brain and body linked through physicalism <br>• mind is beyond the reductionist materialism<br>

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recent evidence indicates a truly metaphysical mind as a substrate of consciousness<br>

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this grounds the subjective domain of an I-Self in brain which acts as an organ for this<br>

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the truly metaphysical quality of mind is experienced in mystic mentation<br>

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(No header) <br>• spiritual mysticism is the base for true knowledge of self and reality <br>• it makes possible experience of mind in its truly metaphysical state <br>• it provides insightful knowledge of absolute reality thru pure intuition <br>• it facilitates psi phenomena which is at the fringes of our present self se<br>

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