1. SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY THE SCIENCE OF SOUL AND METAPHYSICS OF MINDClick to add more text here

2. Prof Suresh Kumar.S[Management scientist]

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

4. The self and reality are not known by introspection-HUME

5. Theory determines measurement-EINSTEIN

6. What we have in mind is what we tend to measure or observe

7. Jamesian psychology of stream of consciousness and subjective awareness

8. stream of self referential thought leads to unity of consciousness and self continuity

9. our self sense is an illusion in brain or at best a virtual reality due to brain biology

10. ancient indian metaphysics of self and world as illusion or virtuality

11. mental images are only crude approximations of reality that we internalize

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

13. true spirituality is the ultimate science and transcends limitations of reason and senses

14. true spirituality is based on accessing perception-meditation continnuum in brain

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

16. pure conscoiusness contrasts with self consciousness

17. it is characterised by absence of thinking

18. there is a more objective perception of reality since subjectivity of self is subdued in mystic mentation

19. mystic pure consciousness is an ecstatic and blissful state of inner vision and true insight

20. pure intuition can provide truer perception of self and reality transcending the subjective self

21. pure consciousness enabled by eastern meditation based on true mystic yoga can inhibit brain activity

22. primal integral self sense can ground a less subjective reality perception for cognition of absolute truths

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

24. dreaming sleep has unity with wakeful thought in terms of contents

25. the world is like a dream when we are along a perception-emotion hallucination continuum

26. dreaming sleep state is unified with wakeful thought at the hallucinatory end

27. the perception meditation continuum in contrast leads to an objective,real and oceanic perception of reality

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

29. recent evidence indicates a truly metaphysical mind as a substrate of consciousness

30. this grounds the subjective domain of an I-Self in brain which acts as an organ for this

31. the truly metaphysical quality of mind is experienced in mystic mentation

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

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