Joyful Living

Dear friends, we are beginning our journey together to Peace Is The Way for a more just, sustainable, healthier and joyful world. Today I am in Malmö, Sweden, talking about the nature of reality and the awakened life. Only the awakened life can ultimately create a more peaceful and just,Continue Reading

As you know, many people struggle with the experience between physical pain and in many cases, drug addiction starts because the only management for pain is something like oxycodone or a narcotic opiate. And frequently this leads to addiction. Pain is a very complex phenomenon and is experienced differently inContinue Reading

In the last few videos, I've been talking about the different sensory organs and suggesting that the Senses project both the experience of the body and the experience of the world. Today, let me talk a little bit about the experience of taste. Human beings have taste receptors in theirContinue Reading

Do our senses provide us an experience of the real world? Because naive realism says that the world is real, the senses are taking in information and somehow converting it into sensations, images, feelings and thoughts. Of course, this is called the hard problem of consciousness, for which there isContinue Reading

In a previous video, I discussed olfactory receptors that are present in almost every tissue and organ in our body. So let's look today at light receptors. So in our skin, all over the body, there are two types of light receptors: Melanopsin cells and what are called intrinsically photosensitiveContinue Reading

If you ask mainstream quantum physicists whether the quantum field, the vacuum, as some people call it, is conscious (and I've asked many physicists this, academic physicists) and the answer is a very dismissive and emphatic "no". However, if you ask the same physicists whether the quantum field is self-regulatingContinue Reading