Category Archives: Mysticism

Science & reality

Posted on 19 February, 2022 by amartingarcia

Empirical science vs. metaphysics.

Truth or Reality is transcendental. Continue reading →

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Sastras (Scriptures)

Posted on 19 January, 2022 by amartingarcia

Only intuition and the sastras (scriptures) can afford knowledge of Reaity Continue reading →

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Two questions (relationships & eternity)

Posted on 19 July, 2018 by amartingarcia

1) How is one’s self related to other selves. This can be seen from two perspectives: 1) lower or empirical, and 2) higher or spiritual (I try to avoid the word ‘metaphysical’). I am not going to consider what Christianity … Continue reading →

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Science and philosophy – on consciousness (https://wordpress.com/post/amartingarcia.wordpress.com/4029)

Posted on 30 June, 2018 by amartingarcia

(My Comments to a question in Quora) 17.5.18   Me: I agree with what you say, except saying or implying that consciousness can be ‘explained’. Yes, the brain is a transducer or vehicle from the immaterial to the material (subtle … Continue reading →

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Advaita Vedanta – l

Posted on 16 January, 2018 by amartingarcia

Advaita Vedanta can be called a mystical path, a spirituality, science of reality, or a combination of both (which I prefer). It can be called nonduality or ‘Monism’ (preferably the first): monism because it takes reality as being One (“without … Continue reading →

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Is metaphysics meaningful?

Posted on 28 January, 2016 by amartingarcia

Is metaphysics meaningful?  (expanded from answer in Quora) Any hypothesis which predicts observations can in principle be tested scientifically. Take “metaphysics” to be the set of hypotheses about people and the universe which does not predict any observations, or none … Continue reading →

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self or no self

Posted on 2 January, 2015 by amartingarcia

The benefits of non-duality? Consciousness without boundaries. It reflects what is. Thinking is dividing. Prior to thinking is liberation. Consciousness itself is emptiness… Infinity. Continue reading →

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Creation or no creation – becoming or being

Posted on 28 November, 2014 by amartingarcia

If creation is into time, being is timeless. Does time exist? Or, like space, multiplicity, and causation they are just phenomena, appearances? Continue reading →

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Bhagavad Gita (The song of the Lord)

Posted on 14 October, 2014 by amartingarcia

Creation – maintenance – dissolution. “I am the silence of the mystery”.

Who can deny Me? Continue reading →

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Einstein and religion

Posted on 11 October, 2014 by amartingarcia

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, … Continue reading →

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