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• Enlightenment, Habituation, and Renewal - Non-dual Awareness as the Opiate of th...

  Enlightenment traditions in Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hindu, or other schools of meditative insight have a common issue. How can the central canon or dogma of the wa... Read more

  The 22 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

  Value, purpose, and meaning vary between religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behaviors bonding us into... Read more

  The 19 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• How Humans Work - an Integrated Model

  I was ruminating this morning over a number of books I have read, and decided to send the following prompt to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Deep Seek, and Claude... Read more

  The 17 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Brain Fires up Immune Cells When Sick People Are Nearby

  When people view virtual avatars with coughs or rashes, their brains their brains trigger an immune response. Serino and collaborators (open source) outfitted... Read more

  The 15 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Chants Across Seven Traditions Share Acoustic Traits That Enhance Subjective...

  From Canessa-Pollard et al.: For over 5,000 y, chanting has been practiced across many Western and Eastern traditions. However, there is hardly any empirical... Read more

  The 12 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Rethinking How Our Brains Work.

  

  After reviewing Hoffman's mind-bending ideas that were the subject of the previous post, I decided to look back at another post on changing our perspective on... Read more

  The 08 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Resetting My Brain…

  After a jolt of caffeine or intense exercise I sometimes feel a sudden quiet - a mind reset or emptying during which a quiet space appears that is not the... Read more

  The 03 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• Selected MindBlog Posts on Defining What Our Human Self Or "I" Is.

  This post collects the titles and texts of selected posts on what a human self is that I have composed since June 2022, and this link takes you to a list of... Read more

  The 01 september 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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• 4 Life Lessons from Quaker Spirituality

  

  “I thought I’d live a louder life…But silence called me deeper stillLike nothing else I know ever will”—Carrie Newcomer, Quaker singer-songwriterI didn’t... Read more

  The 29 august 2025 by   Andrewtix
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• Why You Are Probably An NPC (Non Playing Character)

  I want to pass on this outstanding piece of writing from Gurwinder on Substack, in which he describes five different robotic human character types that include... Read more

  The 29 august 2025 by   Deric Bownds
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