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                 Because all matter is energy and all energy is matter, every living thing on the planet is in a state of infinite connectedness. We’re all made out of the same stuff. How we interact with other humans, nature, cosmology, and consciousness itself has a cause-and-effect relationship to the well-being of ourselves and our ecosystems. Most of us feel a peaceful bonding with nature when we take a stroll in a lush forest or sit by the side of a graceful stream. We feel connected. We feel part of something bigger than ourselves, and the feeling strokes our souls and brings respite from the stresses of life. But is it something more than just a good feeling that connects us to nature?             Studies show how plants and humans react similarly, if not identically, to the same chemicals. In the early 1900s, physiologist Jagadis Bose covered large, mature trees with a tent and then introduced them to chloroform, which they breathed through their stomata. The trees could then
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Subduing the Ego

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  Subduing the Ego               With the world in its current state of upheaval caused mostly by human behavior, it’s time for a transformation, a radical change from deep within us that brings forth a divine awakening. Even with wars all around us, and daily doses of bigotry, greed, pollution, and poverty that plague the human race, all is not lost.   Indeed, there is a growing movement toward changing the world one person at a time through a purposeful change in the inner conscious self. This internal shift carries a person away from the negative influences of the intrusive and often problematic ego and propels them toward a state of peace, love, and enlightenment. Is that really possible, some might ask. Yes, when people begin to understand the negative power of the ego to cause suffering and the positive power of consciousness, essence, spirit, soul to transform how we perceive the world toward goodness.             So, what exactly is the ego and why is it so powerful? Simp
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Life After Death: Human Experience and Quantum Evidence

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            We’ve all lost loved ones to death and have felt the grief associated with the loss. Most religious people have faith that the deceased live on as spirits and, in fact, watch over them as guardian angels. I too believe this way but not because of religious teaching. I believe it because 1) there is actual evidence through innumerable reported near-death experiences and 2) because the science of consciousness dictates that it’s so. The research into NDEs is skyrocketing through psychologists, neurologists, and theologians who study it with great intensity. The scientific community, though at first reluctant to give the topic much credence, has decided it can no longer ignore NDEs because of the sheer numbers of people who report having them. Incidences seem to occur with increasing frequency because of improved survival rates due to modern resuscitation techniques. In the last 50 years or so, mostly since Raymond Moody’s book, Life After Life , in 1975, the topic and stu
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  The God of Religion is really Universal Consciousness   For some of us, it’s hard to picture an actual God being, either embodied in a tabernacle of spirit or in flesh that is perfected and transfigured. It just seems real out there and begs the question that if he's (I’ll use that pronoun for ease in writing) real, who is he and where did he come from? In general, science bypasses any ideology related to God, instead, relying on scientific theories about our sudden explosion into existence and the ongoing evolution of life that followed. Religious truth claims glorify an omnipotent God, who created all things in perfect harmony with just a wave of his hand. Some combine the two ideas and say that God used the Big Bang and evolution as his creation mechanism, but that it is indeed God, who is responsible for it all. But none of this, nails down who God is, where he came from, whether there are others like him, and what the purpose in creating all of this was.             Now I
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