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spirituality - lesson 1: why spirituality

tribal spiral pattern

in this human needs cycle we have envisioned 4 main stages in life - from theage of childhood (4th, upcoming and last course of this cycle), through theexploration of sex (1st course), to the social obligation of work (2nd course), wenow move onto the next stage: spirituality.

the age of spirituality is - a time in which an individual is released from so manyof the usual responsibilities of society and can begin to turn inwards and decidewhat they would like to do next. - a time to definitely shed the egoic self and

connect to something beyond yourself.

it is not (necessarily) that one becomes disillusioned over our materialisticsociety, more that there is a need for meaning other than the physical. youth andmiddle age are for fulfilling one's desires and duties, and when a person isspiritually ready, he is less self-centered and allowing the young to replace him inpower positions. the person spends more time in philosophical pursuits andbegins his inward journey - a cultural practice of moving to greater truth.

'GOD is dead'proclaimed a cover story in time magazine in the 1960s, and held science

responsible for it.case closed? far from it.


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spiral staircase

--I want to know how GOD created this world. I am not interested in this or thatphenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know HISthoughts; the rest are details.(...)what I see in NATURE is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend onlyvery imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. thisis a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.(...)my religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit whoreveals himself in theslight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.(...)the scientists' religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the

harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is anutterly insignificant reflection.(...)GOD does not play dice with the universe.(...)nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life onearth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.(...)the important thing is not to stop questioning. curiosity has its own reason forexisting. one cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. it is enough if one triesmerely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. never lose a holy


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curiosity.(...)intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. but merethinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. to makeclear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in theemotionallife of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which

religion has to form in the social life of man.

these are a few of albert einsteins thoughts, (he is of hebrew origins).

the nautilus shell

--university of cambridge physicist stephen hawking, best known for hiscontributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in thecontext of black holes, said something similar: my goal is simple. it is completeunderstanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.

--george ellis is professor of complex systems in the department of mathematicsand applied mathematics at the university of cape town in south africa. he co-authored the large scale structure of space-time with stephen hawking in 1973.he is president of the international society for science and religion (support ofinter-disciplinary learning and research in the fields of science and religion):even hard-headed physicists have to acknowledge a number of different kinds ofexistence beyond

the basics of atoms, molecules and chemicals.


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coming out of such activities? this remains to be seen, but I am left somewhatdoubtful about it. perhaps if the new directions can be more experimentallydriven, as was the case with quantum mechanics in the first third of the 20thcentury, then such a many-person approach might work.

ancient art - spiral serpent

primordial soupmost researchers believe that the origin of life depended heavily on chemicalsdelivered to earth by comets and meteorites. but researcher james ferris, aprebiotic chemist at rensselaer polytechnic Iistitute in troy, N.Y., doubts thatatmospheric electricity could have been the only source of organic molecules. hisrecent research results suggest that earth's early atmosphere could haveproduced chemicals necessary for life!

from einsteins work on general relativity came the recognition that there must bean origin for matter and energy and from penrose, hawking, heisenbergs,plancks and elliss work came the acknowledgment that there must be an originfor space and time too. maybe GOD does play dice with the universe butaccording to his own bewildering set of rules. it seems that just before the big

bang there was a state called singularity, a state of infinite density and unlimitedtemperature; which begins to sound uncomfortably like a super-natural state and


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once again science has tried to get out of this but could not.the universe, say scientists, is expanding after the big bang and can becontracted in a scientific model back to 10 -34 seconds after the event.speculation abounds about this tiny interval of time, but the model has not beendisproved and probably never will be. what we are left with is stephen hawkingsconclusion that the universe begins and ends in singularities where the laws ofphysics and materialistic science simply do not work.

vortex and water

how can we approach spirituality?you tell some one that water is formed of hydrogen and oxygen. and if that manstubbornly opposes saying it is a superstition because two invisible gases cannever form water, which is visible, you are helpless. at the most you can tell himto go and first to have some preliminary knowledge about chemistry and thenexperiment himself. still if he maintains it is all meresuperstition, it is better to leave him and mind your own business. spirituality is averifiable science and if one is prepared to do the experiment then he can knowwhether there is an immanent spirit or not. when one drinks water one quenchesones thirst, but one cannot by that act quench anothers thirst.

it is common knowledge that when a person undergoes the basic disciplines ofpersonal development he experiences the reinforcement of his physical, mentaland spiritual faculties. this course, a unique of its kind, is being released for thebenefit of its students who are at the initial stages and who are supposed toacquire a direct knowledge of the world, gradually getting revealed in systematicdegrees of perception.

the course is not intended to direct the student to any one particular form ofspiritual belief but rather toward spiritual investigation as a whole. we will notexamine the worlds religions, and not the many philosophies, but propose you aschool, a collection of techniques, which ensure a divelopment in all directions:

physic, psychic, mental and spiritual.

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