MEDITATION TIME: Know Yourself and the World Around You
A time to reflect on our existence, in order to clarify the nature of our human condition and self-determination. This reflection should ultimately inform every thought that we entertain and every act that we perform, in the most enlightening and inspiring way.
Episodes
35 episodes
THE MEANING OF LIFE
Does life have meaning outside of the religious narrative? This is the question being debated here.
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12:49
THE ULTIMATE FOUNDATIONS
Ever so elusive, the mystery of the obvious, namely the beingness of what is, within and without, is inviting all manner of metaphysical frameworks that compete for our mental space. What in the end takes hold between our two ears is a matter o...
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14:28
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
When tolerance becomes leniency toward hate and incitement to violence, the defence of liberty turns into destructive chaos, but otherwise freedom of speech and behavior are conducive to the wholesome realization of our human potential.
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10:19
BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH
The difficult topic of euthanasia. When it makes sense against every pro-life argument.
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16:27
THE BRIGHT SIDE
Much about happiness hinges on a positive attitude that can turn a bad situation to good account.
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14:20
THE COSMIC STRIPTEASE
The universe only manifests its creative potential incrementally in the course of evolution, from one stage to another of growing complexity that corresponds to emerging properties of a new order.
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6:40
THE PUZZLE OF LIFE
Life, by nature, loves life, and since life is profoundly interconnected with its natural and social environment, the self at the core of life should expand to include this vast network of interconnections. And yet, by reason of our inborn limi...
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4:42
THE EMOTIONAL MINEFIELD
The buzzword for this part of self-management is emotional intelligence. This is all part of the art of living.
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6:26
THE SPECTRUM OF LIFE AND LOVE
Love described as the highest form of awareness in the communion of our mind with the very foundation of being, but also in our embodiment of this foundation in a spirit of love, the giving and forgiving kind.
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5:17
GOD AND DIVINE LOVE REVISITED
How to make sense of the concept of God as Love within the scope of a rational investigation about the nature of Nature.
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5:50
THE FIELD OF THINGS
This chapter argues in favor of soft determinism, blending randomness and necessity, in the image of improvisational jazz finding inspiration in a melody that it follows loosely with creative freedom.
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6:33
THE MIDDLE WAY
The middle ground between commitment and detachment in the face of possibilities and limitations.
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5:22
THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE
How the fall of man in the book of Genesis resonates with our experience in the face of the daunting challenge of surmounting our state of ignorance and nudity with everything to learn and a world to fashion in the company of our fellow humans....
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5:40
THE SPONTANEITY OF BEING
This lecture is in defence of naturalism that puts squarely the cause of everything within nature itself and its spontaneous unfolding according to laws.
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6:42
THE ETERNAL NOW
Past and future are but traces of memory and flights of imagination. There is never anything else but the present, which becomes the past present and the future present when it is no longer happening or perhaps will happen at a later date.
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4:48
RETURN TO THE STREAM
All too often caught up in the moment of our daily habits, we should reconnect with the very foundation of our being, both in terms of the universal principle that underpins everything and in terms of our remarkably adaptable self that can acqu...
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4:31
THE EXERCISE OF WONDER
Whereas we can easily become numb with a sense of familiarity after years of exposure to the richness of life, we must re-awaken our sense of wonder as when we were children in a moment of discovery.
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4:18
THE ART OF LIVING
Life may be given; the art of living it well is acquired by way of a difficult adaptive process.
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7:23
THE DIVINE MAGICIAN
No matter how familiar we are with reality's "act," we should stay mindful of the truly magical nature of this act.
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6:16
THE IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHY
Arguments in favor of the philosophical enterprise at a time when science is often quick to dismiss it, even though it cannot do without it.
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5:28