For as long as I can remember I have been driven by one relentless impulse: to find out what is really going on in and as human experience. Having been expensively educated in the art of justification by evidence and reason, this drive has been flavoured by a resilient scepticism. One that has made me question everything I have heard, heard of, encountered and experienced.
This drive has brought me to a perspective on, and understanding of, life that confounds and even contradicts the assumptions underpinning conventional consensus 'reality'. Nevertheless its formative roots extend in many different directions towards discoveries, insights and understanding of others, marginal though they may often be to the cultural mainstream. These include Patanjali, Siddhartha Gotama, Shankara, Nagarjuna, Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz, William Blake and others.
I consider myself and they to be Spiritual scientists. By Spiritual I do not mean religious. I mean by Spiritual that element, or aspect of our nature and experience that can not be enfolded into the territories of body or mind. This element expresses itself most obviously in and as awareness. Yet there is much more to it than that, as deep investigation of your own presence will reveal. Not only that awareness is a functional property of unconditional Consciousness. Also other functional, and structural, properties such as the need to give without demand, the longing for eternity, Imperturbable Peace and Unconditional Love.
In that the spiritual is an aspect of our nature and experience it is accessible to investigation. Even if the investigative tools so fruitful in and as the scientific method are of limited assistance. Many are the Spiritual Scientists that have participated in that investigation, besides the above mentioned and myself.
This drive has brought me to a perspective on, and understanding of, life that confounds and even contradicts the assumptions underpinning conventional consensus 'reality'. Nevertheless its formative roots extend in many different directions towards discoveries, insights and understanding of others, marginal though they may often be to the cultural mainstream. These include Patanjali, Siddhartha Gotama, Shankara, Nagarjuna, Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz, William Blake and others.
I consider myself and they to be Spiritual scientists. By Spiritual I do not mean religious. I mean by Spiritual that element, or aspect of our nature and experience that can not be enfolded into the territories of body or mind. This element expresses itself most obviously in and as awareness. Yet there is much more to it than that, as deep investigation of your own presence will reveal. Not only that awareness is a functional property of unconditional Consciousness. Also other functional, and structural, properties such as the need to give without demand, the longing for eternity, Imperturbable Peace and Unconditional Love.
In that the spiritual is an aspect of our nature and experience it is accessible to investigation. Even if the investigative tools so fruitful in and as the scientific method are of limited assistance. Many are the Spiritual Scientists that have participated in that investigation, besides the above mentioned and myself.