I started running in 2008, and by the end of the summer of 2009, I was at an excellent level of fitness and technical skills on trails. In August of that summer, I entered the ruggedly technical and mountainous 80 miller trail race, the Iron Legs, in Kananaskis country. I was in second place by …
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive. And you discover yourself to be a greater person by …
This post is part one of a four-part series of articles examining the nature and scope of influence and functionality of agile and flexible power structures outside the more recognized and influential ones. The articles will briefly discuss the major and minor systems and propose the potent capability of a set of smaller power structures …
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What is faith? And by that, I don’t mean a religious or spiritual ideology or a belief system. If you dive into any religious doctrine, you come across a set of definitions being accepted as ground truth or components of the absolute truth; faith is one of them. I don’t question the validity of any …
Years ago, I used to have these lucid dreams of flying. I would run and take off, flapping my arms like wings and fly. The feeling of inspiration and restfulness in the mornings was exhilarating. I miss those dreams. It was around 2010 when I started meditation, and quickly I was able to reach long …
Assume the mind is a virtual environment constructed by the brain to act as an interface between the physical form and the consciousness- a conduit between our four-dimensional world and the realm of other dimensions. This construct can be considered as a framework hosting the collection of virtual entities, such as concepts, ideas, perceptions, and …
This short article presents a simple perspective on the subject of the mind and its relation to the brain and consciousness. The mind is a non-physical entity distinctly different from the brain and its processes. There is a wealth of studies and research findings on the subject in the field of psychology, which the reader …
An astronaut can confidently float in space, knowing they won’t fall, because they know the non-directionality of space and how gravity applies there. Meditation is a nonreligious practice in the sense that it is not bound to any rules. One could follow another person’s practice or develop their own depending on the objective they have …
Freedom is a vague concept to define and describe qualitatively and even more so to measure the impacts of its absence or implementation quantitatively. On the other hand, the established framework of principals, precedents and laws, such as constitutions and cultural norms, are often used as systems of reference to present the concept of freedom …
