Category: Consciousness

Blending Science and Spirituality

April 17, 2024

A focused interview about neuroscience and spirituality with Sarah Kirton of Mystic Mag.

From the article: “In many respects, neuroscience falls short in explaining superconsciousness. One of its fundamental limitations lies in its strong commitment to the idea that the brain generates consciousness, thoughts, and emotions. However, most spiritual teachings assert that consciousness, thought, and emotion transcend the physical body, including the brain. Instead, the brain serves as a connector to these non-local aspects of existence. To illustrate, consider a computer connecting to external sources like websites, music streams, or visual images. Similarly, the brain acts as a switchboard, facilitating our connection to elements that exist beyond its physical confines.”

Blending Science and Spirituality – Joseph Selbie (mysticmag.com)

The Neuroscience of Self-Realization

August 16, 2022

If we are, indeed, one with God in our divine Self, why don’t we know it? How can such a stupendous and powerful Reality that is our own high potential remain so thoroughly hidden from us?There are many answers to that question, but as I explore in my book, Break Through the Limits of the Brain, the neuroscientific answer is surprisingly simple: Most of us, by late childhood, have unintentionally rendered ourselves neurally blind to everything except what our senses reveal–our physical body and the physical world around us. From earliest childhood onward we were encouraged to learn to operate exclusively within the physical world and as we did so our brain wired more and more neural circuits to support only that purpose. By the time most of us reach our teens, all of our brain’s neural circuitry has wired to focus our mind’s eye view, attention, thoughts, memories, emotions, and actions on the physical world around us and on our myriad reactions to what’s happening in it.

Read the full article: The Neuroscience of Self-Realization — Ananda

Science Has Been Hijacked by Materialists–An Article by Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Science Has Been Hijacked by Materialists — Ananda

There are strong voices among a minority of scientists who fervently proclaim that science has proven that all religious beliefs are unfounded—that religion is simply keeping alive baseless superstitions and other nonsense.

At first glance their arguments are compelling. They invoke the scientific method. They tell us that none of religion’s claims have been proven in the laboratory. They assure us that their arguments rest firmly on factual scientific discovery. They speak with utter conviction.

You will no doubt be surprised, therefore, and possibly affronted, when I say that the people who hold such absolute views are themselves simply true believers in their own religion—scientific materialism.

(For the rest of the article go to: Science Has Been Hijacked by Materialists — Ananda

OMTimes Radio–The Physics of God, an interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Joseph (Puru) Selbie – The Physics of God – OMTimes Radio

Does God exist? Can we prove that scientifically? Is heaven a hologram? Do we have the ability to create miracles? M-Theory, and the power of your personal conviction… these are just some of the topics that Sandie will be discussing on What’s Going OM with lecturer and author Joseph Selbie, Author of The Physics of God: How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science this week on What is Going Om.

Buddha at the Gas Pump–The Physics of God, an interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Joseph Selbie on the “Physics of God” – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

Setting aside the pervasive material bias of science and lifting the obscuring fog of religious sectarianism reveals a surprisingly clear unity of science and religion. You’ll find that the explanations of transcendent phenomena given by saints, sages, and near-death experiencers—miracles, immortality, heaven, God, and transcendent awareness—are fully congruent with scientific discoveries in the fields of relativity, quantum physics, medicine, M-theory, neuroscience, and quantum biology.

The Storytelling Alchemist — Break Through the Limits of the Brain, An Interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Break through the Limits of the Brain – YouTube

Jeremy MacDonald and Joseph Selbie discuss Joseph’s new book, Break Through the Limits of the Brain.

Through the Limits of the Brain connects the dots between the discoveries of neuroscience and the meditation-born spiritual experience, as well as offering proven and practical ways to tap into the life-changing, life-enhancing treasure house of our superconscious potential. The book debunks scientific materialism’s brain-based explanation for consciousness and intelligence—including the brain-as-supercomputer and artificial intelligence models—and explains instead the view of many prominent and open-minded scientists that an all-pervading intelligent consciousness is the foundation of reality—an age-old view shared by saints, sages, mystics, and near-death experiencers. Selbie explores the current neuroscientific understanding of the brain’s dismaying degree of life-controlling influence on our thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and balances that understanding with neuroscience’s discoveries of neuroplasticity and our innate ability to rewire the brain for any new purpose—from the material to the mystical. Break Through the Limits of the Brain delves into the scientific support for the existence of a subtle, nonlocal reality that strongly suggests that we exist simultaneously in both a subtle and a physical reality—and that our thoughts, life force, emotions, and memories originate nonlocally. Meditation is a central theme of the book—what it is; how to do it; why it works; its physical, mental, and emotional benefits as measured by neuroscientists; and how it rewires the brain for superconscious awareness. The book offers proven practices for bringing superconscious awareness into one’s life for success, energy, health, peace of mind, and happiness.

What Matters Most: Break Through the Limits of the Brain, An interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Joseph Selbie #1031 – The What Matters Most Podcast (paulsamueldolman.com)

Paul Dolman and Joseph Selbie discuss Joseph’s new book, Break Through the Limits of the Brain.

Break Through the Limits of the Brain connects the dots between the discoveries of neuroscience and the meditation-born spiritual experience, as well as offering proven and practical ways to tap into the life-changing, life-enhancing treasure house of our superconscious potential.

The Yugas — Budha at the Gas Pump, An Interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

Joseph Selbie on “The Yugas” – Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview – YouTube

Rick Archer and Joseph Selbie discuss the yugas– indication of past higher ages, implications for the future, and insights into our present.

An understanding of the cycle of the yugas gives us unparalleled insight into the past, present, and future development of mankind. Sri Yukteswar, a modern exponent of the yugas, and on whose insights this book is based, explains that mankind goes through clearly discernable ages, or yugas. Each yuga changes the consciousness of mankind. As mankind’s consciousness changes, so do civilization and human development.

Next Level Soul: The Yugas, Awakening of Our Consciousness — An Interview with Joseph Selbie

August 2, 2022

The Yugas: Awakening of Our Consciousness with Joseph Selbie | Next Level Soul – YouTube

Alex Ferrari and Joseph Selbie discuss the yugas. An understanding of the cycle of the yugas reveals that, like two sides of the same coin, the development of mankind is inextricably bound together with the development of every man’s consciousness. The yugas are a unique contribution to the world’s knowledge because they unite the study of the inner and outer man. Historians have long sought a key with which to unlock the secrets of the past. But the key has eluded them because they have looked only to the outer man. Only when we make the correlation of inner consciousness to outward behavior, does the seeming chaos of history fall into a discernable pattern.