Near-death experiences are often discussed as though they offer a glimpse of what happens after death. A person’s body reaches a critical state, normal physical functions appear to cease, and yet the person later reports vivid experiences—sometimes involving a sense of leaving the body, observing events from elsewhere, encountering light, or entering an unfamiliar state … Continue reading Beyond Life, or Beyond the Body?
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The Paths I Take
What If I Am the Traveller? Sometimes I try to imagine myself differently. Not simply as this body moving from one place to another, but as the consciousness experiencing the journey. In that picture, I am my consciousness, travelling through space and time. And perhaps the world around me is something like an enormous landscape … Continue reading The Paths I Take
Existence, Emptiness, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Among the deepest questions humanity has ever asked is whether absolute emptiness truly exists. At first glance, emptiness appears to be a simple concept—the absence of everything. Yet the more carefully we examine it, the more mysterious it becomes. Modern science has never observed absolute emptiness. Every attempt to remove matter reveals something else that … Continue reading Existence, Emptiness, and the Limits of Human Understanding
A Layered Model of Reality: Space, Consciousness, and the Experience of Time
Introduction The nature of reality has been one of humanity's oldest questions. Physics explores matter, energy, space, and time, while philosophy and spirituality often explore consciousness and existence. The model presented here is a speculative framework that attempts to bring some of these ideas together into a simple conceptual picture. In this model, reality is … Continue reading A Layered Model of Reality: Space, Consciousness, and the Experience of Time
Space as a Pattern of Existence: A Reflection on Reality Beyond Space
Most of us grow up with a simple understanding of space. Space appears to be the vast container within which everything exists. Stars, planets, people, atoms, and particles all seem to occupy positions in space. The natural assumption is that space is the stage and everything else is placed upon it. Yet a closer examination … Continue reading Space as a Pattern of Existence: A Reflection on Reality Beyond Space
A Balance
Human beings live between two powerful psychological needs: the need for control and the need for mystery. We seek certainty because certainty helps us survive. The visible, measurable, and explainable parts of reality allow us to predict danger, organize society, reduce anxiety, and feel psychologically secure. Much of modern science and technology emerged from this … Continue reading A Balance
Time, Space and Us
We often say that we live in a three-dimensional world. By "three-dimensional," we mean three dimensions of space. In my humble understanding, I’ve always wondered why we refer to this as 3D, since all the dimensions are essentially aspects of space itself. Therefore, I would prefer to say that we live within the dimensions of … Continue reading Time, Space and Us
Dr. M Samir Hossain 