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My teacher who is clairvoyant, told me not to worry, there is no end of the world, no cataclysmic disasters in 2012.

I use to think that there should be a Creator God. But after reading up on Buddhism and contemplating its teachings, I see no need for any form of theology that involves a "Creator God" or a "One Cosmic Consciousness" or any kind of mysterious mysticism. Anyway, I put great store on logical...

I've seen another approach on Christian and Islamic boards, and even on this board. They try to debunk the science through various sleight of hands. I used to be surprised by such closed minds, but not now.

But if heaven and hell are not important, then the argument of "plausible deniability" does not really address the earlier remark of Etu Malku.

That sloppy, complacent and irresponsible guy still gets to heaven, so in the end, is there any real purpose of "plausible deniability"? If the guy goes to hell, isn't the so-called "plausible deniability" a form of "entrapment"?

It could simply mean that current disciplines have yet to be fully developed or that there are disciplines yet to be discovered. I am therefore on the side that all things can be explained .... eventually, without the need to resort to the concept of miracles. "Miracle" and "Creator God" are...

Yet, it you have the good fortune to meet a true master, would you have the qualifications to enable you to receive the transmission? If you don't, then all the teachings and practices that have been handed down are still relevant and should not be lightly dismissed out of hand. Those...

In Tibetan Buddhism, there are people who are called tertons. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terma_(religion) ). These tertons are prophesied by Padmasambhava to appear in the future to give new impetus to the teachings for the benefit of various beings. Whether these tertons can fulfill the...

I have problem equating measurement with observation by a consciousness. A measurement involves interaction. It would seem to me then that as long as there is an interaction, whether with something animate or inanimate, there will be a "collapse" of the wave function. Besides, for most...

Precisely, someone must first come up with something about God and then see if anyone can falsify it. So far, all notions of a personal, active God can be falsified or if not, are certainly very questionable based on the mess that we call human existence. Only those that define God in a...

Sounds to me like you are talking about discovery rather than proof.

Yes, if you are communicating with someone other than yourself.

There is no agreement on what God is and is not. So it is not possible even to begin talking about proofs, scientific or otherwise.

According to my understanding of Buddhism, when we are unenlightened i.e have not seen through the nature of reality, we see ourselves as unique individuals. When we are enlightened, we realized we are neither one nor many. An analogy would be an electron probability cloud. Speaking of one...

I was actually thinking the other way around, the here or "normal" is a 3-D projection of the 2-D "beyond". Does this make sense to you?

Hi radarmark, Could you elaborate on Schwartzschild time and the two time streams?

When you look at a piece of paper crumbled into a ball, it looks 3-dimensional and rich in features. However when you unravel the ball and iron out all the creases, you get a 2-dimensional featureless paper. The here is like the crumbled ball of paper. The beyond is like the uncrumbled flat...

Here's my speculation: The web is probabilistic. Also, past, present and future in the web are not distinguishable and therefore time is not distinguishable into past, present and future. The web is therefore structural rather than temporal. Consequence of the above is that in the web, if...

Actually, in Buddhism, "beyond" is also here. If "beyond" is also here, then "beyond" is misleading too.:) Pay no attention to me, I am just being difficult.:D

Agree. This must follow if we accept the principle that "all things must be addressed". So yes, I agree. However, I am not sure if the current lines of pursuit in physics can actually achieve it. If indeed, current science of the sub-atomic level is the science at the veil-web boundary, it...