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Sadhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Spiritual use of cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cannabis has a long use in India not only as a medicine but also as a sacrament of lord Shiva. It's an important spiritual tool of the priests and sadhus who are wandering monks. It is often...

For those who are not familiar with atheism within Hinduism, check out this article as an intro; Atheism in Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I'm not surprised all that much at all that atheism exists within Hinduism. After all the label "Hinduism" is a very big misnomer and...

Interesting. Although the concept has its roots in judaistic kabbalah many neo-pagans use the term. However I'm surprised that christianity never carried on any similar notions within it.....this maybe partly based on the fact that christianity is a descendent of the roman church who persecuted...

Is there a concept of Dao or Brahman in any school of European (Norse, Celtic, Roman, Greek, Wicca, ect.) paganism? Paganism seems a lot closer to the earth and nature like hinduism or daoism; and a lot more different than christianity in this sense. What is the concept of the underlying unity...

In Zen Buddhism, koan is a story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Buddhism. You are supposed to meditate on whatever the question or riddle is and by doing so you expand your thought into new mental pathways. If you are a beginner it seems reasonable to solve the...

I wouldn't bet the farm on that :). I have read and studied the Abrahamic religions, almost religiously you might say ;). And if you think Yahweh portrayed in the Hebrew Bible cannot be considered as an enraged megalomaniac, then you can't see this in all angles ;). Yahweh is a Hebrew war God...

I think the best question to ask here is "What is God?" To my knowledge there is no proven God, so the question on what God is will always be under speculation (until we really find It). If we are talking about the Abrahamic deity Yahweh, then yes in many ways this god is limited. Yahweh seems...

Well in actuality we are also programmed a certain way. We are bound and limited to the way our body is and has evolved as well. It is just that currently humans are far more complex than any robot. Perhaps in time there will be a robot with an imagination even greater than us!:eek: Hopefully by...

Yes, the programming maybe limited but remember we are "programmed" too. We act a certain way and can do certain things based on our nervous system capabilities as well as our DNA. Single celled bacteria would be very limited like V2 (even an ant is no where near the complex biological “program”...

Have any of you ever smoked pot? If you have you will notice that time seems to go a lot slower. But slower only to you. 10 min. could feel like an hour if you are high on marijuana. The ancient Hindu mystics used to experiment with this and concluded that time is the product of the individual...

I think most people could never forget the complex robosapien. It in many ways acted like a complex organism but it didn't have the complex sensory input of a animal-like organism. But Robosapien Version 2 has a lot more advanced features and seems to even have a primitive sensory input. Check...

How many adherents are there in Taoism. I have seen estimates from 2 million to 30 million. How many Taoists are there?

Yes, you said it right. This essence in reality makes no difference or benefit to us in our next life because it has no personality. It has no personality or anything about ourselves because our personality is the result of the physical existence (in our species the brain makes the personality...

Yes it would probably be like a deep sleep. Meaning that when you die a cryopreserve your body you will wake up right away once you die. Except your conciousness will probably be far into the future considering...........yes it will be some time before science can revive people from the dead...

I have always believed in reincarnation because to me it wouldn't make sense for awareness to just die off forever. It makes the most sense of any other explanation on what happens after death also because any other explanation of life after death emphasizes the importance of this life. It...

We actually aren't that different from other animals. In fact one might look at humans as the artistic projection of mammalian life ;). What separates us from other animals is obviously our big nervous system. Our nervous systems after nearly 6 million years of evolution has become so advanced...

I myself am a pretty hardcore skeptic and follower of science, so it may come to a surprise to you that I believe in reincarnation. Yes I do, because it is to me the best logical explanation we have on what happens after death. All others do not make any sense. So why didn't I come to the...

Is the Tower Of Babel story found the Bible and Torah in the Quran? If so how similar is it to the Christian and Jewish version of the story?

If we were to pick and choose particular verses in Islam's holy books, then we can easily make the argument that Islam honors AND gives the same rights to women. However how do we define what we can pick and choose?