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Essays on consciousness, cosmology and the life that tests them
42 pieces, from the cockpit to the summit to the question of what is doing the looking.
Consciousness: An Effect of the Purusha
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself." - Carl Sagan. Introduction During my aviation career as a production test pilot, one of the special test profiles involved climbing to altitudes higher than 60,000 feet. The aeroplane uses all its power with afterburners, accelerates to supersonic speeds, and needs to perform a zoom climb to reach that altitude. At this altitude, where the sky begins to darken to a shade of deep blue and the Eart
2026-01-27 · 54 min read
Two Paths of a Soul
In Brihdaranyak Upanishad, there is a description of either two paths which a soul may take. One path leads from the north pole to the Sun and the Sun acts as a wormhole for further travel of the soul to the heavens. This path is usually taken by accomplished souls who leave their bodies naturally in the daytime during the summer solstice (Uttarayana). Those who die during the winter solstice or when it is dark obscured skies etc, those souls follow the path from the south pole to the pole of t
2025-03-22 · 2 min read
The Cosmic Mind and Direct Perception
The Cosmos is a large place, so large that even with our latest space-based telescopes, we cannot measure its extent. It is filled with matter, energy and space that keeps moving, and that movement creates an impression of time. The heavenly bodies feel the forces and move in a certain fashion according to the laws of the cosmos. The cosmic mind is a metaphysical concept suggesting an underlying essence of the cosmos. The laws of physics, chemistry and physical sciences evolve following a cosmic
2025-03-19 · 9 min read