This site explores the depths of human knowledge and belief, scientific and spiritual, modern and ancient, in an attempt to show that the convergence of scientific and spiritual thought is inevitable, and in fact is already happening.  Such a synthesis would certainly require a profound paradigm shift away from our logic-oriented objective view of the universe, or more precisely, a shift toward a perspective in which our "normal" understanding of the universe is recognized as a rather limited view of the way things really are.  This is precisely the sort of emerging worldview which scientific physics has been struggling with for the past 100 years, and is precisely what mystics have been telling us ever since we can remember.  No longer are these worldviews rooted in diametrically opposed principles.  In fact, modern physics and the perennial philosophy cannot help but to be concerned with exactly the same universal principles, and the parallels between their descriptions of these universal principles are striking and exciting, to say the least.

You will find discussions ranging from scientific to mystical, exoteric to esoteric, highlighted with related graphics and quotations from other sources.  The discussions move quickly to the heart of the concepts involved and leave a more detailed exploration of any point in question up to the reader as needed.  The points covered will introduce a metaphysical geometry which can be related directly to both modern relativistic quantum field theory and the most ancient sacred geometries.  The great archives which form the fields of human knowledge are vast and diverse, and insofar that every field of human endeavor is primarily a quest for that which is true within the scope of that endeavor, every one of them should be considered as offering at least some sort of legitimate perspective on whatever the ultimate Truth should turn out to be.  I suspect we can come to understand that it is all primarily a matter of perspective.  About all we can say about the timeless transcendental essence of the universe is that it has always been the same no matter how we believed, and yet we can actually experience it, do experience it, and we can come to feel it as a universal state of Being from which shines the core of our being.  In meditation and yogic practices, in all the great spiritual traditions of our planet, we search for a personal understanding and a very real experience of that timeless state of Being.

Many will recognize concepts and terminology paralleling the New Age ideas which have become so familiar, but the worldview expressed within this site (as summarized above) is actually more along the lines of the New Thought movement, a modern mysticism of the Western world that emerged over a century ago.  Early pioneers of New Thought were author-philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman; scientist-philosophers such as Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Eddington, and Alfred North Whitehead; and leading metaphysical teachers like the the founders of the Theosophical Society.  More recently, the respected works of Joseph Campbell have gone a long way to broaden our perspectives on mythology and comparative religion while the New Age phenomenon grew as a popularized and natural spin-off of the New Thought emergence.  All of it and more, of course, are expressions of our awakening process as a whole.

For those interested in yoga, these pages provide insights along the path of Jnana Yoga, the way of wisdom or the intellect.  The other two primary classifications of yoga (a Sanskrit word referring to a reunification with the spiritual dimension) are Bhakti Yoga, the way of devotion, and Karma Yoga, the way of good works.  Jnana Yoga is an exercise for the mental body -- it's higher-dimensional form of logic provides a sort of left-brain understanding for the strangely illogical right-brain experiences of emotional-body yoga and transcendental realization in general, and in this way, nicely complements all other forms of yoga.  At the same time, Jnana Yoga itself is a powerful tool for inducing transcendental realizations which have profound effects on the emotional body and it is traditionally recommended that the initiate be well along in some form of emotional body training beforehand.  Integration is the key here and its importance cannot be overemphasized, whether talking about the left and right brain, physical senses and super-sensual experiences, concrete logic and abstract concept, intellect and intuition, material and spiritual.

Jnana Yoga...is the Yoga of pure discrimination.  It transcends the intellect through the intellect.  It needs no Iswara, no altar, no image, no ritual.  It seeks a more immediate approach to...Brahman [the transcendental omnipresence].  This path may perhaps be more direct, but it is also hard and steep...

Viveka-Chudamani
Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination

What is exciting about the modern scientific view of the Universe is that it provides us with the language and concepts to more easily trod this steep and direct path, even for those without a specific propensity for scientific thought.  Mathematics is not necessary to develop some sort of intuitive understanding of the concepts involved and geometry can be used as a very effective visual aid to represent the most profound scientific and mystical principles.