Matters that matter more than matter

Forgetting something

Ten friends got a hotel room on the 100th floor – and the power went off

What materialism can’t tell us

Origin ValueMeaning

World Health Organization (WHO)

A Hard Look at the Modern World

Over one million people commit suicide every year.

This figure is more than the total deaths in wars and homicides combined.

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OriginNothing existed because of nothing – nothing exploded because of nothing and gave rise to everything

OriginA series of temporary causes must have a non-temporary starting cause

Eg. 100-storey skyscraper has to rest on ground

Origin: Who is the inner activator?

“The brain is a computer . . . But it is programmed by something that is outside itself.” - Wilder Penfield The Mystery of the Mind,

Value: Right & WrongNothing wrong in aborting a baby after birth- Materialist philosophers Alberto Giubilini & Francesca Minerva in Journal of Medical Ethics

MeaningNewton saw apple falling – what made it fall? Search for meaning

MeaningScience, if restricted to materialism, shows tiny islets of meaning while flailing in an ocean of meaninglessness

The unknown knower?

Reject reality because it is not found in the map?

The folly of materialism“Materialism is the

philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”

–Arthur Schopenhauer

OriginWe are eternal non-material parts of the all-attractive whole

ValueDecide right and wrong based on what helps or hinders our evolution to spiritual consciousness

PurposeTo find lasting love in the harmony of the part with the whole

Conclusion

Be not apartBe a part

Purification

Removes the viruses that infect the software of the mind

Eg “Torches of freedom”

Meditation?

Connects us with our unchanging core

Eg Anchor in an ocean

No time?

Spirituality doesn’t take your work time; it takes your worry time