The focus of this paper is showing that meditation is becoming aware of awareness itself...and this awareness is a field phenomena.

This is a phenomenological study of the natural unfolding of awareness into non duality.

This paper focuses on the understanding that Dzogchen experience is a Theophanic Manifestation.

This paper focuses on the relationship of language within the awareness field.

How the universe came to be what it is now is a key philosophical question. The hypothesis that it came from nothing or śūnya (as proposed by Stephen Hawking, among others) proves to be dissembling, since the quantum vacuum can hardly be considered a void (śūnya). In modern science, it is generally assumed that matter existed before the universe came to be. Modern science hypothesizes that the manifestation of life on earth is nothing but a mere increment in the complexity (...) of matter – and hence is an outcome of evolution of matter (chemical evolution) following the Big Bang. After the manifestation of life, modern science believed that chemical evolution transformed itself into biological evolution, which then had caused the entire biodiversity on our planet. In the framework of materialism, the major attention is to find general organizational laws stimulated by physical sciences, ignoring the uniqueness of life. The main goal of materialism is to reduce consciousness to natural processes, which in turn can be translated into the language of math, physics, and chemistry. Following this approach, scientists have made several attempts to deny the living organism of its veracity as an immortal soul, in favor of genes, molecules, atoms, and so on. However, advancement in various fields of biology has repeatedly given rise to questions against such a denial and has supplied more and more evidence against the completely misleading ideological imposition that living entities are particular states of matter. In the recent past, however, the realization has arisen that cognitive nature of life at all levels has begun presenting significant challenges to the views of materialism in biology and has created a more receptive environment for the soul hypothesis (Shanta BN. Commun Integr Biol 8(5):e1085138, 2015). Therefore, instead of adjudicating different aprioristic claims, the development of an authentic theory of origin of life and universe needs both proper scientific knowledge and the appropriate tools of philosophical analysis of life. This talk will highlight the uniqueness of biological systems that offers a considerable challenge to the mainstream materialism and proposes the Vedāntic philosophical view as a viable alternative for development of a theory worthy of origin of life and universe. (shrink)

This paper focuses on the views and formulations of eastern philosophy the negate humanism and personalism.

This paper focuses on the path of appearance and awareness.

This paper focuses on the hermeneutic of reading text and hearing text.

This paper focuses on Winnicott and Lacan and the lack within subjectivity in light of dzogchen.

This paper focuses on the history of dzogchen within the heart essence tradition.

This paper focuses on the contributions of phenomenology to Dzogchen.

This paper focuses on Dzogchen and self liberation.

This paper focuses on the essence of dzogchen as Presence.

This paper explores the nature of awakened awareness and awakened phenomena in the dzogchen tradition from a phenomenological viewpoint.

This paper focuses on Heidegger's presentation of becoming self liberated.

This paper focuses on Prajna and the discernment of knowningness.

This paper focuses in detail on the practice of meditation as becoming aware of awareness as a field vast and multidimensional.

This paper focuses on the appearance of emptiness through time.

This paper describes the phenomenology of gazing within dzogchen practice.

This paper focuses on Merleau Ponty understanding that the body is the medium of the field of awareness.

This paper focuses on empty mind, transitional space and the dissolving of the self object function.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of essence and appearance in Merleau Ponty.

This paper focuses on the realm of omnipotence from a Lacanian viewpoint.

This paper focuses on liberation as the experience of pervasive radiance.

This paper describes the contemporary phenomenological understanding of subjectivity as non dual awareness.

This paper focuses on awareness and movement in dzogchen.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of healing within the awareness field.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of timeless awareness.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of awareness as natural liberation.

This paper focuses on symbolization as purity and translucidity of phenomena.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of desire and fixation.

This paper describes subjectivity as the manifestation of the primordial awareness field.

This paper beginning with a Lacanian view point describes fragmentation and the unfolding of awareness in the process of embodiment within the understanding of dzogchen.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of symbolic transmissions.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of the manifestation of awareness.

This paper focuses on mystical humanism as magical realism.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of awareness and the second reduction.

This paper focuses on meditation as natural luminousity.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of idealism and realism in light of dzogchen.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of whoness.

This paper focuses on the phenomenology of the experiential awareness field.

This paper describes the non dual relationship between the visible and the invisible.

This paper focuses on deathlessness awareness.

This paper focuses on the radiance of awareness.

This paper focuses on the unfolding of awareness as embodiment of luminous spaceousness.

In this paper I sketch the evolution of the main theories of the relationship between time and motion from Descartes to Newton, by defending an hypothesis that traces back Newton’s realism about time to Barrow’s “metric realism”, which Newton developed as the claim that measuring a magnitude X implies that X exists independently of our measures.

Doctoral graduates in philosophy are an excellent source of information about the discipline: they are at the cutting edge of research trends, have an inside view of researchfocused departments, and their employment prospects provide early insights on the future health of the discipline. We report on the results of a survey sent to recent PhD graduates and current students, as well as data gathering efforts by Academic Placement Data and Analysis that have taken place over the past ten years. In (...) this report we especially focus on demographic representation, program ratings, academic job placement, and non-academic careers. (shrink)

This is a draft of the the unpublished Ph.D. dissertation which reads Cormac McCarthy and Stephen King synoptically through the lens of Christian hermeneutics.