I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine if the next time you go to sleep you wakeup in someone else’s body-mind. And they wake up in yours. A full swap. What would that be like? If your first reaction to that was, “Oh I would be surprised”, or “It would be so weird”, I have to caution you and clarify the setup....

The most common picture of God goes something like this: before the universe existed, there was nothing. Then God, existing somehow outside of nothing, decided to make something. The universe is his handiwork. He is the potter. We are the pots. This picture has problems. The first is logical. If the universe...

The following is an excerpt from Guru Granth Sahib Ang. 152-153 (Raag Dakhni Gauri): पउणै पाणी अगनी का मेलु The body is a meeting of air, water, and fire. A compound. Borrowed from elements, held briefly, returned. It is not what you are. चंचल चपल बुधि का खेलु A play of restless intellect. In Advaita, buddhi belongs...

(or the physics of Non-locality & Non-duality) Let’s start with something we think we understand: light. That’s where we left off in our last article about Light, Space and Time. You know from high school that light behaves like a wave. When you shine light through two narrow slits, you don’t get two bright lines on...

(or the physics of Duality & Causality) From high-school physics we know that Light is special. It travels through space and time at an insanely high speed (~300 million meters per second). Unlike sound, it is a wave that can propagate in a vacuum. If you were attentive in school, you might even remember how the...

Do numbers exist? I can count three mangoes, or four pebbles. They’re right there, I can pick them up, I can touch them with my hands. But where is this number called 3 or 4? Well, you might say that the mangoes may rot and the pebbles may get lost, but there is something eternal, a unique value behind the multiple...

If you will allow me, I want to show you something simple and strange: that only one thing can ever be proven to exist. You might laugh at this. Look around, you say. The world is overflowing. Branches trembling in the wind, rivers gliding through stone, the warmth of another person passing by, a sky filled with...

Here is a close-up photo of a flower taken using an iPhone 13: The smudginess in the out-of-focus areas—especially the stem and the base of the flower—is very jarring to look at. Recently, whenever I’ve tried to take an image with even a modest digital zoom of 1.5x-2x—whether it’s of a bird, natural scenery, or a...

I’ve often been confused when reading religious or spiritual texts that talk about Truth (with a capital T). What do they mean by it, and why the strange capitalization? The confusion usually arises because what these texts are pointing to is often conflated (due to poor translations) with the general, everyday use...

I have been pondering this question for a long time, and I’m sure many others before me have too. Often, when I’m stuck on a problem or going through a particularly mundane phase of life where nothing seems interesting, suddenly there is light. And by light, I mean a new idea; a potential solution, or a topic that...

(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Power) Throughout high school, and later during undergrad, I struggled with finding motivation to work. It was weird because before high school I had it easy, at least academically. I was able to learn new subjects with minimal effort, and there wasn’t a lot of boring...

Why do I sometimes fear the judgement of others? Why does anybody fear judgement of their peers or society? I think the fear of judgement in me stems only when I know that deep down, my actions were not perfect and did not meet my own moral code - that I did do something wrong and haven’t faced it or forgiven myself...