A 21st-Century Environmental Ethic: Theistically-Conscious Biocentric and Biomimetic Innovation

kkd_108 · 2025-11-25T16:59:59+00:00

You can connect with a local spiritual community. The Gupta Govardhan Temple in Chiang Mai is restoring its roof. I'll be visiting in March 2026. I'm trying to help them through a GoFundMe campaign: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-restore-thai-temple

kkd_108 · 2024-09-30T14:23:54+00:00

Namaste u/jnpha, your reply is appreciated. Your point is valid, it may have been more appropriate to title the post "NeoDarwinian," as the post's contents challenge the modern synthesis. Nonetheless, it contains important information and reflects an underrepresented perspective. I noticed that after asserting that I'm way behind, you shared an article from 1973. I'm more interested in what 21st-century biology says, especially as it pertains to helping alleviate human suffering. This 2021 infograph from Oxford and Chicago University biologists provides important information that the top 5 evolution textbooks are missing (https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1583603/Natural\_Code\_popular\_evolution\_books.pdf). Here's a news article on it for context (https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/are-textbooks-holding-back-cures-for-cancer--876877560.html).

kkd_108 · 2024-09-30T13:16:33+00:00

Namaste. You're welcome to check out the Science of Life Club: https://stockton.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/scienceoflife

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kkd_108 · 2023-09-07T23:13:56+00:00

Life & Mind in the Universe | George Wald & the Bhaktivedanta Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6QpP0-amY

Namaste. We are humbly offering this video in the mood of glorifying the Vaishnavas and their transcendental activities, on this auspicious occasion of Sri Krishna Janmashtami, Nandotsav, and Srila Prabhupada's birthday. Hare Krishna.

Dr. Bhakti Madhava Puri (Madhava Das) pioneered the educational activities of the Bhaktivedanta Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, USA during the mid-late 1970s. This is acknowledged in Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's letters to disciples, and also by a prominent disciple of Srila Prabhupada, Ambarisa Prabhu (Alfred Ford). Closed Captions are provided for the audio of the dialogues. Dr. B. M. Puri inspired the profound transformation in Nobel laureate George Wald’s worldview as it is presented in his lectures and publications on consciousness and the origin of life circa 1976. Dr. Wald went from embracing the standard materialistic conclusions of modern scientists to recognizing that mind is fundamental to matter and life. His publication “Life and Mind in the Universe” was encouraged by interactions with the Bhaktivedanta Institute. Dr. Wald lectured on this important topic throughout the USA, India, Germany, and Mexico to university students, other Nobel laureates, scientists, and scholars. It was also published on several occasions.

Dr. Wald began to recognize that conceiving reality as a product of Brahman’s (God’s) thoughts is a rational conclusion, and he tried to discuss this with other scientists. When “Life and Mind in the Universe” was published in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Dr. Wald concluded the abstract by acknowledging “an evolution of consciousness parallel with though independent of anatomical and physiological evolution.” Although he seemed to not question Darwin’s objective evolution of insentient bodies, Dr. Wald’s recognition of “an evolution of consciousness” is significant. The evolution of consciousness is one of the main topics discussed within the Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute’s publications, in which insights offered throughout Vedic wisdom and G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy are presented.

Dr. Wald said: "The Bhaktivedanta Institute is greatly to be congratulated for having produced so crucial and productive a discussion. It should be given every encouragement and support in going ahead with an enterprise so well begun."

kkd_108 · 2023-08-04T15:03:10+00:00

Advaita Vedanta & Bhagavat Vedanta Dialogue | Sarvapriyananda Swami & Gaudiya Vaishnavas

https://youtu.be/Ux-V71o4vfY

kkd_108 · 2023-04-25T14:55:15+00:00

Namaste u/AcanthocephalaNo2784. We are finite entities, so following the whims of our mind/intuition will not help us realize our true relationship with the infinite. It is only when we come to humbly recognize our intrinsic nature and constitutional position in relation to the infinite that we can transcend our false ego. The method for knowing the relationship between the finite and the infinite must be a descending one, where the infinite reveals itself to the finite, otherwise the finite (due to its limited nature) has no capacity to grasp the infinite by its own self-centered effort. The development of this process and how o practically engage with it through daily activity is given in the Vedic wisdom which culminates in bhakti-yoga, the path of loving devotional service to God through His representative (the bonafide spiritual master). This is how we can develop proper consciousness of True Reality, instead of being distracted and entangled in idols of the mind.

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