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, highlighted with related graphics and quotations from other sources.  The discussions move quickly to the heart of the concepts involved, leaving a more detailed exploration of any point in question up to the reader as needed, and introduce a metaphysical geometry which can be related directly to both the latest modern field theories 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, 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.  After all, the transcendental essence of the universe has always been the same no matter how we believed.

In the terms of classical yoga, these pages (and the study of metaphysics in general) provide insights along the path of Jnana Yoga, one of the three primary classifications of yoga, all with the same purpose of helping one to realize the experience of, and ultimately to reunify with, the spiritual dimension.  These three ancient categories are called Bhakti Yoga, the way of devotion, Karma Yoga, the way of good works, and Jnana Yoga, the way of the intellect, and in one combination or another, form the foundation of all schools and systems of yoga, past and present.

Jnana Yoga is an exercise for the mental body.  The multi-dimensional logic of metaphysics 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 can have profound effects on the emotional body by completely washing away what was thought to be common-sense logic.  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

It seems to me that modern science is providing us with a new mathematical language to more easily follow this steep and ancient path.  Today's physics cannot provide proof of a spiritual origin or timeless center to our Universe, but with core concepts right in line with the central principles of nondualistic mysticism, it certainly points directly to the possibility. Probably the most intriguing new vision of reality provided by modern physics us that the quantum processes that define what we know as matter and energy extended through space and time are somehow all actually unified in a way that is independent of that spacetime separation.

Fortunately, an understanding of the mathematics involved is not really necessary to develop some sort of intuitive understanding of the concepts involved. Geometry can be used as a very effective visual aid to represent the most profound scientific and mystical principles.  For example, through multi-dimensional models, we can visualize how separate atoms are actually unified in the quantum realm, and how our entire universe radiates from a single point, a timeless Universal Singularity realized both in the Superforce of unified field theory and the point of the Big Bang in modern cosmology.  Such models can help us to understand how we are actually unified at our core while appearing separated in spacetime, and to even think of ourselves, in Reality, as being more like different rings on the same sphere.

And the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started,
and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Elliot