The Sunday afternoon podcast with Greg Reese

The Default Mode Network, or DMN, is a network of the brain that lights up during self-reflection. These are the neurons that create the ego-story. Neuroimaging studies have shown that experienced meditators are not firing the ego-story neurons as much as non-meditators, and are accessing other parts of the neural network more. Scientific studies confirm that the narrating eg...

The autonomic nervous system has two main divisions: The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. They work together to help keep your body balanced and alive. The Sympathetic nervous system is known as the fight-flight-or-freeze mode and you can think of it as an alarm system that switches on in states of emergency. It releases adrenaline and cortis...

In the first chapter of the Hebrew Bible, it says that “God created man in His image.” In Hebrew, this is written as tzelem Elohim, and some rabbinical interpretations hold that humans can function as icons that draw God’s presence into the world—similar to the murtis in Hinduism.

Christianity builds on this foundation, teaching that every person has high value and the ...

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Trained in Rosicrucian philosophies, Rudolf Steiner taught that humans have several bodies: the physical body, the etheric body — which animates the physical body, the “I” or the ego, and the astral body. According to Steiner there are three different dimensional worlds existing together, the physical, the astral, and the spirit. He claimed that when you fall asleep, your ast...