The Eternal World Picture
Every video, written up
Each article carries the video it is built around, a summary you can read in a few minutes, the key ideas, and chapter links into the video itself.
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Six kingdoms, from minerals to the spiritual worlds
The spiral cycle laid out properly: six kingdoms from mineral to the higher spiritual worlds, and the reasoning for why the sequence has to…
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Why do we suffer? Suffering seen through contrast
If experience runs on contrast, and life does not end, then suffering stops being an interruption to the process and becomes part of how…
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Five stages on the road to the meaning of life
Every culture has answered the question, and the answers keep changing. This video argues the sequence is not random — each answer is what…
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What the body is for, if you are not it
Seven minutes on a single claim: there is a living being behind the body, using it. Everything the video says about death follows from…
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The most basic meaning of being alive — and where it turns up in arithmetic
The same three-part analysis again, but approached from movement and intention — and it ends somewhere unexpected, in the number system.
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When the ground moves — looking for a foundation that holds
Money, relationships, achievement. Each feels like solid ground until it moves, and then the question is whether anything is load-bearing at all.
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The absolute fixed point — and why it has to be inside you
Every measurement needs something that does not move. The question of where to find one, in a universe where everything else changes, has a…
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How to understand infinity — and whether the universe is infinite
Infinity is usually imagined as something very far away. The video’s move is to find it in an object on the table in front…
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Three arguments for reincarnation, drawn from ordinary life
No mystical experience required. The claim here is that the case for reincarnation can be built out of things you have already noticed and…
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What is spiritual science? Four things it would have to satisfy
“Spiritual science” sounds either impressive or contradictory depending on your mood. This video does the useful thing and sets out what would actually have…
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Why is religion declining? Intelligence and belief are different abilities
Churches are emptying, and the usual explanations blame the churches. This one blames nothing — it says the faculty religion was built to run…
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What is materialism, and what is it for?
The interesting question about materialism is not whether it is correct. It is why a stage that excludes so much would exist at all…
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