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I read a fun book over the holidays. Has anyone else read it and would like to comment? This is David Michie's "The Magician of Lhasa". Read More
Oh, THAT Lhasa...
I saw the title of your blog posting and I thought it would be a tribute to Lhasa de Sela, the evocative singer who recently died [...cancer took her, too young, so full of promise at 37].
But Tibet's Lhasa, in a mystery... and now I want to read the book!
thanks!
That Lhasa
Actually it's not about Lhasa at all. It's just that the hero gets called the "Magician of Lhasa" because of his special powers. It does include lots of mountain adventures in Tibet though. Don't take it too seriously but I enjoyed it.
Hello Dr. Blackmore
The Magician of Lhasa sounds interesting but I'm going to wait for the Hollywood version. No doubt a car chase and some automatic weapons fire will add to the plot.
Steve Mason
PT Blogger
PS We met at a CSICOP convention years ago and I've been enjoying your work ever since then...but probably not into another life.
Reincarnation
I have a Phd in physics and still believe that reincarnation makes more scientific sense than no reincarnation. Furthermore 1 billion Indians with millions of brilliant PhDs also believe in reincarnation so I would not be so confident about that statement.
There are no contradictions between reincarnation and science. Life is both mathematically rigorous and magical. The contradictions comes up when we make life and science very narrow.
Also In the absolute sense yes there is no reincarnation but at that
level the whole creation is maya, pure energy. However human reality and the spirit world does not operate in the absolute. So unless one is actually experiencing the world as pure energy as perhaps a few great beings have in human history, for most of us, reincarnation is closer to home.
And yet another paradox, ultimately to believe or not in reincarnation is irrelevant to our evolution.
Blessings
Collapse of the wave function
Hello PhD physicist. How much do you know about the collapse of the wave function? It has been under discussion (a bit) on this blog.
Reincarnation
But who, or what, is to be reincarnated in this world of impermanence? A body lasts, with all its changes, for some time, but when that's dispersed into the universe what remains?
I think the idea of personal reincarnation is wishful thinking. And yes, billions of people can be wrong. Dualism is the natural way of thinking about the world - common to most peoples at most times of history. Yet it is wrong. The idea of a creator God is common to billions of people. Yet it is wrong. The Buddha's insights into the nature of self are terribly hard to accept because they go against the natural ideas that most people believe in.
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