Suggested text is available at the UNH bookstore. You will learn what the largest telescopes can teach us, and about the similarities and differences of the planets and of the galaxies. Suggested text is available at the UNH Bookstore. The universality of existence is a core tenet underlying both religious doctrine and the physical sciences. All great religions recognize a universal ground of being, called by various names, including God, Brahman, Dharmakaya, or Tao.
Physical cosmology theorizes about a single common origin of the universe from which life emerged.
The various earth and life sciences show that humans are an inseparable part of a vast web of vital geophysiological processes, but there is a curious absence of universality in the scientific theories which address the nature of our mind-of our experiential being. Donald Brautigam, Ph.D., is a research physicist with the Air Force Research Laboratory. Over the past 25 years, his deep involvement in both science and meditation has enabled him to develop an appreciation for what these two very different disciplines have to teach us about the Self and the universe.