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Some selected videos: 

• Crossing the Bridge: An Account of Awakening. 
  Merry Song, a long-time spiritual practitioner at the Center, shares the story of her spiritual journey, including several Awakenings, ultimately leading up to her accepting the role of a teacher. Recorded 6 November 2019 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon USA.
   
• Science from a Nondual Perspective. 
  What is the nature of nondual reality? Is it possible to provide an account from a nondual perspective of how an orderly universe apparently arises, and how science is possible? Thomas McFarlane addresses these questions in this one hour talk given at the Center for Sacred Sciences on 30 June 2019 in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
   
• Knowing Yourself, Knowing the Divine. 
  Starting with the teaching that to know ourselves is to know the Divine, Todd Corbett guides us with direct pointers to the nature of Awareness and related insights. Recorded 23 June 2019 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon USA.
   
• Where is the Boundary? An Account of Awakening. 
  David Cunningham describes his spiritual path and practices in the years leading up to his Awakening in the Fall of 2016, then shares the Awakening itself. This was recorded at a practitioners group meeting at the Center for Sacred Sciences on July 25, 2018, in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Discovering the Infinite and Intimate Nature of Awareness. 
  A Sunday talk by Todd Corbett, recorded June 24, 2018, at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon, USA
   
• Stopping the Wheel of Time. 
  In this talk, Joel answered a question about responding to situations with compassion by putting the question in the context of a teaching mandala that shows how suffering arises from the cycle of self-centered conditioning. At the deepest level, at the center of the mandala, are grasping, aversion, and indifference. He then discusses how precepts function to interrupt this cycle, and how practices cultivating compassion help reveal the joy of selflessness. The talk includes images of the mandala. Recorded 11 March 2018 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
   
• The Darkness of Truth. 
  In this talk, Joel Morwood gives teachings and a guided meditation on the darkness of the objective mind that can be Recognized as the Light of pure subjective Consciousness. It was given on 13 August 2017 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Center for Sacred Sciences. 
  Several of the early members of the Center for Sacred Sciences (CSS) share some of their memories of the founding of CSS and its early years. Recorded on the occasion of the CSS 30th anniversary at the annual CSS Light of Truth Celebration on 12 Aug. 2017 in Eugene, Oregon. Speakers include Joel Morwood (CSS spiritual director), Tom McFarlane (CSS board member), Fred Chambers (CSS board member), Todd Corbett (CSS board member), Michael Taylor (former CSS board member), Hiromi Sieradski (CSS events coordinator), and Mora Fields (CSS fundraising assistant).
   
• Subject and Object in Science and Mysticism. 
  In this Sunday talk, Thomas McFarlane compares the scientific approach to investigating reality through objectivity with the mystical approach to investigating reality through subjectivity. Although they are based on different views of reality, both proceed through a process of discrimination between subjective and objective, through progressively more subtle views of reality. If taken to their ultimate end, both lead to the limit where the distinction between subject and object itself drops away. It was recorded at the Center for Sacred Sciences on 18 June 2017 in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Classical Mysticism and its Relation to Death and Dying. 
  This is a 30 min. talk given by Joel Morwood, spiritual director at the Center for Sacred Sciences, at the Palliative Care Conference on Oct. 21, 2009, in San Mateo, California. It is an introduction to the core mystical teachings in the world's religious traditions, especially as they relate to death and dying.
   
• Symmetry: An Archetypal Principle. 
  This one hour video is a talk on symmetry in science and mystical philosophy, given by Thomas McFarlane at the Center for Sacred Sciences on 12 June 2016 in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• The Mathematics of Manifestation.
  This 32 min. video is a re-presentation of a talk by Thomas McFarlane given at the 2015 Science and Nonduality Conference in San Jose, California. It provides a vision for integrating science and nonduality by recognizing the true nature of distinction itself as a symmetrical play of apparent variance within invariance. Distinction, mathematics, and science then are seen to arise through a process of symmetry breaking.
   
• Enlightenment and Paradigms. 
  This video contains four brief "behind the scenes" excerpts from Rick Archer's "Buddha at the Gaspump" interview with Joel on place Aug 24, 2015.
   
• Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview with Joel Morwood from Buddha at the Gas Pump.
  In this video interview, Rick Archer spends 2 hours with Joel on Aug 24, 2015, talking about Joel's background, experience, and teachings.
   
• Franklin Merrell-Wolff: His Life and Teachings.
  This presentation gives an overview of the life and teachings of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, and his connection with the Center for Sacred Sciences. It was given by Thomas McFarlane at the Center for Sacred Sciences on 21 June 2015 in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Philosophical Lessons from Quantum Mechanics.
  This is a 37 min. re-presentation by Thomas McFarlane of a talk given on 19 April 2015 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Investigating the Nature of Space.
  In this 56 min. presentation, Thomas McFarlane discusses the nature of space as understood in mathematics, physics, and direct experience. It took place at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene Oregon on 13 April 2014.
   
• Interdependence in Science and Religion.
  Tom McFarlane introduces the teaching of interdependence in Buddhism and other religious traditions, and then illustrates how it can be found in modern science. It was given by Thomas McFarlane at the Center for Sacred Sciences on 30 June 2013 in Eugene, Oregon.
   
• Quantum Mechanics from Nonduality.
  This is a 36 min. re-presentation by Thomas McFarlane of a talk given on 17 November 2013 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon. It explains how the scientific framework can be seen as arising from nonduality, and how the structure of quantum mechanics arises from some simple additional assumptions.
   
• Einstein, Buddha, Reality: The Nondual Roots of Science.
  In this 68 min. presentation, Tom McFarlane (author of Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings) explains the challenges of integrating scientific and spiritual approaches to understanding reality, then proposes a radical new framework for uniting them at their deepest roots. Recorded at the Center for Sacred Sciences, in Eugene, Oregon, on 19 May 2013.
   
• Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective on the Eco-crisis, by David Loy.
  In this lecture, Professor, Zen teacher, and author David Loy explores the relevance that Buddhist teachings have to our understanding of the current ecological crisis. Can Buddhism help us understand more deeply the root causes of the crisis? Can Buddhist teachings guide us toward more skillful action toward addressing it?
   
• Why Meditate? 
  Joel Morwood, spiritual director at the Center for Sacred Sciences, gives a short 10 minute introduction to the fundamental purpose of concentration meditation practices which are found in all the major religious traditions of the world, followed by simple introductory instructions for meditation on the breath.
   
• Quantum Koans.
  A 40 min. lecture by Thomas J. McFarlane on the paradoxes of quantum theory, given in April 2007 at the Center for Sacred Sciences in Eugene, Oregon. Intended for a general audience, simple thought experiments are used to illustrate the puzzling behavior of the quantum world. This video is made from the presentation shown at the lecture together with a live audio recording of the talk. Some of the ideas presented in this talk were inspired by Bruce Rosenblum's book Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness.
   
• A Peculiarly Beautiful Path to Yoga.
  Keynote presentation given by Thomas J. McFarlane at the Franklin Merrell-Wolff Conference in Lone Pine, California, 7 June 2008. This contemplative 53 min. commentary on Wolff's book Pathways Through To Space, Chapter 61, "The Nature of Ponderable Matter" is best appreciated by those with some familiarity with Wolff's philosophy.
   
• Science from Nonduality.
  Thomas McFarlane shows how science can be traced back through mathematics and the act of making distinctions to the nondual ground of reality. This 22 minute talk, originally titled "Physical Science as a Way to Realization," was presented at the 2010 Science and Nonduality Conference held in San Rafael, California, on 23 October 2010.
   
• The Nondual Foundations of Science. (Vimeo)
  A 30 min. plenary talk by Joel Morwood given at the Science and Nonduality Conference in San Rafael, California, in October 2009. In this talk, Joel discusses a major challenge of reconciling science with a nondual perspective: explaining how science works. If, as the mystics testify, there is no real external world independent of consciousness, how do we understand and explain why our theories of science work so remarkably well? One possible approach to solving this problem is presented.
   
• The Path that Self-Destructs.
   
• Q&A with Joel about nonduality and the nature of enlightenment.
   
• What is Gnosis?.
  A 1 hour video recording of a presentation by Joel Morwood, spiritual director at the Center for Sacred Sciences, at a meeting in Eugene, Oregon, on October 9, 2007. Joel explains how Gnosis is beyond all concepts, how thought and language create duality, and how even "nonduality" is a relative concept.
  
   
• Final Thoughts Prior to Realization.(also on Vimeo)
  This is a 10 min. excerpt of a 45 min. video of the keynote presentation by Joel Morwood at the Franklin Merrell-Wolff Conference held in Lone Pine, California, on 9 June 2007. Joel reads and gives a commentary on a passage in which Wolff describes the final moments just prior to his Transcendental Realization.
  
   
• Universal Principles of Mysticism and a New Paradigm (also on Vimeo).
  In this 70 min. lecture, Joel Morwood explains how Gnosis (also known as Enlightenment or Awakening) differs from our ordinary ways of knowing, presents some of the principle methods for attaining it, and discusses its relevance to the development of a new worldview. Recorded at a meeting of the Eugene chapter of IONS on January 30, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
   
• Who are You, Really?
   
• The Purpose of the Spiritual Path.
   
• A Sunday With Joel.
   
• Shifting the Base of Reference.
   
• Interview with Franklin Merrell-Wolff.