Temple of the Vedic Planetarium Outreach Program
Fri, November 26, 2021
by Sunanda Das
“Godhead is Light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience.” These words were immortally etched on Srila Prabhupada’s original Back to Godhead magazines in the mid-1940s, and remain there today. They are forever true, and the Hare Krishna movement was founded with this underlying principle in mind. The Temple of the
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Vedic Science Essay: A Three-Body Interaction Among Science, Hinduism, and Christianity
Fri, October 29, 2021
by Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
By Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das): The Forbidden Archeologist I presented this paper at The Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World conference at the University of Newcastle, England, on May 19, 2000. The interactions among science, Hinduism, and Christianity are as complex as those in the three-body problem of astrophysics. In practice, astrophysicists select a
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays: Did We Land on the Moon?
Thu, August 26, 2021
by Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das)
Did We Land on the Moon? By Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das) According to a Gallup poll, about 6% of Americans believe that man never went to the moon; they endorse conspiracy theories in which these landings were supposedly staged in a studio. This post is not about such conspiracy theories. I will discuss why we
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays: The Universe of the Vedas
Sun, August 08, 2021
by Sadaputa Das
The Universe of the Vedas By Dr. Richard L. Thompson (Sadaputa Dasa) The Srimad-Bhagavatam presents an earth-centered conception of the cosmos. At first glance the cosmology seems foreign, but a closer look reveals that not only does the cosmology of the Bhagavatam describe the world of our experience, but it also presents a much larger
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays: A Trip To Bali By The Forbidden Archeologist – Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
Sat, July 17, 2021
by Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
This is a slightly revised version of an article ‘A Trip To Bali’ that appeared in 2004 in Atlantis Rising magazine, as part of my regular column The Forbidden Archeologist. A Trip to Bali By The Forbidden Archeologist – Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das) Your forbidden archeologist sometimes has to endure being invited to out
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays on the Website
Sat, July 03, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Visit the TOVP Vedic Science Essays section on our website to read short and interesting essays by prominent ISKCON authors and scholars on several topics relating to relevant current topics. On the Main Menu of the TOVP website hover above the Vedic Science tab, and when the scroll down menu appears click on Vedic Science
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TOVP Vedic Science Essays: Investigations into the Antiquity of the Ranganatha Temple in South India
Wed, June 30, 2021
by Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarma Das)
This article was originally published in Atlantis Rising magazine in 2003 in my column, Notes from the Forbidden Archeologist. In February of 2002, I was on a lecture tour of South India. At universities and other educational and cultural institutions in several cities, I was giving talks about the archeological evidence for extreme human antiquity
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The Scientific Study of Consciousness
Mon, June 21, 2021
by Ashish Dalela (Rsiraja Das)
Vedic texts divide experience into the seer, the seen, and the seeing. We can also call these the knower, the known, and the knowing. What we commonly call ‘consciousness’ is the process of seeing or knowing. This seeing or knowing is a property of the soul—the seer or the knower—but it operates under the knower’s
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Vertical Dimension and the Size of the Puranic Universe
Fri, April 16, 2021
by Sunanda Das
Authors: Vasyl Semenov | PhD (Physics) and Evgeniya Semenova | PhD (Mathematics) Presented at the BIHS “Consciousness in Science” Conference, Gainesville, Florida (January 18-20, 2019) In this investigation, we are considering some questions related to the vertical dimension of the Puranic universe and, in particular, the interpretations of its measurements. The work is based on
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