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  • S1E6: The Origins of My Journey – My Father
    It is with great emotion that I want to share with you the first chapter of the story of my spiritual journey, which I wrote more than a year ago. This is something very important for me because this story encompasses, on the one hand, the experiences that my Father, like millions of poor children and young people in Colombia, had to face in the long conflict that is bleeding the country.

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    47 min
  • S1E5: Science and Pseudoscience: One Path with Two Destinations
    Science is not an alien invention nor did it appear to us in divine revelation. It is a process developed independently by many civilizations that have existed throughout history. When talking about science, one tends to automatically think of the Eurocentric scientific systems of which what we call “western” science is heir. However, science was […]

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    22 min
  • S1E4: The History of Skepticism – Why do we Believe in Conspiracies
    You may be aware of the current situation of general disbelief that we are living in the world. There is a crisis in trust towards all the established systems, mainly towards religion, politics, corporations and science, that is, basically towards all the powers that have traditionally maintained a monopoly on “truth”. And well, we have […]

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    22 min
  • S1E3: Experiencing Reality – One Brain, Many Selves
    So far we have taken the first steps towards understanding the true nature of reality, by using a couple of very simple but illustrative examples. We live in a world in which we not only perceive reality through our senses, but where we also create reality through our actions. This reality is simply what we […]

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    17 min
  • S1E2: The Nature of the Matrix: A World of Illusions
    In the previous episode, I spoke a bit about the human fascination for revealing what is beyond the reality that we perceive, because we have always sensed that we are not the masters of our destiny. Be it the Illuminati, Bill Gates, International Communism, Satan, or aliens, many believe that there is an elite who manipulates […]

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    12 min
  • S2E1: What is the Purpose of Existence?
    Spirituality is the search for purpose itself, not a goal. It's a path of self-discovery and self-knowledge, freeing ourselves from suffering and the burdens we carry. But this is only a prerequisite for identifying the purpose of our lives. Recognizing our talents and gifts, connecting them with our interests and skills, is the key to finding our place in the cosmos and reaching our full potential as unique individuals in the universe.

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    28 min

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Dissertations on the search for a spirituality based on science, nourished by healthy skepticism with a touch of mysticism.