...No need for absolutism. That kind of certainty can only lead to ...

only is an absolute itself

Where's the article?

Finally, an explanation I can get behind.

I started doing TM at 15. After only a few years of it I was starting to experience all sorts of interesting things that were not part of my family's repertoire, nor of the culture I grew up in (Texas is as far from 'culture' as you can possibly get): out of body experiences while sleeping, lucid dreams, enhanced awareness when smoking pot, chills when listening to certain types of music and certain times when I felt like I was connected to the entire universe. None of those experiences happened WHILE I was meditating. They all seemed to be a result of it.

It sounds like these experiences (none of which proved a spiritual component to the physical universe) might have been caused by the extra amount of serotonin that was being dumped into my bloodstream due to the meditation technique.

I have to say that those experiences caused me to have a far greater appreciation of my place in the 'universe', and moved me to learn about 'deep time'.

There is no such thing as a soul and we are not spiritual being. That is simply a product of religious imagination and has no proof whatsoever. Indeed, 'soul' and 'spirit' are not measurable except for the number of words people throw around pretending they exist.

Knowing there is a biological origin of those experiences brings me to an even greater appreciation of how the physical universe becomes aware of itself.