Questions about the Nature of Consciousness, Matter and Energy

In this Q&A session, Dr. B. Alan Wallace addresses questions from the audience about how various Indian philosophical traditions such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism view the nature of (individual) consciousness, why supernormal abilities (siddhis) like clairvoyance might actually be possible, how we can understand the nature of a Buddha’s omniscience, whether predestination makes sense in a Buddhist framework, the relationship between substrate consciousness (ālayavijñāna) and pristine awareness (rigpa), the nature of physical matter and energy, and what current physics says about the ontological status of space-time.