Consciousness

This article is a series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness Understanding Time Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Purpose of Life Within the Infinite Potential Consciousness The One Consciousness Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Vibrational Process Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessIn order for me to introduce my '

Hope for the Blue Planet: A Conversation with Edgar Mitchell, Ph.D.VM: How can Social Healing contribute to environmental awareness? EM: One of the fundamental principles in my understanding confirms the mystical notion that we're all one; we're all interconnected and the universe is all connected in some way. The study of quantum physics brings this notion into play; when we start realizing that we're all part of the same pattern. The physical reality of our world and universe is that we are all interphysically connected, which is a part of the epiphany I had in space. Using this notion to help us understand our environment, we can answer the questions of who are we? Where are we going? How did we get here? What is this really all about? And it's about our relationship to the c

This article is a series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness Understanding Time Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Purpose of Life Within the Infinite Potential Consciousness The One Consciousness Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessIn order to understand this article, at least read: The Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Poten

What a great time I had last night. Linda of Are We There Yet? loves Mexican food, but just can't get it in Connecticut, so she traveled all the way to California for the sole purpose to getting authentic Mexican food. Okay, I'm stretching the truth here. Actually she came to visit one of her dearest friends (Cyndi) and meet a couple of blogger's along the way. Her choice of restaurant? Cancun, in downtown Stockton, California. We were not disappointed. The food was yummy and the company even better.Zane and I were the first to arrive and we knew that Katherine of Wading Through my Stream of Consciousness..., and Teamster would be showing up along with Linda and Cyndi. All of a sudden all of us were meeting and greeting each other. It was a wonder anyone could get in or out of t

כ'ז בניסן תשס"חAnnwyn 28In follow-up to my previous entry, In The Current Of An Epiphany, I note that the Sabbat fire festival called Beltaine is traditionally observed tonight, and astrologically observed May 4 in my location. Veronica Cummer in her new book Sorgitzak, writes of Sabbat consciousness:The Sabbats in ancient times were as much altered states of consciousness as they were celebrations tied to a particular place or season. The powers that were called upon and raised were as much within each Witch as they were in the sacred hilltops or the secluded valleys or forests where the rites took place, for we are all filled with webs of energy in much the same manner as the Earth. To work with one is to work with the other, as the inner reflects the outer and the outer refle

This article is a series of articles: Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness Understanding Time Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Purpose of Life Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessIn order to understand this article, at least read: The Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness, Understanding Time Within the Infinite Pote

IN WESTERN SOCIETY THE IDEA OF USING VIZUALIZATION TECHNIQUES TO GAIN KNOWELDGE OF THE UNIVERSE IS CONSIDERED ESOTERIC AND NEW AGE HOCUS POCUS. IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED IN SOME CIRCLES, BUT NORMALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF "VISUALIZING SUCCESS" FOR ATHELETES...

"The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)" created by Elevator Repair Service at New York Theatre Workshop, April 19, 2008 Somehow, I was able to escape both high school and college without having to read William Faulkner's 1929 novel. More often than not, I've counted myself lucky on that point. I can remember talking with friends who were suffering through the stream of consciousness

"God's Ear" at the Vineyard Theatre, April 18, 2008 I like the risks that the Vineyard Theatre takes. Most of what I've seen here I've liked a lot. With their last offering of "The Slugbearers of Kayrol Island" and "God's Ear" they seem to have gotten a bit distracted with achieving superior production values spent on works that don't necessarily merit that kind of investment. I try not to

Artist: Josh Wink Label: Strictly Rhythm Genre: Tech House Title: Higher State Of Consciousness Time: 06:17 Remixer: - Date: 1995 Comment: Oh yeah this is a classic from the 90s. Higher State of Consciousness is a great song and has long been a favorite. Though I dont find it particularly useful in the music I like to mix, for some reason I [...]

This article is a series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness Understanding Time Within the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessIn order to understand this article, at least read: The Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness and Understanding Time Within the Infinite Potential Consciousness.First a Review As explained in "The Beginni

This article is a series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential ConsciousnessIn order to understand this article, at least read: The Beginning of Life Through the Infinite Potential Consciousness.To understand the purpose of life, one needs to understand the purpose of time.In the last article, it ended with the explanation of how things do not move in time. If an ob

This article is a series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessMany Teachers of Infinite Potential ConsciousnessPlease read at least the first two articles before continuing with this one, if you do not want to be lost in translation. :)In order to explain the purpose of life through the infinite potential consciousness, first we must understand the beginning of life, before any creation, when there was no physical reality, no time/ space, or the universe as we know

This article post is a series of many:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Transition to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessPlease read at least the first two introduction articles (one and two) in order to comprehend this article post. :)From the infinite potential consciousness perspective, the past does not exist unless consciousness is perceiving it. From a cubed perspective consciousness, the past does exist as something solid. To help better convey the infinite potential consciousness, this article will be explained fr

High-level animation supports cutting-edge thought with the debut of PostModern Times, a series of shorts, or "info- snacks," premiering on the iClips Network, www.iclips.net, produced in association with Curious Pictures. PostModernTimes promotes a new understanding of our world, highlighting practical tools and visionary techniques for a sustainable future -- think "The Simpsons" meets Buckminster Fuller and Aldous Huxley. The first release, "Consciousness is the Key," features four underground hip hop artists -- Naada, Propaganda Anonymous, 2HL, and iLL SpoKKinN -- and producer euphAmism in an animated music video packing lyrical and graphical punch in a call for global awakening. "Consciousness is the Key" is accompanied by the re-release of "Toward 2012," PostModernTimes'

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ז' בניסן תשס"חAnnwyn 8Encoding critical actions to Divine Consciousness, as described more explicitly in The Epiphany, turned inside out, שיד is the Divine Name שדי.The 3-flamed letter shin (ש) corresponds to the active collapse of created consciousness (of Beriyah, Yetzirah and Assiyah) into the point at the base of the letter. Thus, shin corresponds to the actions of consciousness corresponding to this portion of my poem (The Epiphany):allmythoughtsvavfeelingsvavquestionsvavanswersvavmeaningsbecoming beingmashing together, collapsing into my gutthena silenceThe letter yod (י) is not a mere point. Rather, the letter yod is a point with a little tail that curls around, as if it is turning inside out. Thus, the letter yod corresponds to that which breaks through into the s

Q&A: 'Consciousness is an aspect of life'Fritjof Capra is best known as the author of The Tao of Physics. Over the last 20 years, his work has evolved to include ecology and activism. He is the founding director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He spoke with Swati Chopra: How did you come upon the metaphor of the dance of Shiva for quantum particles, used so vividly in The Tao of Physics? I had a profound experience sitting at a beach in California, where the boundaries faded away and I belonged to this larger whole, a cosmos which was dynamic, alive, and in motion in a patterned order of a dance. I was a particle physicist and knew what was going on around me in terms of patterns and molecules, and i had also read of the dance of Shiva. I put the two t

This article is part of a combined series of articles:Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessFurther Introduction to Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYour Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential ConsciousnessThe Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential ConsciousnessWhy You May Choose Not to Adopt Infinite Potential ConsciousnessYet you do not have to read the combined series, in order to understand this one. This article applies to all aspects of life.In the last article there was a list of the reasons why you may choose not to adopt infinite potential consciousness and an explanation of the reasons from the infinite potential consciousness perspective.This article is about transcending perspective in order to transcend to infinite potential consciousness.Here

" ... If Humans have a 100 year life span, you would have to grow 5 x 10^7 = 50 million Humans per year in order to maintain a steady population of 5 x 10^9 = 5 billion Humans. If it takes 10 years to grow a Human until the Brain is Mature, the total number of immature Humans being grown at any particular time would be 500 million. If each Human has a 10 meter square area, or 100 square meters, the total Farm area would be 10^2 x 5 x 10^8 = 5 x 10^10 square meters, the area of a square about 2 x 10^5 meters on a side. The Farm would fit in a square about 200 kilometers on a side. After being grown to have a Mature Brain, each Human is put in a Pod connected to a huge Matrix Network. ... " ~ more... ~  

John Mayer today posted a new entry on his official blog titled “From the Heart”. “I need to write this,” he says. “I’ve been traveling alone in Japan for the better part of three weeks now, and It’s been so remarkable an experience for me that I can’t book a ticket home yet. “I haven’t spoken very [...]

This article is a series. I have set into place a foundation of articles before this one. This is a list of the articles that a designed to be read first: Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness, Further Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness, Your Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential Consciousness and The Experience After Adopting Infinite Potential Consciousness. Without reading the articles mentioned, this article will be confusing (to say the least).In this article there will be a deep diving into the reasons (which are conditioned/ programmed reasons) why you may choose not to adopt infinite potential consciousness and also ways to ease your hesitation of adopting this consciousness by explaining the reasons.In a past article called "What Exact

This article is a series of articles meant to be read from one to the other in order. If you have not already read: Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness, Further Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness, and Your Real Association & Identity Within Infinite Potential Consciousness please do so now.In the last article there was a more in-depth explanation of your real association and identity in the infinite potential consciousness and in the two articles before that there was an explanation about how/why infinite potential consciousness adoption allows for the possibility of infinite potential by understanding that everything was created by consciousness, everything is consciousness, there is only one consciousness and that is you.In this article there is going to be

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This article is a collection of articles designed to be read in order, starting with "Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness" then "Further Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness". Therefore if you have not read the first two please do before continuing.In the last few paragraphs of the last article (Further Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness) I was explaining: "Your Real Association and Identity", unfortunately I had to narrow the article down in order to make it of reasonable size. As a result I will finish the explanation in this article. Your Real Association and IdentityPlease note that if you desire to adopt the infinite potential consciousness then your real identity is what I have been describing in the last article and what I will continue to desc

V. VIJNANMAYA KOSA OR THE STATE OF TURIYA CAITANYA1.93 The fourth state of consciousness is distinct from the other three states, namely those of waking, dreaming and dreamless sleep. It represents the vijnanamaya kosa.1.94 It, indeed, is the creative throb of Consciousness meditated on particularly with reference to the Heart or centre of one’s being, as per the Vedic accounts.1.95 It tends to take possession of the normal consciousness and becomes its constant associate. It is prabhava or the point of birth of a new consciousness.1.96 It is called the state of manonmana or turiya-jagrata and is characterised by complete cessation of mental activities.1.97 In fact, it is the state in which the yogin crosses the boundary of finitude and enters into the infinite, ananta.1.98 The second su

In the last article "Introduction to Infinite Potential Consciousness" I left off expressing how you are the only consciousness. In this article I am going to explain: a deeper perspective of infinite potential consciousness, the purpose of why reality is set up this way, show you how to prove to yourself that this is how reality really works and the benefits of adopting the perspective of infinite potential consciousness.As I carefully and clearly explained in the last article, you can not perceive awareness as being present in my (or anybody else's) individual consciousness or be aware of my consciousness through your own conscious experience. Consequently my consciousness does not exist in your experience unless or until you consciously perceive it. With Infinite Potential Consciousness

I’m often looking for ways to rid myself of anxiety.. and find peace with myself and the earth. I read once, somewhere, I don’t remember where, that for cities where many of the people meditate, the entire city gets better… like crime goes down, divorce rates go down, people are happier and have less anxiety [...]

The only reason you perceive anything at all is because of your consciousness. You are only aware of one pin-point of consciousness and that is your own consciousness. Even your relationships are filtered through your own consciousness and you may assume that the way you approach your relationships with other people are based on their consciousness too, yet you can not perceive anybody else's consciousness. You may have an idea about how another person perceives the relationship from their consciousness but that idea is only your conception filtered through your own consciousness based on what matches your perspective on life, your beliefs about life, your expectations to life and your experience of life (as explained in "Why is There Difficulty in Knowing, Feeling & Experiencing Infin

ט' באדר ב' תשס"חRaven 10In Unblemished Mitzvah, I wrote that my soul is watered by a treasure of the hidden world, namely that known as Ein (אין), meaning "nothing" or "without". Ein is the state of nothing which precedes conscious awareness of Ein Sof (אין סוף, Without End). Conscious awareness of Ein Sof is known as Ein Sof Aur (אין סוף אור), the Light of Ein Sof.This shabbat morning, before I wrote the entry, Unblemished Mitzvah, I had a waking vision of resurrection, as described in a subsequent entry, Up From The Grave.Between Ein and Aur, between nothing and conscious awareness, in the name Ein Sof Aur, is the word Sof. Sof is usually translated as "end". Interestingly, another translation of "sof" is "death". Thus, a literal translation of Ein Sof Aur is

I read many, many spiritual books always trying to improve myself and be a better person. I’ve been doing a lot of affirmations and meditating on the subject of wealth.  What I’ve come to understand for myself is no mater how many activities I do to generate income, they are useless if I don’t have [...]

MANOMAYA KOSA OR THE STATE OF DREAMLESS SLEEP1.69 When consciousness ceases to play the dual role of the subject and the object and withdraws itself entirely to itself, it is known as complete sleep or susupti. Here the cogniser becomes devoid of all contents, support and relation to objects. 1.70 It is called the seed of the universe where everything is merged in consciousness in the form of latent impressions which in the state of wakefulness give rise to the world of differentiated perceptions.1.71 It is the microscopic equivalent of the state of universal destruction where all experiences of the realm of diversity melt into one or sameness.1.72 Although the same cognising subject, as present in waking and dreaming states, persists here also, he appears to be absent on account of the ab

On December 21, 2012, will the world end? Or will humanity be rewarded with total consciousness? What would this mean?If everybody became totally conscious, would there be any need to continue our existences here, on earth? If so, then things would be vastly different, although the world would not cease to be. It would end only in one sense, that of taking a dramatically different path than that previous.What is total consciousness? Is it merely a collective consciousness of humanity, and just those who are alive and kicking right now? Or is it the collective of every person who has ever lived, plus those living? Plus those who will live? Plus those who only might live? Plus those who might have lived?

PRANAMAYA KOSA OR THE STATE OF DREAM 1.41 The dream state is the result of interiorisation of consciousness when tending to take rest inside after having moved outside for a certain duration.1.42 In this state of rest, consciousness withdraws itself inward having dissociated itself from the world of organs of sense and action.1.43 Here the individual consciousness, ceasing to be the perceiver, turns towards ideation on the basis of mental impressions formed in his consciousness by objects of the external world in the state of wakefulness.1.44 This state occurs not only while one is asleep but also during the phase of perception in which the external object is represented by its ideas.1.45 The impurity of karma persists here only as traces while the objects perceived inwardly are illusory c

ANNAMAYA KOSA OR THE STATE OF WAKEFULNESS1.18 Waking state is that form of awareness, which prevails when the subject’s attention is directed on sensations that come to it through the senses.1.19 This state is the result of the projection of consciousness on what is sensed by it from the outside via the organs of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting. The body, prana, senses and manas remain active in this state.1.20 Perceptibility of the world outside, indeed, is owing to the cumulative activity of the senses, manas and prana.1.21 The combine of the three is attended by limitations caused by sensory perception, bodily action and mental modifications leading to obscuration of the true nature of the cogniser.1.22 From one point of view, this state is called pindastha, that is, t

Everything emanates from ConsciousnessIs sustained in Consciousness,Abides in Consciousness,Finally merges in Consciousness,That which remains ultimately is Consciousness.1.2 As countless rays emerge from the sun and ripples from the surface of the sea, so emerge from consciousness infinite worlds, including our own.1.3 In this world the manifestation of consciousness takes two forms, the objective and the subjective. While the objective is the result of objectification of consciousness, the subjective is the consequence of restoration of consciousness to itself.1.4 The parallelism of the objective and subjective gets graded into four as manifest in the four states of the human consciousness, namely, the waking, dreaming, dreamless sleep and what in the Veda is called the fourth -- turiyam

Will we as a society transform in the near future? Is the way we perceive the world fundamentally altering itself? Are we slowly moving toward a new level of awareness?If the way we view reality changes, then perhaps we'll reorganize ourselves socially.What will the shift in consciousness entail? Psychic powers? A collective? Peace, love and happiness?"Take your pick"All right!

  Ultimate Reality: Consciousness         If the difference between particles and waves is so slippery, and if time and space are so easily transcended, what is the fundamental nature of reality? (...)

Consciously connecting with God is ultimately what we are here to do. Depending on how thoroughly we are under the control of the human ego it may take numerous lifetimes before we finally arrive at the moment when we "get it." There are an unusually large number of souls who will, in fact, ascend to the spiritual realms during the next several years. However, before this can happen we must abandon the doldrums and work harder at raising our consciousness. Each move we as individuals make to a higher realm also raises up the overall consciousness of all our brother and sister humans. In fact it raises the vibration of the entire Earth.We're approaching the beginning of a new age. Word is that this new age will occur whether we are ready or not. I, for one, certainly want to be ready and right in the middle of the flood of Divine Light when the moment comes. It's going to be a beautiful time and certainly different from what those negative thinking folks believe who sit in a church pe

     Where to begin?  At the beginning of course.  Let's begin with a few definitions:* Body: that which experiences the physical world via the senses.* Mind's Contents: ideas, opinions, and all of the possible combinations.* Consciousness: that faculty within each person that notices the mind and world's contents.* Purusha: in yogic terms, cosmic consciousness - that which witnesses all things.* Pure Awareness: the 'stuff' that both composes all of the above, but is also 'beyond' it all.The first time I encountered the spaciousness of awareness was in a studio art class in college.  The concept of 'negative space' was introduced.  Negative space is the space between objects of form.  Hearing about this opened up a whole new world for me.  Not only is negative space the space betw

I want to believe that when we die, our awareness does not simply blink out of existence. There seems to be more to it than that.Human consciousness is very powerful, and highly complex. It doesn't seem enough to say that it resides solely within the brain. I think consciousness transcends the body, and can continue on even in the absence of a physical vessel.I believe that most people who die go on experiencing existence somewhere else, where communication with the living is either difficult or impossible. I don't buy the argument that brain death results in a complete and permanent loss of consciousness. Physical consciousness may end, but a higher form of consciousness continues, I think.

Levels of Consciousness – Mind Freedom Part 2 of 8   Imagine that consciousness is like water: Your personal consciousness is the supply of water you can carry around in a canteen, as if it belonged to you privately, for your exclusive use. (...)

If each of us, every one, could read the minds of everyone else, there'd be no secrets, and no barriers to communication. People would instantly and completely understand one another, and be able to help each other out without ever needing to be asked. If someone is harming someone else, they would be able to experience that harm as if they were harming themselves. As a member of a collective, doing harm to an individual member harms the whole, and since you are a part of that whole, in harming another you harm yourself. I think if we as humanity achieved collective consciousness, all war would cease. But I also think an even bigger change would occur. I've heard that intelligence is additive. That old saying goes, "Two heads are better than one." Also, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Two people linked would produce incredible intelligence. Ten people would be beyond brilliant. 6 billion would be unfathomable. The collective mind of every living person wo

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Integral Consciousness working through the individual with the individual as its centre is known as individual consciousness. It is called atma on account of fluxes; when its rests in its purity, it is called paramatman.Buddhi, ahankara, manas and sense organs serve as the apparatus of its functioning. Knowledge of this consciousness remains confined to the modes of its psychic apparatus while its desires are normally linked with the pleasures of sense objects. Under their fascination, it wanders from one form of existence to another.Bondage is mainly due to lack of discernment between one’s real nature and the accretions settled on it.Pleasure is a manifestation of the innate blissfulness of the Self. The bliss gets diluted into pleasure due to the limitation of the senses acting as the channel of its manifestation. Feeling of outer pleasure comes from the objects of senses while inner pleasure comes from getting what one wants.Its desires are associated with the pleasures of sense

I have always been fascinated by the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’. It sounds so poetic, may be because it compares the thinking process or our consciousness to a stream. The psychologist and the writer of ‘Principles of Psychology’, James Joyce, coined the phrase ‘stream of consciousness’ in 1890, although the technique had already been used by Edouard Dujardin (French novelist) in a short novel. By this term James Joyce meant that human consciousness is something fluid. With this technique what we have before us is the outer observations as theyimpinge on the flow of thoughts, memory and feelings.A novel written in this technique, that stands out in my memory is Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs. Dalloway’, which has been called “the first wholly successful novel that Virginia Woolf produced” by. The action or description of events in the novel has not been narrated in the chronological order – a typical characteristic of stream of consciousness. All the characters have

Jesus raised three people from the dead. He spoke to them as if they were alive. They responded to his voice. This shows that the soul is always conscious. It proves that the doctrine that the soul sleeps until the judgment is false. The spirit goes to God at death of the body according to [...]

This paper is called "Consciousness Redux" and is something of a history of theoretical positions on the function of consciousness. It was written by George Mandler of the University of California University College London. Consciousness Redux George Mandler University of California, San Diego and University College London Copyright (C) 1993 George Mandler I start with a review of 20 years of proposals on the functions of consciousness. I then present a minimal number of functions that consciouness subserves, as well as as some remaining puzzles about its psychology. In the process I stress a psychologist's functional approach, asking what consciousness is for. The result is an attempt to place conscious processes within the usual flow of human information processing.

PBS's Closer to Truth featuring Christof Koch, Leslie Brothers, Joseph E. Bogen Stuart Hameroff try to answer this question. These four scientists have the same question but give four different answers. (http://www.mindmodulations.com/mindmods//images/blogimages//Morning_Consciousness.jpg) Is Consciousness Definable? One problem is that there are too many definitions! And getting these four guests to agree on what consciousness is and what causes it, is a fun but hopeless task that is revelatory at the same time. These four leading brain scientists couldn't even agree on at what level a simple "memory" was stored, whether as a gross "brain circuit," at the synapse between nerve cells, or in the microstructure of the nerve cells as some sort of quantum effect. But why should it be any different now? Philosophers have debated the "mind-body problem" and the existence of "free will" for thousands of years. However, never before have we been in a position to examine the brain

In his work of critical importance entitled "Man Against Mass Society," the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel writes, "..the fanatic never sees himself as a fanatic; it is only the non-fanatic who can recognize him as a fanatic; so that when this judgment, or this accusation, is made, the fanatic can always say that he is misunderstood and slandered...Fanaticism is essentially opinion pushed to paroxysm; with everything that the notion of opinion may imply of blinded ignorance as to its own nature....whatever ends the fanatic is aiming at or thinks he is aiming at, even if he wishes to gather men together, he can only in fact separate them; but as his own interests cannot lie in effecting this separation, he is led, as we have seen, to wish to wipe his opponents out. And when he is thinking of these opponents, he takes care to form the most degrading images of them possible - they are 'lubricious vipers' or 'hyenas and jackals with typewriters' - and the ones that reduce them to mo

We're going to try and post an interesting paper on consciousness at least once a week. There are debates among those philosophers and scientists who study consciousness about pretty much every aspect of consciousness - especially about what consciousness actually is. Many of these are surprisingly easy to read, given the nature of their arguments. This first paper called 'Being Conscious of Ourselves' was written by David M. Rosenthal and published in The Monist issue 82, 2 (April 2004) in a special issue on self-consciousness. BEING CONSCIOUS OF OURSELVES Abstract: I argue that we can explain how we are conscious of ourselves by appeal to essentially indexical thoughts we have about ourselves, in particular about our own current mental states. I show that being conscious of ourselves in that way doesn't require that we are aware of ourselves in some privileged way that's antecedent to the higher-order thoughts we have about our own mental states. The account succes

The theme for ASSC 11 this year was The Magic of Consciousness. This year ASSC has a number of magicians who "were hand-picked because of their specific interest in the cognitive principles underlying the magic. Among the performers were James Randi, Johnny Thompson, Mac Kind and Teller (of Penn and Teller).

The last three links are interviews of Francis Crick by Sue Blackmore. Imagine sitting by a California swimming pool surrounded by flowers and hummingbirds and trying to interview the great biologist Francis Crick (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1962/crick-bio.html), writes Sue Blackmore. If it sounds peaceful, it wasn't. At the age of 78 and in failing health, Francis was more than a match for me. "Now let me say why I think all that's nonsense," he said at one point, and "You ask that only because you're interested in Buddhism". But what a treat it was to be able to delve into his theories of consciousness and discover the reasons why he thinks we'll one day find the neural basis for consciousness. My partner, Adam Hart-Davis (http://www.adam-hart-davis.org/), enjoyed the visit too. When we arrived at the door Francis greeted us warmly and then dismissed Adam instantly "You can go to the kitchen with Odile (http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituar

By Ed Bagley Apocalypto – 4 Stars (Excellent)Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" shows the raw, violent face of the advanced Mayan civilization in its decline, with its rulers insisting that the key to continued prosperity is to build more temples and offer more human sacrifices to their Gods.The result is the story of innocent Mayans being viciously attacked and their communal way of life being destroyed to meet an insane desire. Killing your own has never been a good idea historically and is perhaps a lesson we need to take more seriously today.The focal point of this film is Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) and his family. He is one of many sons of Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), the leader of a small, isolated Mayan community in the tropical jungle of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula just before the arrival of the Spanish in the New World. Flint Sky and his progeny wish only to be left alone to pursue their destiny in a peaceful environment.Enter Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo) and his raiding party

This is an incredible story of hope reported in Nature (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7153/edsumm/e070802-07.html) this week which describes how neuroscientists implanted electrodes in the brain of a 38-year-old man who had been in a minimally conscious state for more than six years following a serious assault. By electrically stimulating a brain region called the central thalamus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamus), they were able to help him name objects on request, make precise hand gestures, and chew food without the aid of a feeding tube. The thalamus is involved in motor control, arousal and in relaying sensory signals — from the visual systems, for example — to the cerebral cortex, the part of the brain involved in consciousness.

Today is one of those days where I would have been happy to just stay in in bed and read a book from cover to cover. But I am not in bed. I’m hanging around in long, fuzzy pants. You may be asking, “Why Leslie? Is it cold where you are?” And I would tell you no. It is not cold. It’s more about my mood. I’m in a long, fuzzy pants kind of mood. I only wish I had some big furry sox* to wear, too. I don’t, though. My feet are naked. And cold. I contemplated taking up knitting so I could knit myself some sox*, but then I got tired of that. Knitting probably takes some time to learn. I’m not up for that much learning today. I have sox*, though. Just in case you’re wondering about that. You shouldn’t feel bad for me. I own sox*. I have them. I just don’t have furry sox*. It isn’t a dire situation. You know what is a dire situation? The situation in which Julia needs a popsicle. She has been following me

In the last article, there was a break down into the understanding of what consciousness really is and how it relates to others. This article explains the relationship between your consciousness and reality. Recognizing this relationship allows you to know how to shape reality through your consciousness. All matter vibrates at different levels, even our conscious self and we attract that which we resonate with most closely through our thoughts and feelings. Every thought is creative, when thinking of the past then you create it, when recognizing that you do not have that which you desire then you continue to create the experience of not having it and when thinking of your current situation then you create it. Now to throw another challenge into the mix, you can not deny anything you

Are you one of the few who was born into a rich family? Like the Kennedy's, Trumps, and Gate's, if so then you were born into a prosperity consciousness. If not then you must learn how to develop your properity concsiousness so that you can learn how to quit working hard for your money and let it come easily into your life.Do you believe it is possible to develop a prosperity consciousness, that can attract all the good into your life, money, health, relationships, and spirituality.First you must learn the basics of what your level of prosperity consciousness is, take this quick quiz to find our what your prosperity consciousness is:What's Your Prosperity IQ?Take the quiz below by prosperity expert, Randy Gage, and see if you have been infected with “lack” and limitation programming. You might want to bookmark this page so that you can share this quiz with your friends and loved ones.1. Do you secretly fear that if you became wealthy your family and friends might not like you an

Unconditional love is our natural State of Being and who we all really are, rather we accept ourselves as that or not. Yet, the more conscious aware we are, the more this natural State of Being can act as first nature and the easier it is to accept. Consequently, if your goal is to be aligned with who you really are as unconditional love then it is a matter of being more consciously aware. Through my experience with polyphasic sleep I discovered that consciousness is the window that allows for the whole of existence to be experienced.Once the mind falls asleep it rids of mental chatter. You begin at once to notice the present moment and allow life to move through you rather then trying to forcefully manipulate life to the desire that the limited mind perceives (I wrote more about thi

The Mayan culture has undergone substantial changes throughout its existence. It is part of the wider context of Mesoamerican civilization that stretched from Central America into present day southern United States. This civilization was based on the cultivation of Maize and shared the Sacred 260 day calendar. It is estimated that the Maya started to cultivate Maize about 5000 years ago, around the time set for the beginning of their Long Count. It is however only at about the time of Christ that we can talk about the emergence of a high culture among the Maya. Especially after the beginning of the so called Classical Period around AD 250 the city states of the Maya emerge in their full splendor. It is in this time, that a system of rule by shaman kings emerges in a litterate culture with an advanced calendrical system. While most visitors will look upon these sites as “ruins” they still play a role as ceremonial sites for the contemporary descendants of the ancient Maya. N

As a continuation of Volume One and Two here are the last ways to higher your current level of consciousness:5. Challenge- Working hard in challenging yourself to grow is highly expanding on your level of consciousness. Growth will happen automatically, yet when you challenge yourself then you rapidly increase your growth and hence increase your consciousness.· Fears- Every time you notice a fear accept that fear as truth in your reality. Running away from fears will only make them stronger since what you resist persist in reality. In other words, the more you fight to refuse to accept a fear the more you make it present since that is where your focus is and what you focus on grows. If you seek to change a fear then you must dive head in and tackle it. The more fears you tackl

In the last article, “Higher Your Current Level of Consciousness: Volume One” there was a mention of two other main categories:1. Observation & 2. Focus. These ones are just as important:3. Energy- Albert Einstein and his equation E=MC2, in short states that the root source of all things is energy. Energy is all there is, all there ever was, and all there ever will be in the universe. Different energy levels have an influence and interact to your energy states; therefore being aware of energy is very increasing to the consciousness.· Music- Music, singing, and dancing are very therapeutic to the expansion of the consciousness and opening up emotions that simulate feelings of relaxation, beauty, and infinite potential. Music has the ability to heal and bring into

In the last article, there was a break down of the infinite levels of consciousnesses into twenty-two basic levels. Everything in each individuals surrounding environment has a part in their current over-all awareness level and that is what this article is about, being aware of how to be more conscious. Since the more conscious you are then the more higher your over-all conscious level will be. There are infinite numbers of ways to raise consciousness levels and expand awareness. In the closing of the last article, a statement that certain areas of your life might be on one level of conscious awareness while another area might be on a completely different level was mentioned but there is an over-all level. For example, you might be addicted to smoking on the level of "Lowest Experience

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I love fractals. They were a revelation to me when I first learned about them, as I imagine it was for science to learn there really are patterns in nature. “Mandelbrot’s reality has shapes undreamed of by Euclid, and surprises that ridicule the idea of order…clouds, coastlines, tree branches, commodity prices, word frequencies, turbulence in fluids, stars in the sky, a reputation, fame, the passage of history itself… - all are fractal shapes.” (Morrow, Lance. ESSAY: Let Us Recuse Ourselves Awhile. (Time, 03-05-1990), p. 72.) In my book I suggest awareness of fractals might help spark the consciousness necessary to create a world outside of what are now considered to be our boundaries. Some researchers believe ancient civilizations were processing fractals long ago, evidence of which is found in ancient carvings and artwork. I always thought the Mandelbrot fractal resembled a sitting Buddha on its side. I believe fractals may be a much larger part of our subconscious

י"ט בניסן תשס"זRegarding preparation of the first batch of Feminine Clarity on Craftwork Of A Jewitch I wrote:I prepared the first trial batch of Feminine Clarity ritual purification oil tonight under the planetary influence of Saturn and a waning gibbous moon 90% full (see link above for recipe).Fifteen (יה) total drops of essential oil were used to make Feminine Clarity, where fifteen represents the concealed upper half of the Divine Name (the tetragrammaton). Fifteen has a digit sum of 6 (ו) and is brought down through gathering together the supplies and tools for making the blend into a focused location (my workspace) in time (last night). The act of actually making the blend further brings down feminine clarity into reality and forms the final hei (ה) of the tetragrammaton.The five drops of cinnamon bark oil were quite by accident (the original intent was to use one drop) but I let the "accident" remain unaltered instead of adding other ingredients to make original

See this video on MySpaceStrephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and "Eckhart Tolle Thinking." Why?So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle's kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.Read more...

See this video on MySpaceStrephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and "Eckhart Tolle Thinking." Why?So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle's kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.Read more...

Cogprints - The Future Evolution of Consciousness by John Stewart of the "Evolution, Complextity, and Cognition Group"* (ECCO) at the Free University of Brussels: Abstract What potential exists for improvements in the functioning of consciousness? The paper addresses this issue using global workspace theory. According to this model, the prime function of consciousness is to develop novel adaptive responses. Consciousness does this by putting together new combinations of knowledge, skills and other disparate resources that are recruited from throughout the brain. The paper's search for potential improvements in the functioning of consciousness draws on studies of the shift during human development from the use of implicit knowledge to the use of explicit (declarative) knowledge. These studies show that the ability of consciousness to adapt a particular domain improves significantly as the transition to the use of declarative knowledge occurs in that domain. However, this potential f

Another in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.Commitment to living core principles means you are eating away at the unconsciousness that you and most people live at.You know what you are doing, and you do what you know.You are living life consciously.You become aware of things as they are.CONSCIOUSNESS-as in the aboveCORE PRINCIPLESLive from core principles, such as balance the energy, integrate opposites, create wholes including all the parts, choose to integrate and affirm new unities.REALITY AWARENESSLive from awareness of what is. This means accept all of reality as it comes your way, rejecting nothing. Yet balance the energy. Don't try to overwhelm

See it on MySpaceAnother in the Concept Series of Daily Perspectives to enlighten and make effective your life.You can listen to these talks and achieve additional clarity in how you are living and not living your life.Consciousness is the meta level to existence. You make your choices and take action based on the core principles of existence. In this you are then grounded in what is real in life.Read more...This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

אמר ר' נחוניא בן הקנה כתוב אחד אומר"Rabbi Nehuniah ben HaKana said: One verse (Iyov 37:21) states ... "The first word [1, דבר] of the first line [קו kav, 2] of the Bahir is the letter configuration אמר, where אמר is an expression signifying a direct connection to the sefirah malchut [3,4] and to the Oral Torah [3]. Importantly, the kav finds an attachment to reality through the "world of the feminine" (see Shechinah) which is malchut. The "origin" of this female "mentality" which establishes the point of attachment is in tevunah (comprehension), one of the two partzufim of imma-binah.Without the first word of attachment through malchut, the whole brilliant light of the kav cannot be brought into manifest existence nor into the world of unified action. Without malchut to anchor it, it remains incomplete and unmanifest.Further supporting this, the configuration of the last word in kav 1 is אומר. Simply, אומר demonstrates the whole function o

Have you ever wondered to yourself, "What in the world are people thinking?" or "What can we all come up with if we put our heads together?" Well, now you can find out any time by plugging into the stream of thoughts that is Global Consciousness. Global Consciousness is an idea based on the Glogal Consciousness Project (EGG) spearheaded by Princeton and a multidisciplinary collaboration

An uncharacteristic entry from December 2004.The mid-twenties version of me recklessly spent $5 or $8 or even, once or twice, $12 on a bottle of shampoo. In the $5 to $9 range was a bottle of Aveda back in 1992. It smelled good. Very good. I will not forget how good because I left the bottle of pricey shampoo in my sister's shower caddy during a trip in August of that year. She shipped it back, but — inexplicably — the cap loosened enough to drip, drip, drip as it traveled from one coast to the other. Hmmm, this smells so good! I breathed, accepting the box from the mail carrier.And so it goes.And yesterday I stood in Target in front of the vast selection of Suave shampoo — the brand middle-aged autodidacts who wear the old coat to buy the new books favor — and thought, not for the first time, either, if only I could have the difference, bottle for bottle, between the shampoo I bought in the eighties and nineties and the shampoo I've been buying since becoming a mother of t

ECSTASY... "An altered state of consciousness characterized by expanded spiritual awareness, visions or euphoria"...This is one of the definitions of the word and to me, its definition would be in this song I've just finished.ECSTASY

What happens when a train of thought derails? Does one try to rescue the capsized ideas or salvage their germs? I was engrossed in thought, traveling by the second class ladies compartment of a local train when the loud bickering between a fisherwoman and another passenger made me pull the mental alarm chain and stop my thoughts in their tracks. The fisherwoman swearing like a, well, fishwife said to her meek co-passenger with her nostrils flaring, "If you wish to travel in such luxury, take the first class instead" Therein she reiterated a well-established fact. We Indians are a class conscious people.Perhaps the greatest contributors to our class consciousness are the railways. In the days of colonial rule, the vast majority of the natives traveled cooped up in the third class compartments while the thin upper crust of Indian Lat Sahibs traveled first class waited upon by flunkeys and bearers. The railways have affected our ways of thinking and collective psyche profoundly. We o

And remember, death is not an option ...While we're discussing brain-dead specimens, I note with no small amount of glee that Dubya's approval ratings remain somewhere below Hanson, Coke Zero, Kevin Federline and getting kicked in the balls.Of course, since we're also talking about cup shots and Dubya, this should have been all the warning we needed about what this country was going to get. I was poking around the Wikipedia when I found this verbal hand grenade from 1999 [emphasis mine]:An angry Bush, considered the front-runner for the GOP nomination, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission and denounced Exley as "a garbage man."The parody George W. Bush Web site has gotten 6,451,466 hits during the first 25 days of May, thanks in part to the story's front-page treatment by The New York Times online edition, Exley said yesterday.Meanwhile, the real George W. Bush Web site has gotten about 30,000 hits in May, according to Bush spokeswoman Mindy Tucker."Sometimes po