Category: Psychonaut
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Alex Grey – Cosmic Creativity
How Art Evolves Consciousness – TEDxTalks
“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”
– Alex Grey
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Graham Hancock – The War on Consciousness
Incredible presentation by Graham Hancock at TEDxWhitechapel – Banned TED Talk discussion
There’s a war on for your mind
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Isaac Asimov – How to Save Civilization
“I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.”
“Anti-Intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’.”
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Alan Watts – Wholeness
“We do not “come into” into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin.”
– Alan Watts
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A Conversation with Terence McKenna and Ram Dass
“Being not identified with the actor and not being identified with the fruits of the action” – Ram Dass
“There was only one Christian and they crucified him” – Nietzsche
“My life is my message” – Gandhi
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V.S. Ramachandran – Consciousness, Qualia & Self
“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or “neurons” which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.”
– Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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John Searle – Consciousness
“Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.”
“The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.”
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Carl Jung – Death and the Psyche
“Look forward to the next day as if he had to spend centuries and then he lives happily. But when he is afraid and he doesn’t look forward; he looks back. He petrifies. He gets stiff and he dies before his time, but when he’s living on, looking forward to the great adventure that is ahead, then he lives.”
– Carl Jung
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Steve Jobs – How to live before you die
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
– Steve Jobs