consciousness
November 3, 2009
- I love writing, but lately I don't feel to write. What is happening to me?At first I panic. Then I worry why I have lost interest.. Then I end up beating myself up so much that I never want to write again after I realize I can't figure out why I have lost interest. Then the dread sets in that I am worthless. This is the process I experience. I know deeply I would never quit writing. It is ...
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September 20, 2009
- 1.Like a hand in a glove,Mind's an analogy of reality.Consciousness is the real thing.2.Ego is a memory.Forget it.3.Look at this proletarian body!Look at its billions of constitutionally independent cells!Look at how they all united in one mind!Can you?4.If I had a tail,I'd chase it.Why not?I am doing it now.5.Mind leads Consciousnessby its own nose.Silly!6.A blade of grasswatches another ...
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July 8, 2009
- Author's Intro This is an intensely autobiographical, possibly even narcissistic piece. If anyone sticks with it and finds something universal in it, I'll be pleased. It was a pleasure to organize these threads of thinking and feeling about "the Good Life" that have been circulating in my being for nearly half a century. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS Something’s a little strange:I ...
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June 24, 2009
- Ready for some scientific heresy? First the orthodox sermon: In a January 19, 2007 article entitled “The Mystery of Consciousness,” Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, assured readers of Time magazine that “Consciousness does not reside in an ethereal soul that uses the brain like a PDA; consciousness is the activity of the brain.” Scientists had ...
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April 12, 2009
- Human history tells the story not of facts but of subjectivity. Each era, each civilization, each society and even each and every one of our own minds narrates its own story of significance. But what would an extraterrestrial witness of infinite patience consider to be basic cosmological highlights of this third rock from the Sun. Perhaps, the following...4 billion years ago: Pre-cellular ...
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January 30, 2009
- Oh what a time to be living in this country, in this relative world! Can you feel it? Can you feel the rising of human consciousness. This year is the beginning of a New World. It's what all the Spiritual Giants through all the years have been preparing us for. It was the "Dream" that Martin Luther King Jr.' used his life for. It was the vision of Lincoln, FDR & JFK, and others. ...
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January 15, 2009
- Electrifying talk last night by Dr. Deepak Chopra at the TIM Center in Maslak. My friend's company The Life Co co-sponsored the three-hour, far-ranging talk "Secrets of Enlightenment" in which the Indian-born new age guru incorporated modern science, ancient wisdom, and personal anecdote to make the case for soul consciousness. I did not take notes until the end so cannot ...
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November 19, 2008
- What’s eating you, Omnivore of Consciousness? Everything?You’ve tasted all,but a sense of Self? This reality you craveis but a subjective idea of reference. Enlightento your transparency:Full of everything, you’re no more than a state of hunger. copyright, 2008/pavel somov, ph.d.
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November 5, 2008
- "Once I, Zhuang Zhou, dreamt that I was a butterfly fluttering about happily. I did not know that I was Zhou. Suddenly, I awoke, and there I was, Zhou again. I did not know whether it was Zhou dreaming that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that it was Zhou" (Zhuangzi). Are you awake or asleep? Are you sure? How do you know which is which? "When they were dreaming, they ...
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November 4, 2008
- There's thinking... and there's thinking about thinking as a stream of thoughts... Think about it... Here goes a thought... Here goes another... And so it goes... On and on and on... Consciousness has been compared to a river: like a river, mind flows, from one thought to another, incessantly, irrevocably... Here's one of the thoughts that Buddhism built its psychological salvation on: ...
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