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Brainiac. New. An Introduction to the Transcendental Meditation Program. Jim Carrey on Spirituality and Overcoming Depression. Jim Carrey, Joe Rogan & Oprah - Consciousness & Spirituality. Dr John Hagelin 1 - 'The Core Of Nature' - Interview by Iain McNay. Harnessing the Power of Consciousness (Our Conscious Future) Dr John Hagelin Higher Consciousness (Stanford University)

John Hagelin, Ph.D. - Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview. Entanglement, Space-Time Wormholes, and the Brain - John Hagelin. Dr. John Hagelin - Hacking Consciousness at Stanford University. Consciousness is the Unified Field - quantum physicist John Hagelin. Wake up! All we see & seem is but a dream within a dream. Psychology and Neuroscience. Pineal Gland - Our Third Eye: The Biggest Cover-Up in Human History.

Drug & The Mind. The best Interview about drugs : Terence McKenna in Mexico 1996. Terence McKenna - Psychedelic Upgrade. Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence. By Maria Popova “Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.”

Sam Harris on Spirituality without Religion, Happiness, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence

Nietzsche’s famous proclamation that “God is dead” is among modern history’s most oft-cited aphorisms, and yet as is often the case with its ilk, such quotations often miss the broader context in a way that bespeaks the lazy reductionism with which we tend to approach questions of spirituality today. Nietzsche himself clarified the full dimension of his statement six years later, in a passage from The Twilight of Idols, where he explained that “God” simply signified the supersensory realm, or “true world,” and wrote: “We have abolished the true world. What has remained? The apparent one perhaps? Sam Harris by Bara Vetenskap. Varieties of Nondual Realization. (c) Copyright 2006 by Timothy Conway [Note: This paper was originally written as a rather free-wheeling overview essay for professionals in the mental health field and/or satsang leaders of nondually-oriented gatherings.

Varieties of Nondual Realization

Banned TED Talk: The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake at TEDx Whitechapel. BANNED TED Talk - DMT The War on Consciousness. An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop'' Douglas R.

An Interview with Douglas R. Hofstadter, following ''I am a Strange Loop''

I Am a Strange Loop. I Am a Strange Loop is a 2007 book by Douglas Hofstadter, examining in depth the concept of a strange loop to explain the sense of "I".

I Am a Strange Loop

The concept of a strange loop was originally developed in his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach. Hofstadter had previously expressed disappointment with how Gödel, Escher, Bach, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for general nonfiction, was received. In the preface to its 20th-anniversary edition, Hofstadter laments that the book was perceived as a hodgepodge of neat things with no central theme. He states: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle? " Strange loop. A strange loop arises when, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back to where one started.

Strange loop

Strange loops may involve self-reference and paradox. Psilocybin Advanced Cancer Anxiety Study. The primary objective of this double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study is to assess the efficacy of psilocybin administration (4-phosphoryloxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine), a serotonergic psychoactive agent, on psychosocial distress, with the specific primary outcome variable being anxiety associated with cancer.

Psilocybin Advanced Cancer Anxiety Study

Ask Dr. Shulgin Online: Archive Index. Psilocybin mushroom. Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as psychedelic mushrooms, are mushrooms that contain the psychedelic drugs psilocybin and psilocin.

Psilocybin mushroom

Common colloquial terms include magic mushrooms and shrooms.[1] Biological genera containing psilocybin mushrooms include Copelandia, Galerina, Gymnopilus, Inocybe, Mycena, Panaeolus, Pholiotina, Pluteus, and Psilocybe. About 40 species are found in the genus Psilocybe. Psilocybe cubensis is the most common psilocybin mushroom in subtropical areas and the black market. Psilocybin mushrooms have likely been used since prehistoric times and may have been depicted in rock art. Many cultures have used these mushrooms in religious rites. History[edit] Early[edit] Creationism is dangerous: HBO documentary Questioning Darwin shows how fundamentalism imprisons the mind.

Courtesy of HBO Intellectual freedom is one of humanity’s greatest gifts—and biggest burdens.

Creationism is dangerous: HBO documentary Questioning Darwin shows how fundamentalism imprisons the mind.

Our ability to ask questions, to test ideas, to doubt is what separates us from our fellow animals. But doubt can be as terrifying as it is liberating. 10 Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness Can Alter Our Physical Material World. Nikola Tesla said it best, “the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

10 Scientific Studies That Prove Consciousness Can Alter Our Physical Material World

To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Swami Vivekananda influenced Tesla’s work, an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th century saint Ramakrishna. Tesla was also influenced by other Vedic philosophies. Science works best when in harmony with nature. If we put these two together, we can discover great technologies that can only come about when the consciousness of the planet is ready to embrace them, like free energy. Intention of This Article. Yoga/Meditation. Terence McKenna - The Message. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake talks about his banned TED talk on Skeptiko with Alex Tsakiris 02/04/2013. Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK.

Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake, Ralph Abraham - Metamorphosis. Erowid. Syncretism. Syncretism /ˈsɪŋkrətɪzəm/ is the combining of different, often seemingly contradictory beliefs, while melding practices of various schools of thought.

Syncretism

Syncretism involves the merger and analogizing of several originally discrete traditions, especially in the theology and mythology of religion, thus asserting an underlying unity and allowing for an inclusive approach to other faiths. Syncretism also occurs commonly in expressions of arts and culture (known as eclecticism) as well as politics (syncretic politics). Psychonaut. Drug & The Mind. Peyotism and Native American Spirituality. Earlier we had spoken how marijuana has been used in India and is still used across the country during festivals like Holi in the form of bhang.

The Rig-Veda is the chief of the four vedas of ancient India, that consists of hymns and prayers sung well before 800 BC to worship Gods – it speaks of Soma, a potent drink produced from an unidentified plant. It was drunk only at sacrifices, and caused the most invigorating effects. Today we shall take a look across the world at Native American spirituality revolving around the use of entheogens, the current use of Peyote and the chemical Mescaline that is derived from it and widely used as a recreational drug. The exact date as to when man started using Peyote is not known, but at an archaeological excavation in Texas, a radiocarbon analysis showed that the specimens of Peyote found there were dated between 3780 and 3660 BC. REAL PROOF of psychic energy (Amazing footage)!!! - BBC documentary TV.

Psychoactive Alkaloids. Drugs.