The Primacy of Consciousness - Graphic reproductio. Turn off TED | Collapsing Into Consciousness. Anthropic principle. Evan Thompson: "Mind in life and life in mind" Mind in Life: Amazon.co.uk: Evan Thompson. Evan Thompson draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to bring about a wide and varied discussion of one of the most significant philosophical questions or our time called the explanatory gap--the gap between our subjective experience and the laws of nature.
"Exactly how are consciousness and subjective experience related to the brain and the body? " How is it that our subjective experience of the world sets us apart from our environment, when our environment and life are intricately coupled? Thompson contends that there can be no dualistic separation between the organizational properties of life and mind. In fact, Thompson says in the preface: "...the self-organizing features of mind are an enriched version of the self-organizing features of life. " To understand mind it is necessary to understand life. Thompson details the shortcomings of genocentrism and espouses the viability of the inactive approach to explain mind and life. Ken Wilber. Kenneth Earl "Ken" Wilber II (born January 31, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American writer and public speaker. He has written and lectured about mysticism, philosophy, ecology, and developmental psychology. His work formulates what he calls Integral Theory.[1] In 1998 he founded the Integral Institute.[2] Biography[edit] Wilber was born in 1949 in Oklahoma City.
In 1967 he enrolled as a pre-med student at Duke University.[3] He became inspired, like many of his generation, by Eastern literature, particularly the Tao Te Ching. He left Duke and enrolled in the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, completing a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology and a master's degree in biochemistry.[4][unreliable source?]
In 1973 Wilber completed his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness,[5] in which he sought to integrate knowledge from disparate fields. In 1983 Wilber married Terry "Treya" Killam who was shortly thereafter diagnosed with breast cancer. Theory[edit] Holons[edit] Reincarnation as a Plausible Explanation. The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture (Vintage) eBook: Frank R. Wilson: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store. Home. Dr Peter Fenwick - 'Consciousness and Dying' - Interview by Iain McNay. Hundredth monkey effect. The hundredth monkey effect is a studied phenomenon[1] in which a new behavior or idea is claimed to spread rapidly by unexplained, even supernatural, means from one group to all related groups once a critical number of members of one group exhibit the new behavior or acknowledge the new idea.
The theory behind this phenomenon originated with Lawrence Blair and Lyall Watson in the mid-to-late 1970s, who claimed that it was the observation of Japanese scientists. One of the primary factors in the promulgation of the story is that many authors quote secondary, tertiary or post-tertiary sources who have themselves misrepresented the original observations.[1] Popularisation of the effect[edit] The story of the hundredth monkey effect was published in Lyall Watson's foreword to Lawrence Blair's Rhythms of Vision in 1975,[2] and spread with the appearance of Watson's 1979 book Lifetide.
This story was further popularised by Ken Keyes, Jr. with the publication of his book The Hundredth Monkey. Peter Fenwick (neuropsychologist) Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick (born 25 May 1935) is a neuropsychiatrist and neurophysiologist who is known for his studies of epilepsy and end-of-life phenomena. Fenwick is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he studied Natural Science. He obtained his clinical experience at St Thomas' Hospital.[2] Fenwick is a senior lecturer at King's College, London, where he works as a consultant at the Institute of Psychiatry.[3][4][5] He is the Consultant Neuropsychologist at both the Maudsley,[6] and John Radcliffe hospitals, and also provides services for Broadmoor Hospital.[7] He works with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton, and holds a visiting professorship at the Riken Neurosciences Institute in Japan.[5][8] Fenwick is the president of the Horizon Research Foundation,[9] an organisation that supports research into end-of-life experiences.
He is the President of the British branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.[7] Haschisch Hallucinations by HE Gowers. The Spirit of “Haschisch” by Sidney Sime. Once upon a time, the discussion of drugs in British society wasn’t characterised by hysteria, paranoia and the repetition of falsehoods, but could encompass an open-minded curiosity.
This is easier to do, of course, when the narcotics in question haven’t been subject to prohibition; it also helps if some of those narcotics have medicinal uses, as was frequently the case. The following article by HE Gowers, with illustrations by Sidney Sime, was published in The Strand Magazine for December 1905, a periodical famous for giving the world the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Also in issue 180 was an extract from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sir Nigel, a turgid historical drama which the author bizarrely considered to be his masterpiece, The Adventure of the Snowing Globe by illustrator Warwick Goble, and Empire of the Ants, a chilling tale by HG Wells. HASCHISCH HALLUCINATIONS by HE Gowers Illustrations by SH Sime Mr. “Oh, ye gods! “Stupid, you’ll spill me! Vipassana Meditation Centre. All courses are run solely on a donation basis.
All expenses are met by donations from those who, having completed a course and experienced the benefits of Vipassana, wish to give others the same opportunity. Neither the Teacher nor the assistant teachers receive remuneration; they and those who serve the courses volunteer their time. Thus Vipassana is offered free from commercialisation. New students - Those who have not completed a 10-day Vipassana Meditation course with S.N. Goenka or his Assistant Teachers. If you have practised other meditation techniques or even vipassana meditation in another tradition for the purposes of your first course in this tradition you will be considered a new student.
Old students - Those who have completed a 10-day Vipassana Meditation course with S.N. 10-day courses are an introductory course to Vipassana Meditation where the technique is taught step-by-step each day. Special 10-day courses have the same timetable and discipline as 10-day courses. Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. MAPS helps scientists design, fund, and obtain regulatory approval for studies of the safety and effectiveness of a number of controlled substances.
MAPS works closely with government regulatory authorities worldwide such as the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to ensure that all of its sponsored research protocols conform to ethical and procedural guidelines for clinical drug research. Included in MAPS’ research efforts are MDMA (Ecstasy) for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), LSD and psilocybin for the treatment of anxiety, cluster headaches, and depression associated with end-of-life issues, ibogaine for the treatment of opiate addiction, and alternative delivery systems for medical marijuana such as vaporizers and water pipes.
History[edit] Psychedelics and Psychotherapy[edit] In the early 1960s, Harvard University was the seat of two landmark experiments involving psilocybin. Founding MAPS[edit] LD4all - the lucid dreamers community. Guide on lucid dreams, dream control, conscious dreaming. The Master and His Emissary. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World is a 2009 book written by Iain McGilchrist that deals with the specialist hemispheric functioning of the brain. The differing world views of the right and left brain (the "Master" and "emissary" in the title, respectively) have, according to the author, shaped Western culture since the time of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, and the growing conflict between these views has implications for the way the modern world is changing.[1] In part, McGilchrist's book, which is the product of twenty years of research,[2] reviews the evidence of previous related research and theories, and based on this and cultural evidence, the author arrives at his own conclusions.
The Master and His Emissary received mostly favourable reviews upon its publication. Critics praised the book as being a landmark publication that could alter readers' perspective of how they viewed the world; A.C. Background and influences[edit] The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives: Amazon.co.uk: Shankar Vedantam. This book by journalist Shankar Vedantam is yet another contribution to the interesting and important genre I like to call "why smart people do dumb things. " The basic idea with all of these books is that our minds have conscious and unconscious parts. The conscious mind is rational, analytic, slow, deliberate, evolutionarily more recent, and is the part we most closely associate with our identity. By contrast, the unconscious mind takes heuristic shortcuts (leaps to conclusions), is multitasking and quick, is evolutionarily more primitive, and is inaccessible to introspection, so we're not usually aware of its activity (hence the term "hidden brain").
The heuristics employed by the hidden brain are essential and usually useful, including keeping our behavior in line with moral and legal norms, but they can also cause various inappropriate biases which can lead to serious errors of judgment in all domains of life, both individual and social. If all of this sounds familiar, it should. Welcome to the Stanislav Grof Website. The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory Philosophy of Mind: Amazon.co.uk: David J. Chalmers. The Ego Trick: Amazon.co.uk: Julian Baggini. Those of us not entirely unsympathetic to the philosophical enterprise should be reassured by this memorable image, in itself almost all the recommendation this fascinating book needs. Julian Baggini is a practitioner who has evidently managed to retain, despite constant professional exposure to the writings of countless Great Minds, both a sense of humour and a healthy regard for human foibles and the fallibility of philosophers.
That this book is both readable and comprehensible by ordinary mortals is no slight on Baggini's philosophical credentials. His intellect is sharper than most, and his verdicts on the self are delivered with a surprising degree of certitude. "The solidity of self is an illusion; the self itself is not. The Ego Trick is not to persuade us that we exist when we do not, but to make us believe we are more substantial and enduring than we really are. " Baggini's surefooted conclusions are of course a million miles away from dogmatic assertion.
Whoa!! The High Voltage Larry Carlson!! My buddy Max just turned me onto this guy. Dude! I've 'seen' a lot of this stuff on my astral voyages! We used to call this kind of bloke a 'high brother' - check it out if you haven't already heard of him. Reality Sandwich | Evolving consciousness, bite by bite.
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