
Concsciousness
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Consciousness, Wisdom, and Self-Realization
Consciousness-Based Practices
consciousness
Collective Consciousness
Collective Consciousness
Global Consciousness
Think Global
Connecting the science of mind, brain, and spirit with perspectives from the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
As the legendary philosopher John Locke once said: “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” What limits our desire and capacity to take in new ideas – even when we hold an intention to transform and grow? How can we shift a paradigm that we see as flawed and incomplete without understanding the barriers to changing our minds and behaviors?Consciousness / Philosophy
Figure 1: The Four Quadrants Of course people can differ about the details of such a diagram, and Figure 1 is not intended to be cast in stone. It is presented here as a reasonable summary that helps carry the present discussion. Likewise, each of the quadrants might more accurately be constructed as a branching tree, and not a simple straight line, indicating the rich variation within each grade and clade (each level and type). Each quadrant includes both hierarchies (or clear gradations) and heterarchies (or pluralistic and equivalent unfoldings within a given grade).
ARTICLE: An Integral Theory of Consciousness
Consciousness

