Colin Wilson is one of my favorite writers and “Super Consciousness” is a kind of “Super Consciousness for Dummies” approach to the subject. Let me quote a few excerpts: “A musician friend told me how he had returned home one day feeling weary, and had poured himself a large whisky and put on a record … Continue reading “Super Consciousness” by Colin Wilson; book review by Mike Zonta, H.W., M. →

By Maria Popova (brainpickings.org) “Our normal waking consciousness,” William James wrote in 1902, “is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different… No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms … Continue reading Cosmic Consciousness: Maurice Bucke’s Pioneering 19th-Century Theory of Transcendence and the Six Steps of Illumination →

Matthew Stelzner Please visit my website at www.matthewstelzner.com to see my availability for intuitive readings and to sign up for my mailing list to receive my newsletter, blog, and special offers. Please check out my previous videos: Very Rare Planetary Conjunctions: December 2019 to December 2020: https://youtu.be/CgWpnCpWkf4 The Portal of the Expanding Heart is Wide … Continue reading Massive Solstice-Eclipse Super Portal Right Ahead! Wide Open Through January 24th 2020. →

By Philip Goff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Durham University, The Conversation • November 1, 2019 (yahoo.com) Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, consisting of almost 100 billion … Continue reading Science as we know it can’t explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming →

Matthew Stelzner 645 subscribers It’s a Perfect Full-Moon-Weekend for Surfers of Consciousness. Surf’s up everybody, and this portal adventure we’ve been taking is building to a climax. I’ve got a new video on our powerful planetary alignment and it’s called: “Full Moon Super Portal is Peaking!” I really hope you will check it out and … Continue reading Full Moon Super Portal is Peaking! →

Illustration © Jaime Raposo 2019. To see more art, please visit jaimeraposo.com Paul Conrad Samuelsson takes the perspective of the computer for a change. Debate about cutting-edge technological advancements is philosophy à la mode. At the forefront is artificial intelligence, which looks set to become the greatest technological leap in history. No one can comprehend the extent … Continue reading Artificial Consciousness — Our Greatest Ethical Challenge →

What if consciousness isn’t all about the brain? CHAIRMAN, OPENCOG FOUNDATION (bigthink.com) Ben Goertzel is CEO and chief scientist at SingularityNET, a project dedicated to creating benevolent decentralized artificial general intelligence. He is also chief scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings and robotics firm Hanson Robotics; Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC; Chairman of … Continue reading Consciousness, panpsychism, and AGI: What is it like to be a hat? →

After Skool Published on Jul 10, 2018 What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we’re just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that’s the end of consciousness, there is no life after death, there is no soul; we just … Continue reading The War on Consciousness – Graham Hancock →

By Maria Popova (brainpickings.org) “Queer, in fact maddening, to think that ‘beauty’ in nature is for us alone: for the human eye alone. Without our consciousness it doesn’t exist,” Joyce Carol Oates wrote in her journal. “All of nature, all of the given ‘world,’ is in fact a work of art. Only the human consciousness can register it.” Four … Continue reading William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences →

Published on March 26, 2018 (linkedin.com) Deepak Chopra MD Founder, Chopra Foundation Although it takes place outside the headlines, even those that deal with science, a heated debate is occurring about mind and matter. On onside is a camp of so-called physicalists, formerly known as materialists, who hold fast to the assumption that any and … Continue reading “Science is Ready to Accept Consciousness” by Deepak Chopra →