consciousness

Because of Mother Nature, Humans become Conscious Beings.

I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.

Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves.

Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the Horse__ Tail in Altamira, induces altered states of consciousness.

Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

The word __onsciousness,_ it seems to me, can only refer to what one might define provisionally as __he knowing that cannot know itself without intermediary and that cannot function in experience (of which it is an indispensable component) except negatively.__o the question __hat is consciousness,_ then, a low level provisional answer might be __t is the pure subjective_ or __t is the bare knowing of what it is not that constitutes (orders) experience and allows it being._ It must be added that, when consciousness is, it seems to be individualized by what it knows. But on another (higher) level the __s_ in the question has still to be questioned, and so the low-level (and logical) answer is only a conventional makeshift, a conventional view, nothing more. And this qualification applies not only to logically inductive and deductive statements necessitating use of the word __s,_ but also to descriptive statements that appear in __ogical_ form, using that term, or any equivalent.

For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence. The questioning of Being is an experience of Being in its strangeness

In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a __ixth sense_ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.

A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

It is important to know what you don't want.

Consciousness set goal independently, achieves them through will and evaluation of results

When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.

The ego cleverly hides by projecting and by avoiding to look beyond what it merely believes.

[T]he understanding or the reason is the necessary being. _ [I]f there were no reason, no consciousness, all would be nothing; existence would be equivalent to non-existence. Consciousness first founds the distinction between existence and non-existence. In consciousness is first revealed the value of existence, the value of nature.

The Kingdom of God is an earthly experience which manifests in an unearthly manner.

Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness