consciousness

Four Characters in Consciousness__ow does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of the present chapter to treat in a general way:1) Every 'state' tends to be part of a personal consciousness. 2) Within each personal consciousness states are always changing. 3) Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous.4) It is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects__hooses from among them, in a word__ll the while.

Consciousness of unconsciousness

Quoting Father Seraphim:Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

Just look around! This immense universe is functioning so perfectly well that nothing can be added to it. It needs no improvement. Seeing this, one relaxes. If stars can go on dancing and flowers can go on blooming and birds can go on singing, why not you? You also belong to this universe. You are part of it. In fact, you are the most valuable part of it, the greatest flowering is going to happen in you__he flowering of consciousness, the golden flower of being.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel love and avoid loneliness_. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Every waking moment, and even in our dreams, we struggle to direct the flow of sensation, emotion, and cognition towards states of consciousness that we value.

Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

There is no place where those striving after consciousness could find absolutely safety. Doubt and insecurity are indispensable components of a complete life. Only those who can lose this life really can gain it. A complete life does not consist in a theoretical completeness, but in the fact that one accepts, without reservation, the particular fatal issue in which one finds oneself embedded, and that one tries to make sense of it or to create a cosmos from the chaotic mess into which one is born. If one lives properly and completely, time and again one will be confronted with a situation of which one will say, __his is too much. I cannot bear it any more._ Then the question must be answered, __an one really not bear it?

The portable animal statuettes were therefore far more than decorative trinkets: they were reified three-dimensional spirit animals with all their prophylactic and other powers.

According to Martindale__ view, as we drift into sleep we pass through: _ waking, problem-oriented thought, _ realistic fantasy, _ autistic fantasy, _ reverie, _ hypnagogic (falling asleep) states, and _ dreaming.

Non-duality has been the root of all religious movements on this planet.

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

Everyday conscious awareness of a human being is only the tip of an iceberg, underneath which there is a realm of relatively uncharted apparently mysterious processes, which are likely to be way more complex than the usual waking state.

Everything is consciousness. YOU are consciousness and everything around you is a reflection of your [state of] consciousness.When you shift your consciousness, when you change, your life changes too.

Some researchers believe that dreaming is what happens when sensory input to the brain is greatly diminished: the brain then __reewheels_, synapses firing more or less at random, and the brain tries to make sense of the resultant stream of images.

It is always now

The behaviour of the human nervous system in certain altered states creates the illusion of dissociation from one__ body (less commonly understood in hunting and gathering shamanistic societies as possession by spirits).

In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.

Around 30,000 years ago, in the Aurignacian, at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, someone or some group in the Eyzies region invented drawing, the representation in two dimensions on the flat of the stone of what appeared in the environment in three dimensions.