Quotes About Consciousness

Well, during the 1930s, a lot of work was done on what was called 'mob consciousness', where anger or hysteria seems to get communicated by means other than reason or logic. This was suggestive of a group-mind kind of thing—somewhat linked together by a kind of communal telepathy.

which of any two events is earlier and which later, combined with his consciousness of an instantaneous present that is continuously being transformed into a remembered past as it is replaced with an anticipated future.

For more details about all of this, see THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE published by Tor Norretranders

James Henry Hyslop

DiPietro and Molenaar

is far easier to agree with the eminent researchers Penfield and Eccles and hypothesize that there exists a greater "organ" possessing enormous powers — which, although completely invisible to our present materialistic knowledge, certainly must exist. And it was this "organ" that John Traynor and Mason somehow activated — although, of course, quite inadvertently.

psychic aptitudes were powers not of the mind, but powers in themselves, and powers that at times actually transcended "mind," or cut across it, or, even, were capable of operating when what we call "mind" was asleep or unconscious — or, even, when clinically dead. Indeed

First, the future event must already exist in some way we do not understand. Second, if it exists, then it is part of some kind of hidden psychic agenda. The third factor requires that some function of human consciousness be able to link into this plan to perceive it. If we try to be psychic, and at the same time believe that a future planned agenda does not already exist in some form, then, of course, we are going to shoot ourselves in our psychic feet.

Joe McMoneagle's book Mind Trek.

Well, one mind existing as a three-dimensional thing communicating with another which is also a three-dimensional thing, and the communicating across the distance...is not the distance involved conceived of in three-dimensional terms?

If so, then this definition stands as one of the earliest blueprints, in English, for fundamental reality-box making.

WHO it is that constructs the realities is NOT at all clear.

Our own life form was accordingly dubbed HOMO (genus Man), sapiens (species CAN THINK), sapiens (subspecies KNOWS HE CAN THINK).

The intricate details of this saga have been collected and collated into an astonishing 1991 book entitled THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE, by Tor Norretranders, Denmark's leading science writer. The book is something of a challenge to read, but a few of its main highlights can usefully be pointed up.

there are numerous depressing occasions to wonder if waking consciousness is all there is to consciousness, or to human life

While both of these adages may be somewhat appropriate in certain situations, it might daringly be pointed up that if we BECOME and ARE only what we experience, then it is not quite clear why we need intellect-intelligence or wisdom in the first place – because what we experience would do it ALL for us.

To a large extent, creativity is self-generated in areas of the mind beyond or beneath the individual's willful, conscious control. All he can do is discipline his consciousness to accommodate the needs of the creative process.

It ended because of a set of discovered conclusions. Among them, that mob consciousness responded collectively NOT to rational intellectual perspectives, but to some kind of emotional empathy that was somehow subconsciously TRANSMITTED. This, however, could not be explained unless the concept of telepathy was brought into consideration.

Why should a biological species that is innately magnificent in its smallest details issue forth with blank minds and blank consciousness which have nothing innate in them?

all things are considered, the survival of our species probably owes a great deal to the Way of empathic compassion whose innate categories are somewhere incorporated into its innate procreating consciousness.

Surely something along these lines would have to do with their research and development of their OWN forms of consciousness – at least to the degree that such development has taken them, at the very least, somewhat beyond massively destroying themselves before they could achieve the status of being "advanced.

Apperception," as it is presently conceived, means "introspective self-consciousness," "the mind's perception of itself as a conscious agent," "a condition in which we are conscious of our own existence and consciousness of our own perceptions," "perception of the sum of things," and "the recognition of truths" [emphasis added].

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.