Quotes About Consciousness

the capstone to Robert Ornstein's brilliant, ground-breaking half century of research into the dimensions, capacities, and purposes of human consciousness. —Tony Hiss

There will be no further evolution without conscious evolution. - Robert Ornstein, The Evolution of Consciousness

Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive dispositions.

Remember: if you can see the Empire State Building, The Empire State Building can see you.

Now, forgetting is the means of transition from one state of consciousness to another. Even in the case of sleep, which can be considered as a "natural ecstasy", one has to forget the world of the day in order to be able to pass into the world of the night. In order to fall asleep one has to be able to forget. Insomnia is due to the inability to forget.

The concept of Force is that of intermediary between pure consciousness and manifestation. It is the link between the idea and the phenomenon. Force has two aspects-that of electricity and that of life (or struggle on the one hand and cooperation on the other).

Intentional dying is possible only for one who has attained a high degree of mastery over his physical functions, who knows how to project the principle of consciousness out of the physical body, who is able to tell, by certain inner signs, when his time has come, and who is able with full awareness and without artificial aids to let the life process come to a halt so far as this particular body is concerned.

Contemporary man, hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgets, has little contact with his inner world, concerns himself with outer, not inner space. But the Master Game is played entirely in the inner world, a vast and complex territory about which men know very little. The aim of the game is true awakening, full development of the powers latent in man. The

The basic idea underlying all the great religions is that man is asleep, that he lives amid dreams and delusions, that he cuts himself off from the universal consciousness (the only meaningful definition of God) to crawl into the narrow shell of a personal ego.

To emerge from this narrow shell, to regain union with the universal consciousness, to pass from the darkness of the ego-centered illusion into the light of the non-ego, this was the real aim of the Religion Game as defined by the great teachers, Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, Mahavira, Lao-tze and the Platonic Socrates. Among

I question not my Corporeal or Vegetative Eye any more than I would question a Window concerning a Sight. I look thru' it not with it.

There's something beyond one's self

Life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time, the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

El sentimiento de déjà vu se atribuye a menudo a un suceso de una vida pasada, pero muchas sensaciones de déjà vu son, en realidad, recuerdos de planes prenatales.

What is reality?" - "One of the many possible illusions.

Dramocles got up from the operating table thinking he had just had a massage, and now wanted to take a brisk walk. A posthypnotic command took him a hundred yards from Fish's laboratory. Then he heard the explosion. Hurrying back, he saw that Dr. Fish had been blown up. Dramocles couldn't imagine why anyone would want to blow up an inoffensive android like Fish. He never considered the possibility that he had done it himself, since exploded androids tell no tales.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

He felt disgruntled and obscurely let down at having paid good money to discover that the vision that had so irradiated his consciousness was a second-hand one. On the other hand, he told himself, probably it was better to hear that a phantom memory had come floating up out of some lecture of his student days than to be informed that he was going out of his mind.

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

It's hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.

We tell ourselves our own stories, selectively, in order to keep our sense of self intact.

Dreaming is an advanced evolutionary exercise, a way the brain can go on an extended journey into that other reality.

Revolutionary moments often seem to occur in history when large numbers of individuals have a change in consciousness, regarding themselves and their status

I tell lies somewhere else, but not here, not in front of myself.