Quotes About Consciousness

The general view that prefrontal and parietal networks are required for conscious perceptual experiences is supported by studies of patients as they begin to recover from coma.157 They first transition to a vegetative state in which the brain stem and basal forebrain networks of arousal are functionally active, but the frontal and parietal networks are not. Although

The same network is suppressed in states of hypnosis, in which the person is fully awake and responsive, but external awareness is altered (by way of hypnotic suggestion, attention to certain stimuli can be diminished).

I quoted Menand's restatement of Kierkegaard: Anxiety is the price humans pay for freedom. My restatement of Kierkegaard and Menand is that anxiety is the price humans pay for autonoetic consciousness.

Changing the content of our memories or altering their emotional tonalities, however desirable to alleviate guilty or painful consciousness, could subtly reshape who we are, at least to ourselves. With altered memories we might feel better about ourselves, but it is not clear that the better-feeling 'we' remain the same as before." —PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS

Life After Life, by Raymond A. Moody, Jr., M.D.

couldn't see it at the time, but she was absolutely, perfectly tuned to her entire environment, something one can only do paranormally. The down side, of course, is that in being that way you quickly lose your identity.

Therefore, the valuable tools of a remote viewer or any psychic are being able to quiet the conscious (ego) mind, learning never to demand a conclusion, intensely focusing on nothing specific, being absolutely neutral towards a target, being able to establish a fertile ground for conscious/subconscious exchange, and developing a common language between the physical and non-physical realities.

Being able to alter your belief in what is real is critical in learning to RV.

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

Your conscious mind is the captain and the master of your ship, which represents your body, environment, and all your affairs.

The infinite intelligence in your subconscious can give you access to wonderful new kinds of knowledge.

If you begin now to recognize these potentialities of your deeper mind, they will take form in the world without.

Many people are closed off to their own potential because they do not know about the storehouse of infinite intelligence and boundless love within themselves.

Open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you.

As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment.

Know that in your deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Power.

The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several evolutionary stages - but following always natural laws. It is presently experiencing a new one, which follows constructive, conscious, and no less elemental laws. Regret for the passing of the old forms is like the grief of some antediluvian creature for the disappearance of a prehistoric habitat.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity.

En la fe el espíritu descansa; en la razón vive; en el amor goza; sólo en el dolor adquiere conciencia.

Y para qué quieren ser libres si no saben ser libres? La libertad no es gracia que se recibe ni derecho que se conquista. Se es libre aunque se carezca de libertad. Los hierros y las cárceles no impiden que un hombre sea libre. La libertad de un hombre no es como la libertad de los pájaros que se satisface en el vaivén de un aroma. La libertad de un hombre está en su conciencia.

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.