“Because someone is a lama or is part of a monastic order or claims to be part of a succession, doesn't really mean they know anything. Always examine the individual's consciousness, their ability to transmit light.” KnowsMeanLightOrderIndividualAbilityConsciousnessClaimsReally MeanSuccessionTransmitLama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.” MomentsCultureThreeConsciousnessChristianityStageIdealsClaimsWesternSupremeSocialismPrimitiveTranscendenceWestern CultureBlackmailMonotheismSinaiIbsen Author:George Steiner
“To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality” ConsciousnessMoralityClaimsMessNonsenseInaction Author:Bill Mollison
“The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method. You could ignore a subject; no subject is all-inclusive. But a method can plausibly be applied to anything within the field of consciousness.” ScienceLyingConsciousnessSubjectsFieldsClaimsMethod Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.” MindReasonRealityTurnsConsciousnessToolsClaimsRejectsOrgansDistortionAbsolutism Book:The Virtue of Selfishness Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.” TryingMayConsciousnessClaimsPhilosopherAnalysisDescription Author:Patricia Churchland