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“Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society tends to reduce, and even absorb opposition (the qualitative difference!) in the realm of politics and higher culture, so it does in the instinctual sphere. The result is the atrophy of the mental organs for grasping the contradictions and the alternatives and, in the one remaining dimension of technological rationality, the Happy Consciousness comes to prevail.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.”

Differences Consciousness Intelligent Confused Haunting Apparitions

Author:Loyd Auerbach

“Some of the most exalted states of consciousness I experienced were in bed with someone, alone, or with my spiritual teacher. There was never a difference for me.”

States Spiritual Differences Consciousness Teacher Bed Rama Exalted States Of Consciousness Spiritual Teachers

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.”

Ifs Firsts Kind May Stills Soul School Differences Consciousness Degrees Possession Beast Immortal Elephants Wisest Concessions Slugs Immortal Soul

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)

“As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.”

World Light Would Be Differences Consciousness Higher Diversity Unity Definitions Collectives Midst Appreciated Peace And Love Collective Consciousness Happiness Love

Author:David Lynch

“There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input.”

Dream Stuff Differences Consciousness Essentials Obvious Contradiction Input Sensory Repressed Lucid Dreaming

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”

May Different States Moments Energy Enjoy Differences Consciousness Flow Foundation Fundamentals Peaceful Present Moment Alignment States Of Consciousness High Energy

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.”

People Thinking Knows Want Self Differences Levels Consciousness Ordinary Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”

Made Matter Today Differences Consciousness Essentials Computer Perception Capacity Intelligent Patterns Perceive What Matters Incapable Spontaneous

Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.”

Language Differences Race Consciousness Eating Metaphor Gender Nationality Gender Differences

Book:The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“Its really important to understand the difference between sentience and consciousness, which are important for human beings.”

Humans Important Differences Human Beings Consciousness

Author:Stuart J. Russell