“The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness.” RealPlayGamesLevelsConsciousnessMysteryDivineInfiniteOriginalsPassingPassingsRealmsFiniteSeemingWhimDescentInfinite Consciousness Author:Meher Baba
“To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.” MeanPlayGamesLevelsExistenceConsciousnessDestinyChessMysticismMultipleChess GameConvoluted Author:Frederick Lenz
“The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness.” FirstsMayMomentsStoriesUniverseGamesImaginationChallengesSpaceConsciousnessFantasyAchieveNegativeStructureMeaninglessVoidFormalCatastropheApocalypseFiniteTime And SpaceWrapsConstructive Author:J. G. Ballard
“Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter... Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation.” MatterOrderGamesLevelsUnitedConsciousnessPlayerComputerDeeperScreensParticipationInseparableComputer Games Author:David Bohm
“The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I didn't have that self-consciousness. It was a game that I was playing.” FeelsSelfFactsGamesConsciousnessIgnoranceScreensSelf ConsciousnessBlissful Ignorance Author:Ellar Coltrane
“One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.” IfsGamesConsciousnessDrugThreatEntertainmentVideoAttractiveExpandingAmusementLsdCyberspaceKeyholesConsciousness Expanding Author:Jerry Garcia
“If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.” IfsTryingFirstsLittlesDoeHardPastGamesBrainConsciousnessActivityProgramTasksPhasesExcluded Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain