“From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.” KindSelfProcessViewsEmotionConsciousnessVariousPoint Of ViewReactionsPsychologicalExpansionEmergencies Author:Arthur Koestler
“Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.” MenWorldLightPoliticalConsciousnessStagePersonalityTheaterWesternScreensPsychologicalProjectionSpectacularCinematic Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.” WellsMatterRealityPoliticalPoliticsSocialWomenTermConsciousnessEconomicRevolutionInvolvedStructureEnormousPsychologicalSexismSocial ChangeExposureAlteredEliminationImpliedSexual RevolutionReorganization Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness ... will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions.” TryingLittlesDoeSelfProblemHandsSpiritualPoliticalSpiritualitySocialConsciousnessAwarenessSelf AwarenessIntentionProfoundSolveActivismPsychologicalRighteousSuicidalHaltSelf AbsorbedJuggernautSocial ConsciousnessProfound Spiritual Author:Andrew Harvey
“I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.” TwoBookHomeSpiritualityThreeInterestResultsConsciousnessWeekAchieveAwarenessAreasPsychologicalTherapyEtcMinimumHolistic Author:Jack Canfield
“In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form or psychological form. And when a form dissolves, always something shines through that had been obscured by the form. This is the formless One Life, the formless One Consciousness.” FacesFormConsciousnessShiningViolentPsychologicalMake SenseDissolutionViolent Death Author:Eckhart Tolle
“On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.” KnowsSelfBodyLevelsConsciousnessWho I AmPsychologicalTimeless Author:Eckhart Tolle
“"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.” ThinkingWarProblemPoliticalTermConsciousnessTerrorTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalManifestationWar On Terror Author:Mark McGwire