“If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born” IfsThinkingWayHas BeensJoyNatureBornNaturalConsciousnessEnvironmentMissingTaughtWay Of ThinkingSensoryNatural EnvironmentLife WisdomMissing OutReconnecting Author:Michael J Cohen
“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.” DreamStuffDifferencesConsciousnessEssentialsObviousContradictionInputSensoryRepressedLucid Dreaming Author:Stephen LaBerge
“One Spirit Medicine allows you to experience communion with Spirit and understand the workings of creation. This understanding is not academic or intellectual; it’s kinesthetic and sensory-a knowingness that pervades every cell of your body...you experience a transcendent awareness that penetrates your whole being. You truly grasp that energy and consciousness can never be destroyed, only transformed into myriad shapes and forms, one of which happens to be you.” WholeBodyHappensFormSpiritEnergyUnderstandingConsciousnessAwarenessCreationShapesIntellectualMedicineYour BodyDestroyedCellsBe YouAcademicTransformedCommunionPenetrateTranscendentSensory Author:Alberto Villoldo
“Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.” MenFeelingsBeliefConsciousnessEvidenceCommitmentToolsTreatsProofRationalEquationsMysticCognitionSensory Book:The Virtue of Selfishness Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“Confusion conditions activity, which conditions consciousness, which conditions embodied personality, which conditions sensory experiences, which conditions impact, which conditions mood, which conditions craving, which conditions clinging, which conditions becoming, which conditions birth, which conditions aging and death.” ConsciousnessConditionsPersonalityBirthBecomingActivityImpactAgingMoodConfusionCravingClingingSensory Author:Gautama Buddha
“You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.” KnowsWorldMindImportantDifferentNamesViewsConsciousnessQualityVisualsSubjectivitySensoryAuditoryHyphens Author:Antonio Damasio
“I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.” FeelsHumansFeelingsCertainLinesConsciousnessPressureInstrumentsImpressionOperationsHostPrincipalExpansionMonopolySensoryMutation Author:William S. Burroughs
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.” WorldRealRealityConsciousnessDataUnconsciousOrgansPsychicsIndicationSensoryConscious And Unconscious Book:THE Source: THE