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“There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.”

Ifs Individual Levels Consciousness Meaningful Intimate Sovereign Elementals

Book:The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization

Source: The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization

“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.”

Ends Reason Choices Individual Wish Views Patient Ill Meaningful Good Life Hopelessness Culmination Terminally Ill

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.”

“There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.”

Said Individual Meaningful

Author:Rollo May

“Organizational Development: The New Christian Right of the 1980s was dominated by paper organizations that were essentially the mailing lists of a handful of politicized ministers. Such organizations were better at issuing press releases than doing the hard work of political mobilization and advocacy. By contrast, the movement of the 1990s has generated a plethora of grass-roots organizations that allocate meaningful responsibilities to individual members. The goal is to create an army of grassroots activists who know how to stimulate political change.”