Michele Pasin / Quotes

Hofmann on the West's spiritual crisis

Hofmann strongly believed that there was a spiritual crisis in Western civilization, and argued that society must shift from “the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.”

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#spirituality #materialism #dualism #nature #psychedelics

A complete account is more than a physical one

It should be clear that this argument simply repeats the kind of category mistake identified by Ryle. So it is true, as Swinburne says, that a physical…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #materialism #dualism #description #categories

Christians without dualist souls

Having dismissed the idea that we have immaterial souls, you might assume that there is nothing left to be said for the Christian idea of a life to come…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #Christianity #soul #dualism #materialism

Dualists and materialists make the same mistake

People who accept the reality and irreducibility of the mental tend to think of themselves as dualists. But to others, accepting an irreducible mental…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #dualism #materialism #philosophy-of-mind

Neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable

We end this chapter in a depressing intellectual state: neither dualism nor materialism is acceptable and yet they are presented to us as the only…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #dualism #materialism #philosophical-problems

Soul as light bulb, brain as socket

‘What I have argued,’ he writes, ‘… is that without a functioning brain, the soul will not function (i.e. have conscious episodes) – not that it will not…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #soul #brain #dualism #materialism

Swinburne: physicalism doesn't face the data

‘The trouble with physicalism,’ Swinburne told me, ‘is that it doesn’t face the data, and the data first of all is the mental life. We have thoughts and…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #materialism #dualism #mind