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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
LSD reveals consciousness as part of the universe
Hofmann thought LSD could do is allow us to become aware of the ontologically objective existence of consciousness as part of the universe.
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Siamo l'immaginazione di noi stessi
" Tutta la materia è semplicemente energia condensata a lenta vibrazione ... Noi siamo tutti un'unica Coscienza che ha esperienza di sé soggettivamente ... La morte non esiste ... La vita è solo un sogno ... E noi siamo l'immaginazione di noi stessi..." ( Bill Hicks)
La separazione come illusione ottica della coscienza
L’essere umano è una parte del tutto chiamato universo, una parte limitata nello spazio e nel tempo. Fa esperienza di se stesso, dei suoi pensieri e sentimenti come di qualcosa di separato dal resto. Un tipo di illusione ottica della coscienza, questa illusione è una specie di…
La Leggenda Personale
la tua Leggenda Personale. ... è quello che hai sempre desiderato fare. Tutti, all'inizio della gioventù, sanno qual è la propria Leggenda Personale. In quel periodo della vita tutto è chiaro, tutto è possibile, e gli uomini non hanno paura di sognare e di desiderare tutto…
Un granello di polvere contiene l'universo
Un granello di polvere contiene tutto l'universo. Quando un fiore si apre, il ◊◊◊◊◊◊ mondo appare. (Proverbio Zen)
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Kami, uno spirito in ogni cosa
Oltre a non essere affatto distanti dagli uomini, gli dèi intrecciano con loro stretti rapporti. I giapponesi sono prescelti come razza eletta, e ciò alimenterà un lignaggio regale misto, di matrice semidivina, il cui depositario è l’imperatore. Tutto il cosmo è animato…
Un solo pensiero contiene l'universo
Ciò significa che in ogni elemento dell’universo c’è l’universo intero: la comprensione dell’intermedio (chu) ci permette di stabilirlo. Una formulazione del Tendai recita: «Un solo pensiero è identico a tremila». In esso si cela l’universo.
Many-worlds Interpretation - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Panpsychism: consciousness is everywhere
Pan-psychism is the view that consciousness is everywhere. This view is seldom stated explicitly, but it is implicit in several authors particularly among the mysterians who think that if we are going to explain consciousness in terms of microprocesses, then, somehow or other…
Rdf-compatible Model-theoretic Semantics For Owl
OWL Full versus OWL DL
All of the OWL vocabulary is defined on the 'OWL universe', which is a division of part of the RDF universe into three parts, namely OWL individuals, classes, and properties. The class extension of owl:Thing comprises the individuals of the OWL universe. The class extension of…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
God is impossible, therefore He exists
‘Well,’ I laughed, ‘I certainly don’t know God, and frankly I’m inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I’ve come across.’ ‘Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.’ He was…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Love as the primary cosmic fact
Shortly after that momentous May morning in the Los Angeles hills, Aldous Huxley’s wife, Maria, had died of cancer. Huxley nursed her devotedly through her last days, but during the months following her death he found himself increasingly attracted to a younger woman, Laura…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Our universe is thoroughly wiggly
Apart from such human artifacts as buildings and roads (especially Roman and American roads), our universe, including ourselves, is thoroughly wiggly.
You are the universe looking at itself
Once you have seen this you can return to the world of practical affairs with a new spirit. You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate “you” to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed…
Metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing
Chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy are special fascinations with the details of our environment, but metaphysics is fascination with the whole thing. I find it almost impossible to imagine a sensitive human being bereft of metaphysical wonder, a person who does not have…
Needham: why China never saw nature as mechanism
It is doubtful whether Western science and technology would have been possible unless we had tried to understand nature in terms of mechanical models. According to Joseph Needham, the Chinese—despite all their sophisitication—made little progress in science because it never…
A fundamental contradiction
The root of the matter is the way in which we feel and conceive ourselves as human beings, our sensation of being alive, of individual existence and identity. We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of…
The Cosmic Idiot replaces God
Those who continued to believe in Someone-Up-There-Who-Cares were ridiculed as woolly-minded wishful thinkers, poor weaklings unable to face man’s grim predicament in a heartless universe where survival is the sole privilege of the tough guys. If the all-too-intelligent God was…
Watts on Wittgenstein: wonder is not a disease
Ludwig Wittgenstein and other modern “logical” philosophers have tried to suppress this question by saying that it has no meaning and ought not to be asked. Most philosophical problems are to be solved by getting rid of them, by coming to the point where you see that such…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Nothing but the stuff of physics
the third truth: that there is no stuff in the universe other than the stuff of physics. Not so long ago, you could have put that same basic thought in simpler terms and it would probably have been more persuasive: there is nothing in the universe apart from matter. That…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topic maps as an ISO standard
Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed “the GPS of the information universe”, topic maps are also destined to provide…