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The Ganzfeld effect
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNDrZv8HwE%5D The Ganzfeld effect (from German for “complete field”) is a phenomenon of visual perception caused by staring at an undifferentiated and uniform field of color. The effect is described as the loss of vision as the brain cuts off the unchanging signal from the eyes. The result is “seeing black”[1] – apparent blindness.…
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The Science of Consciousness: Consciousness as a Phase Shift?
Ya okay…all these opinions….it still begs the question of “What makes you you?“ Cells are just the building blocks of our body, like the bricks of a house, but who is the architect, who coordinates the building of this house. When someone has died, only mortal remains are left: only matter. But where is the…
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Life After Death Question
It’s obvious that some humour can make light of a dead situation?:) Stephen Hawking dismisses belief in God in an exclusive interview with the Guardian. Photograph: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory/Discovery Channel In the interview, Hawking rejected the notion of life beyond death and emphasised the need to fulfil our potential on Earth by making good…
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Quantum suicide and immortality
But for the first time, quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that memories of entanglement can survive its destruction. He compares the effect to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights: “the spectral Catherine communicates with her quantum Heathcliff as a flash of light from beyond the grave.”Where Susskind leaves off, Seth…
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The Golden Rule: Heart as Feather, is a Heart in Measure
Der Barmherzige Samariter(The Merciful Samaritan) 1632-1633Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 15 July 1606, Leiden – 4 October 1669, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman. The Good Samaritan “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went…
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The Soul=λόγος,θυμος,ἔρως
21 Grams The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr. Duncan MacDougall, who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. MacDougall weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was material, tangible and…
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The center and the whole-what it means?
If conceived as a series of ever-wider experiential contexts, nested one within the other like a set of Chinese boxes, consciousness can be thought of as wrapping back around on itself in such a way that the outermost ‘context’ is indistinguishable from the innermost ‘content’ – a structure for which we coined the term ‘liminocentric’.…
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The Philosophy of Death is one of Life?
Yes of course the entries like this one are philosphical in nature. So I thought I would try and explain it as I understood it? Whether it’s right or not, is how much you want to believe it? That’s up to you. Instructions for Vision 1: The Source (Eyes closed, external stimuli ignored) O nobly-born,…
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More thoughts on Enlightenment?
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Books for the Dead are Really, Books for Life?
The Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead)Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge Tibetan Book of the Dead Teachingswith Lama Kusang Norbu I mean most certainly that if such historical context can be “so clouded” by this introduction of things, aside from the science validation process, how much weight would we apply in…
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A Myth Created: Truth Felt, and a Life to Accomplish?
I sometimes have a problem with the thought, that the brain in human beings back 2000 years time, had less intelligent brain matter defined, that we could have had less than the truth of things required? The plate below speaks to this. Observation maybe on the inherent principals embedded with myth, seems interesting, if held…
