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William James on Consciousness and the Four Features of Transcendent Experiences

By Maria Popova — 2018

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

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Wholeness, Timelessness and Unfolding Meaning

An interview from the archives with physicist and philosopher David Bohm [in which] he talks about his insight into the essential unbroken wholeness of the universe

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Jane Clark and Michael Cohen
2020
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Are ESP and Psychokinesis Really Possible?

Ahead of a big science conference in Northern California, we speak with Dr. Dean Radin, who after years of study came to believe that there might be something to psi phenomena.

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S.C. Stuart
2018
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Is Hypnosis a Distinct Form of Consciousness?

Studies confirm that during hypnosis subjects are not in a sleeplike state but are awake.

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Scott O. Lilienfeld, Hal Arkowitz
2008
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Nelson Mandela – Nobel Lecture

We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

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Nelson Mandela
1993
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Healing the World Through Consciousness Exploration

This is in fact the foundational assumption behind our notion of universal human rights: we are all conscious, and thus we all have needs and we all suffer.

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Phil Wolfson
2012
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Experiences of ‘Ultimate Reality’ or ‘God’ Confer Lasting Benefits to Mental Health

In a survey of thousands of people who reported having experienced personal encounters with God, researchers report that more than two-thirds of self-identified atheists shed that label after their encounter, regardless of whether it was spontaneous or while taking a psychedelic.

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Johns Hopkins Medicine
2019
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Your Brain on Psilocybin

How magic mushrooms expand consciousness.

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Robin Carhart-Harris
2014
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Unity in Diversity

The importance of finding the thread of love upon which the universe is woven

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Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma)
2017
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One Word Is the Answer to Everything

It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.

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Deepak Chopra, Neil D. Theise
2020
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