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David Steindl-Rast How to Be Grateful in Every Moment (But Not for Everything)

By Krista Tippett — 2020

A Benedictine monk for over 60 years, Steindl-Rast was formed by 20th-century catastrophes. He calls joy “the happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.” And his gratefulness is not an easy gratitude or thanksgiving — but a full-blooded, reality-based practice and choice.

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Largest Ever Psychedelics Study Maps Changes of Conscious Awareness to Neurotransmitter Systems

In the world’s largest study on psychedelics and the brain, a team of researchers from The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and Department of Biomedical Engineering of McGill University, the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, and Mila—Quebec...

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Neuroscience News
2022
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Can Mysticism Help Us Solve the Mind-Body Problem?

I just spent a week at a symposium on the mind-body problem, the deepest of all mysteries. The mind-body problem--which encompasses consciousness, free will and the meaning of life--concerns who we really are.

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John Horgan
2019
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Does Our Brain Really Create Consciousness?

The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.

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Peter Russell
2011
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Creating from Consciousness

I was reading metaphysical books and going to workshops, and one of the ones I attended was on creative visualization—learning to use your natural creative imagination in a more conscious way to create what you really want.

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Shakti Gawain
2018
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Constant Consciousness

I became extremely serious about meditation practice when I read the following line from the illustrious Sri Ramana Maharshi: “That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.”

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Ken Wilber
1999
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Karmuppance

In the mid-sixties there seemed to be an expectation that if we got high, we’d be free. We were not quite realistic about the profundity of man’s attachments and deep clingings. We thought that if only we knew how to get high the right way, we wouldn’t come down.

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Ram Dass
2014
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Extended Awareness: The Possibilities of Quantum Consciousness

Is there something woven into the fundamental fabric of our being that urges us to seek fulfillment beyond the offerings of the external world?

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Michael Bernard Beckwith
2010
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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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