By Michael Woronko — 2020
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
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What I would like to encourage . . . is to be open to what various teachings say, and, at the same time, question everything, even your own perceptions, until a more satisfactory method of verification than we have at present becomes available.
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In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.
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.
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.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.