2014
An intimate portrait celebrating two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. Narrated by Robert Redford.
95 min
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The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the “microscope and telescope of the human psyche”—and other psychedelic substances.
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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.
In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted—the feeling of being alive. Koch argues that programmable computers will not have consciousness.
It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.
James Oschman and the concept of the living matrix. Quantum physics explains how consciousness may influence healing processes.
Scientists may not even be asking the right questions.
Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death? Long a philosophical and theological question, in the 20th century this became the subject of scientific research.
Convinced that the study of nonordinary consciousnesses represents a fundamental challenge to the prevailing psychological interpretations of consciousness, Grof (California Institute of Integral Studies) introduces the reader to his work in the study of nonordinary consciousness, especially those...
New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. How does one do this? By becoming metahuman. To be metahuman, however, isn’t science fiction and is certainly not about being a superhero.