Tag: consciousness
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What is consciousness?
A very interesting interview with the neuroscientist Marjorie Woollacott that explores the possibility that consciousness may not reside in the brain.
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Lost? Good!
Here is today’s video recommendation. Don’t be put off by the “THIS SPIRITUAL FILM WILL AWAKEN YOU” spiel. I won’t give any spoilers. Just take it for a spin As usual, I recommend putting aside a few minutes to simmer into it rather than just including it in any impatient FOMO scroll.
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Exploring Idealism: Books and Interviews on Consciousness and Reality
Live the questions now. Maybe in the future, gradually, without noticing, one day away, you will live the answers. —Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Be Patient’ I am a huge fan of the philosopher Bernardo Kastrup.His stance is that the world as we perceive it is not made of solid material ‘stuff’ existing out there whilst we…
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Scoping Near Death Experience
As you may know, I have an interest in the topic of near death experiences (NDEs). I believe there is now enough evidence in the scientific literature as well as enough quality first-person accounts to suggest some form of veridical experience occurs in the first few minutes of cardiac arrest (we cannot know further out…
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Wild Mind.
Each morning I sit for 40 minutes. Just in the moment, without adding anything extra. Nothing to do. No one to be. Nowhere to go. Meditation reveals the basic contours of wild mind, and cultivates a return to wild mind belonging to wild earth. In its barest philosophical outlines, meditation begins with sitting quietly and…
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Video: discussions on consciousness.
Here is a video that will be of interest to those contemplative consciousness nerds out there. Mind you, if it is a little too early in the day for you to be tackling the origins of our experience of consciousness or the very structure of reality itself, you might find want to make yourself a…
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Near-death Experiences in Childhood.
I am currently reading Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience by Pim van Lommel M.D. My full review will follow once I finish it but the chapter on children and near-death experiences (NDEs) led me to look up one of the papers mentioned in the book. The first systematic study of NDE’s…
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Near death experiences and a change in worldview
Hans Zingmark (a pulmonologist) and Anetth Granberg-Axell (a retired physician) wanted to examine the worldview-altering impact of near-death experiences (NDEs) amongst a group of survivors of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in Sweden. Suspending their judgements on whether NDEs are veridical, they wanted to study these reports from a phenomenological perspective. That is, they felt that…
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