“What is ‘there’ is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality? Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion.”
—Michael Talbot (via oceanofmind)
June 2010
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“The world of our daily experience—the world of tables, chairs, stars and people, with their attendant shapes, smells, feels and sounds—is a species-specific user interface to a realm far more complex, a realm whose essential character is conscious. It is unlikely that the contents of our interface in any way resemble that realm.”
—Donald Hoffman, Edge Question 2005
“It appears undeniable that our philosophical view is increasingly supporting the idealist doctrine. The objective reality that we perceive is of our own delusion, the product of mental interpretation of sensory perception; and those concepts which we so naturally intuit as being “out there,” that of space, time, and motion, turn out to have no real existence outside of an agreed-upon definition, each unable to stand alone as a meaningful concept.”
—David Kreiter, Quantum Reality
"(instead of mere wakefulness)"
Jean Gebser included in his book list of descriptions as to what “integral” meant to him:
The Whole
Integrity
Transparency (diaphaneity)
the spiritual (the diaphainon)
the supercession of the ego
the realization of timelessness,
the realization of temporicity
the realization of the concept of time
the realization of time-freedom (the achronon)
the disruption of the merely systematic
the incursion of dynamics
the recognition of energy
the mastery of movement
the fourth dimension
the supercession of patriarchy
the renunciation of dominance and power
the acquisition of intensity
clarity (instead of mere wakefulness)
and the transformation of the creative inceptual basis.
“The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”
—Ken Wilber (via oceanofmind) (via theuniverseandi) (via zenfreckles) (via alexisonthecouch)
“There’s an infinite expanse of signals flooding into our nervous systems and being processed by our higher neural centers in the brain. We’re all organizing and orchestrating according to our own particular life history, our genetic background, our early imprints, our conditioning, our learning, or any re-imprinting techniques we may have learned since then. So we’re all living in different worlds. It’s astonishing that we can communicate at all.”
—Robert Anton Wilson (via heartmindspirit)
“The time-bound mode of consciousness is deeply embedded in the human psyche. But what we are doing here is part of a profound transformation that is taking place in the collective consciousness of the planet and beyond: the awakening of consciousness from the dream of matter, form, and separation. The ending of “time”.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via heartmindspirit)
“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening; no doubt, no awakening.”
—Master Hakuin (via sex-death-rebirth)
“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.”
—Lucius Seneca (via spellgravity) (via heartmindspirit)
“The World is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories.”
—-Erwin Schrödinger” —
—-Erwin Schrödinger” —
“what you think matters, in fact it forms matter”
—-Vajra Ghanta Gadan” —
—-Vajra Ghanta Gadan” —
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
—H.L. Mencken (via heartmindspirit)
“The cosmos is also within us, we’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”
—Carl Sagan (via dinosaurier) (via fuckyeahspace) (via heartmindspirit)
In death the many become one.
In life the one becomes many.
—Tagore
“Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more… Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.”
—Wei Wu Wei (via parkstepp) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via signa) (via commondense) (via heartmindspirit)
