V. S. Ramachandran – A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
V. S. Ramachandran – Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V. S. Ramachandran – The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
Alfred North Whitehead – An Introduction to Mathematics
Alfred North Whitehead – Process and Reality
Johnjoe McFadden – Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
Johnjoe McFadden – Quantum Evolution: The New Science of Life
Far from revealing the Truth words only darken and conceal It. To let the Truth shine of itself instead of burying it in words; merge in the heart both word and thought – Sri Ramana Maharshi
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Yours is a make-believe talk, all hangs on suppositions and assumptions. You speak with assurance about things you are not sure of – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Be firmly established in egolessness and remain unpolluted like space – The Supreme Yoga
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Gary Snyder – Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries
This world and this creation is nothing but memory, dream: distance, measures of time like a moment and an age, all these are hallucinations – The Supreme Yoga
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Such indeed is the nature of this utter ignorance, this delusion, and this world-process: without real existence there is this illusory notion of egotism. This egotism does not exist in the infinite Self. In the infinite Self there is no creator, no creation, no worlds, no heaven, no humans, no demons, no bodies, no elements, no time – The Supreme Yoga
Quote in from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Tranquillize the mind with the help of the mind itself. For ever abandon every form of mental agitation. Remain at peace within yourself like a tree freed from the disturbance caused by monkeys – The Supreme Yoga
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
When there is direct perception, the Self shines forth clearly, without regard to place or time or rites of purification – Sri Sankara
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Klee Irwin – Are We In A Simulation? – Full Series
Ray Kurzweil – The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared – myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Rupert Sheldrake – The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet
You are neither the body nor in the body – there is no such thing as body. You have grievously misunderstood yourself; to understand rightly – investigate – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Allow reality to shine as it truly is without any obstacle whatsoever by means of the destruction of the age-old deceit of the hostile ego – Sri Murugnar
Quote is from The Seven Steps to Awakening – Michael Langford
Terence McKenna – The Last Word
Dorion Sagan – Biospheres: Metamorphosis of Planet Earth
Robert Graves – The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth
Edward Steichen – The Family Of Man
Seth Lloyd – Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
Susan Blackmore – The Meme Machine
Susan Blackmore – Consciousness: An Introduction
Daniel C. Dennett – Consciousness Explained
Havelock Ellis – Mescal – A study of a divine plant
DMT allows one to travel outward, seemingly meeting entities and viewing alien worlds, while 5-MeO-DMT renders the concept of travel—and self—meaningless, by becoming one with existence itself.
The great value of LSD-25 lies in the fact that when the therapeutic situation is properly structured the patient can, and often does, within a period of hours, develop a level of self-understanding and self-acceptance which may surpass that of the average normal person. On the basis of this self- knowledge he can, with the therapist’s help, clearly see the inadequacies in the value system which has underlain his previous behavior and can learn how to alter this in accordance with his altered understanding.
John Coleman – Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
The first stage of this collapse will be the breakdown of human knowledge. Human knowledge is merely discriminating knowledge. Having no way of knowing that this knowledge is really unknowable, man founders ever deeper into confusion through the collection and advancement of unknowable and mistaken knowledge. Unable to extricate himself from schizophrenic development, he ultimately brings upon himself spiritual derangement and collapse.
The second stage will be the destruction of life and matter. The earth, an organic synthesis of these two elements, is being broken down and divided up by man. This is gradually depriving the natural world on the earth’s surface of its equilibrium. Destruction of the natural order and the natural ecosystem will rob matter and life of their proper functions. Nor will man be spared. Either he will lose his adaptability to the natural environment and meet with self-destruction or he will succumb to instant ruin under a slight pressure from without, like an inflated rubber balloon ruptured by a small needle.
The third stage will be failure, when man loses sight of what he must do. The industrial activity that expands relentlessly with developments in the natural sciences is basically a campaign to promote energy consumption. Its target has not been so much to boost energy production as to senselessly waste energy. As long as man continues to take the stance that he is “developing” nature, the materials and resources of the earth will go on drying up. Burdened by growing self-contradictions, industrial activity will grind to a halt or undergo unyielding transformations that shall usher in drastic changes in political, economic, and social institutions.
Quote is from Masanobu Fukuoka – The Natural Way of Farming
John Markoff – What the Dormouse Said
Man generally finds value only in the harvest of grains and fruit. But nature sees both cereal grains and weeds, and all the animals and microorganisms that inhabit the natural world, as the fruit of the earth.
Quote is from Masanobu Fukuoka – The Natural Way of Farming