Article - Human Consciousness And Decision-making
This is the keynote talk presented by Martyn Carruthers, at the University Forum on Human Consciousness, Hull UK June 1997. This article...   » Read the article

Article - Morphogenetic Fields: The Morphogenetic Fields Explained By �the Hundredth Monkey�
The study of morphogenetic fields is an attempt to scientifically document and describe how the human consciousness is shared. The Morpho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 8-circuit Model Of Consciousness: Encyclopedia - 8-circuit Model Of Consciousness
The 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a heuristic model of consciousness proposed by Timothy Leary. Perhaps somehow reminiscing Abraham...   » Read the article

Article - Morphogenic Fields: The Morphogenic Fields Explained By �the Hundredth Monkey�
The study of morphogenic fields is an attempt to scientifically document and describe how the human consciousness is shared. The Morphoge...   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: Evolving Towards Enlightenment - Ii
In the series, Evolving Towards Enlightenment I-V, Carl Johan Calleman explains the links between the Mayan Calendar Enlightenment and th...   » Read the article

Article - Sri Aurobindo And The Supramental Descent
Sri Aurobindos teachings and what he terms supramental descent explained by Kiara Windrider.   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Awakening: Future Transitions
Many factors point at a difficult time ahead with the risk of social, economical, political and last but not least environmental crisis d...   » Read the article

Article - Auras: Creating Pictures In Your Aura
Creating Pictures In Your Aura Mental pictures can be created in your head and then transferred to the energy field around your body, y...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Awakening: Self Inquiry And The Multidimensional Self
Kiara Windrider gives a background to how humanity and its consciousness was created and how it devleoped to what is now.   » Read the article

Article - Mayan Calendar: About Materialist And Spiritual Calendars
Carl-Johan Calleman is an internationally recognized authority in the studies of the Mayan Calendar. He has appeared in Swedish, Finnish ...   » Read the article

Article - Enlightenment: Services Of The Golden Age Foundation
The mission of The Golden Age Foundation is to bring humanity into a golden era. The work is to bring about a fundamental change in the n...   » Read the article

Article - Enlightenment: The Mukti Courses At The World University Of Consciousness
The mission of The Golden Age Foundation is to help humanity to a fundamental change where the consciousness undergoes a true transformat...   » Read the article

Article - Consciousness: Can Consciousness Be Reduced To Matter?  
Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA, presented what he called the “Astonishing Hypothesis”: Human behaviour is mer...   » Read the article

Article - Sri Aurobindo: Integral Yoga From Sri Arubindo's Synthesis Of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo, a scholar of India's spiritual-philosophical tradition, developed an original philosophy, which contained an evolutionary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia - Person
Person, in the classic sense, refers to a living human being. However, in philosophy, there has been debate over the precise meaning and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Association For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness: Encyclopedia - Association For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness
Founded in 1994, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is a professional membership organization that aims to encoura...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Binet: Encyclopedia - Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Waldo Vieira: Encyclopedia - Waldo Vieira
Waldo Vieira (1932 -) is a Brazilian medical practitioner who first proposed the theories of projectiology and conscientiology, two close...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Global Consciousness Project: Encyclopedia - Global Consciousness Project
The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is one of the most significant of current research projects into parapsych...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sat Chit Ananda: Encyclopedia - Sat Chit Ananda
In the Sanskrit language Sat Chit Ananda means Ethernal Bliss Consciousness. Sat = Eternal Chit = Consciousness Ananda = Bliss "In ancie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Savikalpa: Encyclopedia - Savikalpa
Savikalpa samādhi is one of the highest form of minor state of samadhi meditation. In Savikalpa samadhi, the human consciousness is diss...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Institute Of Noetic Sciences: Encyclopedia - Institute Of Noetic Sciences
Founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Avadhut: Encyclopedia - Avadhut
Avadhut is a term from the spiritual traditions of India. An avadhut is a mystic who has risen above body-consciousness, duality, and wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boomeritis: Encyclopedia - Boomeritis
Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Fre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Unsolved Problems In Cognitive Science: Encyclopedia - Unsolved Problems In Cognitive Science
There are fewer celebrated findings than unsolved problems in cognitive science; however one can list: How much human intervention is ne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Benjamin Libet: Encyclopedia - Benjamin Libet
Benjamin Libet is a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Fransisco, and is a pioneering scientist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colin Mcginn: Encyclopedia - Colin Mcginn
Colin McGinn (born 1950) is a British philosopher at Rutgers University, soon to be transferring to the University of Miami, because he w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deity: Encyclopedia - Deity
A deity or a god, is a postulated preternatural being, usually, but not always, of significant power, worshipped, thought holy, divine, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cursed Ring: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cursed Ring - A Structure Of Ideas
In our world, there exists a structure of connected ideas that represent a logical yet destructive and false comprehension of reality. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cursed Ring: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cursed Ring - The Ideas
At the center of the Cursed Ring lies the deep notion that the human being is utterly and desperately alone (as also suggested by Tolkien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Consciousness After Death
Belief in consciousness after death (e.g. afterlife, underworld, reincarnation, heaven, hell) is common and ancient. This point of view h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: biological, legal, and religious. These different do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Defining The Moment Of Human Death
There is an asymmetry between life and death. While cells and organisms may die, they have never been observed to arise from non-living m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Physiological Consequences Of Human Death
For the human body, the physiological consequences of death follow a recognized sequence through early changes into bloating, then decay ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Causes Of Human Death In The Us
In 2002, in the United States, the top causes of death were: Heart disease: 696,947 Cancer: 557,271 Stroke: 162,672 Chronic lower respir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Biological Death
Death is the irreversable ending of life. Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts, or to both. For example, it is possible for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - The Process Of Dying
Death - Cell death. A. Normal cellular function 1. Production of free energy required for vital cellular metabolism 2. Production of e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Causes Of Human Death In The Us
In 2002, there were 1,293,000 intentional abortions in the United States. Some would count these in death statistics. In 2002, in the Uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Settlement Of Dead Human Bodies
In most cultures, before the onset of significant decay, the body undergoes some type of ritual disposal, usually either cremation or dep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Unwritten Customs And Superstitions
Since writing someone's name with a range of years, such as John Doe (1950 - 2000), implies that the subject has died, it would be a faux...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Unwritten Customs And Superstitions
Since writing someone's name with a range of years, such as John Doe (1950 - 2000), implies that the subject has died, it would be a faux...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Consciousness - Tests Of Consciousness
As there is still not a clear definition of consciousness, no empirical tests currently exist to test consciousness as a whole. Some have...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Consciousness - Philosophical Approaches
Some philosophers suggest that consciousness resists or even defies definition. Others believe it can be usefully distinguished between p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Consciousness - Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches
Modern investigations into and discoveries about consciousness are based on psychological statistical studies and case studies of conscio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Are All Persons Human?
Firstly, there is the simple and traditional view that the common usage is the correct one: that "person" does indeed mean "human". Howev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Possible Criteria For Personhood
The above points seem to indicate that there may be persons that are not human, and there may be humans that are not persons. For these r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Personhood Theory
According to Boethius: Person is an individual substance of rational nature. As individual it is material, since matter supplies the pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Implications Of The Personhood Debate
Personhood theory has become a pivotal issue in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. While historically most humans did not enjoy fu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person: Encyclopedia Ii - Person - Corporations As Persons
See also legal entity (artificial person) and natural person Largely separate from the discussion of "real" persons are considerations re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Consciousness - The Nature Of Consciousness
Main article: Consciousness According to naïve and direct realism, humans perceive directly while brains perform processing. According t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Consciousness - Testing For Artificial Consciousness
Unless artificial consciousness can be proven formally, judgments of the success of any implementation will depend on observation. The Tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Consciousness - The Nature Of Consciousness
Main article: Consciousness According to naïve and direct realism, humans perceive directly while brains perform processing. According t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artificial Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - Artificial Consciousness - Testing For Artificial Consciousness
Unless artificial consciousness can be proven formally, judgments of the success of any implementation will depend on observation. The Tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Main articles: Mind and Consciousness Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International Society For Krishna Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - International Society For Krishna Consciousness - Controversial Points
The origin of the soul (Sanskrit: jiva). Srila Prabhupada explains that the soul falls from the spiritual world (the paradise) to this ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - International Society For Krishna Consciousness: Encyclopedia Ii - International Society For Krishna Consciousness - Points Of Philosophical Contention
The Origin of the Soul (Sanskrit: jiva). Srila Prabhupada explains that the soul falls from the spiritual world (the paradise) to this ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interdimensional Hypothesis: Encyclopedia Ii - Interdimensional Hypothesis - A Non-human Conciousness
Jacques Vallee proposes the existence of a non-human consciousness, which may or may not possess a physical body or bodies, that exists e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roger Penrose: Encyclopedia Ii - Roger Penrose - Physics And Consciousness
Penrose has written controversial books on the connection between fundamental physics and human consciousness. In The Emperor's New Mind ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Global Consciousness Project: Encyclopedia Ii - Global Consciousness Project - Research
Their research works by examining the output of hardware random number generators located around the world. The remote devices have been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'í Faith And The Unity Of Humanity: Encyclopedia Ii - Bahá'í Faith And The Unity Of Humanity - Biological Unity
The Bahá'í writings state that differences between various races, nations, and ethnic groups are either superficial (e.g. skin color) o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Human Beings: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Human Beings - Religion
Scientists and naturalist philosophers largely agree that humans consist of a body alone (roughly the physicalist or reductionist view); ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Herd Behavior: Encyclopedia Ii - Herd Behavior - The Concept Of Herd Behaviour As Applied To Human Societies Crazes
The phrase "herd behaviour" has acquired a certain currency in popular psychology, where the idea of a herding instinct is offered as an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Herd Behavior: Encyclopedia Ii - Herd Behavior - Examples Of The Application Of The Herd Behaviour Concept
Herd behavior - Stock market bubbles. In the case of stock market bubbles, the optimal behaviour for an individual may be to do what ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Brain: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Brain - Comparison Of The Brain And A Computer
In the public consciousness, much interest has been focused on comparing the brain with computers. A variety of obvious analogies exist -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bicameralism Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - Bicameralism Psychology - Similar Ideas
Friedrich Nietzsche's explanations of human ethics and moral consciousness in Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morals posit a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Inner Being: Encyclopedia Ii - Inner Being - Quote
"There are always two different consciousnesses in the human being, one outward in which he ordinarily lives, the other inward and concea...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Active Consciousness: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Active Consciousness
Active Consciousness The ability of consciousness to let dynamis act through it. The self-active consciousness that becomes possible t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Power: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Power
power Realm of higher consciousness; active, impersonal force interacting with human existence   (See also: Power , Body Mind...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bahishprajna: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Bahishprajna
Bahishprajna bahisprajna (Sanskrit) (from bahish out, outside + prajna intuitive consciousness)   Also bahir-prajna. The present ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Consciousness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Consciousness
Consciousness (from Latin conscio knowing with, knowing together)   The active state of spirit or the supreme fundamental in mani...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Human Monad: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Human Monad
Human Monad In the human constitution, the fourth monadic focus or center on the descending scale of individualizing consciousness. It...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Human Kingdom: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Human Kingdom
Human Monad In the human constitution, the fourth monadic focus or center on the descending scale of individualizing consciousness. It...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Fifth Kingdom: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Fifth Kingdom
Fifth kingdom (of Souls) A new state of collective consciousness not yet manifested, although the model has been created as a divine ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Kundalini Yoga: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini yoga: philosophy expounding the awakening of potential energy and inherent consciousness within the human body and mind. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Carole: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Carole
CAROLE - dance circle in which participant hold hands and concentrate on linking with all humanity and raising human consciousness. (N...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Carole: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Carole
Carole A circle dance in which the participants hold hands and concentrate of linking themselves with all humanity and raising human c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Jagrat: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Jagrat
A Theosophical definition of Jagrat :   Jagrat (Sanskrit) The state of consciousness when awake, as opposed to  svapna, th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sankucita-cetana: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Sankucita-cetana
Sankucita-cetana - contracted consciousness. This refers to animals, birds, insects, and aquatics. Their consciousness is more de velo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Consciousness: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Consciousness
consciousness: Chitta or chaitanya.   1)    A synonym for mind-stuff, chitta; or 2)    the condit...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Mukulita-cetana: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Mukulita-cetana
Mukulita-cetana - budding consciousness. This refers to human beings whose consciousness is superior to that of lower life-forms, but ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Biocomputer: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Biocomputer
BIOCOMPUTER - human consciousness principles; the brain or unconscious mind or the unconscious or subconscious mind operating like a c...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Chitkara, Citkara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Chitkara, Citkara
Chitkara citkara (Sanskrit) (from chit thought, consciousness + the verbal root kri to do, make)   The thought-worker; the guardi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - New Age: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On New Age
New Age Movement of emerging planetary consciousness devoted to more peaceful place to live based on respect for humanity's diverse t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Science: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Spiritual Science
spiritual science The evolution of high consciousness as it relates to the human being, to the Universe, and all creation, as taught ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Construct: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Construct
construct 1.    Stable pattern of consciousness. 2.    Intelligently fashioned vehicle manifesting to ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Actualism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Actualism
Actualism A New Age teaching similar to panentheism, according to which all human beings possess the divine Christ-consciousness and a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Self-consciousness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness Awareness of oneself as the experiencer, attribution of one's experiences to an ego, consciousness of being a separ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sushupti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sushupti
Sushupti susupti (Sanskrit) [from su well, good, fine + shupti from the verbal root svap to sleep]   Fast asleep, deep sleep; the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vitala: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vitala
Vitala (Sanskrit) Better place, i.e., better for matter, in that its substance is more material or differentiated than atala which pre...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Channeling: Health And Healing Dictionary On Channeling
Channeling: Transmission of information or energy from a nonphysical source through humans. These persons called "channels,"...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Channelling - Mediumship: Alternative Health Dictionary On Channelling - Mediumship
channeling (mediumship): transmission of information or energy from a nonphysical source through humans. These persons - called channe...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ring-pass-not: Theosophy Occultism Mysticism Dictionary On Ring-pass-not
A Theosophical definition of Ring-Pass-Not :   Ring-Pass-Not A profoundly mystical and suggestive term signifying the circle or...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unconsciousness: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Unconsciousness
Unconsciousness The universe being a vast aggregation of conscious beings, only the one source of all is unconscious, paramartha is de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Monad: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Spiritual Monad
Spiritual Monad The second monadic center in the descending scale of intimately related human monadic centers; in the septenary consti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sthulopadhi: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sthulopadhi
Sthulopadhi (Sanskrit) [from sthula gross + upadhi base, vehicle]   The gross base or vehicle in the human constitution, consisti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vortexhealing Energetic Therapy: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Vortexhealing Energetic Therapy
VORTEXHEALING ENERGETIC THERAPY VortexHealing is an energetic healing art that works solely with divine light and consciousness. It de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pratyahara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pratyahara
Pratyahara (Sanskrit) [from a-prati-hri to bring back, recover, withdraw, reabsorb]   Withdrawals; the fifth state of yoga: the w...   » Read the article

Article - Meaning Of Dreams: Spirituality, The Psyche, And The Multi-sensory Person
The psyche is a multidimensional aspect of consciousness, most commonly thought of as being composed of the subconscious and superconscio...   » Read the article