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"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."
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"When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours."

"Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye."

"It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness."

"Writing when perched along a ledge of conscious awareness while simultaneously giving voice to the unconscious voice tumbling within allows a writer to tap into the external world of the known while also exploring the unconscious world of the unknown and the unknowable. For as long as I can stand the mounting pressure, I dance along this tremulous thin line separating sanity and insanity, mediating the conflicts between a lucid intellect and an impulsive, instinctual nature. Captivated in this submerged psyche space, disengaged from conscious tether of personal identity, and free from the jaundiced constraints and dictatorial commands of rational logic, I operate unencumbered by preconceived limitations."

"When consciousness is there, can life be far away?"

"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."

"Consciousness is a born hermit."

"Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides."

"On the high-end spectrum of emotions, which are innately connected to intuition and direct comprehension as well as imagination and creativity, meaning true empathy and knowledge, appreciative realization, transformation and invention, one finds a richer and more voluptuous combination of experience. Unfortunately, to "get there, one has to be willing to sacrifice what is known for what is not."

"If one is unfamiliar with the infinite power of the subconscious mind, then one is absolutely far from living up to one's true potential in life."
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"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."

"Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant."

"Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body."

"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."

"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."
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