WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS / MORE DEEP THOUGHTS
What Is Consciousness What is consciousness is no small topic at all. LOSING ONE’S CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE LOSS OF A GREATEST TREASURE There is hardly anything more sad and tragic in life than a progressive withering of one’s consciousness, especially after a life of richly gathering  knowledge, experience and wisdom. We see this especially in Alzheimer’s patients who can’t recognize their loved ones. [...]

WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS
What Is Consciousness The question of what is consciousness is not at all trivial nor ordinary. For example, you can walk into a department store, go to the sports section and find a pair of skies. Or you can go to a library and find a book specifically about glass lamps. But where do you go to find what [...]

SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS   Science of Consciousness Can there be a science of consciousness that is real and substantive – with practical applications – rather than a mystical, feel-nice discipline that really leads us nowhere? Obviously there can be such a thing when consciousness is an incredibly vital component of our daily lives. How can we master this consciousness and as [...]

HEALING CONSCIOUSNESS
Healing Consciousness In order to know how to “heal consciousness,” we first need reliable means to know what it is to “heal” and to have  “consciousness” or to become “conscious.” HEALING Healing, in one form or another, tends to be a way of connecting something living to wholeness. This is why when a cut mends we say it is “healed.” Also when a heart [...]

AT AGE 100 RUNNING A MARATHON
Running A Marathon at Age 100 . LONG DISTANCE RUNNERS NEARING AGE 100 Ernest Van Leeuwen ran the Los Angeles Marathon at 93 (2006). Pierre Jean Martin ran the London Marathon  at 94 (2008). Fauja Singh is planning to finish the NYC marathon this year to break the Guinness World Record as the oldest male marathon runner [...]

NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Nature of Consciousness . WHAT IS THE NATURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS? In a kind of comprehensive overview of approaches, Ken Wilber has a post on the Web which was taken from his Journal of Consciousness Studies article   (February 1997, pp. 71-92) which outlines his Integral Theory of Consciousness. It  integrates twelve different approaches to apparently understanding what again [...]

CONSCIOUSNESS IN NATURE
Consciousness In Nature . DEFINING CONSCIOUSNESS An effective study of Consciousness In Nature is dependent on how we first define the term “consciousness.” A word is an invention of the mind that serves as a pointing tool of our consciousness. How do we uniquely point that consciousness, using words, to nothing but itself? If we associate this word with [...]

GO VEGAN – FIVE TOP REASONS
Go Vegan – Five Top Reasons . GO VEGAN! How I wish we had a cheerleading group chanting this at an All-Stars game. Its a way of wining at the game of securing health. In my experience and past commercial propaganda, this lifestyle can yield greater strength and endurance than a standard diet built around animal protein foods.This is [...]

TOWARD A GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT PART I
Toward A Global Paradigm Shift - Part I . CAN WE MOVE TO A LIFE-CENTERED VISION OF NATURE? Life on earth is hugely stressed with extinction rates that are climbing. Global warming is accelerating this process. Is the massive dying off of bee colonies symbolically telling us something? Looking forward to the next couple hundred years, is it possible that the overall sustainability [...]

TOWARD A GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT – PART II
Toward A Global Paradigm Shift – Part II . Toward A Global Paradigm Shift .  CONTINUATION This is a continuation of a post I made last year. Part I explains how difficult it is to make a global paradigm shift – a transformation of our core view of reality. It is more difficult than say pruning the branch of a [...]