By Peter Russell — 2011
The brain creates the images, thoughts, feelings and other experiences of which we are aware, but awareness itself is already present.
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CLEAR ALL
Forget what you know or what you think you know about consciousness.
It’s a surprising answer that looks far from obvious, but space joins a long list of candidates as old as the written word.
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Taken for granted in Western culture for more than a hundred years, the dualistic view of the universe—the split between mind and matter, body and spirit, faith and reason, essentially between science and spirituality—is now being fundamentally questioned by Western science and religion alike.
It may be that the best way to understand the world is not through science or spirituality alone – but through an approach which combines them both.
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
The letters, which were addressed to Caltech theoretical physicist Paul Epstein, describe Einstein’s qualms about quantum theory, which he called “incomplete” in one letter.
In 2008, Eben Alexander, MD, an academic neurosurgeon for over twenty-five years, fell into a deep coma.