By Michael Shermer — 2017
Memories, points of view and the self.
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This evening, Anil Seth will sketch the state-of-the-art in the new science of consciousness, with a focus on what neuroscience has to offer.
Meditation teacher Light Watkins breaks down the concept of consciousness and how it relates to the practice of meditation in practical ways.
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Do we survive bodily death? Can our personal awareness transcend physical decay and dissolution? There are no bigger questions and there is no shortage of answers. Religions offer hope, with extravagant promises that are founded on the existence of God.
What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we’re just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that’s the end of consciousness, there is no life after death, there is no soul; we just rot and are gone.
Joe Rogan interviews Graham Hancock about his experiences with ayahuasca and other forms of psychedelic medicine practiced by indigenous peoples. Hancock discusses his belief that ayahuasca can be considered "Amazonian science."
Meditation is like a gym for your brain. If you follow through and exercise (in this case, your brain) every single day pretty soon you’ll see results.
David Jay Brown explores the future of mind-altering drugs, hallucinogenic plants, and the evolution of human consciousness through interviews with LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, psychologist Stanislav Grof, DMT researcher Rick Strassman, anthropologist Jeremy Narby, MAPS founder Rick Doblin,...
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In this first volume of Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Seth takes us on an odyssey to identify the origins of our universe and our species.
The Future of the Mind brings a topic that once belonged solely to the province of science fiction into a startling new reality.
Here Grof presents a useful model of the psyche―a model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is useful for understanding such phenomena as shamanism, mysticism, psychedelic states, spontaneous visionary experiences, and psychotic episodes.