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Alan Watts – Existence Is Weird

YouTube Preview Image“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd – uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don’t. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of “doing it” from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?”
- Alan Watts

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Apr
20
2012

John Hagelin – Consciousness

YouTube Preview Image“It’s important to recognize that our body is really the product of our thoughts. We’re beginning to understand, in medical science, the degree to which the nature of thoughts and emotions actually determines the physical substance and structure and function of our bodies.”
John Hagelin

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Apr
20
2012

V.S. Ramachandran – Consciousness, Qualia & Self

YouTube Preview Image“The human brain, it has been said, is the most complexly organized structure in the universe and to appreciate this you just have to look at some numbers. The brain is made up of one hundred billion nerve cells or “neurons” which is the basic structural and functional units of the nervous system. Each neuron makes something like a thousand to ten thousand contacts with other neurons and these points of contact are called synapses where exchange of information occurs. And based on this information, someone has calculated that the number of possible permutations and combinations of brain activity, in other words the numbers of brain states, exceeds the number of elementary particles in the known universe.”
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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01
2011
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2011

Terrence Mckenna – Nobody is smarter than you are

YouTube Preview Image“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”
- Terence McKenna

 

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Apr
04
2011

Brian Swimme – The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos

YouTube Preview ImageThe Generosity of the Sun

 

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Clips from – The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos.

“The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.”
Brian Swimme

 

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