Showing posts with label Consciência. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consciência. Show all posts
Is human consciousness creating reality? - Biocentrism
A new study claims networks of observers are responsible for determining physical reality.
The scientists propose that observers generate the structures of time and space.
The paper could help yield insights into the God Equation, which attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. Here
Biocentrism, Robert Lanza: here
Red pill Blue pill / Time to change the paradigm
"We have been misled to believe that the brain, or the embodied brain, somehow serves up the magic of consciousness. We have, in short, been duped. [...] Evolution shaped our perceptions to hide adaptive behaviour. [...] We do, and should, take it seriously. But it is a fiction — a lifesaving fiction."
Donald D. Hoffman in, The Case Against Reality [pag 179]
And here.
And here.
About Orch OR
About IIT
When the map is better than the territory: here.
"None of these [above] proposals has offered a precise account for a single conscious experience. [...] No answer has been offered and none ever will: these proposals set themselves an impossible task by assuming that objects in spacetime exist when not observed and have causal powers."
Donald D. Hoffman in, The Case Against Reality [pag 180]
Sonhos, cérebro, FOMO
"A humanidade dos nossos dias sofre de FOMO – o medo de estar a perder alguma coisa – e embora tenhamos mais por onde escolher, na verdade perdemos a capacidade de prestar atenção ao que escolhemos.*
Além do olfato e da capacidade de prestar atenção, também temos vindo a perder a nossa capacidade de sonhar. Para muitas culturas, aquilo que as pessoas vêem e fazem nos sonhos é tão importante como aquilo que vêem e fazem quando estão acordadas. Assim, as pessoas desenvolviam activamente a sua capacidade de sonhar, de se lembrar dos sonhos e até de controlar o que faziam enquanto sonhavam, naquilo a que se chama "sonho lúcido". Os especialistas em "sonhos lúcidos" moviam-se à vontade nos sonhos e afirmavam que até conseguiam alcançar estados mais elevados de consciência e encontrar visitantes de outros mundos. Pelo contrário, para o mundo moderno os sonhos não passam de, na melhor das hipóteses, de mensagens do subconsciente ou, na pior, de lixo mental. Consequentemente, o papel que os sonhos desempenham nas nossas vidas é muito menor, pois poucas são as pessoas que desenvolvem voluntariamente as suas capacidades oníricas e muitas dizem mesmo que nem sequer sonham ou que nunca se lembram dos seus sonhos."**
Neuro-Psychoanalysis - Where Mind Meets Brain
* The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction, by Matthew Crawford
**The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience
O valor humano
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| Ex Machina, de Alex Garland |
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
Hard core determinism / free will / consciousness / quantum physics
"When we look at consciousness, you realize that there are over 20 thousand papers written on it by theologians and ministers and psychologists... Never in the history of science have so many devoted so much to produce so little. [...] Quantum mechanics does play a certain role in the human mind. [...) neurons are leaky, neurons are not totally deterministic. The more narrower a neuron is, the more leakage, and these are quantum mechanical effects."
Michio Kaku on Singularity 1 on 1: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!
On the nature of reality and our extended capacities
"The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to supporting individual and collective transformation through
consciousness research, transformative learning, and engaging a global
community in the realization of our human potential."
Mais, aqui
Mind Over Medicine / The amigdala and stress response / do bom senso
Palavra de ordem: aliviate your loneliness.
Dr. Lissa Rankin: "Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself" | Talks at Google
"My body is my business because I am the gate keeper of my mind"
Sobre Lissa Rankin
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Kelly Turner
Herbert Benson
Radical Remission Book Trailer with Dr. Kelly Turner
Os 9 factores chave:
– Radically changing your diet - aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui
– Taking control of your health - aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui
– Following your intuition - aqui, aqui, aqui
– Using herbs and supplements - aqui, aqui, aqui
– Releasing suppressed emotions - aqui, aqui, aqui,
– Increasing positive emotions - aqui, aqui, aqui
– Embracing social support - aqui, aqui, aqui, aqui
– Deepening your spiritual connection - aqui, aqui, aqui
– Having strong reasons for living - aqui, aqui, aqui
Herbert Benson - The Relaxation Revolution: Enhancing Health Through Mind Body Healing
Radical Remission Research - Dr. Kelly Turner, PhD at Integrative Cancer Conference
Experiências do 'Outro Mundo'
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| Paolo Uccello, Rosácea da Ressurreição |
Aldous Huxley, As Portas da Percepção
Estados alterados
E a moral de tudo isto... qual é? Os arautos de uma filosofia do Apenas-e-Só responderão que, uma vez que as mudanças na química corporal podem criar as condições favoráveis às experiências visionárias e místicas, as experiências visionárias e místicas não podem ser o que afirmam ser — o que, para aqueles que as viveram, elas manifestamente são. Mas isto, obviamente, é um non sequitur.
À mesma conclusão chegarão aqueles cuja filosofia é excessivamente "espiritual". Deus, insistem, é um espírito e deve ser venerado em espírito. Como tal, uma experiência quimicamente condicionada não pode ser uma experiência do divino. Mas, de uma form ou de outra, todas as nossas experiências são quimicamente condicionadas, e se imaginamos que algumas delas são puramente "espirituais", puramente "intelectuais", puramente "estéticas", é somente porque nunca nos demos ao trabalho de investigar o nosso ambiente químico interno no momento da respectiva ocorrência. Além disso os registos históricos dizem-nos que a maior parte dos contemplativos se esforçava de modo sistemático para modificar a sua própria química corporal, com vista a criar as condições internas favoráveis à introvisão espiritual. Qando não estavam a jejuar deliberadamente reduzindo a sua própria taxa de açúcares no sangue e promovendo as avitaminoses, ou a flagelar-se até se inebriarem com histamina, adrenalina e proteínas decompostas, estavam a cultivar a insónia e a orar durante longos períodos em posturas desconfortáveis, de maneira a criarem os sintomas psicofíscos do stress. Nos intervalos cantavam salmos intermináveis, o que lhes aumentava a quantidade de dióxido de carbono nos pulmões e na corrente sanguínea, ou, caso fossem orientais, executavam exercícios respiratórios para alcançar o mesmo fito. Hoje, sabemos como diminuir a eficiência da válvula redutora cerebral por meio de acção química directa, sem o risco de infligir lesões físicas graves ao organismo psicofísico."
Aldous Huxley, As Portas da Percepção
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| Aparição de São Miguel Arcanjo a Santa Joana d'Arc |
Aldous Huxley, As Portas da Percepção
Near death experiences and human consciousness
Psilocibina medicada / Cuidados paliativos / Psychedelic psychotherapy
"Over the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of scientific
inquiry into potential therapeutic benefits of psilocybin. Much is new
about psilocybin as a medicine, an entheogen, and a window into human
consciousness. A New Understanding informs us, in a remarkably lively,
balanced, entertaining, engrossing and informative way."
"Psilocybin facilitates a greater likelyhood of achieving a psycho spiritual state of consciousness. A mystical mimetic experience. And the old research literature of the 50's and 60's, very strongly indicated that individuals and psychedelic research studies who experienced a spiritual epiffany during the course of their many hour treatment session, were more likely to have a long term therapeutic outcome."
"Paliative care can be activated at the time the time of diagnosis of a life threatening disease. The existential suffering. The psychospiritual distress people go through when facing advanced disease and potential death."
"What the subjects are looking for is a transformation of the experience of facing death and having a terminal illness or having a cancer diagnosis. They hope and, what we suggest to them might happen, is improvement in their tolerance for pain, an improvement in their ability to think about these really terrifying, deep existential questions of meaning, loss, dispair, hope, regret, guilt, transcendence, life after death. These topics that are so difficult to talk about and they are often avoided."
Artigos:
Pilot Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Advanced-Stage Cancer — aqui
Healing thyself: Does psychedelic therapy exploit the placebo effect?— aqui
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again — aqui
This is your brain on LSD? Scientists want to find out — aqui
New Study Is The First Ever To Map The Human Brain On LSD (com vídeo) — aqui
"In this book, renowned philosopher and scholar of religion Huston Smith, takes a serious look at the use of psychedelic drugs as a means to achieve mystical union with the divine. In a unique blend of direct experience and academic depth, Smith examines this controversial subject and describes the historic and turbulent academic experiments of the sixties in which he was both a subject and an observer. Smith begins by telling the story of his own initiation into the world of psychedelic drugs in the company of Timothy Leary—a meeting arranged by Aldous Huxley—and the profound effect it had on his understanding of reality. In wrestling with the question—Do drugs have religious import?—he draws on history, theology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology. He tells of fascinating experiments that attempted to shed light on this question, such as the one in which he participated as a guide, where twenty volunteers—mostly seminary students—were given psilocybin before they attended a traditional Good Friday church service. He discusses as well the use of peyote in Native American sacred rituals and the hallucinogenic plant soma in ancient India. Throughout, he does not approach the question of drugs and religion from any fixed standpoint. Instead, he mines his own experiences and his relationships to pioneers in this field to come up with insights on this intriguing subject that are not available in any other book written for the general public."
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary / A legacy film / Exploring the edges of consciousness
Sobre o filme.
"Follow your interests. There's a good chance that other people are going to be deeply interested too. And you can't force things, and sometimes you've got to set them down and pick them back up." Afirma Gay Dillingham ao explicar que esteve várias vezes para desistir de realizar este documentário.
"Turn on, tune in and drop out. Now this may sound reckless advice today but it's the oldest advice that philosophers and religious leaders have passed on. Detatch (drop out), find what's within. And I stand by that statement."
Timothy Leary, at US Senate Hearing 1966
Ethics of the Fathers
Ethics of the Fathers contains timeless wisdom. It is a collection of ethics, honesty, and advice.
Ethics of the Fathers: os textos
Referido na palestra dada por Aaron Ahuvia no Fórum do Futuro, Porto 2015
