What is consciousness? Comatose are aware

Sam Jones, Washington Post, 11/2023; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trapped in a body that's out of its mind.

Some brain injury patients may appear to be in a coma, but they are not. They are processing at least some of what is happening around them but cannot physically respond.

Without a physical response, a physician might assume that a patient hasn’t understood, said Dr. Sudhin Shah, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. Referring to the patient, she said, “Unfortunately, it could be that you were processing, you were understanding, you were wanting to talk to me. You just can’t.” More: Some coma patients may be conscious. and new research could identify them.

• Am I conscious? I feel unconscious because I can’t picture things in my mind. I didn’t realize that was unusual. Others can or are they just imagining it?
• Signs one is a 'highly sensitive person' — the missing personality type, according to some researchers

(Guns N' Roses) Axl Rose reflects on life inside a coma in "Coma"

Aware Project: rethinking psychedelics

Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Ash Be (Meetup), AwareProject.org

Is that safe? Studies show you need a professional psychologist or researcher present.

 

I was meditating when I realized...

The aim of The Aware Project is to balance the public conversation about psychedelics, spread accurate information, and give a new face to psychedelia.

This change in impression will occur through connection and relationship, one individual at a time. The project is calling on everyone whose lives have been improved through the mindful use of psychedelics to educate themselves and become ambassadors for the psychedelic experience.

Ambassadors can show everyone around them that people who mindfully and thoughtfully use psychedelics -- which will soon become legal in California -- cross all social, racial, economic, and political lines.

The Aware Project organizes events in Los Angeles and San Diego to educate and connect the psychedelic community.

Stained glass simulates psychedelic experience

There is a monthly speaker series called the "Psychedelic Awareness Salon" as well as screenings of psychedelic related movies and documentaries.

The schedule is speaker or movie, questions, and unstructured mingling time.

• Website: awareproject.org
• Facebook: facebook.com/awareproject
• Upcoming events: awareproject.eventbrite.com
• Meetup: Aware-Project-Rethinking-Psychedelics-Meetup 

"Huachuma, Ayahuasca, and the Plant Medicine Healing Process" with Javier Regueiro, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, 7:00-10:00 PM, Au Lac DTLA, 710 W 1st St., LA, CA (map) More

 

Not to be confused with TheAwareShow.com (KPFK W/Th, 1:00-2:00 PM)

Cosmic Enlightenment for All?

The GoldRing is the rotating circle of light sealing spiritual bodies in fields of pure harmonic vibration. Enlightenment continuously combines and connects spiritual beings into absolute oneness.

Higher non-physical ethereal energies given through the power of the galactic central suns manifest the electromagnetic waves and charged bodies of sentient life into physical points of existence. Beings of all levels of manifestation that have polarity, spin and power interweave in relationships to create universal expression.