Nature of Mind: Why thoughts never stop

(Buddhism Podcast) The Nature of Mind: Why thoughts never stop | Buddhist Wisdom

• Maha Kaccana or Kātyāyana (Buddhist monk)
• Mental proliferation: papanca

How real is reality: ALL is mind?

How the mind creates reality | Buddhism

(SEEKER TO SEEKER) Buddhist non-duality [there being no distinction between seen and seer in the Mind Only School] sees all of reality as the activity of consciousness.

Can we ever see behind this reality with DMT?

Divisions such as subject and object, mind and matter, self and world, [nirvana and samsara], are artificially created by consciousness in the process of simulating an external reality.

This video explores the philosophy of the Yogācāra School of Buddhism, a tradition that specializes in the study of mind—and how insight into the mind's workings can transform our way of being.

⌛ TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 Introduction to Yogachara Buddhism
• 04:57 The six sense consciousnesses
• 08:17 Viṣaya-vijñapti (the "object-concept")
• 11:47 Manas (the "self" manufacturer)
• 15:12 Dualistic grasping
• 17:09 Ālayavijñāna (the unconscious)
• 22:46 Join the SEEKER TO SEEKER Community
• 23:25 The three transformations of consciousness
• 32:35 How karma and consciousness create reality
• 37:08 Why we seem to experience the same external objects
• 39:46 Awakening to non-dual reality
• 44:20 The Buddha's original non-dual teachings
• 45:40 Jiddu Krishnamurti on non-dual experiencing

• CORRECTION: Viṣaya is properly pronounced viSHaya, not viSaya, as I mispronounce it throughout this video.

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• SEEKER TO SEEKER, Jan. 23, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ancient Indian atheism: materialism

(Stephan's History of the World) The atheists of ancient India ("Nothing exists after death")

The Vedas are wrong? Karma has no effects?

Charvaka (Sanskrit चार्वाक, Cārvāka), also known as Lokāyata ("world only"), is an ancient Indian school of materialism [1].

It is an example of the atheistic schools in the ancient Indian philosophies [a][3][b][5][c].

Charvaka holds that only direct perception (seeing with my own eyes, experiencing with my own senses), empiricism (provable, objective scientific method), and conditional inference (logical deduction and argument) are proper sources of knowledge; it embraces philosophical skepticism and rejects all ritualism [4][6][7][8][9].

In other words, the Charvaka epistemology (the study of how we know or decide that things are true) states that whenever one infers a truth from a set of observations or truths, one must acknowledge doubt; inferred knowledge is conditional [10]. It was a well-attested belief system in ancient India [d].

Brihaspati, a [heretical] philosopher, is traditionally referred to as the founder of the Charvaka or Lokāyata philosophy, although some scholars dispute this [11, 12].

• The Buddha taught a way to be rid of (wrong) views
• Heterodox schools of Indian philosophy | PPTX

On Lokayata | Indic Civilizational Portal

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Charvaka developed during the Hindu reformation period in the first millennium BCE [13] and is considered a philosophical predecessor to subsequent or contemporaneous heterodox philosophies such as Ajñāna, Ājīvika, Jainism, and Buddhism [14].

Its teachings have been compiled from historic secondary literature such as those found in the shastras, sutras, and Indian epic poetry [15].

Charvaka is categorized as one of the nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy [16, 17]. More

• Heresy in Buddhism: Six Heretical Teachers at the time of the historical Buddha
• Akriyavada: denying the efficacy of karma (deeds) to produce results in the future

Poverty is used to control us: FREE money!

(Prof Jiang Uncut) Why [the powers that be] created poverty to control us | Prof. Jiang Xueqin

Free money! Just take it

The Heavy Money Experiment

• What is "fiat" money? Money from nothing: fiat money
• Money is NOT scarce. There's an infinite amount in banks
• What is the theory of centralized banking?
• Central bank digital currencies by country

Glitch in reality: We can't see the present

This man discovered a glitch in reality

Observe what's happening now

(Be Inspired) May 27, 2025: "We don't live in REAL time." We’re always living 100 milliseconds in the past. This video shows the mind-bending science behind why the "present" doesn’t really exist. Dr. Bruce Lipton agrees?

►TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 - Must see
• 1:07 - The delay is real
• 3:06 - Predictive reality
• 5:28 - Free will is an illusion
• 7:27 - Who is in charge?
• 10:40 - Reality changes when we look
• 13:20 - So what is real?

✅SELF-HYPNOSIS AUDIO PROGRAMS: Reprogram subconscious mind: bit.ly/2RGCade

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Past life memory of an ancient foreign langauge?

Levels of reality and real-life levitation

(Jason Gregory) Siddhis: the magical powers of spiritual masters

Real magic is really possible? - Yes.

In Dharmic (Indian) religions, the siddhis (Sanskrit सिद्धि siddhi, fulfillment, accomplishment) are material, paranormal, supernatural, magical powers, abilities, and attainments, such as levitation (paranormal).

They are the products (sometimes byproducts) of yogic advancement through daily practices (sādhanās) such as meditation (jhana, dhyana) and eight-limbed yoga [1].

The Pali term iddhi ("psychic powers," ṛddhi) is often used interchangeably in Buddhism.

Etymology

Illusion in Prague using steel armature

Siddhi is a Sanskrit noun that can be translated as super "knowledge," "accomplishment," "attainment," or "success" [2].

Method

Buddhism's Path of Purification (Visuddhi-magga) is one of the great commentarial texts to give explicit details about how meditators and spiritual masters can actually manifest supernormal abilities [3].

• [These powers are not really "supernatural" because, however uncommon, they are our natural potential.]

It states that abilities such as levitation (flying through the air), walking through walls (solid obstructions), diving into the ground as if it were water, walking on water as if it were land, and so forth are achieved through changing one element, such as the earth element (Pali pathavi), into another element, such as air (vayu) [3].

• [This is done at will because one has mastered the absorptions (jhanas) via that element. How this is done is explained in practice by Buddhist teachers and meditation masters. Theoretically and conceptually, it is laid out in The Path of Purification, an ancient Buddhist text compiled by the great monk and commentator Buddhaghosa.]

The individual must master disc (kasina) meditation before this is possible [3]. The modern Buddhist Master Dipa Ma ("Dipa's Mother"), who trained in The Path of Purification via her personal teacher Anagarika Munindra, had these abilities -- according to her closest American students who went on to become world famous meditators and teachers (Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Sylvia Boorstein). Their claims were verified in Calcutta and the USA but, of course, never to the satisfaction of Western science or the impossible standards of the great skeptic the Great Randi. See the great book about her by an American admirer Amy Schmidt, Knee Deep in Grace. Not only did she develop these powers with Anagarika Munindra's instructions, she taught them to her enlightened daughter Dipa and others around her. More: Siddhi

• Levitating monk | Stable Diffusion; Aperture, The 7 Levels of Reality; Jason Gregory, Siddhis; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Consciousness, reality, space-time illusion

(Beeyond Ideas) What higher dimensional beings look like (and they're watching) per Donald Hoffman

Gringos on magic mushrooms in Mexico

2 Gringos Try Magic Mushrooms in Mexico

Medicinal Mother Earth?

San José del Pacifico, Mexico - Kurt Caz and his travel-pal Amir are two self-described gringos who travel up the mountain to the cool climes of Mexico along the Pacific Ocean in search of LEGAL psychedelic "magic mushrooms," the fruiting bodies of the psilocybin mushroom. Is it safe?

(Is anything?) The hero's journey is beset on all sides, like Samuel L. Jackson is fond of saying in Pulp Fiction:

Mayan Ix Chel: Goddess of Moon

"The path of the righteous [seeker] is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil [persons]. Blessed is [one] who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for [that person] is truly [a] brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I [Yaldabaoth] will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee."

• The Mayan Mexican Goddess Ixchel

Science: Try Guys Try Magic Mushrooms

(The Try Guys, 2024) Let's try a controlled experiment in mycology.

• Mexico's mushroom shamans - The Psychedelic Experience - Shroomery Message Board
• Stand up comedian Josh Wolf (high on mushrooms comedy act); Kurt Caz and Amir; The Try Guys; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Why we don't see things as they are

(Buddhism Podcast) Why we don't see things as they truly are: Buddhist perspective, 8/19/25

Vipallasa Sutta: Distortions of the Mind

These four, O meditators, are distortions of perception, distortions of thinking, distortions of view...

Sensing no change in the impermanent,

Sensing pleasure in the unsatisfactory,

Assuming "self" where there is impersonal process,

Sensing the repulsive as lovely —

Gone astray with wrong views, beings

Mis-perceive with distorted minds.

Bound in the bondage of Mara (Death),

Those people are far from safety.

They are beings who go on wandering:

Going again from redeath to rebirth.

But when in the world of darkness

Buddhas arise to make things bright,

They present this profound teaching

Which brings suffering to an end.

When those with wisdom have heard this,

They recuperate their right mind:

They see change in what is changing,

Suffering where there's suffering,

The impersonal in what is without self,

They see the repulsive as such.

By the regaining of right view,

They overcome all suffering.

TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

Andrew Olendzki

These verses from the Numerical Discourses (AN) give the traditional list of the "distortions" (vipallasas). This Pali word is sometimes translated as "perversions" of mind, but I find this language too strong and prefer the "distortions" of mind.

The term is composed of a prefix (vi-), which carries the sense of division, separation, or removal, another prefix (pari-), meaning around or complete (as in our related word peri-meter), and a verb (-as), which can be taken as meaning "to throw."

Putting all this together, we have the image of the mind taking something up, turning it around, and throwing it back down — a distortion or perversion of reality by the perceptual and cognitive process of the mind.

The distortions are fundamental to the Buddhist notion of ignorance or delusion. It is not that we are inherently flawed in our nature. Rather, it is that we make some serious errors on many levels as we attempt to make sense of the world around us.

As we come to recognize — particularly through meditation practice, mindfulness, and stillness — some of the ways we misconstrue things about our experience, we become more able to correct for these errors and gain greater clarity.

The distortions of the mind work on three levels of scale. First, distortions of perception (sañña-vipallasa) cause us to misperceive the information coming to us through the sense doors. We might mistake a rope by the path as a snake, for example. Normally such optical illusions, or errors of vision, are corrected by a more careful scrutiny, but sometimes these sensory mistakes are overlooked and remain.

Distortions of thought (citta-vipallasa) have to do with the next higher level of mental processing, when we find ourselves thinking about or pondering things over things in mind. The mind tends to elaborate upon perception with these thought patterns, and if our thoughts are based on distortions of perception, then they too will be distorted.

Eventually such thought patterns can become habitual and evolve into distortions of view (ditthi-vipallasa). We might become so convinced that there is a snake on the path that no amount of evidence to the contrary from our own eyes or reason, nor the advice of others, will shake our wrong beliefs and assumptions. We are stuck in (clinging to) a mistaken view.

Furthermore, these three levels of distortion are cyclical. Our perceptions are formed in the context of our views, which are strengthened by our thoughts, and all three work together to build the cognitive systems that make up our unique personality.

You will no doubt recognize that the particular distortions mentioned in this text correspond to the three characteristics (the Three Universal Marks of Existence).

1. Taking what is impermanent (anicca) as permanent,
2. what is inherently unsatisfactory (dukkha, unable to fulfill) as a source of satisfaction, and
3. what is impersonal (anatta) as constituting a self — these are the primary ways we distort reality to the profound disadvantage of everyone.
4. Seeing the repulsive (asubha, unlovely) as lovely rounds out the traditional list of four vipallasas.

I like the way these verses say that when under the influence of these distortions we have "lost our senses" (vi-saññino) and our mind is "broken" or "thrown" (khitta-citta). When the distortions are corrected by right view, clear thinking and careful perception, then the texts say that we have "gotten back" (pacca-latthu) our "true mind" (sa-citta).

This is the Buddhist view of mental illness and mental health. Delusion is a mental illness that causes all sorts of suffering; mental health can be restored by correcting the flaws in how the mind operates.

Fortunately, "buddhas arise to make things bright" and illustrate in detail how the recovery of natural health can be accomplished. More

• Buddhism Podcast, Aug. 19, 2025; Andrew Olendzki (trans.), Vipallasa Sutta (AN 4.49 PTS: A ii 52), edited by Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly

When I was sex trafficked, I learned this...

What I learned about all kinds of men, love, loneliness, and myself while being sex trafficked

Kundalini Syndrome: Third Eye or Schizo?

The Third Eye, Schizophrenia, and Kundalini Syndrome: I wasn’t ready for that level of manifestation

The third eye is the sixth chakra

(Eye Opening) In this video, I share my personal experience of a spiritual emergency, a spiritual crisis, kundalini syndrome, or psychic trauma (however one wishes to label it) that happened not too long after I had a life-changing experience of my third eye suddenly opening.

• The seven main chakras along the spine are nexus points associated with different areas of life, the lower three being rooted to the earth in the body, the heart being the centered transitional point, and the upper three "spiritual" spinning energy wheels, which is the literal meaning of chakra. The lowest is survival (lum), the next is sexual (vum), the third is digestion and assimilation (rum); the fourth is the heart (yum), a green-hued area vibrating frequency; the fifth is the throat (hum) about expression and speaking our truth; the sixth is the most famous, the third eye (aum or om) between the brows; the seventh is silent at the crown of the head, full release.

I ended up hospitalized for a week, heavily medicated, and diagnosed with "schizophrenia" and "bipolar disorder" ["mania"]. I am neither of those.

Western medicine doesn't know how else to label what was happening to me. I was simply having a spiritual awakening and did not have any guidance, so I slipped into fear.

The intention of this video is to give some advice so that others do not have to go through what I did.

Quotes from and suggested readings:

• Kundalini Rising: Exploring the Energy of Awakening (affiliate link)
• Living with Kundalini: Autobiography of Gopi Krishna (affiliate link)
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crises (affiliate link).

Check out this life-changing third eye experience I had, with accompanying quotes from masters and spiritual texts:

• The Eye Opening: Enlightenment is Possible (affiliate link)
• Audiobook now available: audible.com/pd/B09WCJWD1S.

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• A Third Eye Experience: How it Opened and Revealed the Love-Light in Everything • My Third Eye Opened: How it Happened and i...

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• Eye Opening, Nov. 1, 2023; Vanessa, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Paradox: Thinking without thoughts

How wonderful is real silence, inner-peace!

There is such a thing as thoughtless consciousness, bare awareness without commentary, without chatter, inner silence. It can happen. How it happens, what brings it about, that is hard to say. Begin with outer silence. Bring the mind to a single object for long enough, and it may happen. Feel the freedom. There is full knowing, better knowing than when words/thoughts are intervening. But it must be experienced to believe how wonderful the silence and stillness is. (Jhana or "meditative absorption" moves away from the noise toward the sweet silence and sanity of stillness).

The Paradox of Thoughtless Consciousness

(The Mountain) March 28, 2025: The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. #quantumconsciousness #paradox #selfawareness

• 00:00 Thoughtless thinker
• 00:33 Distance between reality - thought - speech
• 01:13 Time zone difference
• 01:53 Retrospective mind
• 02:31 Meta thinking and language filter
• 04:38 Raw awareness
• 5:27 Is there a state of no-thought?
• 7:16 Surrender of the seeker
• 9:02 How to arrive at no destination

TAGS: Quantum Consciousness, Observer Effect, Reality Fabrication, Perception Alchemy, Thought Manifestation, Mind Over Matter, Holographic Universe, Wavefunction Collapse, Reality Distortion, Dimensional Awareness, Mental Projection, Non-Dual Awareness, Conscious Creation, Observer Reality Loop, Awareness Constructs Matter, Perceptual Engineering, Cosmic Mind, Simulation Hypothesis, Lucid Manifestation, Ontological Design

How consciousness creates reality

Consciousness creates reality (the power of observation)

(The Mountain) March 15, 2025: We are not inside the world; the world is inside our awareness. To name a thing is to summon it from the void. #quantumconsciousness #holographicuniverse #observer

Music weaponized against us?

"Music is frequency programming" 440 Hz

Will no one dare to question the "observer effect"?

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Illusions, reality lies using autocorrect

• Cypress Hill is having "Illusions" live with an orchestra

Our existence is a lie…and here’s the proof

(Solace Fox)) March 8, 2025: Reality isn’t what it seems. What if everything we experience is just a carefully constructed illusion the mind is producing?

Reality is an ILLUSION: Mystery Beyond Space-Time (Donald Hoffman)

[There is a "mind only" philosophy in Buddhism that says it is ALL maya. See Yogachara and Madhyamaka.] This video explores the hidden layers of existence, the illusions shaping our perceptions, and the truth that’s been right in front of us the whole time. Once we see it, there’s no going back.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 – The Illusion We Never Noticed
• 02:12 – How Our Mind Creates Reality
• 05:47 – The Hidden Patterns Controlling Us
• 09:30 – Are We Living in a Simulation?
• 12:15 – Breaking Free from the Illusion
• 15:20 – The Ultimate Truth

Can we control the illusion we call "reality"? How our minds shape reality!

Beatle George Harrison explains the reason for meditation and yoga

Magic mushrooms give access to reality or nuts? - Joe Rogan: What's the hardest you ever tripped?

Personal perception vs. shared perspective - Non-duality is not the answer the Buddha taught

What then is reality really?

How our mind shapes reality

(Wise Quotes) May 11, 2024: Wisest Advice. Vibrations. Manifestation. Magical thinking? Hermeticism. Law of Attraction. Think and Grow Rich with Napoleon Hill. Explore the fascinating ways in which our mind shapes reality in this thought-provoking video. Learn how our thoughts and beliefs can influence the world around us.

• If the world is an illusion, why does it seem so real? Life is but a game? | We live in our minds

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• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Control reality? Get what you want?

Give this 18 minutes, and you can control your own REALITY

(Solace Fox) March 2, 2025: Everything we know feels solid — real. But what if reality isn’t as complex as it seems? What if everything is so simple once we look at it from the right angle? This video dives into the hidden truths of perception, consciousness, and the true nature of reality. Get ready to challenge everything you thought was real.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

• 00:00 - The illusion of reality
• 02:15 - How our mind shapes everything
• 05:42 - What happens when we look closer?
• 09:10 - The secret behind perception
• 12:35 - Is everything we see just a social construct?
• 15:20 - Unlocking the simplicity of it all
• 17:45 - Final thoughts

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Why do we not get what we want? It is because wanting has no resolution. With wanting arises not having. The solution, then, is not wanting. But how can we not want? (And isn't not-wanting a kind of wanting?) The way to not want is simple: LOOK long enough to see things as they really are. This leads to revulsion, and the mind/heart lets go (renunciation or "inner letting go").

Of course. we don't do this because sensual pleasures are our only respite, our only chance at any kind of "escape" from dukkha (disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, the woe of never getting what we really want). What do we really want? Fulfillment, which is not available through endless wandering on life after life through samsara, chasing satisfaction first here then there and anywhere we imagine it might be hiding.

Even without wishing, if we calmed-and-intensified (which is what happens on the path of purification by stillness and insight or shamatha and vipassana) by the mind through the meditative absorptions and learned to look at four things (body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects), the heart/mind would let go. That is the ultimate solution. That is what the Buddha advocated as actual escape. One will not hear this terse explanation from the AI generator or Tan Geoff, but the answer is implicit amidst the misleading text and talk.

Not getting what you want? The Buddha’s solution

Ego Podcast (Buddhism) March 2, 2025: Sadly, while "Ego Podcast" seems smart and thought out, it is just an uncredited reading of American Ven. Thanissaro's poorly worded opinions. It's a scam unless Tan Geoff is behind it, but if he were, why would he use AI instead of his own melodious voice?

These writings, though read by Ven. Thanissaro himself on his website and made freely available at WatMetta.org, are fed to an AI voice that mispronounces Pali terms and names. (This particular talk is about Ajaan Fuang Jotiko). The reading sounds confident but translates Pali terms in an extreme and idiosyncratic way. Instead of being of benefit, they are sure to mislead.

Then to give a pretense of depth, AI is used to generate and add unrelated images. Just to get views and seem important? They sound smarmy for a reason: that is Tan Geoff's personality. Revolting to some (like us), soothing to others.

These opinions are offered free at accesstoinsight.org and Tan Geoff's dhammatalks.org. Sadly, AI or "Ego" has little understanding, so every summary of a lifted talk is misleading. Why do we often fail to get what we want? No reason is given. This video talks about connection between suffering and conviction. This video is a rip off of this talk:

• Not Getting What You Want | dhammatalks.org

The Buddha teaches that the pain of not getting what we want can spur us to put an end to the vicious circle of "wanting, not getting, pain, wanting more." Unfulfilled desires are therefore not only negative — they can spark a determination to follow a path that leads to liberation from suffering.

Or we could just keep wanting and wanting and never finding fulfillment in all the ordinary things we wished for (because the sensual world told us we'd be happy through sensuality). This is why millionaires take drugs and are miserable. They have come to know that getting what one wants does not work to end the desperate craving that keeps us working like slaves to get them. Word to the wise: let go. Or keep going, and in that Zen spirit of which Alan Watts speaks, "a fool who persists in his folly will become wise."

• "If a fool persists in his folly, he becomes wise" - What does that mean? : r/NoStupidQuestions
• The Fool Who Persists in His Folly Will Become Wise | by Adam Aushaf | Mind Cafe | Medium
• One thing this might mean, as a teacher who encourages students in more and more austerities and a hard path that builds their egos, is that by doing the impossible (foolishness), one will realize this is not the way to liberation (a wise realization). So what is? The Middle Way that avoids extremes

Is science on verge of 'consciousness'?

The Origins and History of Consciousness (Erich Neumann)

Is science slowly stumbling on the fact that "consciousness" is impersonal and continues after death? We wouldn't like to think so because that does not accord with what is comfortable, and science doesn't ask big questions with easy answers.

It instead proceeds in tiny increments as it develops theories to explain larger data sets. A recent study on consciousness brings up the suggestion that human consciousness could be a side effect of entropy (sciencealert.com).

*Sarcasm* What? It's not the pinnacle of evolution and existence, the greatest thing in the universe, the end all be all proving that souls exist and are invincible and immortal?

Cosmic Consciousness (R.M. Bucke)

• VIDEO: Consciousness: The Fundamental Reality
• VIDEO: Tracking a thought as it moves through the brain is quite remarkable
• The mystery of "consciousness" shows there may be a limit to what science alone can achieve
• Pantheism: What if absolutely everything is conscious?

Dr. Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.

The shocking truth (anatta) is too much to handle for most people, who invariably misinterpret it to mean that things are eternal or things are annihilated, and there's no other possibility. Imagine if both extremes in view were wrong. They are. We neither carry on through death forever, nor are we annihilated at death. Spiritists and materialists both have it wrong.

Hidden Spring (Mark Solms)

Things are dependently originated. What arises does so dependent on conditions (so they do not really arise except as an illusion with the illusory marks of permanence, fulfillment, and personality).

In fact, we find, the three opposite Marks of Existence (ti-lakkhana) are present. Ultimately, "things" that arise dependent on causes and conditions are impermanent, disappointing, and impersonal.

Brain is not base of consciousness, which pervades all things we are conscious of. Anencephaly

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Physics of Expanded Consciousness

But will science ever come to that conclusion? Not likely. The goal of science is not enlightenment and liberation from the round of rebirth and suffering. (How can something even be said to be "reborn" if it cannot, like a moving river, be said to persist unchanged for two consecutive moments? It can).

• Study reveals how an anesthesia drug induces unconsciousness
• Human consciousness evolved as a means of social survival, scientists say
• The brain builds emotions regardless of the senses, neuroscientists find
• The larger brains of humans come with a tragic cost, study finds
• The clinic for psychedelic difficulties where people go when the trip never really ends
• Our brains trick us into thinking consciousness can reside outside the body, research argues
• Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms − pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine
• Brain waves found to travel in one direction when memories are made and the opposite when recalled
• Scientists find a determining mechanism for synapse formation in the cerebellum
• Study reveals differences in DNA folding between neurons and other brain cells, links them to cell functions
• Researcher explores how we can stretch our mind to grasp quantum entanglement
• Scientists uncover new mechanism of forgetting in brain neurons that could inform Parkinson's treatment
• Scientists show that there is indeed an entropy of quantum entanglement
• A molecular route to decoding synaptic specificity and nerve cell communication
• Magical equation unites quantum physics Einstein's general relativity in a first
• Scientists discovered something kinda alarming: The universe shouldn't actually exist
• The mystery of consciousness shows there may be a limit to what science alone can achieve
• Reality is just a bunch of hallucinations we collectively agree on
• Often seen, never studied: First characterization of a key postsynaptic protein
• Flow state uncovered: We finally know what happens in the brain when we're in the zone
• Wellness therapists say these 6 common habits are fueling our anxiety
• Scientists discover enzyme that reverses muscle loss due to aging
• This is untrue on each count: Dispelling the myths behind hypnosis