Class consciousness

That would not be the way to practice a spiritual discipline. After all, our prayer work is for the purpose of establishing a consciousness over time, not getting immediate gratification or demonstrating a control of conditions. “This is really the period in which you clarify your mental atmosphere.” 2) “Be as relaxed physically as you can,” There is no mental force on our part in…

The Original Faee of Chan “Isn’t it you, just as you are right now?” (59) is a rhetorical question that Linji posed to one of his disciples which caused sudden enlightenment. Hisamatsu Shin’ichi was a Buddhist scholar born in 1889, who studied at Kyoto University and most famously taught at Harvard’s Divinity School in 1957, interprets Linji’s teachings in Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji. Hisamatsu makes strong positive statements on Linji, saying that his…

Nagel argues that the brain account does not incorporate consciousness but further acknowledges that mammals hold some level of consciousness, as opposed to plants such as trees, who do not have any level of consciousness. We can identify that mammals have brains and therefore have some level of consciousness and that trees do not have brains and therefore lack consciousness, returning to the physicalist viewpoint. Additionally, we do not believe trees have souls…

psychoanalytic therapy where Freud made his patients talk about their feelings and behaviour and why they behave the way they do (Wallerstein, 2002). Psychoanalytic therapy involves reliving repressed feelings, thoughts and even experience, the process includes the process of transference. Transference means the redirections of feelings or projection of attitudes and emotions from one person to another. This access of repressed feelings is gained through the use of dream interpretation…

prove that other consciousness exist, because you can’t see them. And even if in the future we were able to see another person’s subjective experience, we wouldn’t be able to tell that that being was originally conscious to begin with; you would only have the idea that there is a possibility it exists. Many philosophers argue that because we observe people acting and behaving in ways that we do, that they must have a consciousness. But if that was the way to perceive consciousness wouldn’t…

Opposing Sigmund Freud’s concept of libido and sexuality regarding an individual’s unconsciousness, Carl Jung argued that the concept of mental energy seemed more applicable. Jung believed that dreams do not reflect a child’s unrealized wishes, but are mythological stories and images from the experiences of our ancestors. His take on psychoanalysis was called analytical psychology in which Jung expressed his ideas of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and psychological types. The collective…

The Upanishad’s Guidance to Transcendence Philosophers of the past and present quarrel over the ways in which the soul becomes known, or if there even is one. Ideas drift around about the methods to seek the soul and how individuals realize they contain a soul. The Upanishads created an extensive and specific guide of how to seek the soul. This paper will detail further on how the Upanishads directs followers on spiritual experiences to seek the self. Truth signifies the acceptance of the…

As Stated before Hume believes that all there is in the mind is sense data. This also relates to personal identity. Ask yourself what makes you, you? Once you have listed a long line of physical and emotional/ mental traits think about why those are what they are. You would explain genetics and blame or thank your parents for the physical traits. But your emotional thoughts and identity are a whole different story. Philosophers with Hume’s belief of only sense data existing in the mind is based…

In the video, it depicts an octopus using a coconut shell as a tool for protection. The use of the coconut shell demonstrates the possibility of the octopus having cognitive abilities and conscious intellectual activity. It shows that the octopus can think, plan and reason. Therefore, some may assume that the octopus is conscious. In the chapter “Other Minds” of WDIAM 3, Nagel states, many people believe that things that are not human such as: fish, insects, worms, and jellyfish are not…

The Power of the Subconscious: Review of Literature Only ancient whispers continue the debate of the subconscious mind and how much it genuinely controls. Two primary voices, the subconscious is responsible for simple stimuli, basic facts, and practiced movements while the contrary belief that grows in popularity, the subconscious can be responsible for exceedingly complex decision making such as, solving arithmetic questions with success along with little conscious awareness. On one hand,…