Consciousness

Everyone has this small voice that is in the back of their mind. This small voice is called your subconscious, which is very powerful. It's a voice that is so powerful that it makes people believe things and do things that they think are real and it is actually just all made up. Just like Payton Farquhar's subconscious in the short story, “ An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” by Ambrose Bierce. Payton Farquhar lets his subconscious take him on a journey throughout his last few minutes as he is…

In one of the opening lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" he says "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Emerson). The universal theme and the meaning of this maxim is that one must fortify their own mind and be self reliant, not letting anyone take control or emerge outer thoughts into your own. In order to be self-reliant, one must listen to their own inner thoughts, not letting yourself be lulled into societies' customs by letting others think for you or…

False consciousness is a term used in Marxist theory affirmed by Dictionary.com as, “a failure to recognize the instruments of one’s oppression or exploitation as one’s own creation, as when members of an oppressed class unwillingly adopt views of the oppressor class.” All in all, Marxism inspired by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, evaluates the inequality involved in capitalist societies. It identifies that capitalist systems indorse the misuse of workers and thus take advantage of those who…

I strongly agree with the cognitive approach where your consciousness is an interpretation of what your thoughts are actively focused upon, rather than the psychodynamic approach, where your consciousness is based entirely on your unconscious thoughts. Baars (2011) discussed the method of contrastive analysis and the famous, well-studied technique, called binocular rivalry. The left eye and right eye are presented with very different images and the brain flips between the two images. Baars…

The first topic, and one I found most interesting is how people alter their consciousness through drugs and alcohol. This was really interesting to me as I grew up in a home with drug addiction, so learning about what makes drugs so appealing and addicting really opened my eyes. A lot of the information covered in that section was information that I was already familiar with, however I did read some things that did surprise me. For example, marijuana was listed as a hallucinogen which really…

Talal Almas FWIS 194—Americans Abroad Dr. A Seglie Rough draft In the book Souls Of The Black Folk, W.E.B DuBois pitches his notion of “double consciousness” as a form of personal identity that is divided into multiple facets. For DuBois, double consciousness is “….a peculiar sensation [this double consciousness], of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”. It is the “…two-ness of the two [American and “negro”] souls; two thoughts; two un-reconciled strivings” (DuBois 2—3). By…

Racism, prejudice, and discrimination are a few factors that are in fact a social problem. In other words, it begins to lead to this challenging idea called double consciousness. It is believed by Ellis Cose, that African Americans who are successful still encounter certain issues. In accordance with poverty, income, and educational attainment, the racial stratification is still greatly affected between the racial groups. Color-blind racism is associated with four aspects. The racial and ethnic…

The Importance of Diversity Consciousness I found the sub section talking about networking was very informative. It explains the importance of creating relationships with a diverse population of people to help expand your social networking. By creating these relationships with different people from different backgrounds, the book explains “your being able to draw on a variety of diversity skills “. In addition to the information on networking I found the section Stepping Outside Of Ourselves was…

48. Why Martinus (Re) Gained Cosmic Consciousness Exactly at the Age of Thirty? • According to The Law of Fate - THE PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE IN EXISTENCE, All Energies Sent Out Come Back to The Source. But, One CANNOT BE AFFECTED BY THE ENERGIES ‘LOWER’ THAN HE STANDS FOR MORALLY (WHEN ONE DOES NOT HAVE THE HEART TO ACT ANY LONGER THE WAY HE DID IN THE PAST WHEN RELEASED). Those Energies CANNOT BE ‘WASTED’. They CAN RETURN TO ‘THE SOURCE’ either in NEXT Cosmic Spiral Cycle or always partially…

The Distraction Over the years nature has become less relevant to the people. It has been pushed to the back of their minds and forgotten about. What do fill their minds are the technological advances of society. Berry sees this in himself; he sees how his life is being taken over by the society. To free his mind he went off into the woods where he took the time to escape his normal everyday life. He valued his time in solitude and it changed his mind set after the couple days he was there. He…