Higher consciousness

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,…

what the personal identity is derived from. In Locke’s Personal Identity, the personal identity stems from the consciousness itself instead of the physical body. The identity is significant to the individual, as it allows the individual to distinguish between the experiences from their mind and what may be from another individual’s. If the personal identity were not derived from consciousness and instead from the body, then the experiences, including who received them, would not matter in…

are in an altered state of consciousness? Well, you may experience that state of consciousness more than you realize. It is also known as mind alteration. Sometimes it is hard to determine whether we are in an altered state of consciousness or if it is just a mood swing. For example, if someone was a coffee drinker and regularly consumes a few cups of coffee every morning then stops cold turkey for a week. Would it then be considered that the state of consciousness was altered because the…

Altered states of conscious, as addressed in chapter 4, is defined “general name for phenomena that are different from normal waking consciousness and include mystic perceptual and sensory experiences, such as medication, hypnosis, trance, and possession” (Shiraev & Levy, 2016, p.128) From the altered states of conscious stated above, I’ve personally experienced meditation as a form of achieving tranquility and a stress-free state. Shiraev and Levy explain that meditation is a “quiet and relaxed…

Unlike Dualism, Materialism only sees the world as matter (Blackmore 20). This means that concepts such as consciousness are a direct result of physical interactions that occur within our brain. Materialism focuses on what can be seen and measured. For instance, the state of being happy is caused by a hormone, dopamine, and that the feeling of happiness is nothing…

work of the conscious mind, but the unconscious does these things as well. The adaptive unconscious is probably older than the conscious mind. The newer, conscious mind sometimes creates the illusion of control: will is sometimes an illusion. Consciousness, to use an analogy, is like Ronald Reagan: it appears to be the executive, but in fact does not have the amount of control we assume it does. So what are the specific difference between the two systems? The adaptive unconscious has multiple…

Dr. Ian Stevenson, a researcher on reincarnation, identified consciousness as a separate entity from the body that can be continued onto the afterlife and is verifiable in children. The video focuses on a case study done by Dr. Ian Stevenson’s mentee, Dr. Jim Tucker, on a little boy named Sam. The most prominent issue Dr. Jim Tucker aims to resolve in this film is the long standing belief of children fabricating their past life memories or the memories are influenced by their parent’s…