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...“To be conscious is to be part of a larger whole,” the author writes. “This interrelational characteristic has spiritual implications.” The image above is part of a series of divination cards intended to help viewers access their inner intuition. Understanding this and other levels of awareness...

...Some consciousness studies scholars seek to prove the specialness of human cognition, ignoring signs of awareness and intention in other species. Mad Mule by Pamela Blotner, pencil and mixed media, 2004. Some consciousness studies scholars seek to prove the specialness of human cognition...

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... informed by a structural psychological awareness that had been obtained in the intensity of my earlier psychotherapy experience. My subsequent introduction to marijuana freed me of physical and sexual awkwardness, turned me onto intimate discourse, facilitated a heightened closeness in my friendships...

... small, our pilot study showed that it was possible to learn mindful awareness during pregnancy and early motherhood (even with baby in tow and that women who engaged in mindfulness training during pregnancy had fewer negative emotions and less anxiety during pregnancy compared...

..., 2007): There is a teaching: “When we become aware that only God exists, then God re­ ceives from us the complete joy he hopes for.” This expresses two pivotal points. First, there is only God, by which we mean the Oneness that subsumes all categories. We might call...

... psychedelic experience may heighten empathy and empathic awareness. This The boxwood hedge that stood against the wall awareness can manifest as love and af...

... is very close Muslim friends, as well as with a very strong awareness of being a the Arab side of Jerusalem, and I had memories of the intense and growth- minority as a Jew. The first time I visited been told on a prior trip to Israel that it filled discussions we’d had. These friend­...

... their ideas in the printed word to foster abstract thinking. This emphasis stifled awareness of the lived cultural patterns that connect within different face-to-face relationships. The anti-tradition abstract theorists of the past (as well as those still under the spell of the Enlightenment legacy...

... before. But Jews do so not from some neutral place, not as though we were looking at some other species. We are ourselves on the way. We hum ans live as dying creatures. We are aware, to a greater and lesser extent...

..., and sponsor those politicians who equate the corporate interest with the human interest. Awareness that something is going very wrong is sweeping global society, but with limited understanding of the nature of and reasons for the cultural and institutional system failure now playing out. Lacking...

.... The primary Buddhist impulse was and is democratic: all humans have the same nature as a potentiality for personal and social understanding and loving behavior. All of us are equally deserving of happiness, awareness, and spiritual attainment. This democratic view, deeply personal and simultaneously...

..., matter, spirit, consciousness, awarenesss, nous, and mind are all one integrated whole. M atter never exists without some level of awareness, consciousness, or yearning. All m atter...

... out to a grey fog rolling in. The dream breaks with my pleading words, “I ask you to reconsider.” As daytime awareness arrives, that terrible body blow of dread, disbelief, then anger. Sit up. Bring feet to the floor. Make tea, move to the meditation mat, light a candle, breathe—feel—breathe...

... Lama are most prominent among them. Some Western meditation teachers, inspired by a combination of Buddhism and Gaian neo-mythology, have begun to speak for the essential link between inner spiritual awareness and the need for radical environmental activism. All of these are core religious...

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