Quote by Eben Alexander

“everything you’ve ever experienced in your ‘real’ life was your brain’s interpretation of your sensory inputs.”

— Dima Zales

“Everything—the uncanny clarity of my vision, the clearness of my thoughts as pure conceptual flow—suggested higher, not lower, brain functioning.”

— Eben Alexander

“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“are not truly real in the consciousness of human experience until they are unraveled and correlated, until their relevant facts actually become meaning through…

— Urantia Foundation

“Our modern microscopes, scanners, and sensors have disabused us of most of the old fanciful notions about the brain’s function. But the brain’s strangely…

— Nicholas Carr

“This compulsion to connect experiences, symbols, images, and ideas stems directly from the brain's vital function as an organ evolved to make sense of…

— David DiSalvo

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong…

— Steven Pinker

“the brain is an astounding and mysterious organ...it has been analyzed and poked and sliced and diced yet nobody has ever seen a personality…

— Cameron Díaz

“...the realization that the mind’s ability to affect the physical world could be ”

— Dan Brown

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily more profound,…

— Anne Lamott

“...and I reminded myself that the reproach of intellectualism is often directed at the most sensitive natures, those most ardently alive, those obliged by…

— Marguerite Yourcenar