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The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with…

— David O. Russell

I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much…

— Terence McKenna

The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a…

— David Hawkins

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old…

— Eben Alexander

“Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?”

— Stanisław Lem

The idea that there will be something spiritual or subtle, some sort of consciousness that can escape the collapse of the body and brain,…

— Stephen Batchelor

“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts…

— Benjamin Riggs

The human brain is hardwired to have this fundamental experience of universal consciousness, which is available to anyone from any culture, of any age,…

— John Hagelin

“Just because you think clearly doesn’t mean you talk to God.” “Aha!” Vetra exclaimed. “And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur…

— Dan Brown

Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even…

— John Stuart Mill

I used to think consciousness itself was a virtue, so I tried to keep it all in my head at the same time: past,…

— Diane Arbus