Altered states Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events.

— Henry Reed

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Once human beings had developed higher-order consciousness, they had the ability to see mental images projected onto surfaces and to experience afterimages.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

— D. H. Lawrence

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Consciousness precedes phenomenon, and therefore consciousness can alter phenomenon.”

— Shai Tubali

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

— Remy de Gourmont

“Conscious” and “unconscious” are only too obviously derivatives of “above ground” and “below ground.” In modern theories of the Will we meet with all…

— Oswald Spengler

“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.”

— John Brockman

The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived…

— Henri Bergson