Consciousness Quote by James David Lewis-Williams

“When we gaze at the world, we do not fathom the many layers of apparatus that underlie our unified visual experience, until neurological disease…

— Steven Pinker

“[Higher-order consciousness] involves the ability to construct a socially based selfhood, to model the world in terms of the past and the future, and…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“In altered states of consciousness, the nervous system itself becomes a ‘sixth sense’ that produces a variety of images including entoptic phenomena.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Seeing’ two-dimensional images is therefore something that we learn to do; it is not an inevitable part of being human.”

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

— Arshile Gorky

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

— Steve Maraboli

“Like these entities may be the lost acres of the mind, things that have been overlooked by the higher consciousness; that it can’t see…

— Ian McDonald

“For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to…

— C.G. Jung

“I believe it is reasonable to assume that higher-order consciousness developed neurologically in Africa before the second wave of emigration to the Middle East…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“Mind needs more than 3D perception to be able to see edge of the universe.”

— Toba Beta

“There was, quite simply, no way that my experiences, with their intensely sophisticated visual and aural levels, and their high degree of perceived meaning,…

— Eben Alexander

A consciousness was like a face you saw once and forever recognized.

— Kristin Cashore