Body Quote by Stephen Batchelor

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event.…

— Alan Moore

“My caution kicks in when I encounter either one of two sorts of dramatic theories: those that claim to have found the secret of…

— Patricia S. Churchland

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and…

— Carl Sagan

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

Consciousness is the creative element in the universe. Without it, nothing would appear.

— Fred Alan Wolf

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

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

— Thomas Nagel

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of…

— Stanislav Grof

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

— Edward Boyden

If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has…

— E. L. Doctorow

Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.

— Bhakti Charu Swami

The discovery of the unconscious is a great spiritual undertaking.

— Richard Tarnas