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Part II: A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: Can We Trust Our Own Experiences?

All the questions brought up in this book answer to a bigger question, perhaps the biggest question of all:
Can we trust our own subjective experiences?
This innocent-sounding question is one of enormous implication.
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Part III: A Psychonaut’s Guide to the Invisible Landscape: Parting Words, Parting Sorrows

The book is at its best when, instead of merely being a log of his trips, the author expounds on their philosophical and spiritual implications. In other words, What does it all mean?
While he does get into this a bit, occasionally using quantum physics to help makes sense of the experience, unfortunately this book […]

Stephen LaBerge quote on dreaming and perception

“Dreaming is perception unconstrained by sensory input. And vice versa, what is perception is what we’re doing right now; dreaming, constrained by sensory input.”
Stephen LaBerge, interview, captured in DVD series titled “Consciousness”
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Rob Bryanton, author of Imagining the 10th Dimension, visits Dreaming Life!

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding a new book out there called Imagining The 10th Dimension. Singer / songwriter, thinker, philosopher and amateur scientist (although he insists he’s not a scientist!) has pieced together a means of actually explaining a way to understand the idea of not just 4 or 5 dimensions, but 10. (10 […]

Part 2 : An Interview with Rob Bryanton of Imagining the 10th Dimension - What the Bleep style thinking & the Bicameral Mind

There’s a meme of growing popularity, largely due to the success of the film What the Bleep Do We Know, that can be summed like this:
We create reality through conscious observation. What we choose to think, decide, and observe has a literal input into the creation of the reality around us.
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An excerpt from the The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yesterday I was at Whole Foods drinking a Yuengling and reading The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in the outside cafe. This book is the best I’ve found so far on Buddhism - especially because it intertwines an understanding of quantum physics and neuroscience into a Buddhist framework for understanding the mind and […]


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