History and the evolution of human consciousness.
Posts Tagged ‘spiritual’
The evolution that matters
Posted in History, Psychology, tagged consciousness, Evolution, fantasy, History, human nature, imagination, memory, spiritual, time on September 1, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Adventure
Posted in Belief, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, tagged consciousness, material, non-material, Planck, Russell, Rutherford, spiritual on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The spirit of adventure Ancient wisdom impresses our minds with a freshness that is truly staggering. What we name the material world, for example, cannot be said (with any confidence ) to exist anywhere except in a human consciousness. We can only know the world because we are conscious of it. We cannot go outside [...]
We have changed the world
Posted in Belief, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, tagged body, Descartes, material, mind, perceptions, spiritual on March 14, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Before Descartes, roses were red and violets were blue. Since Descartes, that has changed. Since Descartes, body and mind have been split asunder ; the world and the person have become two distinct (and some say incompatible) things ; matter and spirit have been divorced. This was not all Descartes’ fault ; it was not [...]
The tales they tell to children
Posted in culture, Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, tagged books, knowledge, language, material, quality, quantity, spiritual, symbols on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Where is the knowledge in books?