Essays related to or branching off of the central philosophical idea of this website, Synthesense.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should realize that touch is not simple skin pressure but a grasp of all senses at once, a kind of tactility.
Marshall McLuhan
The Global Village
The Seeker finds the Key which opens the Door to
Supposing the journeys end, discovering just
Throughout the centuries and in book after book on spirituality the word awareness is used regularly. I think it is a good idea to take a hard deep look at awareness and see what we can discover. Wiktionary says Aware is defined as conscious of or having knowledge of something. I feel this definition is somewhat lazy and narrow. First, a being does not have to be conscious to be aware, and knowledge has nothing to do with awareness. One can have awareness of certain knowledge or ideas.
Let us assume a consciousness has achieved a perfect synthesis of all the senses. One attends to the entire Unified Field. All of our perceptions are still being only reflections of various frequencies of energetic vibrations.
Strange that simultaneously Horror intermingles with Beauty. How are we to see through the tremendous suffering all around the country and the world. That is the challenge I propose to myself, as well as to you the seer.
Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.
Mark Twain
Intelligence is not a cumulative result, but freedom from progressive achievement and success. Intelligence is never static; it cannot be copied and standardized, and hence cannot be taught. Intelligence is to be discovered in freedom.
J. Krishnamurti
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconscious in order to exercise a hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.
Marshall McLuhan
The first and perhaps the only, outcome of man''s will-to-understanding is faith
Oswald Spengler
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man''s lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
Gurdjieff
And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Jesus in the Gospel of Luke
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
Marshall McLuhan
Religion is a defense against a religious experience
Carl G. Jung
