How We Render Reality: Attention as an Instrument of Love
"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
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"Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged."
Mental health statistics are worsening in the West; I argue that our current discourse is overmedicalised, and our diagnostic categories are unhelpfully rigid.
As AI erodes our attention spans and expressiveness, philosophers like Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer offer profound insights on what it means to be an individual.
“If the doors of perception were cleansed,” William Blake wrote, “everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” But we are finite creatures, in time and in space, and there i...
On this week’s 42FM, Sinéad O’Carroll is joined by Ian Robertson, a neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, and author of ‘The...
Internal Family Systems aims to release compassion (Self-energy) inside and out. Neuroscience describes the balanced brain, which produces Self-energy and fosters a nimble mind.
"Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives — we are each of us unique."
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."
A century-old psychology asks a remarkably modern question: Who are we becoming?
"Our neurons must be used ... not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct."
Randima Fernando spent seven years scaling mindfulness into schools and eight more advising Silicon Valley on humane design — which is precisely why it lands differently when he sa...
Angela Franks on access to reality.
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of "the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great."
Interoceptual portraitThe phrase, "I am large, I contain multitudes" is taken from Walt Whitman's famous poem 'Song of Myself'. It is a beautiful celebration of human complexity, m...
Like consciousness, like music, like love, life itself didn’t have to exist — nothing in the fundamental laws demands it. The universe could have gone on lapping at itself as a hor...
Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative
In his new book, The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive declineYou write that “changing the way you think abo...
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds betwee...
"Right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you."
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We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by...
The troubles of the Sahel reveal the dysfunctions not only of Africa, but of the West. The post The Mali of the Mind appeared first on The American Conservative.
How psychedelics can help us feel at one with existence.ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe h...
"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve… to live in the world with the absence of someone… ingrained in your understanding of the world… For the brain,...
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