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Reseña de la charla ¿Los sistemas de conocimiento indígenas son clave para comprender la naturaleza de la conciencia?

La ponencia fue realizada por la Dra. Natasha Tassell-Matamua (Nueva Zelanda) durante la conferencia internacional Beyond the Brain (Más allá del Cerebro) el 04 de noviembre de 2022.

Dreams as journeys to depths within us – Amalia Carli

By Amalia Carli In the following pages I want to share some notes on a short presentation I did at Paul’s SMN wine bar in June where I discussed some thoughts about dreams, particularly with views from Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman as well as from work by Dr. ...

Why a ‘genius’ scientist thinks our consciousness originates at the quantum level

Do our minds have quantum structures that give rise to consciousness? Sir Roger Penrose, one of the world’s most famous scientists, believes this and can explain how he thinks it works. By PAUL RATNER 15 January, 2018 Human consciousness is one of the grand...

Complementing reductionism: Goethean science. Part 2

Part 2: Life’s unique principles By AliciaLandman-Reiner   Abstract Life sciences today approach nature through a reductionist lens. A broadened methodology, known as Goethean science, complements that one-sided perspective. Building on the elements of the...

Complementing Reductionism: Goethean Science. Part 1

Part 1: Qualities and wholeness By AliciaLandman-Reiner Abstract While integrative practices in health care have grown over the past half-century, life sciences still view nature almost entirely through a reductionist lens. Contemporary research is described that...

A big lesson from the ‘Oumuamua alienware controversy

  A big lesson from the ‘Oumuamua alienware controversy Scientists should be cautious when expressing an opinion based on little more than speculation. MARCELO GLEISER 05 May, 2021 Artist’s impression of ʻOumuamua Credit: European Southern Observatory/M....

The Scientific World-Picture of To-Day.

THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD-PICTURE OF TO-DAY BY GENERAL THE RT. HON. J. C. SMUTS, P.O., C.H., F.R.S. PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. After what I said at the opening this afternoon it is unnecessary for me to...

Consciousness, Cognition and Behavior

Mukhopadhyay AK*   ABSTRACT The readers and authors of the journal are all neuroscientists. The purpose of such review in this journal is to make them familiar with an emerging worldview that the brain is not the source of consciousness and cognitive faculty...

The neurobiology of resilience – Professor David Peters

Neuroscience makes possible a new understanding of human nature. The practice of medicine is particularly stressful, and neuroscience helps explain why this is the case. When work is demanding and recovery poor, persistent stress begins to distort our view of...

Recognising the Matrix of Consciousness – Stephan Schwartz

Source: Schwartz, S. A. (2020). What would the world be like if the matrix of consciousness were recognized. The Journal of Science and Healing, 16(2), 81-84. In almost all discussions of the future that I see, hear, or read, the central theme is the coming crisis of...
The Self-Creating Universe: the Emergence of a New Worldview

The Self-Creating Universe: the Emergence of a New Worldview

Emergentism, the subject of this article, is an old idea which in recent times has acquired new life and generated much interest and research across the whole spectrum of the natural and human sciences as well as in philosophy. John Clarke suggests it may offer a new...

The Evolution of Consciousness and the Ishi Challenge

Introduction The problem posed by the discovery in 1911 of Ishi, the last of the Yahi tribe in California, is one I like to call the ‘The Ishi Challenge’. In a short space of time Ishi learned English and took a job in a museum, which also became his home until he...

Understanding C.G Jung’s Red Book – Part 3

This is the second part of Roger’s comprehensive review of Jung’s Red Book. Very sadly, Roger passed away shortly after writing this concluding part to his analysis of Jung’s work. His excellent series on the Red Book has proven to be among the most popular articles...

When Denial has to End

Spending time over the past year researching and writing a book about the future of food in relation to the environment, the phenomenon of denial and inadequate policy responses to the mounting ecological crises is only too apparent. Here the Founder of the World...

Why Clones?

A recent news item tells us that the Raelian sect – an American group which teaches that the human race stems from intelligent aliens who generated it by cloning themselves – now claims to have produced two actual babies by cloning. This is not, of course,...

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