Posts tagged: Consciousness

Writing As Meditation

How do both writing and meditation make us better attuned to ourselves and help us to recognize our own divinity?

LSD: The Beyond Within

LSD is one of the strangest and most controversial substances known to science. A dose smaller than a grain of salt precipitates a hazardous mental journey into a universe of hallucination, intense emotion and, some believe, mystical revelation.

Deepak Chopra: A New Self

Deepak Chopra delivers an excellent lecture, elegantly touching on topics like theoretical physics, neuroscience, and Buddhist meditation. He goes on to explain how these have all contributed to a new science of consciousness.

Robert Thurman: Expanding Your Circle Of Compassion

“It’s hard to always show compassion — even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner circle.”

Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle

Great video that includes two lectures; one by Stan Grof, a transpersonal psychologist, and another by Steven Foster, one of the pioneers of modern-day wilderness rites of passage. Both of their topics center around the subject of death.