Consciousness is a state of cognition that includes the subject, which can never be doubted as only it can be the one who doubts, and some object or objects that may or may not have real existence without reference to the subject.

An exception to this acceptance is the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( ISKCON ), which includes several members who actively oppose " Darwinism " and the modern evolutionary synthesis.

He has also assembled one of the largest libraries in the world on the subject of Consciousness, which includes works ranging from parapsychology to eastern mysticism.

The form of practice taught by Swami Satyananda includes eight stages ( Internalisation, Sankalpa, Rotation of Consciousness, Breath Awareness, Manifestation of Opposites, Creative Visualization, Sankalpa and Externalisation ).

This Consciousness is one and includes the whole.

The followers of Sri Vaishnava, Swaminarayan Sampraday and Dvaita Vedanta have web sites, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, also known as the Hare Krishnas, have their own site, which includes a Hare Krishna Network.

Ever-permanent, without any blemish, without any ignorance, without support, ever-full, undecayingly pure, far as well as near, like the Light beyond the three luminaries ( Sun, Moon and Fire ), the One Charm that includes all, overflowing with Bliss, undiscernible to mind or speech, standing as the Colossus of Consciousness — on that vastness of the beginning of Infinite Bliss, let us meditate.

The book includes wide discussion of, e. g., the concept of Consciousness.

The mystical psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke distinguished between three types of consciousness: Simple Consciousness, awareness of the body, possessed by many animals ; Self Consciousness, awareness of being aware, possessed only by humans ; and Cosmic Consciousness, awareness of the life and order of the universe, possessed only by humans who are enlightened.

In the far future the galaxy is ruled by a benevolent central body of humans and artificial intelligences called the Core ( a contraction of " Consciousness Repository ").

Consciousness — humans ' ability to ponder their own existence — seems a strange outgrowth of the evolutionary process for Wright.

Consciousness is the factor that provides the progressive continuity to sensory impressions.

Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

summarized as follows: Consciousness is the inner mental life that we

Consciousness is of concern to patients and physicians, especially neurologists and anesthesiologists.

Consciousness is compared to light which illuminates the material configurations or ' shapes ' assumed by the mind.

In Consciousness Explained, Dennett's interest in the ability of evolution to explain some of the content-producing features of consciousness is already apparent, and this has since become an integral part of his program.

Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into subconsciousness ; and beyond that we must postulate something indefinite but yet continuous with our mental nature ….

* lines 13. 210-249 – Consciousness of one ’ s guilt is its own punishment, with anxiety and fear of divine retribution.

It is also currently being researched as part of the Princeton Global Consciousness Project.

This concept is an extension of Teilhard's Law of Complexity / Consciousness, the law describing the nature of evolution in the universe.

So from the point of view of this school, the phenomenal world ( Śakti ) is real, and it exists and has its being in Consciousness ( Cit ).

The understanding of the Maya that resulted in the use of the 2011 date and the use of the " worlds " concept is due to the influence of Frank Waters's 1975 book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness, whose elaborate cosmology is selectively utilized in the framework of the Shadowrun universe.

Sikhs believe they can unite and become one with God in this life ( Gurmukh ), as the consciousness merges with God ( Supreme Consciousness ) through truthful living and actions and is only a matter of realization.

She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

* While Ralph Messenger is busy organizing the International Conference on Consciousness Studies (" Con-Con "), to be held at Gloucester University this year, his ( recent ) past catches up with him: During a symposium in Prague some weeks ago, he spent the night with a young scientist called Ludmila Lisk, who now, by way of email, threatens to expose him as an adulterer if she is not allowed to attend the conference.

# The Supreme Self ( or Ultimate Reality ) who is Pure Consciousness perceived Himself by Selfhood ( i. e. Existence with " I "- Consciousness ).

Like that, Consciousness ( or the Self ) covered here by Avidya ( or nescience ) is spoken of as jiva ( the individual soul ).

# Objection: How indeed could ignorance become a covering ( or an obscure factor ) for Brahman ( or the Supreme Spirit ) who is Pure Consciousness, as if the darkness arising from the night ( could become a concealing factor ) for the sun which is self-luminous?

As Max Velmans and Susan Schneider wrote in The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness: " Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives.

The most thorough account of the spiritual approach may be Ken Wilber's book The Spectrum of Consciousness, a comparison of western and eastern ways of thinking about the mind.

In his original dissertation, Content and Consciousness, he broke up the problem of explaining the mind into the need for a theory of content and for a theory of consciousness.

Another stimulus was the publication in 1991 of Consciousness Explained by Tufts University philosopher Daniel Dennett, which incorporated the meme concept into a theory of the mind.

** Consciousness and mind

Described as a natural extension of Transcendental Meditation, the purpose of the TM-Sidhi program is to accelerate the benefits gained from the Transcendental Meditation technique by training the mind to think from the level of Transcendental Consciousness, the source of thought.

# REDIRECT Quantum mind – body problem #" Consciousness causes collapse "

Sceptical at first of UNIT's ambit to defend against alien invasion, Shaw changes her mind when she encounters the newly-regenerated Doctor and becomes involved in defeating the plans of the Nestene Consciousness and its animated plastic Autons.

Kashmir Shaivism describes four methods ( upāya-s ): āṇavopāya, the method of the body, śaktopāya, the method of the mind, śāmbhavopāya, the method of Consciousness, and anupāya the ‘ methodless ’ method.

and living physical beings ), and from thence to mind ( in conscious animals and most especially humans-the self-conscious thinking animal ), and from thence to spiritualized mind, culminating in the The Supermind or Truth Consciousness ( as supramental individuals, and finally the supramental, i. e. a divine life on earth.

The term was coined by psychologist Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3000 years ago.

And the mind is merely a reflection of that Consciousness.