Rubber Hand Illusions Shed New Light on Our Bodily Sense of Self
But there is a "self" in the perceiving of these, you are - as the headless way might put it - an empty space in which everything exists, the birds, the trees, the sky, the thought you think of as "you".......it's all part of a single empty openess. It's a tricky thought to wrap your mind around, but it doesn't negate that moment to moment sensatio... See more
Waking Up - A New Operating System for Your Mind
In other words, there is a network in the brain devoted to inner experience, and a network devoted to exterior experience, and usually activation in one is associated with reduced activation in the other. Typically, being lost in your interiority means being less attuned to exterior experience, and vice versa. But during non-dual experience, when y
... See moreSasha Chapin • A Non-Definitive Guide to Non-Duality
I know that disembodiment is a real and pervasive mental issue afflicting cerebral people. The phrase “stuck in your head” isn’t metaphorical, it refers to the arbitrary sense that your perceptual home base is a golfball-sized hole in the middle of your head. I used to have it, and it is a massive downgrade versus correctly perceiving your awarenes... See more
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
a découvert que, quand il lui faisait fermer les yeux et qu’il lui touchait différentes parties du visage, le patient croyait que c’était son bras absent qui était touché.
Nicholas Carr • Internet rend-il bête ? (French Edition)
Because time and space are so central to consciousness, explaining how we experience them may also help to crack the broader puzzle of why we experience anything at all. Unlike most other experiences we have, our sensations of time and space can be analyzed.
The various illusions and distortions of perception help with that analysis—they are not fai
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