Debbie Foster
@dafinor
Debbie Foster
Dreams feel as real as life—the primary distinction between dreaming and waking consciousness is an absence of a sense of self, insight, self-reflection. You aren't surprised that you can fly, walk through walls, or meet long-dead animal companions, lovers, parents, or siblings. You are along for the ride, watching a movie that someone else is
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
The Enlightenment was a scene of intellectual conflict that drew upon utterly foreign cultures in the ancient world and in the New World to destabilize systems of oppression. It was not a unified program but a process of creative intellectual destruction.
Matthew Stewart • An Emancipation of the Mind
public and Enlightenment
If we follow Eliphas Lévi by placing invisibility in the mind, we make it subject to the dictates of the will. The power of invisibility is then a question of who commands that will
Philip Ball • Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
I thought about how shy it had made me, for a person to be different. How nervous, even angry.
How rigid, how conventional, how prescribed my expectations were. Because I had been a strange person, I hadn’t noticed for a long time how much I looked at those around me and followed, and how much they did the same, how little flexibility we had, how
... See moreAmie Barrodale • Trip
Attention," writes the neurophilosopher Iain McGilchrist, "is not just another 'function' alongside other cognitive functions. Its ontological status is of something prior to functions and even to things. The kind of attention we bring to bear on the world changes the very nature of the world in which those 'functions' would be carried out, and in
... See moreJames Parker • Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes
he had the appearance of someone who would be completely at ease in the human world, but he often entered it like a scuba diver with forty-five minutes of air and a weight belt to keep himself down.
Sebastian Junger • In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Place your warm hand on your cool belly. Does your belly feel the warm or does your hand feel the cool? This, I think, is one of the fundamental mysteries.
Matthew J. C. Clark • Bjarki, Not Bjarki
The record player was, by definition, the thing on which records were played but it was also an insidious portal to a world of unrestrained expense. Long before the term 'mission creep' entered military parlance my dad had an unerring eye for what might be called purchase creep.
Geoff Dyer • Homework
Our goal is to get our reflexive minds to execute on our deliberative minds’ best intentions.