Sublime

Through the ordinary state of being, we’re already creators in the most profound way, creating our experience of reality and composing the world we perceive.

we have gone from considering our fundamental nature to be limitless and unknowable to nothing more than corporeal elements.

is consciousness a secondary phenomenon, but that in addition, it’s not even real”13 [emphasis in original].

The pair then pressed on with their logic, pointing out that it challenged the conventional view that a person’s mind exists within their brain, and nowhere else. It would challenge it still further, if they could show externalism to apply not just to our thought processes but also to our beliefs – understood in the wide, philosophical sense: what

À la place, soutenait-il, nous devons aller de l'avant, aller au-delà de la raison, pour découvrir que le mental et la nature sont simplement, tous deux, des mouvements différents d'un seul Esprit absolu, un Esprit qui se manifeste dans ses propres stades successifs de déploiement.

the Allegory of the Cave.

The world we experience as ‘out there’ is actually a reconstruction of reality that is built inside our heads. It’s an act of creation by the storytelling brain.

Adam recalls something he learned in graduate school: memory is always a collaboration in progress.

The self is not a fixed, organic thing, but a dramatic effect that emerges from a performance. This effect can be believed or disbelieved at will.