Sublime

Jung to the mystical bull’s-eye is his claim to special, secret knowledge, knowledge not obtained through the normal methods of cognition,

A central question asked in the book is the true nature of this being – is it God or just a god?

he’s a phenomenologist,

the individual;

Uncertainty is a complex brain’s biggest challenge, and predictive coding evolved to help us reduce it. In general, the kind of precooked or conventionalized thinking this adaptation produces serves us well. But only up to a point. Precisely where that point lies is a question Robin Carhart-Harris and his colleagues have explored in an ambitious an

we open ourselves to the possibility that our direct link to the intimate Presence, and the unlimited integrative capacity of this shared creative principle, is found in our own consciously wielded attention.

Any comprehensive theory of the paranormal must explain its role in cultural transitions.

‘The phosphenes — optic neurons — are a primordial sense system by which the “archetypal ideas or eidei” were originally a priori perceived, but like the bicameral mind, it has atrophied. Why, the hallucinogenic mushroom bread and broth sets off phosphene activity! As mescaline, peyote, LSD, etc., do.’360

Dr. Larry Dossey has shown.