Deepak Chopra: Consciousness is all

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This, via the Monroe Institute’s website, is Deepak Chopra explaining in four minutes the scientific reasons to believe that the primary basis of existence is neither matter nor energy (whatever “energy” might be, divorced from its context of matter!) but consciousness. I am no physicist, but this feels right. I suppose that, in context, “feels right” means “restates what I already believe.” Well, so be it. Four minutes, no more:

http://www.monroeinstitute.org/thehub/quantum-physics-and-consciousness/

Plants ‘Can Think And Remember’

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I’ve been sitting on this for a while, mostly because it got lost in my files. It appeared in the SchwartzReport for July 17, 2010, but it is no less relevant today, and will be no less relevant next years. Things change slowly, in certain directions. Nonetheless, regardless who glacially slowly, they do change.

Editor Stephan Schwartz’ comment:

I remember back in the early 1970s, when my two friends, Christopher Bird and Peter Tompkins were writing what became the best seller, The Secret Life of Plants, they introduced me to Cleve Backster whose research showed plants had a measure of consciousness. All three of them, Peter Chris, and Cleve were subjected to withering and largely ad hominem criticism, by paradigm constrained biologists and other deniers who simply could not accept that any species other than human beings could have conscious awareness.

Plants ‘Can Think And Remember’

VICTORIA GILL, Science Reporter – BBC News (U.K.)

Plants are able to “remember” and “react” to information contained in light, according to researchers.

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (16)

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Who never gets discouraged? Helpful, in such times, to have friends…. But this entry is about a lot more than how to deal with discouragement!

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Speak, friends; I will listen.

Learn to manage your depression of spirit. Rather than being overmastered by it, channel it, use it, and all will go well. So you get to feeling grim. No big deal, as you say – just express it. Your pain is real and of long standing. So is that of innumerable others. You could help some who could come to the knowledge that a path exists, and could perhaps come to it only by your words.

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (15)

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This entry continues where the previous one left off. It was still Wednesday, January 18, 2006.

(9 a.m.) Beautiful day, and not only because of this splendid contact. All right, friends, so what is your proposed model.

The elements of this model have been given to you in bits and pieces over the past five years and more. Now we propose to put them together in a way much of which will be familiar to you (now) and some not.

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