Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
Irvin Yalom
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin Yalom
In the new world view, the universe is seen as a dynamic web of interrelated events. None of the properties of any part of this web is fundamental; they all follow from the properties of the other parts, and the overall consistency of their mutual interrelations determines the structure of the entire web.
Fritjof Capra
Looking to Nature
Todd Macalister
Our ears can detect sounds that vibrate in the 20 to 20,000 Hz range. But sounds can vibrate at frequencies well beyond 20,000 Hz. Some bats can detect sounds as high as 200,000 Hz. Atoms vibrate as high as 10,000,000,000,000 Hz.
The lower range of sound, known as infrasound, vibrates as slowly as 0.001 Hz. Sources of such low frequency sounds include earthquakes, volcanoes, and lightning.
If our sense of hearing were not limited to our ear’s narrow band of detection, we would experience a world bursting with sound — from the powerful pulses of earth movements to the continuous vibration of the atoms.
The Physics of God
Joseph Selbie
Alchemy
Folks today oftentimes think the alchemists of old literally changed lead into gold. However, the alchemists were working on a metaphorical level, and changing lead-heavy consciousness into golden light. The world alchemy, from the Aramaic, means “working within and through the dense darkness inside.” Thus, the truth of what alchemists were actually doing.
How to Heal Toxic Thoughts
Sandra Ingerman
Consciousness
The significance of consciousness comes from what it brings to the human mind, and from what it subsequently allows the mind to discover.
Consciousness makes mental experiences possible, from pleasure to pain, along with all that we perceive and memorize, and recall and manipulate as we describe the world around and within us, in the process of observing, thinking, and reasoning.
Feeling and Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Antonio Damasio
Who Knows Anyhow? 