Theme: “Naked Mind”

It Is a Knowledge of Our Inner World, Not the Outer One

There is another kind of knowledge. It is not one of physical facts, nor can it be quantified and measured. It is a knowledge of our inner world, not the outer one, a knowledge of what we used to call...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

It Turns the Right Brain’s Unity Into Bits and Pieces

The left brain, on the other hand—literally—is geared, McGilchrist argues, toward breaking up the whole that the right presents. It turns the right brain’s unity into bits and pieces, which it can then manipulate. Its job is to analyze the...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

It’s Energy Surrounds Us and Binds Us

For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we—not this crude matter.

Source: The Empire Strikes Back

The Growing Dominance of the Ego

What sets the mental-rational structure apart from the previous three structures is that it is the most separated from “Origin.” In it, human consciousness, which had previously felt a fundamental connection to the world around it, was now unattached and...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

Freedom from Self-Centeredness of Thought and Behavior

The foundational line of true ethical behavior, its main guiding principle valid across all times and cultures, is the degree of freedom from self-centeredness of thought and behavior, and willingness freely to give up one’s own self-interest on behalf of...

We Think Our Beliefs Are Based on Sound Evidence

Another reason to adopt moderate skepticism concerns the very real danger that we might be deceiving ourselves in our beliefs, even when we think our beliefs are based on sound evidence. One way in which this can happen is well...

Source: The Beatles and Philosophy  by David Detmer

The Mental-Rational Structure Is Focused on Words

As its name suggests, the mental-rational structure, which Gebser believed began circa 1225 B.C., is characterized by rational, discursive thought, the kind of logical, sequential thinking associated with the left brain. Whereas the previous structure of consciousness, the mythic, is...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

Investigations into Behavior and Thought Control

The existence of the agency's investigations into behavior and thought control was previously known. But through access to 2,000 C.I.A. documents and wideranging interviews, a group of New York Times reporters has developed new information about the cost of the...

Learn How to Control the Human Mind

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 — Several prominent medical research ‘institutions and Government hospitals in the United States and Canada were involved in secret, 25‐year, $25‐million effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to learn how to control the human mind.