Geometrical Psychology: Benjamin Betts’s 19th-Century Mathematical Illustrations of Consciousness

by Maria Popova “Imagination receives the stream of Consciousness, and holds apart and compares the different experiences.” “What makes a mathematician is not technical skill or encyclopedic knowledge,” Paul Lockhard recently wrote, “but insatiable curiosity and a desire for simple beauty.” But what if this mathematical curiosity and desire for beauty were applied to questions that have perplexed scientists and philosophers for millennia — questions about consciousness, what it is, how it works, and how it shapes our lives? Editor Louisa S. Mr. Cook notes the form of Betts’s forms: The symbolic forms which Mr. On Betts’s model of the imagination: Whether abstracting something as complex as consciousness in such concrete physical forms is a reasonable proposition remains a question for the metaphysicians — but the forms themselves are, unequivocally, pure visual mesmerism. Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. Share on Tumblr

The Human Experience | Cosmometry The human experience of cosmometry is as vast as the innumerable volumes of books we've written over the millenia describing what it's like to live in this universe of constant change and epic proportions. Our bodies and the environment in which we live are synergetically united in a continuous interchange of energy and consciousness — "reality" and our "perception" of it. And as with all things in the cosmos, our bodies and awareness of life within us and without us have the same fundamental relationship to the source and to each other, as is natural in a holographic cosmos. The One Point Ki energy permeates the entire cosmos. In the cosmometry of the human experience, the One Point is the center of the torus of our energetic presence embodied. In Aikido we learn four basic principles: The Hara Line The One Point is one of three primary energy centers that align on a central axis of the toroidal energy system of our beings.

“Consciousness Creates Reality” – Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual “Consciousness creates reality,” a statement that has gained a lot of attention across various alternative media outlets around the world. Make no mistake, consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality. What is consciousness? Consciousness includes a number of things. It’s how we perceive our world, our thoughts, being aware, our intentions and more. “Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.” – Nasseim Haramein, director of research for the Resonance Project“I regard consciousness as fundamental. The statement that “consciousness creates reality” comes with a number of different questions. “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. The Science Behind The Statement “Consciousness Creates Reality” Buddhist Monks Bless Tea With Good Intention