Debbie Foster

"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."

The axioms are about essential properties of experience. Many articles and my last book have dealt with these, so I will be brief.

The first axiom is intrinsicality. This means that any experience is subjective, existing for itself, not for others. It exists from the intrinsic perspective, from within, not from an outsider's perspective.

The second a

The question is how to feel about everything, about the whole of existence and the place of humankind within it

Our goal is to get our reflexive minds to execute on our deliberative minds’ best intentions.

Another consistent finding is a slight increase in the complexity of EEG and MEG signals during the psychedelic experience. It is not clear whether this is a consequence of enhanced causal interactions within the neocortex or more chaotic activity.

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." ~ Carl Sandburg

There is nothing more human than the experience of lying in the dark, wondering: What if I don't wake up? In that way, sleep becomes existential cross-training: dread faced nightly, and nightly overcome.

Consciousness is a distinctive state of mind, but the words “consciousness” and “mind” are often used as if they were synonymous and corresponded to the same process

you couldn't think your way to a physical place, you had to go there.