Sunday, July 10, 2011

Soul, and Consciousness

Michael Singer
The Untethered Soul, in the library at https://library.minlib.net/record=b2526392~S1
Or you can go to his book web site http://theuntetheredsoul.com/index.html
This book has been out since 2007 !   " Who are you, really ? "   The parts I liked best were Chapter 15, The Path of Unconditional Happiness, and  Chapter 17, Contemplating Death.  Remarkably insightful.

On a related note, on the idea of consciousness, there are two TED videos that are immediately relevant:
First is Jill Bolte Taylor's http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/12/jill_bolte_tayl/  direct experience with left and right brain when she suffered a stroke, and eventually recovered over a long time.

Second,  Simon Lewis had his own direct experience with a remarkable recovery, coming back from a severe injury http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_lewis_don_t_take_consciousness_for_granted.html and the many aspects of technologies that were of help to him along the way, both relating to his consciousness and the recovery of his physical body.  

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