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Ep14 "Why do we have so little access to what’s happening under the hood?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Power of Consciousness

The author William Blake wrote the long poem Milton and later he said quote I have written this poem from immediate dictation 12 or sometimes 20 lines at a time without premeditation. The British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge started to use opium in 1796 and originally it was for relief from toothaches but after a while he was addicted and he wrote his famous poem Kublicon on an opium high. So who exactly does credit for that poem belong to? As Carl Jung said in each of us there is another whom we do not know or as Pink Floyd put it there's someone in my head but it's not me. Almost everything in your mental life is not under your conscious control and

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