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Ep. 10 - Consciousness

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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Changing Your State of Consciousness

When you have an insight, what do you have? You have a flash. It's like you get a sudden brightening of consciousness. And notice a phenomena that mason called sizing up. Part of what's happening, part of what consciousness is doing, is its creating a salient landscape for me. What does that mean for me? Well, first of all, i'm picking out, out of all the things, all the things i could pick out. I don't know if this is a complete account of the function of consciousness, but it explains why you might want to alter your state of consciousness. Because if i alter my state of consciousness, i'm going to alter what i

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