#brain

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and other screen-based technologies has led to the “widespread and sophisticated development of visual-spatial skills.” We can, for example, rotate objects in our minds better than we used to be able to. But our “new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence” go hand in hand with a weakening of our capacities for the kind of “deep processing” that underpins “mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection. ↗

— Nicholas G. Carr

#science #imagination

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. ↗

— Mike McRae

#nature #science #scientific-method #storytelling #nature

Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism - the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future - falls into place. ↗

— Kyle Bristow

#brainwashed #liberal #liberalism #values #nature

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #before #brainwashing #choice #college

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#ah #always #brain #charm #circle

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#draw #hands #i #something #together

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#die #fear #how #know #little

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain. ↗

— Adam Ant

#brain #clinical #good #just #knocked

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. ↗

— Adam Ant

#complex #heart #how #learned #like