Philosopher and ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna believed that the boundaries between machines, animals, plants, biotechnology, and art were becoming more fluid and would lead to
a transformation of human consciousness, and he traveled to the Amazon in search of transformative experience, which he found through indigenous shamanism and the psychoactive plant «ayahuasca».
For many years now, people have been talking about «The Shift» — a mysterious
transformation of human consciousness that is supposedly underway.
Not exact matches
The classical atheists, by contrast, demanded a much more radical
transformation of human culture and
consciousness.
It was a
transformation of the same order
of magnitude, and psychologically
of the same kind: that is to say, an acquiescence, at once free and enforced, in the necessity
of adopting a new point
of view to the extent that this resulted from a general and irresistible maturing
of the
human consciousness.
It is the journey
of primordial matter through its marvelous sequence
of transformations — in the stars, in the earth, in living beings, in
human consciousness — toward an ever more complete spiritual - physical intercommunion
of the parts with each other, with the whole, and with that numinous presence that has been manifested throughout this entire cosmic - earth -
human process.
The
transformation of such activity into simultaneity and passivity is a function for Bergson
of human perceptive
consciousness.
Institute
of Noetic Sciences — The Institute
of Noetic Sciences» mission is entirely about supporting individual and collective
transformation through
consciousness research, educational outreach, and engaging a global learning community in the realization
of our
human potential.
If we look ahead to the future, the 21st century education should promote the
transformation of planetary culture through the
consciousness of human beings.