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Life in the Spirit World

09/11/2013 14:44
By Rev. Simeon Stefanidakis Over the years, countless people have asked us: what is the Spirit world like? Answering this question is both easy and difficult. It is easy because so much information concerning life in Spirit has been given to us. It is difficult because much of that information...

The Truth of the Spirit World

09/11/2013 14:41
The Spirit World is the real world and the true home of human souls. The Spirit World is the answer to the question “Where do we come from and where do we go after we die?” The Spirit World is of a multi-layered structure. It is divided into many different levels (dimensions) according to the state...

Consciousness

09/11/2013 11:00
By Swami Satswarupananda It is the Sphinx’s riddle: What is consciousness? It is something we take for granted and make use of every moment of our lives, without which we are not what we think ourselves to be, and yet when we want to know it more deeply, it eludes us. When we know it, our life’s...

Self- Atma

09/11/2013 10:57
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi Edited by David Godman Question: What is this awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it? Sri Ramana Maharshi: You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to...

Kant's Theory of Self-Consciousness

09/11/2013 10:49
C. Thomas Powell From Rene Descartes to David Hume, philosophers in the 17th and 18th centuries developed a dialectic of radically conflicting claims about the nature of the self. In the Paralogisms of The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant comes to terms with this dialectic, and with the character of...

On Sartre and Self-Consciousness

09/11/2013 10:44
Hulya Guney - Duquesne University The purpose of this paper is to deal with the place of self-consciousness and its implications in Sartre’s ontology. I shall begin with Sartre’s categorization of being which will be followed by a discussion of the special case of being-in-the-world. Finally, I...

The Realisation of Rational Self-Consciousness

09/11/2013 10:43
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS found the “thing” in the form of itself, and itself in the form of a thing; that is to say, self-consciousness is explicitly aware of being in itself the objective reality. It is no longer the immediate certainty of being all reality; it is rather a kind of certainty for which...

Hegel on Self Consciousness

09/11/2013 10:41
Hegel moves from the discussion of consciousness in general to a discussion of self-consciousness. Like the idealist philosophers before him, Hegel believes that consciousness of objects necessarily implies some awareness of self, as a subject, which is separate from the perceived object. But Hegel...

Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self

09/11/2013 10:38
Even though Kant himself held that his view of the mind and consciousness were inessential to his main purpose, some of his ideas came to have an enormous influence on his successors. Ideas central to his view are now central to cognitive science. Other ideas equally central to his point of view...

Everyday Consciousness and Buddha-Awakening

09/11/2013 10:15
by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Within the realms of sentient beings, we have taken on a human body. A human being consists of body, speech, and mind; these are called the three gates. As for the gate of speech, it is nothing other than the sounds with which we can express ourselves and which can be...
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