Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content consciousness is always of something. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. M: Awareness is primordial it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Q: You use the words 'aware' and 'conscious'. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them and have no desire to lock up the world in a mental picture. M: The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Q: Do you see in the world a direction and a purpose? In each state you forget the other two, while to me, there is but one state of being, including and transcending the three mental states of waking, dreaming and sleeping. M: Well, it is about the same with me, Yet, there seems to be a difference. What exactly do you mean? Let me make my terms clear: by being asleep I mean unconscious, by being awake I mean conscious, by dreaming I mean conscious of one’s mind, but not of the surroundings. M: I am aware of being awake or dreaming. Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness? He excellently explains, in his experienece, the difference between the concepts of Awareness and Consciousness and points to that which all experience happens and doesn't happen etc: For anyone unaware of the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj, this is a great question and answer section from chapter 11 of I AM THAT.
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In the epic third installment of Robert Beatty's #1 bestselling series, Serafina takes her rightful place among literary champions as she battles fiercely to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be. Crankshod hacks away at the first tree, Serafina and Gidean watch the woods, becoming allies. Things then happen in quick succession: Gidean barks, a tree falls and blocks the road behind them, the horses panic, and Braeden calms them again. This game is a fun and exciting way to review concepts and ideas from Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty. Serafina points out that the tree blocking the road appears chopped down. With only days to achieve the impossible, Serafina fights to reclaim herself as the Guardian of Biltmore, friend of Braeden, daughter of her Pa, and heroine of the Blue Ridge Mountains and all the folk and creatures that call it home. 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"Featuring funny dialogue and Hicks’s signature art-including sharply rendered horses in motion-this attentively layered, low-stakes graphic novel is told with an insider’s understanding of both stable culture and fandom." - Publisher's Weekly, starred review In the case of Auschwitz, the evidence was lodged in still largely intact and meticulous archives. They were thus widely reported, whereas public knowledge of Auschwitz was already widespread in Germany and the Allied countries during the war. The remaining death camps, Majdanek and Auschwitz, were both captured virtually intact. In the case of the dedicated death camps of the so-called Aktion Reinhard, comparatively sparse documentation and very low survival rates obscured their significance in the immediate post-war years. The individual capacity for comprehension was overwhelmed, and the nature and extent of these programmes added to the surreal nature of the revelations. The revelations of the atrocities were met with a high degree of incredulous probing despite a considerable body of evidence and a vast caché of recorded images. Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1949, by which time the world had been confronted with evidence of the Nazi apparatus of terror and destruction. This suggest that the Enchanted book featured in the 2017 film is not the only magical book found in the library.
Jackson's husband, the literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman, wrote in his preface to a posthumous anthology of her work that "she consistently refused to be interviewed, to explain or promote her work in any fashion, or to take public stands and be the pundit of the Sunday supplements. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, speculation and old-fashioned abuse." She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. At the festival’s awards ceremony on May 24, its star, Holly Hunter, was named Best Actress for her portrayal of this mute woman who expresses herself through a combination of self-invented sign language, her eyes, and the exquisite music she creates on her piano.Īlso at the close of the festival 25 years ago, writer/director Campion became the first - and still the only - woman director whose film received Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or (shared with Farewell My Concubine by Chinese director Chen Kaige), for this Australian production shot entirely in New Zealand. From the age of six, Ada McGrath refuses to speak, yet film audiences first saw and heard how clearly she communicates on May 15, 1993, when Jane Campion’s The Piano premiered at the 45th Cannes International Film Festival. Two years ago, when Ian McEwan published, “Solar,” his novel about rising CO 2 levels, he admitted that “the best way to tell people about climate change is through nonfiction.” Boyle, Lydia Millet and Margaret Atwood are already preaching to the overheated choir. The weakest sections of Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom” are those that hector us about the loss of songbirds. And who exactly would be converted by these missing environmental stories? Are oil lobbyists just one good climate-change novel away from seeing the error of their ways?Īctually, unlike our cowardly presidential candidates, a number of major novelists have raised alarms about the Earth’s health, but novels aren’t particularly effective at articulating political positions or scientific facts. I’d push the last polar bear off his melting ice floe to avoid that. Imagine if “most characters in most novels” lectured each other about climate change. “We don’t want to have this conversation,” complained Daniel Kramb, “and neither do most characters in most novels being published.”Īs Paul Ryan would say, the dangers of this so-called crisis are debatable. Earlier this month, a writer in the Guardian lamented the scarcity of novels about “the most pressing and complex problem of our time”: climate change. |