![]() ![]() ![]() Susan Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer, broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. From my own out-of-body experience and my adventures with meditation and psychedelics, I’ll explore some of the ways we get ourselves into and out of delusion.ĭr. With demonstrations and audience participation I’ll try to show why consciousness is an illusion and how and why our delusions manage to trap us.Ĭan we escape? Perhaps meditation can point to a way by calming the mind perhaps mindfulness can help by dropping past and future perhaps psychedelic drugs can shine through the illusion of duality. ![]() ![]() Popular ideas, like the ‘contents of consciousness’ and the ‘stream of consciousness’ serve only to keep us confused. Consciousness researchers have no idea how to bring mind and matter together or how to solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness. This is because we are all so deeply deluded about our own minds. “Mysteries of consciousness: Falling in and out of illusion”Īre you conscious now? If so, what you are conscious of? And what you were conscious of a moment ago? I suspect you think you know, when really you don’t. ![]()
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