John Parker

“Birth and death are the two states that bracket our lives. One thrusts us crying into consensual reality from the Pleroma and the other ushers us back there at the end of life.”
― Anthony Peake, Opening the Doors of Perception: The Key to Cosmic Awareness

“It seems that the parietal lobes of the brain have the function of creating a sense of time and space, and when that part of the brain goes offline, we lose our sense of there being an inside and an outside to our experience.”
― Bodhipaksa, Living as a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change

“As part of the Six Element Practice, for example, we may repeat the phrase, “This is not me; this is not mine; I am not this.” A verse such as this is, as it were, dropped into the mind.”
― Bodhipaksa, Living as a River: Finding Fearlessness in the Face of Change

“Husserl had long ago considered the possibility that the whole intentional dance could just as easily be understood as occurring inside a person’s inner realm. Since the epoché suspended questions about whether things were real, nothing stood in the way of this interpretation. Real, not real; inside, outside; what difference did it make? Reflecting on this, Husserl began turning his phenomenology into a branch of ‘idealism’ — the philosophical tradition which denied external reality and defined everything as a kind of private hallucination. What”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others