What's all the fuss about consciousness?

Who Gnows? with Matthew E. Smith

Why do spiritual types always seem to want to talk about consciousness? What's all the fuss about? Should we care? Are God and consciousness somehow linked to each other? In a shorter episode than usual, Matthew dives into a brief explanation of why consciousness is so critical to many of the world's religions and why many of these episodes have questions surrounding changing and noticing different states of consciousness.

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Suggested reading:

Bentov, I. (1988). Stalking the wild pendulum: On the mechanics of consciousness. Rochester, VT: Destiny Books.

Singer, M. A. (2013). The untethered soul: The journey beyond yourself. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Dossey, L. (2013). One mind: How our individual mind is part of a greater consciousness and why it matters. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House.

Alexander, D. E. (2018). LIVING IN A MINDFUL UNIVERSE: A neurosurgeons journey into the heart of consciousness.

Monroe, R. A. (2014). Journeys out of the body. New York: Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC.

Clegg, B. (2013). Extra sensory: The science and pseudoscience of telepathy and other powers of the mind. New York: St. Martins Press.

Pratt, J. G., Rhine, J. B., Smith, B. M., Stuart, C. E., & Greenwood, J. A. (2011). Extra-sensory perception after sixty years: A critical appraisal of the research in extra-sensory perception. Literary Licensing, LLC.