Raj

philosophy of mind . phenomenology . psychology . psychosis . poetry . personal development . motivation .

[Raj @loookraj]

For the merchant of dreams, in the pinnacle of dread ;

serving for the programs the time rendered him here,

Now what relieves him to this strength of 'being content',

still serving to all these quests 'handicapped'--
is the hope in 'possibilities'.

#aesthete #schizophrenia

[MHED NIMHANS @mheduNIMHANS]

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[Raj @loookraj]

The form is perceived and the eye is its perceiver. It (eye) is perceived and the mind is its perceiver. The mind with its modifications is perceived and the Witness (the Self) is verily the perceiver. But It (the Witness) is not perceived (by any other).
(Drg Drsya Viveka)

[🌈 Rajesh Mohan @raj_psyc]

Excellent state-of-the-art seminar on #Depression in @TheLancet
Covers epidemiology, complex causation, diagnosis, comorbidity & treatments #openaccess https://t.co/ie818IoPFZ

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

Consciousness researchers accidentally proved the soul exists and internet is still not talking about it.

Dr. Pim van Lommel’s cardiac arrest study aimed to deepen our understanding of brain function during clinical death, not to confirm ancient spiritual teachings. In the process, he reported observations from 344 patients who described clear, continued awareness even when clinical measures showed no detectable electrical activity in the brain.

The Lancet published his findings in 2001. 18% of clinically dead patients reported detailed awareness of their resuscitation procedures, conversations between medical staff, and events in rooms they couldn't physically perceive. Their hearts had stopped. Their brains had shut down within 10 seconds. According to materialist neuroscience, consciousness should have been impossible.

Van Lommel accidentally proved that awareness operates independently of neural tissue.

The scientific community's response was silence.

Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia spent 40 years investigating children who spontaneously recalled previous lives. Over 3,000 documented cases. Children describing names, locations, relationships, and private details from lives they couldn't have known about through conventional means. Accuracy rates that exceeded statistical probability by orders of magnitude.

In Lebanon, a two year old accurately described his previous life as a mechanic in a village 25 miles away. He knew his former wife's name, his children's names, the location of his workshop, and identified personal belongings when researchers took him to the village. The family confirmed every detail, including information never made public.

Stevenson wasn't trying to prove reincarnation. He was investigating anomalous memory phenomena. His research accidentally demonstrated that memory storage transcends biological death.

The academic response was to ignore four decades of peer reviewed documentation.

Dr. Roger Sperry won the Nobel Prize for split brain research that accidentally revealed consciousness as something beyond neural activity. When the connection between brain hemispheres gets severed, patients become two separate conscious entities sharing one body. Each hemisphere demonstrates independent awareness, preferences, and decision making capabilities.

Sperry showed that unified consciousness isn't produced by the brain but operates through it. When the biological interface gets damaged, the underlying conscious entity fragments while remaining functional.

His findings support exactly what spiritual traditions describe as the soul operating biological hardware.

The implications were quietly avoided.

Terminal lucidity research has documented hundreds of cases where patients with severe brain damage suddenly regain complete mental clarity before death. Dr. Michael Nahm's studies show Alzheimer's patients with extensively destroyed neural tissue holding complex conversations, recognizing family members, and demonstrating personality traits that disappeared years earlier.

If consciousness emerged from brain chemistry, terminal lucidity would be physically impossible with damaged tissue.

Instead, it suggests consciousness withdrawing from a failing biological interface while remaining intact.

Heart transplant studies have recorded recipients developing donor personality traits, food preferences, and behavioral patterns. Claire Sylvia received a heart from an 18 year old motorcyclist and began craving foods she previously disliked while experiencing dreams about her donor.

Cardiologists documented these changes but refused to explore the implications that personality transcends physical organs.

The AWARE study at NYU monitored 2,060 cardiac arrest cases across 15 hospitals. Patients reported veridical perceptions of their medical treatments while clinically dead. They described ceiling mounted visual targets placed specifically to test whether consciousness could operate outside the body.

Dr. Sam Parnia's research accidentally validated out of body experiences using rigorous scientific protocols.

The medical establishment buried the findings in technical journals.

Advanced meditation research shows practitioners can observe their thought processes from a detached perspective while brain scans reveal suppressed activity in neural networks associated with self referential thinking. Consciousness demonstrates the ability to separate itself from mental activity and observe the brain's operations from an external vantage point.

Every study accidentally supports the ancient understanding that you are an eternal conscious entity temporarily operating biological machinery. Your brain serves as an interface device, translating between your soul's intentions and physical reality.

Memory belongs to the soul as accumulated impressions from multiple lifetimes. Personality reflects the soul's accumulated behavioral patterns. Awareness functions independently of neural tissue because consciousness originates beyond the physical dimension.

The research exists. The evidence is overwhelming. The conclusions are obvious.

The scientific community refuses to discuss what they accidentally discovered because it would require abandoning materialism as the foundation of modern research.

You are not your brain. You are the eternal observer operating it.

The soul is real, measurable, and scientifically documented.

Nobody wants to admit it.

[Lola 🥀⚘️ @LolaNeuroPhylo]

The Sixth Sense: Interoception

We usually focus on the external five senses, but interoception is the one that actually defines your sense of self.

It’s the nervous system’s ability to monitor your internal state, like your heart rate, muscle tension, or the specific "vibe" of your chest.

Neuroscience shows that our emotions are often the brain's attempt to label these internal physical signals.

If you feel "out of it" or disconnected from your body, it's usually because these interoceptive pathways have been dampened by stress or over-stimulation.

Reclaiming your sense of self starts with learning to hear these internal whispers before they have to scream.

[Tom Morgan @tomowenmorgan]

I've had 3 different synchronicities in one morning about this article, once again I'd recommend giving it your time.

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

"[We must] build bridges between psychology and sociology, between therapy and political economy, between personal healing and collective liberation. It means remembering that even the most private pain carries a public origin". https://t.co/WFzafrrDIt

[Matthias Michel @MatthiasMichel_]

The MIT Consciousness Club will have a Zoom option for those who would like to join online. First session Friday, Sept 19, 12pm-1:30pm. For more, see: https://t.co/hThTIkJIFE. You can also register to the email list here: https://t.co/cSGzcknLHH.

[Sheila Macrine, Ph.D. @MacrinePhD]

Are humans and AI merging into a new 'evolutionary individual'? As our interdependence deepens, the human-AI collective could become the new unit of selection, fundamentally altering our future. https://t.co/T2NS5i8fn3
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Evolution #FutureOfHumanity #Transhumanism

[Social Biobehavioural Research Group @UCL_SBB]

Interested in #SocialPrescribing for children, young people and families?

Join our next @SPYN_UK Member Meetup to:
🔎 Hear insights from our roundtables on embedding & sustaining youth social prescribing
🗣️ Share your views
🤝 Network

Register below 👇
https://t.co/lqRyLxTQ7f

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

Autism and social anxiety can look similar on the surface, but new research reveals meaningful differences in how empathy is experienced. The study proposes a new tool to help clinicians more accurately differentiate between the two conditions. https://t.co/oiQHNSfJQL

[DisabilityArtsOnline @disabilityarts]

Join Paul Wilshaw for an Our Right to Thrive webinar.
This webinar is for disabled writers who are interested in learning more the needs and provision of the learning disabled community.

When - 03 October
Where - Online
Cost - Free

https://t.co/rou0Nd2lDX

[TPM: The Philosophers Magazine @philosophersmag]

Philosophy Experiment: Should You Kill the Backpacker?

Trolley tracks, a loop, and a heavy backpack.
Does your answer change when physics does?

https://t.co/dFChvovddi

[David Eagleman @davideagleman]

Is AI going to go the same way as computing: from colossal LLMs owned by a few companies to billions of networked AI agents? How does that move parallel one of the great underappreciated secrets of the human brain? Join me this week with guest MIT Media Lab prof (and AI-decentralizer) Ramesh Raskar (@raskarmit).
https://t.co/gLDfsqGNxF
#brain #AI

[UF Center for Arts in Medicine @UFCAM]

🎨 Reminder! Want to learn how the arts are transforming health and wellbeing?

Join the UF Center for Arts in Medicine for a free virtual webinar introducing the field of Arts in Health—where creativity meets care.

🔗 Register now: https://t.co/6FbUdITJeN

@UFCOTA

[UofG CSPE @UofGCSPE]

We are pleased to make this event hybrid. Zoom details are available to those who subscribe to our mailing list. To do so please e-mail [email protected]. Details of the other events this year are available at:

https://t.co/7H4h1LKark

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

By David Finch

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Psychotic people follow scripts.

Let's talk about the glass delusion, the Middle Ages' bout with a mass psychogenic illness marked by people believing they were made of glass.

[Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social @AnnaCiaunica]

Looking forward to this conversation 😎👇🏼

Thank you for having me !

[MHED NIMHANS @mheduNIMHANS]

Community Connect by NIMHANS and Dept of Horticulture, Govt of Karnataka is a unique meet-up at Lalbagh, led by Dr. Pratima Murthy, where mental health experts and the public engage in open conversations to promote healing and community well-being
#CommunityConnect
#MentalHealth