Learning ·~~a floor · lake, then topic~~

Portraits

A life, seen through the one thing it gave.

the other way down

every lake, as its own floor

the therapy lake · the consciousness lake · the learning lake

Esther HicksAfter reading a channeler's books, a woman began to feel a presence in meditation. She and her husband called it Abraham. Forty years later, the law oconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Aldous HuxleyA novelist who nearly went blind as a teenager turned from medicine to writing, imagined a chilling future in 1932, then spent later decades arguing tconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Alice BaileyA British-American writer said a Tibetan teacher, Djwal Khul, contacted her telepathically and dictated twenty-four books over three decades, includinconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Bernardo KastrupA Dutch philosopher and computer scientist argues reality is fundamentally mental, with individual minds as dissociated fragments of one universal conconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Bert HellingerA German psychotherapist developed a group method where strangers stand in for a person's family, claiming their placement reveals hidden loyalties anconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Hans JennyA Swiss physician who vibrated powders and liquids on metal plates and photographed the patterns, coining the term 'cymatics.' He held that vibration consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Dean RadinChief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, he has spent four decades running lab experiments on telepathy and mind-matter effects, arguing sconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
John WheelerA Princeton physicist who helped revive general relativity and named the black hole later proposed that physical reality itself is built from yes-or-nconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Donald HoffmanA cognitive scientist whose early work on vision became textbook science now argues, from evolutionary game theory, that perception evolved for fitnesconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Edgar CayceA Kentucky photographer who lost his voice, then found he could fall into trance and diagnose illness. Over forty years he gave thousands of readings,consciousness
Federico FagginThe physicist who led design of the first commercial microprocessor had a 1990 experience that upended his materialist worldview; he now argues, with consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Fritz-Albert PoppA German biophysicist who coined the term 'biophoton' in the 1970s, arguing the faint light cells emit is coherent and coordinates activity through DNconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Gerald PollackA University of Washington bioengineering professor built a mainstream research career, then argued that water next to certain surfaces forms an orderconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Graham HancockA journalist argues an advanced ice-age civilization was destroyed by a comet-driven cataclysm, its survivors seeding ancient cultures worldwide. Archconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Helena BlavatskyA Russian-born occultist said hidden teachers showed her humanity's real history. She co-founded a movement, wrote two vast books, and was called a frconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Iain McGilchristA British psychiatrist argued the brain's two hemispheres offer fundamentally different ways of attending to the world, and built a sweeping cultural consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Ian StevensonA psychiatrist who spent four decades documenting young children, mostly outside the West, who described detailed memories of a specific previous lifeconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Ingo SwannAn American artist who described lifelong perceptual experiences became a central figure in government-funded remote-viewing research, coining the terconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Giulio TononiA neuroscientist proposed that consciousness could be measured with a single number, arguing any system that integrates information deeply enough has consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
J. Krishnamurti & U.G. KrishnamurtiA boy raised by the Theosophical Society to be a World Teacher dissolved that role at forty-three. Decades later an unrelated namesake, the self-styleconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
James LovelockAn independent British scientist proposed that Earth's life, oceans and atmosphere function together as one self-regulating system that keeps conditioconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Jim TuckerA child psychiatrist took over a decades-long research program on children's reported memories of a previous life, adding statistical scoring and new consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Lee CarrollA San Diego audio engineer says an entity called Kryon began speaking through him in 1989. He has since delivered its messages through more than a dozconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Lynn MargulisA biologist who said the cells of every plant and animal were built out of mergers — and was laughed at, until the evidence arrived.consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Mahavatar BabajiKnown only through Paramahansa Yogananda's 1946 autobiography and his teachers, a Himalayan master is said to have lived for centuries without aging, consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Manly P. HallA self-taught writer, barely twenty-seven, published a single enormous book trying to summarize the West's hidden traditions — alchemy, tarot, Kabbalaconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Mark WolynnA therapist trained in family-constellation work argues unresolved trauma in parents and grandparents can surface generations later as symptoms and beconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Masaru EmotoA Japanese author who photographed frozen water crystals and claimed that words, music and intention directed at water changed how the crystals formedconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Mata AmritanandamayiBorn to a fishing family in Kerala, she began embracing strangers as her core teaching. Her mission now runs hospitals and disaster relief — and one fconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Meher BabaBorn Merwan Sheriar Irani in Poona in 1894, he began total silence in 1925 and kept it for forty-four years, communicating by alphabet board and laterconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
MoojiBorn in Jamaica, a former London street portrait artist became a teacher of self-inquiry after meeting H.W.L. Poonja in India, and now leads a Portugaconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Paul StametsA largely self-taught mycologist argues underground fungal networks function like an information system, comparing them to neural nets and the interneconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Neville GoddardA dancer from Barbados who spent forty years telling audiences that imagination was the only thing doing anything.consciousness the same subject, another way — practice card
Daniel KolakA philosopher argues there is only one subject of experience, appearing to itself as every conscious being in history. Few philosophers of personal idconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Papaji (H.W.L. Poonja)A householder from Lucknow met his teacher in 1944 and, decades later, began receiving Western seekers by the hundreds — many of whom left believing aconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Roger Penrose & Stuart HameroffA mathematical physicist and an anesthesiologist proposed that consciousness arises from quantum processes inside brain proteins called microtubules, consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Pim van LommelA Dutch cardiologist tracked 344 cardiac-arrest survivors and published the results in The Lancet in 2001: 18% reported a near-death experience, with consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Barbara MarciniakIn a workshop in Greece, a trance channeler says a group calling themselves the Pleiadians began speaking through her. She has published their words iconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Ram DassBorn Richard Alpert in Boston in 1931, he was dismissed from Harvard in 1963 for psychedelic research, met a teacher in India in 1967 who renamed him,consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Robert A. JohnsonA Jungian analyst trained in Zurich under Emma Jung spent decades writing short, accessible books on inner psychology, then in 1991 gave general readeconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Robert MonroeA radio broadcasting executive said he began spontaneously leaving his body at night in 1958, then built a research institute and an audio technique mconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Robert SchochA Boston University geologist argues weathering on the Great Sphinx points to rainfall, not wind, pushing its true age back thousands of years before consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Rudolf SteinerA philosopher who said he perceived a spiritual world as plainly as a physical one — and left behind things you can still visit: schools, farms, a buiconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Rupert SheldrakeA Cambridge-trained biologist argues nature's patterns are shaped less by fixed laws than by inherited habit, carried through what he calls invisible consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Sri AurobindoA Cambridge-educated revolutionary turned to yoga after prison, then spent four decades in Pondicherry developing a philosophy in which evolution isn'consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Sri YukteshwarA Bengali swami published a book in 1894 arguing history moves in 24,000-year cycles and humanity was rising, not declining — then spent his last yearconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Stefano MancusoAn Italian botanist argues plants sense and coordinate responses to their environment sophisticated enough to call a kind of intelligence, reviving Daconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Stephen LevineA poet who began sitting with dying people in the 1970s argued that facing death directly, not avoiding it, was part of living fully — a case he made consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Alexander ChizhevskyA Soviet biophysicist who compared over two thousand years of wars and revolutions against the eleven-year sunspot cycle, and argued solar activity drconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Suzanne SimardA Canadian forest ecologist traced carbon moving between Douglas fir trees linked underground by fungal threads, and argued large, well-connected 'motconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Lynne McTaggartAn investigative journalist argued in a bestselling book that a quantum "Zero Point Field" links all matter and can be shaped by human thought. Physicconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Michael TalbotAn American writer wove a physicist's model of quantum reality and a neuroscientist's model of brain memory into a 1991 book, arguing together they poconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
The Monroe InstituteA Virginia research center built by broadcasting executive Robert Monroe has spent decades studying whether sound patterns can shift brain states and consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)Born in Paris, Mirra Alfassa became Sri Aurobindo's closest collaborator, then spent her final decades bringing conscious awareness into her own body'consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Jane RobertsA writer and her husband picked up a Ouija board while researching ESP, and a personality calling himself Seth began speaking through her. For twenty-consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Nick BostromA philosopher argued in 2003 that at least one of three propositions must be true, the last being that we are almost certainly living in a simulation.consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Tom CampbellA physicist who spent decades in defense and government work argues physical reality is the rendered output of a vast information-processing system orconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Viktor SchaubergerAn Austrian forest warden with no engineering training built a working log flume by studying how mountain streams move, then spent his later years chaconsciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Weston A. PriceA Cleveland dentist traveled the world in the 1930s photographing the teeth of people on traditional diets, arguing their decline followed a shift to consciousness the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Adi ShankaracharyaTradition places his birth in Kalady, Kerala, around 788 CE, though historians still debate the exact century. By tradition he renounced the world at learning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Allama Muhammad IqbalBorn in Sialkot in 1877, he studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in Munich, wrote poetry arguing the self should be strengthened, not dissolvedlearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Anandamayi MaBorn Nirmala Sundari in Kheora, Bengal, in 1896, she performed her own initiation alone at twenty-six, with no teacher, and spent decades in states oflearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Beatriz VillarroelAn astronomer at Nordita leads VASCO, a project comparing century-old sky photographs to modern surveys, and has reported point-like objects present ilearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Dolores CannonA self-trained hypnotherapist ran forty-six years of sessions, mostly people describing past lives under hypnosis. From what they said, she built a melearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Itzhak BentovA Czechoslovak-born inventor who built the steerable cardiac catheter, then wrote a bestselling book proposing a physical model of consciousness basedlearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Jaun EliaAn Urdu poet born in Amroha, who carried the loss of Partition and of the world he'd known into verse for fifty years — and became famous mostly afterlearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Kumar VishwasA Hindi poet from Pilkhuwa who built a mass following through kavi sammelans and one especially loved poem, then carried that fame into politics as a learning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Lahiri MahasayaShyama Charan Lahiri worked for decades as a government clerk in Varanasi, married with children, never a monk — yet a transfer to the Himalayas in 18learning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Neem Karoli BabaBorn Lakshman Narayan Sharma in Uttar Pradesh around 1900 — no record fixes the year — he became a wandering monk known across northern India as Neem learning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Nisargadatta MaharajBorn Maruti Shivrampant Kambli in Bombay in 1897, he ran a small shop until a teacher gave him one instruction — hold the sense 'I am' — and within thlearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Paramahansa YoganandaBorn Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur in 1893, he met his guru Sri Yukteswar in Serampore at seventeen, sailed to America in 1920 to teach meditation, alearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
RamakrishnaBorn Gadadhar Chattopadhyay in Bengal in 1836, he became priest of the Kali temple at Dakshineswar, then tested his devotion through Islam and Christilearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
Ramana MaharshiA sixteen-year-old lay down on the floor of his uncle's house, imagined his own death, and found that something in him did not die. He spent the next learning the same subject, another way — icebreaker
RumiA scholar's son whose family fled west from Central Asia as a child became a respected jurist in Konya — until a wandering dervish named Shams arrivedlearning the same subject, another way — verse
Swami SivanandaBorn Kuppuswami in Tamil Nadu in 1887, he practiced medicine in British Malaya for a decade, renounced it in 1923, reached Rishikesh in 1924, and founlearning the same subject, another way — icebreaker

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