A Quote by Deepak Chopra
What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.
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Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.
If you have a very hot experience then shock yourself with cold water, it's very very good for the nervous system.
One very early influence was reading about John Cage's experience in an anechoic room where the only sound you are left with is the high-pitched drone of your nervous system.
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The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it's the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It's the only experience that utilizes the full brain.
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation... It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.
Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.
Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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