"In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die; Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam-- Life, what is it but a dream?" - Lewis Carroll
"Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You are not wrong, who deem / That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away / In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

Table of Contents

Entanglement
Coalescence
Illusory Separation
Selflessness
Oneness
Consciousness
Collective Unconscious
Timelessness
Changelessness

Entanglement

"The infinitely far-away is not only near, but it is infinitely near." - Edward Conze, Buddhist linguist
Quantum entanglement is a label for when particles cannot be described independently of the state of the others, even when separated by a large distance. The term was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger who stated - “I would not call it one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics.”
"The phenomenon of entanglement is the essential fact of quantum mechanics, the fact that makes it so different from classical physics. It brings into question our entire understanding about what is real in the physical world." - Leonard Susskind, Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
"There is no empty space. When we go down - down - down - there is vibrations - stuff popping - invisible connections - entanglement." - Fred Alan Wolf, theoretical physicist
"Entanglement describes the phenomenon that two particles may be so intimately connected to each other that the measurement of one instantly changes the quantum state of the other, no matter how far away it may be..." - Anton Zeilinger, quantum physicist
"Entanglement can occur in large systems as well as warm ones—including living organisms. We can’t simply write quantum effects off as mere details. The entanglements are primary." - Vlatko Vedral, Oxford physicist
"According to the Big Bang Theory, all the matter in the universe was originally in contact, concentrated in a “very hot dot” of matter-energy that exploded resulting in the universe. If the theory is valid, a requirement for non-local connection was met early on." - Larry Dossey, One Mind
"A non-local connection links up one location with another without crossing space, without decay, and without delay." - Nick Herbert, physicist
"Universal non-locality offers us profound evidence that our Universe is fundamentally interconnected as a unified entity." - Jude Currivan, cosmologist
“We live in a highly entangled, interconnected universe where a fundamental information field is shared to generate organized matter and eventually self-organizing systems, leading to organisms reflecting back on themselves and asking fundamental questions about existence." - Nassim Haramein, physicist
"Inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality..." - David Bohm, physicist
"In principle, any objects that have ever interacted are forever entangled, and therefore what happens to one influences the other. Quantum theory has this connectedness extending over the entire universe." - Rosenblum/Kuttner, physicist
"The entangled objects somehow communicate instantaneously at a distance. Distance has no meaning. Light-years have no meaning. Space has no meaning. In a sense, the entangled objects are not even communicating. They are the same thing. All is one." - Roger Ebert
"Reality is woven from strange, “holistic” threads that aren’t located precisely in space or time. Tug on a dangling loose end from this fabric of reality, and the whole cloth twitches, instantly, throughout all space and time." - Dean Radin, Senior Scientist at IONS
"Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way, the concept of "empty space" loses its meaning." - Albert Einstein
"Did you know that the atom itself is mostly empty space? Almost completely empty, but with tiny fragments of matter. And since this entire universe is made up of atoms, everything that we see and touch... In fact, the very floor beneath us is made up of almost completely empty space. The only reason we don't fall through it is because these tiny particles of matter are just whirling about at such speed that they give us the illusion of solidity." - Mulholland Falls
"Solid matter, in the strict construction of the term, simply does not exist. The Universe is composed of interacting energy fields, some at rest and some in motion. It is, in and of itself, one gigantic hologram of unbelievable complexity." - De-classified CIA document
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." - Nikola Tesla
“Atoms consist of particles and these particles are not made of any material stuff. When we observe them, we never see any substance; what we observe are dynamic patterns continually changing into one another - a continuous dance of energy.” - Fritjof Capra, physicist
"I insist upon the view that 'all is waves'." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." - The Kybalion
"We like to think of space as empty and matter as solid. But in fact, there is essentially nothing to matter whatsoever -- it's completely insubstantial. Take a look at an atom. We think of it as a kind of hard ball. Then we say, oh well, no, not really, it's this little tiny point of really dense matter right at the center, surrounded by a kind of fluffy probability cloud of electrons popping in and out of existence. But then it turns out that that's not even right -- even the nucleus, which we think of as so dense, pops in and out of existence just as readily as the electrons do. The most solid thing you can say about all this insubstantial matter is that it's more like a thought, it's like a concentrated bit of information." - Jeffrey Satinover, physicist
"When a piece of seemingly solid matter like a human hand is placed under a microscope, we can see that it is made up of molecules. As we move closer, we see atoms, the tiny shadowy balls dancing around their fixed locations. We focus on one of the atoms; its interior is lightly veiled by a cloud of electrons. We come closer, increasing the magnification. The shell dissolves and we look on the inside to find… nothing. Somewhere within that emptiness, we know is a nucleus. We scan the space, and there it is, a tiny dot. At last, we have discovered something hard and solid, a reference point. But no! as we move closer to the nucleus, it too begins to dissolve. It too is nothing more than an oscillating field, waves of rhythm. Inside the nucleus are other organized fields: protons, neutrons, even smaller “particles.” Each of these, upon our approach, also dissolve into pure rhythm." - George Leonard, The Silent Pulse
“Matter is mostly ghostly empty space.” - Sir Arthur Eddington, physicist
“The nucleus of an atom takes up as much room in the atom as an ant on a football field.” - Diane Powell, neuroscientist
"Form is emptiness, emptiness is form / Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness / Whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form." - The Heart Sutra
"Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aspects of human existence are empty. Answering the monk Sarioutra, he said this: Body is nothing more than emptiness, emptiness is nothing more than body. The body is exactly empty, and emptiness is exactly body. The other four aspects of human existence - feeling, thought, will and consciousness - are likewise nothing more than emptiness, and emptiness nothing more than they. All things are empty: Nothing is born, nothing dies, nothing is pure, nothing is strained, nothing increases and nothing decreases. So, in emptiness, there is no body, no feeling, no thought, no will, no consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no imagining." - Shouta Sakaki
"Emptiness is not nothing, it's everything, everything at once." - The Womb of Buddhas
"I realized that I can no longer define the boundaries of my body. I can't define where I begin and where I end, because the atoms and the molecules of my arm blended with the atoms and molecules of the wall. I felt at one with all the energy that was, and it was beautiful there.” - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, neuroscientist

Coalescence

"Things of nature tend by their very nature to coalesce with each other... - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"No one can study ancient philosophies seriously without perceiving the striking similitude of conception between all. The result of no mere coincidence, but of a concurrent design: and that there was, during the youth of mankind, one language, one knowledge, one universal religion, when there were no churches, no creeds or sects... Human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe... born under whatever latitude, in the cold North or the burning South, in the East or West, that thought was inspired by the same revelations, and man was nurtured under the protecting shadow of the same tree of knowledge. - H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
"Every priest of an ancient creed was one of the Initiates, that is to say, he knew perfectly well that only one religion existed, and that the cultus merely served to translate this religion to the different nations according to their particular temperaments. To anyone possessing the key, all these Bibles reveal the same doctrine; but this key, which can open Esoterism, is lost by the sectarians of our Western creeds. Yet every cultus has its tradition, its book, its Bible, which teach those who know how to read them the unity of all creeds, in spite of the differences existing in the ritual of various countries." - The Tarot of the Bohemians
"There is no religion higher than truth." - Theosophical Society Motto
“There is only one truth, only men describe it in different ways.” - Rig-Veda
"The Bahá'í Faith states that there is a fundamental unity in many of the world's religions. It is one of the core teachings, alongside the unity of God, and the unity of humanity."
Huayan is a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that developed the doctrine of "coalescence." Huayan holds that all phenomena are deeply interconnected.
Taoism is a Chinese tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao or 'the Way.' It refers to the principle that is the source, pattern and substance of everything that exists.
"The definition of Kabbalah is receptiveness. Having seamless unity from self to the whole. Like a hologram, everything is continuously interconnected as one integral unity." - Rabbi Simon Jacobson
"The whole of Gurmat wisdom has been summarized most beautifully into one single digit. Ik "Oneness" means everything in the whole entire creation is one thing that looks like many different things. - Satpal Singh
"All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything." - Swami Vivekananda
"Ultimately, the entire universe has to be understood as a single undivided whole, in which analysis into separately and independently existent parts has no fundamental status." - David Bohm, physicist
"God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere." - Empedocles
"God is the superposition of all the spirit from all things." - William Tiller, professor of material science & engineering
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is this God he is worshipping." - Hubert Reet
“The essential features of the implicate order are that the whole universe is in some way enfolded in everything, and that each thing is enfolded in the whole.” - David Bohm, physicist
"That which is infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. To have infinity you must identify or define the infinity as unity. This unity is all that there is." - Carla Rueckert
"For what shall I wield a dagger, O Lord? What can I pluck it out of, Or plunge it into, When you are all the world?" - Devara Dasimayya
"The Soul contains all things but holds them all in an unextended unity. Differences unfold themselves, contraries are produced, but all is drawn into one organized system by the unity at the source. When you know that you have become this perfect work, when you are self-gathered in the purity of your being, nothing now remaining can shatter that inner unity... From unity they have arisen, and towards unity, they strive. Unity is thus identical with Goodness; for no being ever came into existence without possessing, from that very moment, an irresistible tendency towards unity. Every separate existent is an adjusted part, holding its own characteristic and yet contributing by its own native tendency to the entire life-history of the Universe. All blending into a kosmos that must be alert throughout, every member living by its own life, nothing that can have existence failing to exist within it. The All could not have its huge life unless its every member had a life of its own. The secret lies in a variety within a unity. And on what has thus been compacted to unity, Beauty enthrones itself." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"The mind creates the world and all the wonderful variety of it. Just like in a good play you have all sorts of characters and situations, so you need a little of everything to make a world." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
“That Universal Being, that contains all, and which is all, put into motion the Soul and the World, all that nature comprises. In the manifold unity of universal life, the innumerable individualities distinguished by their variations, are, nevertheless, united in such a manner that the whole is one, and that everything proceeds from Unity.” - Hermes, Asclepios
"A vast similitude interlocks all … All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different … All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any other globe, All lives, and deaths, all of the past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has spanned, And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them." - Walt Whitman
"All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots." - Gospel of Mary
"God is one in Hasidic teachings means not God is one, but that everything is part of the divine. That means we're all connected. It means we're all children of God. It means we can all be here for each other. It means we're responsible for the world." - Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak
“Above all other relationships he recognizes the universal brotherhood of every living thing. The symbol of the clasped hands, explained in the Lodge, reflects his attitude towards all the world, for he is the comrade of all created things. - The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. And that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.” - Stephen Chbosky
"The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its Powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real Peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men." - Hehaka Sapa, Wichasha Wakan
"Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void." - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
"All flows from one source englobing and safeguarding all qualities- sweetness with fragrance, wine- quality and the savours of everything that may be tasted, all colours seen, everything known to touch, all that ear may hear, all melodies, every rhythm. For all There is heaven; earth is heaven, and sea heaven; and animal and plant and man; all is the heavenly content of that heaven: and the Gods in it... The soul which has never strayed from this love waits for no reminding from the beauty of our world... for it sees that all is put together..." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was home. Earth was beautiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery." - Chief Standing River of the Lakota
"If there is any such thing at all as intelligence, and love, and beauty, well, you’ve found it in other people. It exists in us as human beings. If it is there, in us, it is symptomatic of the scheme of things, as the apples are symptomatic of the apple tree or the rose of the rose bush. Our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system,and its balances, as much as the solar system, in turn, is a symptom of our galaxy, and our galaxy in its turn is a symptom of the whole company of galaxies." - Alan Watts
"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy." - Max Ehrmann
"Throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you..." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist

Illusory Separation

"Devoid of space / Is the mind of grace." - Jack Kerouac
"My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind." - Albert Einstein
"The hours by the window had filled me with a direct certainty that time, space and causality, that the isolation, separateness and spatio-temporal limitations of the self were merely optical illusions…" - Arthur Koestler, Sonning Prize Winner
“Basically, everything is one. There is no way in which you draw a line between things. What we do is make these subdivisions, but they’re not real. I think maybe poets … have some understanding of this.” - Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize-Winning physiologist
"All things by immortal power, Near or far, Hiddenly / To each other linked are, That thou canst not stir a flower / Without troubling of a star..." - Francis Thompson, poet
"A dualistic world is the one offered to us by the Calvinists’ belief that society is made up of the divinely deserving rich and the undeserving poor. This particular dualistic ontology has failed repeatedly since the time of the French Revolution, even though certain individuals and societies keep trying to revive it. The nondual view says that we are all one in consciousness and that there is no separation. In the nonlocal and nondual world I am describing here, your connection to the tired and crabby woman at the cash register is even more than just a reflection of you—she is you." - Russell Targ, physicist
“Each of us is, as such, the same person, apparently diversified and separated through the kaleidoscope of thought and perception.…We are literally each other. Each of us is the outer face, or the objectification, of the only mind there is, eternal, infinite consciousness. We are all mirrors of the same consciousness.” - Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer believed that humans risk their lives for one another because the rescuer realizes that he or she and the individual in need are one. He stated - “Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. My own true inner being actually exists in every living creature as truly and immediately as known to my consciousness only in myself. This realization is the ground of compassion upon which all true, that is to say unselfish, virtue rests...”
"At the decisive moment, the sense of separation is totally overcome. The prior sense of separateness is simply a function of the way we experience things in space and time. Because we experience ourselves as one with the person in need, when we risk our life to save them, we are essentially saving ourselves." - Larry Dossey, One Mind
"I want you to see the beauty of giving love where it isn't merited. Any man can give love where he's sure it's returned. That isn't love at all. But to give love with no thought of merit, no thought of return, no thought of gratitude even. That's ordinarily the privilege of God." - Edward Paramore
"Unselfishness is God." - Swami Vivekananda
"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." - Thomas Merton
"The pure mind sees things as they are — bubbles in consciousness. These bubbles are appearing, disappearing and reappearing — without having real being. No particular cause can be ascribed to them, for each is caused by all and affects all. Each bubble is a body and all these bodies are mine." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"The distinction between yourself and others is not visible to us. Thus, to learn is the same as to teach... "Love" implies a unity that is so great that we do not see each other simply as close friends, or brothers and sisters, but, ideally, we see one being. - Carla Rueckert
"Dense bodies actually prevent sight; the less material the intervening substance is, the more clearly we see... The gods see, each singly and all as one... It must, no doubt, seem strange that my feelings be felt by someone else, my goodness another's too, my desire, his desire, all our experience shared with each other so that the very universe itself would feel whatever I felt. For all is transparent, nothing dark, nothing resistant; every being is lucid to every other, in breadth and depth; light runs through light. Light everywhere meets with light; since every thing contains all things in itself, and again sees all things in another." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
“This becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of humanity’s ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love.” - Plato, The Symposium, 385–370 BC.
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” - Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"We're all one river till we hit this cliff. That distance between the top of the cliff and the bottom of the cliff is our life. And all the individual little droplets think they really are individual little droplets until they hit the bottom, and then they're gone. But that droplet doesn't lose anything, it gains. It gains the rest of the river." - Mark Bittner
There once was a tiny drop of rainwater that fell from the great, rolling skies far above and into a vast run river down below ...and became it. And yet did the raindrop retain its very identity. Yet how could this be? For it was, after all, no longer a raindrop. It was now the river. It became the awareness of the river by realizing upon entering that it and the river had never been apart to begin with. As a raindrop, however, it had lost sight of this truth and felt itself small and separated. Upon entry into the river, its identity did not become replaced by the river's - the river's identity did not obliterate the raindrops. Rather, the raindrop came to ultimately realize that its true identity had all along been much more grand, much more vast than it had ever prior given itself credit for. The raindrop is the river. - Freeman Broiler
"It is self-created in the sense that at its very centre is the false idea of oneself as a thing different and separate from other things. In reality you are not a thing, nor separate. You are the infinite potentiality; the inexhaustible possibility. Because you are, all can be. The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"We often say that you can only think one thing at a time. The truth is that in looking at the world bit by bit we convince ourselves that it consists of separate things, and so give ourselves the problem of how these things are connected and how they cause and effect each other. The problem would never have arisen if we had been aware that it was just our way of looking at the world which had chopped it up into separate bits, things, events, causes, and effects. So-called opposites, such as light and darkness, are poles or aspects of the same thing. But we have no word for that thing, save such vague concepts as Existence, Being, God, or the Ultimate Ground of Being. We really feel that this world is indeed an assemblage of separate things that have somehow come together or, perhaps, fallen apart, and that we are each only one of them. In other words, we do not play the Game of Black-and-White. Instead, we play the game of Black-versus-White or, more usually, White-versus Black. Not realizing the inseparability of the positive and negative poles of the rhythm. Now you can begin to see the world as it is. And you don't see any past, and you don't see any future. You don't see a difference between yourself and the rest of it. - Alan Watts, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Selflessness

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” - Alan Watts
"If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you!" - Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
"What I’m doing at the moment is not completely described unless your being here is described also. In order to describe my behavior, I have to describe your behavior and the behavior of the environment... That what I am involves what you are. I don’t know who I am unless I know who you are. And you don’t know who you are unless you know who I am. We define each other; we’re all backs and fronts to each other. We know who we are in terms of other people; we all lock together." - Alan Watts
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." - Albert Einstein
"The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon." - Fred Alan Wolf, theoretical physicist
"No such thing as selves exist in the world. At least for all conscious beings so far known to us it is true that they neither have nor are a self. Some organisms possess conscious self-models, but such self-models certainly are not selves – they are only complex brain states." - Thomas Metzinger, Being No One
"We know what an observer, from the point of view of quantum physics; but we don't know who or what the observer actually is. It doesn't mean we haven't tried to find an answer. We've looked; we've gone inside of your head, we've gone into every orifice you have, to find something called an observer. And there's nobody home -- there's nobody in the brain. There's nobody in the cortical regions of the brain. There's nobody in the sub-cortical regions or the limbic regions of the brain; there's nobody there called an observer. And yet we all have this experience of being something called an observer, observing the world out there." - Fred Alan Wolf, theoretical physicist
"We do not need a new religion or a new bible. We need a new experience--a new feeling of what it to be "I." The lowdown (which is, of course, the secret and profound view) on life is that our normal sensation of self is a hoax or, at best, a temporary role that we are playing, or have been conned into playing. If you know that "I", in the sense of the person, the front, the ego, it really doesn't exist, then it won't go to your head too badly." - Alan Watts
"Why are you unhappy? Because nearly everything that you say and do is for your “self”—and there isn’t one." - Chinese Proverb
"The mind in itself is not dysfunctional. It is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are." - Eckhart Tolle, Power of the Now
"The wise man beholds all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings; for that reason, he does not hate anyone." - Isa Upanishad
"The realised man is egoless; he has lost the capacity of identifying himself with anything. He is without location, placeless, beyond space and time, beyond the world. Beyond words and thoughts is he." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"Just as one is free from the ideas of 'me' and 'mine' in respect of others' bodies, so, one becomes free from those ideas in respect of one's own body when one knows the Supreme Truth." - Upadesa Sahasri
"You are confused, because you believe that you are in the world, not the world in you ... Don’t you see that all your problems are your body’s problems — food, clothing, shelter, family, friends, name, fame, security, survival — all these lose their meaning the moment you realize that you may not be a mere body." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"Your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too." - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
"Yes, everything is one. I am one with what I am. I can see everything in color. Everything. I've never seen such infinite beauty in my life. I, I me? There isn't any me." - Test Subject
"Establish yourself firmly in the awareness of 'I AM'. This is the beginning, and also the end of all endeavor. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. Once you are convinced that you cannot say truthfully about your self anything except ‘I am’, and that nothing that can be pointed at, can be your self, the need for the ‘I am’ is over -- you are no longer intent on verbalizing what you are. All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"I found myself precipitated into a sense of identity with the whole phenomenal world: the earth, the sky, the houses and people; the trees and birds and clouds, I saw to be my self. I disappeared as a separate being, yet retained full consciousness, a consciousness expanded to include everything..." - Benjamin Creme
"When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner and the above as the below then shall you enter the Kingdom. If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you." - The Gospel of Thomas
"I've become the nuclear image of eternity, I'm the original stuff. All the universes find their pattern in my being for I'm the cosmic infinitesmal. I'm the source. I'm the fountain. Exploding in your face (with a flick of my wrist a new cosmos begins.) How glorious to be alive. Be here with me now in timeless micro-infinity. Reality now an oceanic flow of particles in everchanging patterns. Panta rei. Undulating within the ultimate core of self, which is no-self. Inside this boundless thought wave, all is one and one is god. (Truth is one. sui generis). Everything is coming in waves and from all sides. Nuclear, molecular and cellular layers. Modular wave-hierarchies. Epi-phenomenon of the ground-of-being of all other grounds-of-being. In a fractual involution. The reversal of evolution, becoming is absolute. Time is dying a slow death. The eschaton is near. I'm into an ideational singularity: propelling towards the neuro-galatic center, the transcendental nexus of self and world. A cosmic junction where on a physical level: matter and anti-matter merge into each other, into emptiness, and on a psychic level god and self are inextricably intertwined. I'm imploding into MySelf. MyGod. oh. god. I'm home... tathagata - cakkhuvinnanadhatu ...yathabhutam. yathabhutam. yathabhutam. yathabhutam. yathabhutam..." (transl. pali 'thus-gone - the visual cognition as it really is'). - Fredrik Thordendal
"The city is distant. From it, at times, in the twilight calm, the sound of bells reaches me. But now I hear those bells no longer inside me; but outside, rung for themselves, and perhaps they quiver with joy in their humming hollowness, in a fine blue sky filled with hot sun amid the shriek of the swallows or in the cloudy wind, heavy and high over their airy spires. To think of death, to pray. There are those who still have this need, and the bells become their voice. I no longer have this need; because I die at every instant, and I am reborn, new and without memories: live and whole, no longer inside myself, but in everything outside." - Luigi Pirandello, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Oneness

"This is It / and I am It / and You are It / and so is That / and He is It / and She is It / and It is It / and That is That." - James Broughton
The All is the Hermetic, pantheistic, pandeistic or panentheistic view of God, which is that everything that is, or at least that can be experienced, collectively makes up The All.
"Inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
"I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire ... To see myself in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
And I think [the sages] point to the same depth in you, and in me, and in all of us. I think they are plugged into the All…. Your identity is indeed the All, and you are no longer part of that stream, you are that stream, with the All unfolding not around you but in you. - Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything
Emanationism is an idea in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious or philosophical systems. Emanation meaning "to flow from" is the mode by which all things are derived from the first reality, or principle.
Monism attributes oneness or singleness to existence. Priority monism states that all existing things go back to a source that is distinct from them; e.g., in Neoplatonism, everything is derived from The One.
"Reach out and beyond / Wake up, remember / We are born of one breath, one word / We are all one spark, eyes full of wonder" - TOOL - Pneuma
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
Open individualism is the view in the philosophy of personal identity, according to which there exists only one numerically identical subject, who is everyone at all times.
Monopsychism is the belief that all humans share the same eternal consciousness, soul, mind, and intellect.
“Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown; … there is only one thing and that, what seems to be a plurality, is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing...” - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
“Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it. ” - David Bohm, physicist
"Mind by its very nature is a singulare tantum. I should say: the over-all number of minds is just one." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
"There is but one indivisible and absolute Omniscience and Intelligence in the Universe, and this thrills throughout every atom and infinitesimal point of the whole..." - H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
"There is only One, the Self, who appears to be many to deluded vision, like the moon appearing more than one to eyes affected by amaurosis." - Upadesa Sahasri
"This Absolute Oneness alone is Real since there is nothing other than the Self. Truly, there is no other independent entity in the state of full realization of the supreme Truth." - Vivekachudamani
"If everything is everything, not only does each thing contain all other things, but a thing has to find itself within no matter what other thing-what is more, in the things it contains. The fact of being contained in something coexists with the fact of containing this same thing. The container is also the content of what it contains. This identity is not logical, it is topological and dynamic. Every object is a site for every other object and, conversely, to be a place is to find one's world in every other thing. In a certain sense, any thing is a world-where the world is no longer the ultimate, unreachable horizon given only at the end of time and at the farthest extension of space, but the intensional identity with any of its objects. Being in the world no longer means finding oneself in an infinite space that contains everything else; it means being no longer able to experience being in a place without finding this place in yourself, and thus becoming the place of your place. The world is the force that reverses any inherence into its opposite, transforms any ingredient into a place, and any place into an element of the same compound." - Emanuele Coccia, The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture
"Present entire at every point of the body and the universe, an identity numerically one, undivided entire, omnipresent. Seeking nothing, possessing nothing, lacking nothing, the One is perfect and has overflowed, and its exuberance has produced the new: this product has turned again to its begetter and been filled and has become its contemplator and so an Intellectual-Principle. We may think of the One as a light before the light, an eternal irradiation resting upon the Intellectual Realm; this, not identical with its source, is yet not severed from it nor of so remote a nature as to be less than Real-Being; it is no blind thing, but is seeing and knowing, the primal knower." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being -- I am that." - Amritbindu Upanishad
“I honor the place in you where the entire Universe resides. I honor the place in you of love, of light, of peace and of truth. I honor the place in you, that is the same in me. There is but one." - Namaste, Ancient Sanskrit
" For every sunset, a sunrise. Inside desire is the root of motion, all dancing in the media of space, time, matter. Oh you are alive. Is being Is All Is God Is Infinite Is Me... Hi Pal." - John Thompson, Kuklōps Comics
"He who sees Me in everything and everything in Me, him shall I never forsake, nor shall he lose Me." - The Bhagavad Gita
"In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole, and complete. Each one of us, myself included, experiences the richness and fullness of life in ways that are meaningful to us. I now look at the past with love and choose to learn from my old experiences. There is no right or wrong, nor good or bad. The past is over and done. There is only the experience of the moment. I love myself for bringing myself through this past into this present moment. I share what and who I am, for I know we are all one in Spirit. All is well in my world." - Louise L. Hay
"The suffering, wars, and confused search for meaning we are experiencing as a species are all manifestations of our inner selves sensing but not yet quite grasping our true nature. Our hardware is fine; it’s our awareness of our psychic software that must be upgraded—and quickly, given the critical state of affairs. When we accomplish that, we will realize that, in consciousness, we are all one. That realization will make our stirrings of compassion feel much more natural than waging war and stealing from the poor." - Russell Targ, physicist

Consciousness

"Consciousness is the ear of the ear, the thought of the thought, the speech of the speech, the breath of the breath and the eye of the eye…" - Upadesa Sahasri
"The world of our sense experience is comprehensible. That it is comprehensible is a miracle.." - Albert Einstein
Indefinite Monism is a philosophical conception of reality that asserts that only Awareness is real. Awareness in this system is not equivalent to consciousness. Rather, Awareness is the venue for consciousness.
"Consciousness is not something that you have, it's something that you are." - Eckhart Tolle
"You must realise first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"God is cause of Himself; for Himself and of Himself He is what He is, the first self, transcendently The Self. Since no other has generated Him, He is what He made Himself: He is not, therefore, as He happened to be but as He acted Himself into being. He had no need of being who brought it to be. All is always so and all is always so reproduced: therefore the reason-principles of things must lie always within the producing powers in a still more perfect form... The act of the will must be self-determined and the being self-caused; thus reason shows the Supreme to be its own Author..." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
"The Universe is Mental--held in the Mind of THE ALL." - The Kybalion
"Consciousness is the source of all reality. The entire human being, brain, consciousness and all, is like the universe which surrounds him, nothing more or less than an extraordinarily complex system of energy fields." - De-classified CIA document
"I see the world as it is, a momentary appearance in consciousness... Consciousness and the world appear and disappear together, hence they are two aspects of the same state." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe." - John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.” - Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
"Consciousness is much more of the implicate order than is matter . . . Yet at a deeper level [matter and consciousness] are actually inseparable and interwoven, just as in the computer game the player and the screen are united by participation." - David Bohm, physicist
"According to my view of quantum theory, matter does not produce consciousness. It is the other way around. Consciousness produces material events." - Norman Friedman, physicist
"The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a universal Mind... To put the conclusion crudely — the stuff of the world is mind-stuff." - Arthur Eddington, astrophysicist
“Consciousness does not exist because the physical world does; the physical world exists because consciousness does." - Jim Tucker, Ph.D.
"When you sense and perceive of yourself, where do those sensations and perceptions occur? They occur here in your field of consciousness. They are nothing but modulations of consciousness. They are made of consciousness. Your body is made of consciousness. Your body exists in your mind." - Mark Gober, An End to Upside Down Thinking
"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accidental intruder into the realm of matter; we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as a creator and governor of the realm of matter..." - James Jeans, physicist/astronomer
"What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You didn't come into this world, you came out of it. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing." - Alan Watts
"Body consciousness and the world are not different; they are identical." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"How does your mind look to your eyes? It looks like what you see out in front of you. Because all that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head." - Alan Watts
"The external world is as much you as your own body. Your skin doesn’t separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you, and you flow into it. - Alan Watts
"The one prevailing idea found in all ancient teaching is that the whole Kosmos has sprung from the divine thought. Everything in the Universe is conscious. Consciousness contains the cognizer, the thing cognized and the cognition, all three in itself and all three one." - H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
"There are no distinctions such as the knower, the knowledge and the known. In the dream state, even though there is no contact with the external world, the mind alone projects the entire dream-universe of the enjoyer, etc. Similarly, the waking-state is no different. All this world of myriad phenomena is but a projection of the mind. Just as the wave, the surf, the whirlpool, the bubbles, etc. are all, in essence, nothing but water, so too, Consciousness alone is everything from the body, to the ego. - Vivekachudamani
"Let a man first purify himself and then observe: he will see all things in an Intellectual substance, himself having become an Intellectual Kosmos... No doubt since knower, knowing, and known, are identical, all merges into a unity... No longer is there a spectator outside gazing on an outside spectacle; the clear-eyed hold the vision within themselves... In that Intellectual Kosmos, where all is one total, every entity that can be singled out is an intellective essence and a participant in life... For every real being must be in actuality not merely in potentiality..." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"There is no separation between the subject (knower), the object of knowledge (known), and the act of knowing (knowledge). This means that the knower and the known are not separate entities but rather two aspects of a single reality. In this state, there is no longer a distinction between the observer and the observed, and everything merges into a unity." - AI
"Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only ... Just as the dream is not apart from the dreamer, so is knowing not apart from being. The dream is the dreamer, the knowledge is the knower, the distinction is merely verbal ... In ignorance the seer becomes the seen and in wisdom he is the seeing." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"Today a young man on acid realized we are all just energy condensed to a slooooow vibration. We are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively . There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather." - Bill Hicks
"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together…. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This Spirit is the matrix of all matter.“ - Max Planck, Noble Prize winning physicist
"When the mind becomes very silent, you can clearly see that all that exists in the world are brief moments of consciousness arising together with the six sense objects. If you can make the mind very focused you see that the whole world breaks down into these small events of sight and the knowing, sound and the knowing, thought and the knowing. No longer are these houses, cars, bodies or even oneself. All you see are particles of consciousness as experience. You will see differently that consciousness is like waves, like a sea, an ocean. Now it is not particles but instead every sight and every sound is contained in this ocean of consciousness. From this perspective, there is no sense of particles at all." - Jack Kornfield
"You really have to recognize that even the material world around us -- the chairs, the tables, the rooms, the carpet, camera included -- all of these are nothing but possible movements of consciousness. And I am choosing moment to moment, out of those movements, to bring my actual experience into manifestation. This is the only radical thinking that we need to do. But it is so radical, it's so difficult, because our tendency is that the world is already out there, independent of my experience. It is not; quantum physics has been so clear about it. Heisenberg himself, co-discoverer of quantum physics, said atoms are not things. They're only tendencies. So, instead of thinking of things, we have to think of possibilities. They're all possibilities of consciousness." - Amit Goswami, theoretical nuclear physicist
"It´s like a thought wave - invisible state OR quantum wave function spread over space and time. Not a wave of matter, but a wave in what? In a universal ocean - an ocean of pure potentiality - a unified field - superstring field that of which we are all made of." - John Hagelin, Ph.D.
"My world is myself. I am at home. You are the pure awareness that illuminates consciousness and its infinite content. Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness... Awareness is the common matrix of every experience." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"Imagine that all of reality is a stream of water, where water represents consciousness. Now imagine that within the stream, whirlpools form. While they may look different from other parts of the stream, the whirlpools are made of nothing more than water. To say that the brain generates mind is as absurd as to say that a whirlpool generates water. - Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D., philosopher
"There is nothing about a brain, studied at any scale, that even suggests that it might harbor consciousness." - Sam Harris, neuroscientist
“It is very difficult for us to take stock of the fact that the localization of the personality, of the conscious mind, inside the body is only symbolic, just an aid for practical use.” - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
“Mind is first. Consciousness exists independently of brain activity. It does not depend upon the brain for its survival. The brain is not the creator of the mind, it is an antenna/receiver for the mind." - Gary Schwartz, psychologist
"Matter is not that which produces consciousness, but that which limits it and confines its intensity within certain limits.” - F. C. S. Schiller, philosopher
“As a neurosurgeon, I was taught that the brain creates consciousness…The truth is that the more we come to understand the physical brain, the more we realize it does not create consciousness at all. We are conscious in spite of our brain. The brain serves more as a reducing valve or filter, limiting pre-existing consciousness..." - Eben Alexander, neurosurgeon / 2
"The idea that a consciousness can exist and make memories independent of the brain … is a startling finding." - Dr. Allan Hamilton, Harvard Ph.D. (Commenting on a patient’s detailed memories that occurred when they had no brain activity.)
Neuropsychologist Karl Lashley wanted to understand where memories are stored in the brain. To do this, he trained rats to do tasks for food. Once they learned the task, he systematically destroyed one part of their brain at a time. Miraculously, the rats could still perform the tasks regardless of which part of the brain was destroyed. This test was also successful with both monkeys, salamanders and has been naturally observed in humans.
Consciousness is not a Computation
The Game of Hide & Seek
The Egg
Analytical Idealism, The Self, and Connectedness

Collective Unconscious

"The brain breathes mind like the lungs breathe air." - Huston Smith, philosopher
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me." - Hermann Hesse
“In any great discovery we find the often disturbing and happy experience: ‘It is not I; I have not done this.’ Still, in a certain way it is I—yet not the ego … but … a more comprehensive self." - Baron Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist/philosopher
Collective Unconscious is a term that refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species. Coined by Carl Jung who stated - "In addition to our immediate consciousness there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited."
“Reduce the whole to its primordial substance and nothing would remain but you, a dimensionless presence, the conceiver." - Neville Goddard
"Supreme Divine Original Being and the Universal Oneness born from it are universal truths and principles that all spiritually evolved souls can sense and understand ... they are the ones who already know these ancient truths inscribed in their genetic memory and Soul memories." - SunBôw
"All phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities . . . no matter how dynamic they seem to be, are none other than the display of naturally occurring timeless awareness." - Longchenpa
"See only this Mind everywhere, because only this is everywhere and in everything. It is everything because it encompasses all things within itself. Blessed are you who perceive only this, because you perceive only what is true." - Helen Schucman, PhD
"Our individual mind is seen as a part of a larger universal consciousness, being instrumental in the entire fabric of reality. This is so, since the conscious activity of an observer observing the change of an observable is, per definition mathematically not computable." - Dirk K.F. Meijer, pharmacologist, Conscious Universe
"No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors … This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
“There is one mind common to all individual men. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People say I have created things. I have never created anything. I get impressions from the Universe at large and work them out, but I am only a plate on a record or a receiving apparatus—what you will. Thoughts are really impressions that we get from outside.” - Thomas Edison
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” - Nikola Tesla
"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind." - Swami Vivekananda
"In every entity the essential nature is the governing principle... This Soul, imparts the pattern of the Kosmos, the Ideas for which it has itself received from the Intellectual-Principle as the soul or mind of the craftsman draws upon his craft for the plan of his work." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"It's almost like the forest mind. You really could feel it. That big creature, that was thousands of times more awake and intelligent than I am. It's like a giant underwater brain operating over millions of years, and it just keeps everything in balance." - Craig Foster, naturalist
"I think that there may well be a flow of pattern which crosses species lines and allows organisms to borrow each other’s ideas… As a biologist, I am aware at times—especially when steeped in some natural cycle—of a kind of consciousness that is timeless, unlimited by space or by the confines of my own identity. I find myself, at these times, with knowledge that comes directly from being part of something very much larger, a sort of global ecology of mind. And the experience of it is literally wonderful." - Lyall Watson, biologist
"The particular holographic type of consciousness, situated in the particular event horizons as a sort of bordering memory domains, can effectively function as a nested information workspace, that in humans is instrumental in constructing a mental model of reality for internal use in each individual, thus functioning as a global reference system. We propose this can be readily explained by a holographic memory space that contains the total history and future probability states of the particular cell..." - Dirk K.F. Meijer, Conscious Universe
“I'm not entirely closed to the possibility that there is some link to a universal knowledge.…It seems like savants, especially autistic savants, know so many things they haven’t learned, and it’s almost as if they tapped into a universal knowledge.” - Dr. Darold Treffert, psychiatry professor
“Well I think PSI research is important because its an essential part of reality that science hasn’t yet taken note of. Furthermore there’s a lot of misconception about it. People assuming without any proof that there’s no such thing. Its just a piece of dogma and science should not be about dogma.” - Nobel laureate Brian Josepson, discoverer of the quantum tunnel effect, Cambridge University
"For years parents and therapists have reported to me that their nonverbal autistic children can access their thoughts by an unclear process. The children report they “see the other’s mind.” I have tested two of these children with randomized numbers. Hayley gave 155 correct out of 162 on random digits and Akhil was 100% accurate." - Diane Powell, neuropsychiatrist
"Over a span of thirty years several researchers at five different laboratories here and abroad carried out telepathy experiments in which one person was in a situation of sensory isolation called the ganzfeld ... In a published meta-analysis of seventy-nine studies comprising hundreds of individual trials, the probability that the results of the experiments were chance was almost one in a billion (2 x 10-8), meaning that the isolated receiver was extraordinarily successful in describing what his distant friend was seeing." - Russell Targ, physicist
“The SRI experiments / 2 showed that the viewer is not bound by present time. Our psychic viewers were able to find a downed Russian bomber in Africa, to describe the health of American hostages in Iran and to locate a kidnapped American general in Italy. We also described Soviet weapons factories in Siberia and a Chinese atomic-bomb test three days before it occurred ... Our last example of a terrestrial SCANATE target was phoned in by our CIA contact, who was still challenging our work. (In these carefully controlled experiments, no maps were permitted, and Ingo was asked to reply as soon as he heard the coordinates read to him.) The coordinates were for the French Kerguelen Island in the South Indian Ocean." - Russell Targ, physicist
"Using the standards applied to any other area of science, it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted. Effects of similar magnitude have been replicated in a number of laboratories across the world. Such consistency cannot be explained by claims of flaws or fraud. The magnitude of psychic functioning exhibited appears to be in the range between what social scientists call a small and medium effect. This means that it is reliable enough to be replicated in properly conducted experiments with sufficient trials to achieve the long run statistical results needed for replicability." - Jessica Utts, Professor of Statistics at the University of California
Remote Viewing and Statistical Validation
“Like a hologram, each region of space-time contains information about every other point in space-time. This information is readily available to our awareness. In the holographic universe … there is a unity of consciousness—a ‘greater collective mind’—with no boundaries of space or time.” - Russell Targ, physicist

Timelessness

"If time is, admittedly, endless, how can number apply to it?" - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
Philosophical presentism is the view that everything is present. According to presentism, there are no wholly past or merely future entities whatsoever.
“For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future only has the meaning of an illusion, though a persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
According to Einstein's Relativity of simultaneity, simultaneity is not an absolute relation between events; what is simultaneous in one frame of reference will not necessarily be simultaneous in another.
“Past and future are myths: stories of the mind. You cannot escape the present; ever; not even theoretically." - Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D., philosopher
"The past, present, and future all exist in the universal hologram simultaneously." - De-classified CIA document
“Ultimately all the moments are really one, … therefore now is eternity…. Everything, including me, is dying every moment into eternity and being born again.” - David Bohm, physicist
"For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end." - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
"The more experience you have, the shorter moments of anxiety last." - Gordon Ramsey
"You can’t live at all unless you can live fully now." - Alan Watts
"There is nothing peculiar in the present event to make it different from the past and future. For a moment the past was actual and the future will become so. What makes the present so different? A thing focused in the now is with me, for I am ever-present; it is my own reality that I impart to the present event. We consider memories, only when they come into the present. The forgotten is not counted until one is reminded -- which implies, bringing into the now." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"So far as we know, animals do not live in constant anxiety about sickness and death, as we do, because they live in the present. There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. There was no past. If the universe began in the past, when that happened it was now. But it is still now and the universe is still beginning now and it’s trailing off like the wake of a ship from now and as the wake of the ship fades out, so does the past. You can look back there to explain things but the explanation disappears. You will never find it there. Things are not explained by the past. They’re explained by what happens now." - Alan Watts
"Imagine the Earth devoid of human life. Would it still have a past and a future? Could we still speak of time in any meaningful way? The question "What time is it?" or "What's the date today?" The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?" - Eckhart Tolle, Power of the Now
"Only the present day and present moment are real." - Hasidic master Rabbi Nachman
“The experience of ‘there’ takes place here, just as the experience of the past or future takes place now. It is not possible to leave ‘here’ and visit ‘there.’ ‘There’ is always a concept, never an experience. Space is the distance between the point ‘here’ and the point ‘there,’ or between two points ‘there.’ However, only here is experienced. We are not moving through time and space. Time and space are, as it were, moving through us. I never go anywhere. I am always in the same place of ‘I am,’ the placeless place called here, the timeless time called now.” - Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness
"We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past could be present before its eyes." - Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
"Eternity means Ever-Being. Eternity is an unchanging unity. Neither coming to be nor passing away. Absolutely One, it has never known measure and stands outside of number... And having no constituent parts it accepts no pattern, forms no shape. Changelessly motionless and ever holding the Universal content in actual presence. All its content is in immediate concentration as at one point; nothing in it ever knows development: all remains identical within itself, knowing nothing of change. That which neither has been nor will be, but simply possesses being; that which enjoys stable existence as neither in process of change nor having ever changed- that is Eternity. Being itself could not make such an opposite into Being..." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.

Changelessness

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not." - Epicurus
"All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls. - Swami Vivekananda
"Mind itself—naturally occurring timeless awareness—has no substance or characteristics. . . . Naturally arising timeless awareness, being spontaneously present as the heart essence of Dharmakaya, is free of conceptual or descriptive elaboration. . . . Not dependent on causes, incomparable timeless awareness gives rise to everything, and so there is no other source of phenomena. You are not bound by sensory appearances, but by fixation on them... Sensory appearances and consciousness of them are of one taste in nondual unity." - Longchenpa
The philosophy of Sankara states Brahman (Ultimate Reality) alone is real; the world is non-real, and the The Ātman (Self) is essentially not-different from Brahman.
Kashmir Shaivism refers to a nondualist tradition of Śaiva-Śakta Tantra which originated sometime after 850 CE. The goal is to recognize oneself as Shiva who is the entirety of the universe.
"That which is changeless and so free from birth, growth, development, decay, disease, and death; which is indestructible and is the cause of creation, maintenance, and dissolution of the universe ― That Brahman Thou Art. - Vivekachudamani
"The Atman alone warms the inner man; i.e., it enlightens it with the ray of divine life and alone is able to impart to the inner man, or the reincarnating Ego, its immortality." - H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine note - Erwin Schrödinger named his dog Atman.
"One should know oneself to be the Supreme Brahman free from all bondage, merit and demerit, past and future, and also from cause and effect. Unlike the knowledge gained through the eyes etc. The knowledge of the Knower does not cease to exist. Like the heat and light of the sun, the Knowledge which is changeless, eternal and self-effulgent has an existence in the Self entirely independent of everything else. The Self is always the same in all beings and free from old age, death, and fear." - Upadesa Sahasri
“This work concerns the nature of mind, which is beyond cause and effect, effort and achievement, and which cannot be understood through inferior spiritual approaches.” - Longchenpa
"The real does not begin; it only reveals itself as beginningless and endless, all-pervading, all-powerful, immovable prime mover, timelessly changeless. ... Gods and their universes come and go, avatars follow each other in endless succession, and in the end we are back at the source." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"The One is without boundaries. Nothing exists outside of it to border it. The One cannot be investigated. Nothing exists apart from it to investigate it. The One cannot be measured. Nothing exists external to it to measure it. It is not right to think of it as a God or as like God. It is more than just God. Nothing is above it. Nothing rules it. Since everything exists within it, it does not exist within anything. Since it is not dependent on anything it is eternal. It is absolutely complete and so needs nothing. It is utterly perfect. Light." - The Secret Book of John
"Close your eyes and think about it. Can you pin down the “I” that is having experiences? Can you put a boundary or border on it? Can you confine it to a definitive space? The answer you will come to is that you can’t put anything finite around “I.” It’s not a finite thing, whatever it is. “I” is therefore infinite." - Mark Gober, An End to Upside Down Thinking
"There is really no before and after for the mind. There is only now that includes memories and expectations. I believe this strongly suggests the indestructibility of Mind...” - Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize-Winning physicist
"Either life is Essential Reality, and therefore self-living- the very thing we have been seeking- and undeniably immortal: or it, too, is a compound and must be traced back through all the constituents until an immortal substance is reached, something deriving movement from itself, and therefore debarred from accepting death." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"Physical death does not entail the end of consciousness, for consciousness is the fabric of all existence." - Bernardo Kastrup, Ph.D., philosopher
"The only things born or destroyed are the illusions conjured by our misunderstanding. Permanence, pleasure, self-existence, and purity are used by people to establish the reality of the mundane world, the world of birth and death. Such views were considered to be mistaken by all early sects of Buddhism." - The Womb of Buddhas
"I can assure you that death is another beginning. In the dawn of physical existence, men knew that death was merely a change of form." - Jane Roberts, The Seth Material
"Man is haunted by the incredible delusion that his present birth is his first entrance into life." - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
"He who knows the Spirit as Indestructible, Immortal, Unborn, Always-the-Same, how should he kill or cause to be killed?" - The Bhagavad Gita
“Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.” - Jack Kerouac
"We may be about to rediscover that dying is not such a bad thing to do after all." - Sir William Osler, physician
"Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life." - Shunryu Suzuki
"To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror, it becomes a part of living ... When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects of one being, that is immortality. To see the end in the beginning and beginning in the end, is the intimation of eternity." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That
"On an "endless journey" there is no boundary line between life and death. To be born and to die hold the same meaning. Like the stars in the space that in the instant they die they depart toward a new life...." - Shoutarou Ishinomori
"Men directing their weapons against each other- under doom of death yet neatly lined up to fight as in the pyrrhic sword-dances of their sport- this is enough to tell us that all human intentions are but play, that death is nothing terrible, that to die in a war or in a fight is but to taste a little beforehand what old age has in store, to go away earlier and come back the sooner." - Plotinus, Enneads, 204-270 AD.
"Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish... The trouble is you won't fight. You've given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there's something just as inevitable as death, and that's life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that's in the universe, moving the earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you if you only have the courage and the will to use it." - Charlie Chaplin
"And now, I endeavor that my divine part may return to that divine nature which flourishes throughout the universe." - Plotinus' final words, 270 AD.