“I’m going to speak about consciousness starting from a completely different point of view. I’m not starting with the brain. I’m not starting with a cerebrocentric view of consciousness, but with the bigger picture, it’s been taken for granted by almost every civilization and traditional society that there are many forms of Consciousness in the Universe, not just ours, and not just those of animals other animals. So it’s been often assumed that the entire universe is conscious, and this these this view of consciousness doesn’t try and tie it all down to particular regions of the brain or interactions or electrical impulses going from one bit to another. It sees consciousness in a completely different way. And the reason why people in all these cultures think that there are many forms of consciousness beyond our own, is because they experience them through mystical experiences, through altered states of consciousness, through spiritual practices, through psychedelics, traditionally taken in a number of cultures around the world, people have the experience of being in contact with a greater consciousness than their own.”
Artax – Another Level
