Category Archives: consciousness

Satori at Age Eight?

Posted on August 31, 2024 by Ron Pavellas

(Posted November 6, 2018 in my ‘Being Old’ weblog, now shut down) At age seven or eight I had an experience which I ever-more perceive as a satori. “Satori (Chinese kāi wù) may be defined as an intuitive looking into the … Continue reading →

Posted in consciousness, memories, satori, enlightenment, kai wu, self, The Self | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Before and After Human Consciousness, or The Voice of God vs. Auditory Hallucinations

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ron Pavellas

Psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920 – 1997) asserted that humans were not fully conscious until around 4,000 or 3,000 years ago, the time when the two hemispheres of the cerebrum of our brain (left and right, physically connected by the Corpus Callosum) were unified … Continue reading →

Posted in Archetypes, Consciousness, consciousness, Psychology, self, The Self | Tagged , , , | 5 Comments