Vistāra - The Architecture of India Exhibition Catalog The Festival of India, 1986
A transpersonal psyche with a collective unconscious composed of the sum of all of the archetypes as Jung’s model proposed would have features of a scale-free network structure. His methodology for approaching the unconscious, especially amplification, similarly can be seen to map and understand the psyche as such a network.
—Joseph Cambray, Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe
The natural method involves seeking consistency and equilibrium among different modes of analysis applied to the study of some mental phenomenon…In the case of dreams, phenomenology, will supply us with first-person reports about how dreams seem, especially how particular dreams seem from the point of view of the person who has the dream.
The mental sciences—psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience—are needed to provide answers to a host of questions that are not answered by how things seem, even if we take how they seem to be as how they really are for the dreamer. The mental sciences will tell us about the objective side of dreams.
—Owen Flanagan, Dreaming Souls
Pages from the oldest known Norwegian svartebok ("black book") manuscript. Vinjeboka, c.1480-1520, Ms.8° 1059, Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo, Norway.
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Torus Configurations
Human consciousness is characterized by awareness, volition and cognitive reflection, operating within a neural workspace…Within this workspace, a bicyclic flow of information was envisioned…Both types of information flow provide the basis for integration of active information that returns to itself (a modality of self-consciousness), including modalities of universal consciousness.
Toroidal information flux is postulated by us to provide the basis for the existence of consciousness at the different scales of the Universe. There are distinct reasons to choose the multidimensional symmetrical aspects of the double vortex torus, a geometry that may mimic a combination of transversal, longitudinal and circular waves.
—Dirk Meijer & Hans Geesink, Consciousness in the Universe is Scale Invariant and Implies an Event Horizon of the Human Brain
Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775