The brain may receive awareness, not manufacture it

“as by cutting it out, so that it is really just what I called it, only the funnel through which the stream of innervation, starting from elsewhere, escapes; _consciousness accompanying the stream, and being mainly of things seen if the stream is strongest occipitally, of things heard if it is strongest temporally, of things felt, etc., if the stream occupies most intensely the 'motor zone.'_ It seems to me that some broad and vague formulation like this is as much as we can safely venture on in the present state of science--so much at least is not likely to be overturned. But it is obvious how little this tells us of the detail of what goes on in the brain when a certain thought is befo”

“Between 3am and 5am though, the ANS shifts gears so that the body transitions gradually into wakefulness. This function helps to avoid that jarring, groggy and underpowered feeling you get when woken suddenly.”

“His concoction of sulfuric ether and oil from an orange (just for the fragrance) knocked a young man unconscious while a surgeon cut a tumor from his neck. To the onlooking students and clinicians, it was like a miracle.”

“There is no scientific evidence that remote viewing exists, and the topic of remote viewing is generally regarded as pseudoscience.... Remote viewing experiments have historically lacked proper controls and repeatability.... The program ran from 1975 to 1995 and ended after evaluators concluded that remote viewers consistently failed to produce actionable intelligence information.”

“The most frequent near-death experiences were supernatural experiences, especially the experience of leaving the body. The basis and the content of the patterns mentioned by the NDEr's are similar, and the differences are in the explanation and the interpretation of the experience. There is a common core among them such as out-of-body experiences, passing through a tunnel, heightened senses, etc.”

“for me something like its present shape some fourteen years since,[5] a long series of tentative speculations, based on gradually accruing evidence, has slowly conducted me. The conception is one which has hitherto been regarded as purely mystical; and if I endeavour to plant it upon a scientific basis I certainly shall not succeed in stating it in its final terms or in supporting it with the best arguments which longer experience will suggest. Its validity, indeed, will be impressed--if at all--upon the reader only by the successive study of the various kinds of evidence to which this book will refer him. Yet so far as the initial possibility or plausibility of such a widened concepti”

“From a neurological standpoint, these experiences likely involve: Disruption in the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) — the brain area that helps you understand where your body is in space. Ongoing dream imagery blending with waking consciousness. Sensory misfiring as the brain tries to reorient itself. In simple terms, your brain's "body map" temporarily glitches. This explains why sleep paralysis and out of body experiences are so closely connected. The brain is partly dreaming and partly awake — creating vivid, realistic sensations. Importantly, these experiences feel real because your brain uses the same systems it uses to perceive real life.”

“Some individuals have even described detailed out-of-body experiences where they could accurately recount events happening around them during their clinical death, known as veridical NDEs. Despite extensive research and various theories proposed to explain NDEs—ranging from brain chemistry to spiritual interpretations—no single explanation has been universally accepted.”

“with an intenseness not easily imagined by those who had never experienced it, that another being or presence was not only in the room, but quite close to me. I put my book down, and although my excitement was great, I felt quite collected, and not conscious of any sense of fear. Without changing my position, and looking straight at the fire, I knew somehow that my friend A. H. was standing at my left elbow, but so far behind me as to be hidden by the armchair in which I was leaning back. Moving my eyes round slightly without otherwise changing my position, the lower portion of one leg became visible, and I instantly recognized the gray‐blue material of trousers he often wore, but the”

“general_ without the least trace of distinction between the me and the not-me." Dr. Shoemaker of Philadelphia describes during the deepest conscious stage of ether-intoxication a vision of "two endless parallel lines in swift longitudinal motion ... on a uniform misty background ... together with a constant sound or whirr, not loud but distinct ... which seemed to be connected with the parallel lines.... These phenomena occupied the whole field. There were present no dreams or visions in any way connected with human affairs, no ideas or impressions akin to anything in past experience, no emotions, of course no idea of personality. There was no conception as to what being it was that was”

“The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a commissioned review by the CIA concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Although statistically significant effects were observed in laboratory experiments, the reviewers were uncertain whether this was the result of errors, and the information provided by the program was vague and included irrelevant and erroneous data.”

“The fact that the RV experiments were hidden or classified undermined transparency in scientific research practices. Specifically, other laboratories were not given access to information and were unable to evaluate outcomes with proper methodological or statistical rigor (see the critique by Hyman, 1996 and Nelson et al., 1996).”

“hour. In all three instances the certainty that there in outward space there stood _something_ was indescribably _stronger_ than the ordinary certainty of companionship when we are in the close presence of ordinary living people. The something seemed close to me, and intensely more real than any ordinary perception. Although I felt it to be like unto myself, so to speak, or finite, small, and distressful, as it were, I didn’t recognize it as any individual being or person.” Of course such an experience as this does not connect itself with the religious sphere. Yet it may upon occasion do so; and the same correspondent informs me that at more than one other conjuncture he had the sense”

“Its levels peak in the early morning, promoting wakefulness, alertness, and metabolic preparedness, before gradually declining throughout the day to facilitate rest and recovery [3,4].”