This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard Smolowe, fully Richard Edward Smolowe
In order to remain self-sufficient and calm during chaos, one must have a holistic perspective--a master plan with which help you cope. Those who are flexible and have prepared themselves will find that the accelerated changes to come will provide a profound opening of consciousness to minimize the stresses and discomforts of the journey.
Consciousness | Journey | Order | Plan | Self | Will | Wisdom |
Starhawk, born Miriam Simos NULL
Our purpose is to live in harmony with those cycles [birth, growth, death and regeneration] to develop our peculiar organs of consciousness and creativity to add to the beauty, love, humor, diversity and general interest of the world.
Beauty | Birth | Consciousness | Creativity | Death | Diversity | Growth | Harmony | Humor | Love | Purpose | Purpose | Wisdom | World |
Our consciousness of the world is biased. We see not with out eyes, but with our brains. What a piece of bread looks like, depends on how hungry we are.
Consciousness | Looks | Wisdom | World |
Peter L. Berger, fully Peter Ludwig Berger
The consciousness of abiding safety in the bosom of the Church is one of the most serious obstacles to an honest confrontation with the Christian faith.
Church | Consciousness | Faith |
A thing is known according to the state of consciousness of the knower.
Robert E. Carter, fully Robert Edgar Carter
It is in consciousness that freedom lies.
Consciousness | Freedom |
The universe appears to us in two opposite parts, I and World. We erect this barrier between ourselves and the world as soon as consciousness first dawn on us… Only when we have made the world-content into our thought-content do we begin again to find the unity out of which we have separated ourselves… Our thinking links us to the world; our feeling leads us back into ourselves and thus makes us individuals.
Consciousness | Dawn | Thinking | Thought | Unity | Universe | World |
The primary business of school is to train children to co-operative and mutually helpful living; to foster in them the consciousness of mutual interdependence.
Business | Children | Consciousness | Business |
Ludwig Feuerbach, fully Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach
It is the consciousness of love by which man reconciles himself with God, or rather with his own nature as represented in the moral law.
Consciousness | God | Law | Love | Man | Moral law | Nature |
Symptoms are part of the healing process. Anxiety is consciousness trying to happen. Falling down is a way of growing up.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Consciousness |
Without a direct causal link between brain processes and consciousness, there is no persuasive reason to believe that consciousness emerged from the brain, or through natural selection, at all.
Consciousness | Reason |
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Faith is nothing but a living, wide-awake consciousness of God within.
Consciousness | Faith | God | Nothing | God |
Three claims: (1) Consciousness exists. There exist conscious mental states, events, and processes that have the property of being conscious. (2) Consciousness has depth, hidden structure, hidden and possibly multiple functions, and hidden natural and cultural history. Conscious mental states supervene on brain states. (3) Conscious mental states, processes, events – possibly conscious supervisory faculties, if there are any – are heterogeneous in phenomenal world. A theory of consciousness will in the end be part of a unified theory of the mind.
Consciousness | Events | History | Mind | Property | Will | World |
A grand meta-narrative is a story of the development and purpose of human history in which we as individual can find a place and play a role. Four basic meta-narratives: (1) Platonic Christian is the idea of life as a journey to another unchanging realm. (2) Hegel’s view that history is the unfolding of the consciousness of God. (3) Marx’s notion of another revolution ushering in a new era. (4) Nietzsche’s idea that there is no “beyond” and that the only meaning comes through creative activities through which we shape a life for ourselves.
Consciousness | Era | God | History | Individual | Journey | Life | Life | Meaning | Play | Purpose | Purpose | Revolution | Story |
If, as Heraclitus said, “A man’s character is his fate” – that is, if our fate is largely determined by the habitual tendencies of our repetition compulsion-personality – then the power of consciousness is that it allows us to change impulses, we have what Kierkegaard called “the possibility of possibility”: the possibility of having a free choice and the moral responsibility that comes with it. In that sense, the fear of consciousness is ultimately the fear of moral responsibility, because if we own our anxiety, shame, and guilt, and allow ourselves to have full consciousness of emotions that motivate our behavior, then we will inevitably recognize the full weight of our responsibility for that behavior.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Behavior | Change | Character | Choice | Consciousness | Emotions | Fate | Fear | Free choice | Guilt | Man | Personality | Power | Responsibility | Sense | Shame | Will | Fate |
One’s true happiness depends more upon one’s own judgment of one’s self, or a consciousness of rectitude in action and intention, and the approbation of those few, who judge impartially, than upon the applause of the unthinking, undiscerning multitude, who are apt to cry Hosanna today, and tomorrow, Crucify him.
Action | Applause | Consciousness | Intention | Judgment | Self | Tomorrow | Happiness |