Ramesh Balsekar (1917–2009) Indian guru
Page 75, Consciousness Speaks - Conversations with Ramesh S. Balsekar
Source: 1970s, The Urgency of Change (1970), p. 184
Context: The brain is the source of thought. The brain is matter and thought is matter. Can the brain — with all its reactions and its immediate responses to every challenge and demand — can the brain be very still? It is not a question of ending thought, but of whether the brain can be completely still? This stillness is not physical death. See what happens when the brain is completely still. <!-- π
Ramesh Balsekar (1917–2009) Indian guru
Page 75, Consciousness Speaks - Conversations with Ramesh S. Balsekar
Maynard James Keenan (1964) musician
Neil Strauss (March 29, 2000) "A brain comes full circle: Rock musician Maynard James Keenan, of the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle", The New York Times, p. B3.
Daniel Levitin (1957) American psychologist
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
Context: During the first six months or so of life... the infant brain is unable to clearly distinguish the source of sensory inputs; vision, hearing, and touch meld into a unitary perceptual representation.... inputs from the various sensory receptors may connect to many different parts of the brain, pending pruning that will occur later in life. As Simon Baron-Cohen has described it, with all this sensory cross talk, the infant lives in a state of complete psychodelic splendor (without the aid of drugs).
“Many a superior brain is blockaded by inferior thoughts.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 69
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Six, Liberating Knowledge: News from the Frontiers of Science
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
As quoted in the article The Human Brain — Three Pounds of Mystery, in 'The Watchtower' magazine (15 July 1978)