12 more in-depth conversations on the cutting edge of consciousness, featuring Menas Kafatos, Deepak Chopra, Cassandra Vieten, Peter Fenwick, Pim van Lommel, Rudolph Tanzi, Maureen Seaberg, and many more.
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CONSCIOUSNESS - THE GREATEST MYSTERY
If you're reading this, you obviously have consciousness, but what is it?
Where does it come from?
Is it produced by a complex arrangement of billions of neurons and trillions of synapses, our mind somehow emerging from the matter of the brain?
Or maybe consciousness is a field embedded at the fundamental level of the universe, with our brains acting as a kind of sophisticated quantum receiver...
What, then, is reality?
What can we learn from studying altered states of consciousness, such as meditation, dreams, hypnosis, or psychedelic experiences?
Where does our creativity come from?
How do we transform or raise our consciousness?
Could highly complex computers eventually become conscious?
Are we seeing a convergence taking place between quantum physics and the Eastern metaphysical sciences such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism?
And not least, what happens to our consciousness at the end of life? Do we ever really "die"?
In this groundbreaking series, we go in search of answers to these compelling questions!
The Consciousness Chronicles is an ongoing documentary series by award-winning filmmaker Nick Day, featuring in-depth interviews with some of the world's leading consciousness researchers and theorists.
For anyone curious to go deeper into the mysteries of consciousness, the Chronicles are a must-have resource!
"Enlightening and groundbreaking" ~ The New Consciousness Review
ABOUT THE CONSCIOUSNESS CHRONICLES
Each two-disc DVD edition of the Chronicles looks at four different aspects of consciousness.
CHRONICLES 1 - 255 minutes
HOW DO WE STUDY CONSCIOUSNESS? - with philosopher David Chalmers and author Susan Blackmore.
TIME AND SPACE - with biologist Rupert Sheldrake, physicist Dick
Bierman, philosopher John Jacobson and neuroscientist Harald
Atmanspacher.
ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS - with Marilyn Schlitz of IONS, neuroscientist Zoran Josipovic, psychologist Frank Echenhofer, and zoologist Thomas Ray.
QUANTUM PHYSICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS - an introduction with anesthesiologist and quantum theorist Stuart Hameroff.
CHRONICLES 2 - 288 minutes
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE SINGULARITY - with philosopher David Chalmers, nanotechnology researcher Anirban Bandyopadhay, neurobiologist Harmut Neven, and AI researcher Ben Goertzel.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND CREATIVITY - with sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer, professor of fine art Robert Pepperell, and film and theatre director James Kerwin.
SEX AND CONSCIOUSNESS- with psychologist Jenny Wade, professor of consciousness studies Torsten Passie, psychiatrist Kleopatra Ormos, and neuroscientist Barry Komarisuk.
EMBODIMENT - with neuroscientist Henrik Ehrrson and philosopher Frédérique de Vignemont.
CHRONICLES 3 - 289 minutes CONSCIOUSNESS AND REALITY - with physicist Menas Kafatos, physician and author Deepka Chopra, philosopher Paavo Pylkkanen and quantum chemist Lothar Schafer
TRANSFORMATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS - with IONS director of research Cassandra Vieten and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Za Choeje Rinpoche.
SYNESTHESIA - with author Maureen Seaberg, neuroscientist Berit Brogaard and synesthete and savant Jason Padgett.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE END OF LIFE - with cardiologist Pim van Lommel, neuroscientist and Alzheimer's pioneer Rudolph Tanzi, and neuropsychiatrist and author Peter Fenwick.
WE THANK ALL OUR PARTICIPANTS FOR SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND INSIGHTS.
Read Natalie Geld's interview with Chronicles producer Nick Day in Why Are We Whispering?
ALL IN THE MIND? The phenomenon of consciousness is fundamental to our existence, yet it remains the most profound mystery we can imagine.
Down through the ages, generations of scientists, philosophers, mystics and poets have gone in search for a deeper understanding of consciousness and the true nature of reality, whether through scientific research, reasoning or introspection.
Western biologists and neuroscientists have studied brains down to the atomic level, but so far an enduring theory of consciousness that combines the physical with the phenomenological remains tantalizingly elusive. Philosopher David Chalmers has called this the "hard problem" of consciousness.
The ancient Eastern contemplative traditions utilized the mind itself as an instrument of exploration, perfecting methods such as meditation to reveal what has been called our true inner nature.
Some theorists even speculate that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, that consciousness may be all there is, and the mind/matter divide is an illusion - albeit a compelling one - something that Einstein alluded to.
It may be that we will never fully comprehend what consciousness is beyond our subjective experience of it. But the quest to know itself remains irresistible to the inquiring human mind!
