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The Silence That Lets the World Speak
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The Journal of Consciousness · Eyes on the Present
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Carmina Burana: fortune changes voice
Centuries pass between a medieval collection and the scene of Orff, choices and new sounds. Body and power go through both stories, without making them identical.
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Artificial intelligence needs a power socket
Behind the apparent immateriality of the responses are power grids, water, servers, and land decisions.
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Entanglement: what holds a network together?
Physics describes precise correlations. The inner network proposes an image of the relationship: the confrontation becomes fertile when each language retains its own questions.
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When a coincidence changes our gaze
Synchronicity opens a question about the relationship between events and inner life. Exploring it requires attention to meaning and clarity about what we can prove.
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When Fear Becomes a Political Language
Emotions orient public attention. Understanding its circulation helps to discuss conflicts without giving in to automatic explanations.
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Does the sacred still know how to laugh?
The table of the Gospels and the library of Umberto Eco open a question about the relationship between joy, authority and spiritual life.
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Nature and relationshipsExploration
What happens when we treat a tree as an interlocutor
The relationship with the forest opens up questions about presence. Research on plant connections requires a distinct reading plan.
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Dalí shifts the point from which we look at the sacred
The Christ seen from above and the Cenacle within a transparent geometry transform familiar images. Two paintings open a question about the position of the viewer.
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Who can create money? Bank money and sovereignty
Banking creation of deposits is documented. The thesis of the self-produced transfer takes a further step, which must be examined in legal terms.
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The chronovisor and the desire to see the past
A machine capable of observing history would change the relationship with truth. The story of Ernetti must be explored through texts, documents and limits of the testimonies.
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Media and languageAnalysis
When we discuss how we discuss
Metacommunication makes the rules of a relationship visible. Palo Alto's tradition helps to question the exchanges that continue to jam.
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A cup of tea cannot replace a home. It can open a conversation
Solidarity also begins with the recognition of the person, without demanding a story in return and without reducing the rights to a kind gesture.
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Grinberg: Does Consciousness Participate in Reality?
Syntérgical theory questions the boundary between observer and world. To understand it, one must go through laboratory, experience and testimony.
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Kybalion: seven principles, two stories
A modern book presents itself as a gateway to ancient wisdom. Reading it carefully means recognizing both dimensions.
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The time that doesn't fit into the clock
From the Maya calendars to the day outside of the time of José Argüelles: measuring a duration and inhabiting it are two experiences that can illuminate each other.
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Nag Hammadi and the question of awakening
Ancient texts, images of the cosmos and contemporary research meet around the origin of consciousness. Reading them requires recognizing each one's voice and time.
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432 hertz: what do we ask of music?
A tuning frequency can become an artistic choice or a spiritual symbol. Understanding it requires listening to context as well.
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Noticing that we are here: Gurdjieff’s question
Self-observation encounters a daily problem: how much of our responses take place before we realize it?
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Agartha, the Hidden Center and the Search for an Inner World
From Guénon to the imaginaries of the Inner Earth: reading a symbolic geography preserving the difference between tradition, testimony and knowledge of the planet.
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Science and realityExploration
Antarctica, the border of maps and the desire for the unknown
The assumptions of the Dome and the lands beyond the ice question the limits of the known world. The comments, however, require precise questions.
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Listen to an intuition, give it time to become an idea
Ideas sometimes come as attention relaxes. Understanding when to trust a feeling opens a comparison between experience, creativity and verification.
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Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria: three maps of our search for origins
An ancient dialogue, a zoological hypothesis and a twentieth-century book have different stories. Following them allows us to understand how imagined continents are born and changed.
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Ayahuasca: between singing and the laboratory
Religious tradition, experience of consciousness and clinical research open up different questions. Keeping them in dialogue makes it possible to understand what is really being observed.
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Blavatsky and the project of a common wisdom
Modern theosophy interweaves cosmology, comparison of religions and inner research. Rereading the works allows you to meet their questions and historical tensions.
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Byrd: which diary, which Pole?
Antarctic exploration and tales about the Inner Earth meet in the name of a man. Inventories, dates, and provenance allow us to reconstruct what the sources really document.
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Carmelo Bene: the voice interrupts the explanation
The scene becomes an acoustic space and the text meets the body of the voice. A theatrical research that changes the question of what it means to listen.
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What changes when the frame changes
Editing, music, and visual matter can transform a question before explanations. Art offers a laboratory to recognize how we build what we see.
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What changes when a voice changes language?
Translating a text means choosing what must remain recognizable. Rhythm, images and spiritual words make visible the work that connects different cultures.
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What do we feed when we eat?
Sattva, rajas and tamas are a philosophical map of the quality of experience. Reading it does not mean turning it into a food prescription.
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Media and languageInvestigation
Who owns the break in a match?
The commercial interrupts an event, but also a shared wait. IAP code and audiovisual rules help to question the quality of communication.
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Communicating Beyond Persuasion
A common language takes shape when words, intentions, and possibilities for dissent become visible. The communication can open up a search before applying for membership.
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Science and realityInvestigation
Consciousness and healing: what should we ask of the evidence?
Cancer, vaccines, HIV, and sound run through stories about the power of the mind. Investigating them requires precise words and a concrete attention to the person.
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Symbols and visionsAnalysis
From the hummingbird to the Nautilus: what does a symbol do?
A figure can orient thought before becoming a brand. Spirals, cycles and small messengers open a dialogue between nature, imagination and meaning.
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Eisenhower, extraterrestrials and a day in the archives
The tale of a secret encounter involves energy, power, and human maturity. Presidential documents make it possible to distinguish the account from the findings.
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Heraclitus: Change Has a Shape
The river, the arch and the lyre tell more than a ceaseless movement. Fragments question what allows differences to belong to the same world.
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Fawcett, Ibez and the tracks that remain in the forest
The disappearance of 1925 and the esoteric re-readings of the Roncador call for a research capable of distinguishing document, book and interpretation. Even a small note can change the perspective.
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Jesus in the Qur'an: a meeting that crosses differences
The presence of Jesus and Mary in the Islamic text offers a ground of mutual knowledge, without erasing theological distances.
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The buried talents and the image of those who entrust them
The parable speaks of goods, fear and responsibility. Reading it as a performance slogan leaves out the relationship that makes it possible to act.
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The child we listen to can teach us to educate
Game, questions and freedom of expression: a pedagogy of conscience begins by recognizing the presence of those who grow up.
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The Bardo does not begin only after death
The six intermediate states bring dream, meditation and daily life into the same quest. A reading of Tibetan texts that questions the way of crossing passages.
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Contact as a question about the human being
Rama, Trigueirinho and research on UAPs face the elsewhere through different languages: knowing them helps to make the questions more precise.
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The generative feminine and the images that limit us
Symbolic language can open up research on creation. To remain fertile, it must leave people the freedom to exceed the roles we assign to them.
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Science and realityReflection
Is the future a condemnation or a task?
Prophecies and predictions respond to different needs. DART and Hera show a concrete way to prepare for a risk without inventing an end date.
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Arts and culturesAnalysis
The Rooster of Socrates and the Debt That Remains
The Fedone's last words open up a broader problem than heroism. Being consistent also means responding to what we have promised.
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Technology and the futureAnalysis
Work is changing. Who decides how?
Automation opens up possibilities and conflicts over the distribution of time, income, and power. Exposure estimates are not counts of places already lost.
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Shared bread and the power of those who distribute it
The Gospel stories of the loaves hold together hunger, gift, and recognition. Their symbolic strength changes when we also look at the people they receive and what remains.
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Politics and informationAnalysis
Power loses balance when language changes
Dario Fo brings gesture, rhythm and verbal invention into the public conflict. The figure of the jester questions who can speak and what voices are considered authoritative.
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The point where an intention changes direction
In Ouspensky's reading, the additional shock intervenes where a process would lose its course. An esoteric idea that allows one to question the intervals of daily life.
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Breathing and the possibility of becoming present again
Between research and contemplative practice, observing the breath opens a question about the relationship with the body and with time.
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The tunnel of light: stories and questions about origins
Experiences at the borders of death and cosmologies of reincarnation demand listening and precise distinctions. A shared image can receive very different interpretations.
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Digital value does not exist apart from the world
Mining makes the relationship between trust, computer rules, and material resources visible. Energy cost alone does not determine value.
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The Journey That Passes Through Memory
In the Confessions the astonishment for mountains and oceans leads to a question about who is watching. The return to itself does not close the world: it finds its traces.
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Kali Yuga: living in a difficult time
Cosmic cycles do not speak with one voice. The Bhagavad Gita and the Vishnu Purana open a comparison between crises of order, possibilities of action and transformation.
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Science and realityExploration
Can water hear an intention?
Radionics and water crystals propose a relationship between consciousness and matter. To explore it you need to know what has actually been observed.
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Symbols and visionsExploration
The Tree of Life: Reading Relationships
In Kabbalistic diagrams knowledge takes a visible form. The lines invite you to think of connections, without confusing a symbolic map with a measurement of the world.
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The other journey begins before departure
Brazil can become a question to our gaze: do we meet a place or do we seek only confirmation of our idea of transformation?
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Nature and relationshipsReflection
Does the environment begin where the self ends?
The ecology of the mind and material consumption question the same habit: to consider ourselves separate from the consequences of our actions.
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Arts and culturesExploration
The soul as a question for the imagination
James Hillman invites to read a life also through images and vocations. A perspective that can open meanings without transforming them into an imposed destiny.
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Media and languageAnalysis
Attention has an architecture
McLuhan invites you to look beyond the content. Even the rhythm of a page, its silences and the possibility of getting out of it communicate a world view.
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The Ouroboros and the question of beginning again
The snake that meets its own tail crosses different objects and texts. Its symbolic strength opens a question about the relationship between continuity and transformation.
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Media and languageAnalysis
Curiosity deserves an answer
An anticipation can open a search or indefinitely postpone what it promises. Titles, expectation and trust meet in the pact with those who read.
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Trust in newspapers begins with questions
Properties, sources, editorial choices, and corrections offer tools for reading political information. A warhead should be observed through its practices.
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The perfect phrase that looks like all the others
Artificial intelligence can offer new beginnings and foster similarities. Research on creativity opens up a question about the variety of voices and the responsibility of choices.
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Society and powerReflection
Giving freely needs a home
Sharing knowledge without reducing each relationship to an exchange also requires care for the work and resources that make it possible.
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Peace is also learned outside the classrooms
The Brazilian experience of UNIPAZ opens a question about the relationship between knowledge, presence and collective responsibility.
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The pineal gland: between biology and the third eye
A small gland has become the site of great tales about consciousness. A fluorine study should be read for what it measures.
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Media and languageAnalysis
The Promise to Do Everything Leaves Out the Question
Absolutes take up little space and demand a lot of trust. Analyzing an advertising formula means understanding what expectations it produces and where it allows them to be verified.
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Spirituality and religionExploration
The Second Death Inside a Song to Life
The Song of Creatures distinguishes the limit of the body from another loss. Its Christian origin and contemporary re-readings can dialogue without confusion.
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Media and languageAnalysis
The stories we buy along with the objects
In advertising, a product meets promises, images, and roles. Reading myths and archetypes allows one to question the world that is offered along with the commodity.
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Arts and culturesExploration
Mayakovsky and the future on stage
The tragedy of 1913 and Funny Mystery bring into play the relationship between poet, audience and transformation. The novelty of forms opens a conflict over who can imagine the world.
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Society and powerInvestigation
Meditating at Work: Who Decides What Needs to Change?
A practice of attention enters businesses with different purposes. The question also concerns working conditions that remain intact when only those who live in them change.
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Nature and relationshipsInvestigation
Parasites: a word between body and imagination
The same image can indicate an organism, an exploitation relationship or a spiritual presence. The investigation begins by separating these questions.
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ConsciousnessReflection
Talking about death changes how we live
The fear of the limit runs through adults and children. Listening, clear words and presence can open a space that does not require certainty about the afterlife.
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Arts and culturesExploration
Before the Garden: Ea and the Work of Humans
The Mesopotamian narratives of creation question fatigue, intelligence, and responsibility. Reading them from the tablets gives back to the myth its complexity.
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Society and powerAnalysis
When value depends on what we hold together
Cooperation, rules and responsibilities make it possible to question the company beyond the economic result alone. Credible ethics are recognized in the consequences.
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Spirituality and religionReflection
When the other stops being a function
The distinction between I-You and I-It opens up a question about how we listen, work, and meet the world.
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Technology and the futureInvestigation
When a transcript seems more certain than the voice
Artificial intelligence makes archives interrogable, but can introduce non-existent words and links. The quality of a research depends on the possibility of returning to the sources.
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Arts and culturesAnalysis
Sappho and what the fragment leaves open
Surviving words demand reading and imagination. Attributions and gaps are part of the encounter with an ancient voice.
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ConsciousnessReflection
If this life came back again
The eternal return puts the present before a radical question. Nietzsche turns time into a test of our relationship with what we live.
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Spirituality and religionAnalysis
Spinoza: what changes if we are inside nature
The idea of a reality that has no separate creator goes through metaphysics, knowledge and freedom. Reading Spinoza means questioning the causes even when they concern us.
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Spirituality and religionExploration
Sri Aurobindo and the idea of an unfinished humanity
In his philosophy evolution includes a transformation of consciousness. It is a spiritual proposal that questions the relationship between inner life and the world.
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Spirituality and religionAnalysis
Steiner and the knowledge that begins with attention
Inner inquiry proposes to transform the observer. The comparison with the texts opens a question about the relationship between personal experience and shared knowledge.
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Nature and relationshipsReflection
A tree in the parking lot, and time to see it
An imagined scene tests our gaze: people passing by stop in front of an autumn tree. Contemplation begins in neighboring things.
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Society and powerReflection
A month of attention for those around us
Taking turns caring for a person or family: a community hypothesis to be built through consent, reciprocity and responsibility.
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Society and powerAnalysis
A ‘we’ that leaves room for difference
The collective voice needs a recognizable identity and a workable dissent. Its value is seen in the way it welcomes what it still does not share.
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ConsciousnessAnalysis
A dream is not a dictionary to consult
Freud shifts attention to associations, desires, and words that escape. His research remains more complex than symbolic equivalencies that have become commonplace.
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Technology and the futureInvestigation
A voice in the house: assistance, data and private space
Assistants promise comfort. Their presence opens up questions about who is listening, what information is left and how relationships change.
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