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- 8. The Spiritual Science of Everyday Life www.spiritualscience.co.uk
- 9. From our earliest years toour elderly years
- 12. Above Flow of Quality of thinking directing, and controlling, attention harmonising Air Fire Quality Earth Water Flow of Solidifying, feeling waiting, and containing adaptability Below A Western Magical Wheel
- 14. Energy and growth East Mental/ Place of North South the thinking forces heart West Physical seeing within A Native American Medicine Wheel
- 15. Intuition is perceived‘out of the blue’ ‘irrationally’ as in no judging is involved Intuition Thinking is to Feeling is ‘rationally’ mind something weigh up and ‘rationally’ Thinking Feeling link ideas, weighed up – judge and pleasant or understand unpleasant? Sensation Sensation: the experience of our senses & ‘irrational’ as in it just happens Carl Jung
- 16. enduring “I” intuition soul judging memory Formative body stream past Inspirational body stream deep future yearning senses physical body Rudolf Steiner
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- 22. Nature Nurture v. genetics culture heredity environment
- 23. Behaviourists Precise observation Neuro-Cognitive Working of the brain Quantum Mechanics Interconnectedness Psychodynamic The unconscious Social Constructionist The world we live in Biological-Evolutionary Evolution Humanistic- The „self‟ . Phenomenological
- 25. Memory in aNutshell (1) “Encoding” what we sense “Storage” “Retrieval” Sense impression>>>buffer>>>STM (usually less than 1 min.) >>>LTM new/old----significance----brain health Remembering – by recognition – by recall Forgetting – the absence of “cues” confusion with another memory displacement of information from STM repression / motivated forgetting decay or “atrophy” of the memory “engram”
- 26. “buffer” “primarymemory” “rehearsal” “compression” “chunking” “optimise “central capacity” executive” “articulatory loop” “visuospatial sketch pad” “audio-video information” “displacement” “interference” “engram”
- 27. “Even though itscommon knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life – all our feelings, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards as our own intimate private self – is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.” Vilayanur S. Ramchandran, neuroscientist and Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, 2003 BBC Reith Lectures
- 29. “The events ofinner experience become themselves explanatory causal constructs in their own right, interacting at their own level with their own laws and dynamics.” Roger Sperry, 1981, Nobel Lecture
- 30. How do weexplore the essence of memory, our thinking and consciousness – our activity of connecting the present with the past? Who prompts „the brain into action‟? If things only exist when we observe them what happens to our memory when we forget? Does it not exist? If we only become conscious of a memory when we experience it, where has it been hiding?
- 31. “How is itpossible that mathematics, a product of human thought that is independent of experience, fits so excellently the objects of physical reality? Can human reason without experience discover by pure thinking properties of real things?” Albert Einstein, from Sidelights on Relativity, 1922
- 32. To discover theinner reality of memory, the mind, consciousness and “real things” – as a spectator? Or a player – “I am involved in this.”