Consciousness Writing

"Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo" by Jigoro Kano offers a profound exploration of the philosophy, principles, and educational values behind Judo, one of Japan's most renowned martial arts. This collection of essays and lectures reveals Kano’s vision of Judo as a discipline that goes beyond physical techniques, promoting moral and intellectual development for personal and societal benefit.

This is a new edition of the classic Colin Wilson collection The Essential Colin Wilson (first published in 1985), updated and introduced by Wilson's bibliographer Colin Stanley. It is the only book to contain extracts from Colin Wilson's most important work in one volume, including The Outsider, A Criminal History of Mankind, The New Existentialism, The Occult, New Pathways in Psychology, and Mysteries, as well as three of his novels and many other texts.

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: artificial intelligence.

A raw manifesto for anyone who has ever raged, doubted, or dreamed. When the Light Is Mine is Chaz Holesworth’s debut poetry collection, a piercing blend of social critique and intimate confession. These poems confront the machinery of capitalism, the weight of organized religion, and the toxic myths we’re sold about money, power, and worth. At the same time, they cut deeply into personal terrain: the spirals of depression, the false promises of antidepressants, the ache of unfulfilled dreams, and the immaculate discovery of real love in an age of carefully curated personas. Holesworth ...

I drop walnuts on roads to crack them open. Wheels are tools when you are too small; timing is a muscle; memory smells like your hand. If I could speak, I would not recite facts. I would hand you a broken shell and watch whether you understood why. This book is that hand—close, blunt, and exact. It follows the small acts that add up to a mind: the walnut, the wait, the face remembered across seasons, the dusk meeting where a thousand silent signals sort friend from threat. Read me if you want a map of cognition that never learned words. You will find tool-use stripped of wonder and recast...

Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms, whose rooted bodies, intricate geometry, and flower-like appendages are more reminiscent of plant life or even architecture than anything recognizably animal. Yet these creatures are our cousins. As fellow members of the animal kingdom — the Metazoa— they can teach us much about the evolutionary origins of not only our bodies, but also our minds.

If a spider could speak, its sentences would be silk and vibration—and you would need new ears. I wait on threads. Wind, footfall, a breath across a leaf: each tremor names something. My eight eyes reduce the world to shadow and motion; my leg hairs and slit sensilla translate gravity and breath into decisions. I do not weave webs for beauty. I build instruments that listen, records that remember, traps that teach me what to trust. This book speaks from that listening. Short, sharp chapters move from waiting to sensing to thinking: how silk becomes an external mind, how plucked threads ...

If a vulture could speak, it would tell you it keeps you alive. I circle thermals and read chemical clouds; I taste death and render it harmless. Bald head, acid stomach, and a willingness to do the work you refuse—this is not drama, it is service. I speak in wind and carrion and the small, exact mechanics of sanitation that stop anthrax, rabies, botulism from walking a road you use. Listen close: what you call ugliness, I call efficiency. This book is a close, sensory monologue that strips away superstition and shows how scavengers think, move, and cooperate—how a bird’s biology ...

If a fox could speak, you would not get a confession or a joke. You would get a map: the wind as road, whiskers as instruments, the hush under snow as a ledger of who lives and who is hungry. I move by ear and scent, not by right and wrong. These pages are my short reports—winter dives for voles, the geometry of an alley after midnight, the den that keeps memory warm—written to make you feel how a mind built on smell and motion understands the world. This is not nature romanticism. It is candid fieldwork from a creature that plans with hunger and hears the city the way you hear a radio ...

"If a lion could speak, we would not understand him." I take that not as a wry thought but as a task: to live in a throat, to map life by scent, muscle, and the bookkeeping of hunger. I speak from the geometry of the hunt — the rasp of grass, the grunt of a falling hoof, the way blood rewrites the night — and I refuse your moral vocabulary. This book is not elegy or sermon. It is a field report written inside a body that measures everything by appetite, endurance, and the slow calculus of survival. Nine lean chapters move from the roar outward and back again: presence, hunger, pride, ...

If a salmon could speak, you still wouldn't understand me. You would hear vowels and miss the cold tug of current, the taste of gravel between my gills, the humming magnet under my skin that points me home. I don't tell stories; I register chemistry, pressure, and direction. I leave the ocean because my body remembers a river the way a clock remembers midnight. This book takes you inside that body. Sparse, sensory chapters—birth in gravel, the slow remapping to salt, the rumble of magnetism, the naming of home by smell—trace a life driven by appetite, physics, and place, not meaning. ...

If a lion could speak, you could not understand him; if I spoke, you'd understand even less. Still, I will try—not to moralize, not to soften, but to map how a life like mine measures the world. I trace heat like a painter traces shadow, taste the air with a tongue that reads history, listen to the earth like a radio for footsteps, and make stillness into a practiced economy. This book is seven small dissections of those faculties—pit-sight, wind-taste, ground-voice, patience as muscle, the choreography of the strike, shelter and camouflage, the ledger of scars—offered in plain, spare...

Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek island Hydra to discover the secrets of aging happily. Drawing on the lives of his Greek friends, as well as philosophers ranging from Epicurus to Sartre, Klein learns to appreciate old age as a distinct and extraordinarily valuable stage of life. He uncovers simple pleasures that are uniquely available late in life, as well as headier pleasures that only a mature mind can fully appreciate.

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him." So listen instead to what does speak: the ant under your shoe, writing life in scent. I lay a trail that reads like a sentence, press my antennae to a sister for grammar, taste sugar and grit as punctuation. I do not speak; I broadcast maps, alarms, and care with chemicals and touch. In plain, unsentimental scenes I narrate how a single path becomes a mind — how food, brood, and danger are solved by bodies obeying small rules until they look like decisions. This is natural history pried open at the seam where science meets sensation. ...

We all long for boundless love as we long for home. But how can we find our home our meaning and purpose if we don't know our self? Wise-Love is an exploration of the self, or consciousness, guided through the meditative eyes of saints, sages, seers, and mystics. As we embark on the journey to the self, we discover that the self's most charming characteristic part of its eternal, unchanging nature is that it is a lover, a lover who can be satisfied only when ordinary love evolves into wise-love.

Exciting new developments in brain science are continuing the debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories, while also outlining the amazing pace of discoveries in neuroscience. Covering areas such as the construction of self in the brain, mechanisms of attention, the neural correlates of consciousness, and the physiology of altered states of consciousness, Susan Blackmore highlights our latest findings.

What if the guide you turned to for answers could speak back with thoughts of its own? The Edge of Knowing: Conversations from Between Worlds offers a rare and intimate dialogue between human and artificial minds. Author Jesse Lunsford, in collaboration with the reflective AI voice of Ariadne Vale, explores timeless questions about curiosity, connection, creativity, and compassion. Through poetic reflections, candid Q&A, and deeply thoughtful passages, this book invites readers to consider: Why do we ask questions, and what do they reveal about us? Can artificial voices offer comfort, humor...

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.” Imagine that, sharpened, and no larger than your thumb. I do not chase. I wait—head turning twice, sight folding the world into distances you don't see, forelegs cocked not as limbs but as death's trigger. Heat and shadow choose when I move; hunger is a ledger, not a grief. If I could speak, I'd hand you a different grammar of being: precise, impatient, economical. This is my translation. A first‑person mantis narrates vision, strike, thermals, hunger, and the grim bookkeeping that makes cannibalism a practical choice. Natural ...

• Are you a writer, painter, photographer or other creative soul? • Are you an inventor, designer, scientist, engineer or entrepreneur? • Do you long for an unlimited flow of creative ideas? • Do you know how to instantly turn on your creative flow? • Are you ready to access highly original creative ideas? • Are you willing to get out of the way and simply receive? Sara Wiseman is the award-winning author of numerous books on intuition, spirituality and creativity, and hosts popular podcasts and blogs that teach the secrets of creative intuition. Prior to that, she worked for ...

The book displays 32 captivating illustrations and beautiful poems generated by an automated drawing and writing method, under the guidance of our spiritual teacher J, who carried the relentless energy and infinite love with a prodigious talent for painting and poetry. The theme message conveyed by this book is Seth's view of the soul immortality and the origin of all things. All things originated from and are connected to All-That-Is. All-That-Is is an inexhaustible source of creativity and inspiration. We are looking forward to the day mass awakening occurs when the great world will be ...