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    Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter.Christian De Quincey - 2002 - Montpelier, Vt.: Invisible Cities Press.
    This groundbreaking book proposes that the universe around us is literally alive and conscious. This worldview restores a sense of the sacred to modern lives that have too long insisted that mind, spirit, and consciousness must be divorced from body, nature, and matter. Going back to the earliest days of Western philosophy, this book illustrates how the notion of intrinsically sentient matter is thousands of years old and has only recently been challenged by the currently dominant paradigm of materialism. By (...)
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  2. Consciousness all the way down? An analysis of McGinn's critique of panexperientialism.Christian de Quincey - 1994 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (2):217-229.
    This paper examines two objections by Colin McGinn to panexperientialist metaphysics as a solution to the mind-body problem. It begins by briefly stating how the `ontological problem' of the mind-body relationship is central to the philosophy of mind, summarizes the difficulties with dualism and materialism, and outlines the main tenets of panexperientialism. Panexperientialists, such as David Ray Griffin, claim that theirs is one approach to solving the mind-body problem which does not get stuck in accounting for interaction nor in the (...)
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    (1 other version)Conceiving the 'inconceivable'?Christian de Quincey - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (4):67-81.
    [opening paragraph]: Sometimes, after years of painstaking work, someone presents a startling argument that seems to suddenly snatch the ground right out from under your feet. And it's back to square one. Such a conceptual trapdoor caught me by surprise a few years ago. For decades, I had been convinced it is simply inconceivable that subjectivity -- the interior experience of how consciousness feels -- could possibly emerge from a previously wholly objective world, that mind could evolve from ‘dead’ matter. (...)
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  4. Intersubjectivity: Exploring consciousness from the second-person perspective.Christian de Quincey - 2000 - Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 32 (2):135-155.
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    The promise of integralism. A critical appreciation of Ken Wilber's integral psychology.Christian De Quincey - 2000 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 7 (11-12):11-12.
    Why do so many people think Ken Wilber is one of the most important thinkers of our time? Why are so many disturbed by what he writes? In this review of his work, I hope to throw some light on both questions.
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    Blindspots: 21 good reasons to think before you talk.Christian De Quincey - 2015 - Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press.
    Examines 21 unquestioned assumptions that cloud our collective consciousness.
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    I.C.e. World information, consciousness, energy.Christian De Quincey - 2006 - World Futures 62 (1 & 2):47 – 55.
    In Science and the Akashic Field, philosopher and systems theorist Ervin Laszlo (2004) makes the case that science is finally in a position to produce a theory of everything (ToE). Drawing on anomalies and advances in cosmology, quantum physics, biology, and consciousness studies, he shows how the discovery in physics of the zero point energy field (ZPE) is also the discovery of a universal information field. This article explores Ervin Laszlo's Akashic Field theory in light of the relationship between information, (...)
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    Reality bubbles:Can we know anything about the physical world?Christian de Quincey - 2008 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (8):94-101.
    From Plato's eidos, to Descartes' cogito, to Kant's numenon, our understanding of reality has faltered at a seemingly impossible, double-edged, impasse. First, an ontological 'hard problem': If mind and matter are so radically different and separate, how do they ever interact? Second, a related epistemological conundrum: How is it possible for mind to ever know anything about matter--including whether it even exists? Then came Whitehead. By shifting the mind-matter relation from substances interacting in space to complementary phases in process, he (...)
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  9. Switched-on consciousness - clarifying what it means.Christian de Quincey - 2006 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 13 (4):7-12.
    'Consciousness' has been called the 'final frontier' for science, philosophy's 'hard problem', and the greatest mystery in mysticism. It is a central focus in philosophy of mind. Yet confusion abounds about what 'consciousness' means -- even among philosophers, scientists, and mystics who have built careers exploring the mind. Different scholars and different disciplines use the same word to mean very different things. Debates and dialogues on consciousness often run aground because scholars conflate two radically different uses of the term. This (...)
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