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Originally Posted by waechter418
....getting more and more discredited in Western civilization whose philosophers, artists, priests & poets held it, since the early Greeks, in high esteem.
Is it because modern western sciences pay little attention to consciousness, and if so, only to try to bind it into matter?
Or is it that people are increasingly captured by the material aspects of existence and thus become callous to consciousness?
What is the benefit of eliminating a concept that is accredited to have enriched Western cultures – and of course the grand civilizations of the East, who, by the way, keep its esprit since millennia well and alive.
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I feel there is world wide appeal in wanting to learn more on consciousness, more than ever now with the rise of new ageism and our easy access with technology and sharing information with another globally. However, I feel when It comes to education, I think a big reason institutions shy away from expanding on the topic is because Freudian theories & traditional medicine still dominate lectures and field studies.
I also think there are cultural variations on how some societies welcome new information. Ignorance or lack of awareness and sometimes circusmtances that force us to accept new or different thinking models. I am reminded of how some European cultures may have viewed molded bread as sicking, while another culture ( Latin America) used it as penicillin/anti biotics, in short, it's a lack of awareness, ignorance and course of events that almost force us to perceive information in a new light and become accepting of new ideas/ways of learning