Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · gutenberg0.714

   What I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently true and not unuseful to be known--particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want a demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God, or the natural immortality of the soul. Whether it be so or no I am content the reader should impartially examine; since I do not think myself any farther concerned for the success of what I have written than as it is agreeable to truth. But, to the end this may not suffer, I make it my request that the reader suspend his judgment till he has once at l…

   gutenberg/PG-4723-a-treatise-concerning-the-principles-of-human-knowledge/PG-4723.txt

2. 02 · archive0.707

   {11 23 11--> 1 + 10] triplet to [23,36,45] with trace 23; union with God, return to God, mastery on the physical plane, enlightenment; gap 12 which is perfection; 11th level; 23rd incarnation; Fibonacci; EDS (he) and SPD (she) ; Feb Sth/2011 see a license plate while driving 1123 KW (K is the 11th letter, W the 23rd) ... what are the odds ... April 15th/2011 see another license plate while driving with decal expiry May 19th ... what are the odds ... June 3rd/2011 see a cross in the sky made of double contrails ... June 7th/2011 someone from behind me puts their hand on my right shoulder whilst…

   archive/logicalcross/essay_djvu.txt

3. 03 · yt0.707

   The conclusion which is an hypothesis that consciousness and free will must come must be together and uh they must be they must exist at the beginning of the universe. They cannot come later. They have to be part of the nature of everything. Yeah. All music to my ears. both the the way you arrived at this information and the conclusions you derived from this experience and just to I'm going to give an intro so maybe it's I don't need to like give this full speech but just to really put things in a proper context for the audience you know you're a conventionally successful person a hyper succes…

   yt/QfP5BgOz97U-quantum-consciousness-and-the-illusion-of-reality-federico-f/transcript.txt

4. 04 · blog0.702

   But I should like to make my meaning clearer, if Timaeus, you will follow me. All that is said by any of us can only be imitation and representation. For if we consider the likenesses which painters make of bodies divine and heavenly, and the different degrees of gratification with which the eye of the spectator receives them, we shall see that we are satisfied with the artist who is able in any degree to imitate the earth and its mountains, and the rivers, and the woods, and the universe, and the things that are and move therein, and further, that knowing nothing precise about such matters, w…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/critias.md

5. 05 · gutenberg0.698

   This I am sure, I am under the greatest obligations to seek all occasions to acknowledge a long train of favours I have received from your lordship; favours, though great and important in themselves, yet made much more so by the forwardness, concern, and kindness, and other obliging circumstances, that never failed to accompany them. To all this you are pleased to add that which gives yet more weight and relish to all the rest: you vouchsafe to continue me in some degrees of your esteem, and allow me a place in your good thoughts, I had almost said friendship. This, my lord, your words and act…

   gutenberg/PG-10615-an-essay-concerning-humane-understanding-volume-1-mdcxc-based-on-the-2/PG-10615.txt

6. 06 · yt0.698

   And uh one of the amazing things that I argue in this article that I've just finished, I I I claim at least that it was regarded as a theorem in Platonist days that the corporeal world, which thus represents the lowest of the three strata, is itself tripartite. In other words, the tripartite uh division of the cosmos in its integrality is repeated on the on the corporeal level itself. And guess what? The tripartite uh division uh which we associate with the Ptolemaic uh division into the sidereal world, the world of the stars, the Earth at the center. Platonism is incurably geocentric. And the…

   yt/1Lm3y_4a--0-wolfgang-smith-and-john-vervaeke-the-perpetual-promise-inexh/transcript.txt

7. 07 · gutenberg0.694

   I can then call the essence of what I have discovered “true”—that is, _true for me_, and as I believe, true for the leading minds of the coming time; not true in itself as dissociated from the conditions imposed by blood and by history, for that is impossible. But what I wrote in the storm and stress of those years was, it must be admitted, a very imperfect statement of what stood clearly before me, and it remained to devote the years that followed to the task of correlating facts and finding means of expression which should enable me to present my idea in the most forcible form.

   gutenberg/PG-72344-the-decline-of-the-west-b-volume-1-form-and-actuality/PG-72344.txt

8. 08 · yt0.693

   At the same time it was very difficult to convey directly and so I found that it was rather like there's a beautiful image in one of John Dunn's poems in which he says truth uh stands on the top of a cragged hill and he who must who he who would reach it must about and about go you go you can't go straight there you need to be moving around this thing and in my mind that also connected with the image of Jacob's ladder um that was painted by William Blake which I've adopted as the the image of my my channel and my work and it's the only one I know in which Jacob's ladder is not just a straight …

   yt/C85Vyq-yQtk-why-the-west-is-losing-meaning-iain-mcgilchrist-interview/transcript.txt

9. 09 · gutenberg0.692

   Well. I must make my defense, then, O Athenians! and endeavor in this so short a space of time to remove from your minds the calumny which you have long entertained. I wish, indeed, it might be so, if it were at all better both for you and me, and that in making my defense I could effect something more advantageous still: I think, however, that it will be difficult, and I am not entirely ignorant what the difficulty is. Nevertheless, let this turn out as may be pleasing to God, I must obey the law and make my defense.

   gutenberg/PG-13726-apology-crito-and-phaedo-of-socrates/PG-13726.txt

10. 10 · yt0.690

    Knowing is an experience. That's me. One say that's me. It knows itself. >> Yeah. >> It brings into at the same time that it knows itself, it brings it into existence. Okay. And it must be a part whole of itself. Why? It's not made of parts. One is not made of parts. It cannot see itself just a little bit. It's got to see itself completely in the direction in which it look at itself. >> What [clears throat] is direction? The direction is the identity of what it brings into existence. That's the identity of the sati. It brings into existence a saty. A part of itself that now b…

    yt/cXlxCOoNZ7E-spacetime-is-the-memory-of-a-self-knowing-universe-federico-/transcript.txt