• Anuket: Goddess of the Nile river
• Astarte: Ancient Phoenician goddess
• Atlas: Titan who holds up the sky, namesake of the Atlantic (i.e., sea of Atlas) Ocean.
• Dyeus: Chief proto-Indo-European deity
• Freyja: Norse goddess of love and beauty
• Gaia: Primal Greek goddess, mother of the universe
• Isis: Egyptian goddess later worshipped in the Roman Empire
• Ixcacao: Ancient Mayan fertility goddess; goddess of cocoa and chocolate
• Izanagi: Japan god of creation
• Kali: Hindu goddess
• Kichigonai: Mayan creator god of light
• Lakshmi: Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity
• Mat Zemlya: Oldest Slavic deity
• Olorun: African king of the universe
• Pangu: Chinese creator of all
• Quetzalcoatl: Ancient Mesoamerica god
• Ra: Egyptian sun god
• Tengri: God of central Asia
• Thor: Norse hammer-wielding god
• Toci: Ancient Aztec goddess
• Venus: Roman goddess of love
• Viracocha: Inca creator god
• Xi Wangmu: One of China's oldest goddesses
• Zeus: Ancient Greek king of the gods

• "God is sheer existence", Aquinas [1966] section Ia,44,1
• "God is subsistent being", Saint Bruno, Carthusian order, Anonymous [1962] p. 101
• "'Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh' is usually translated", Judism, Nigosian [1986] p. 19
• "Reality is independent", Islam, Allana [1973] p. 337
• "There is an Unborn", Goddard [1966] p. 32-3
• "Liable to birth", Horner [1954] p. 206
• "The last words", Bush [1982] p. 118
• "God alone is real", Nikhilananda [1977] p. 81-82
• "Brahman is", Paramananda [1981] p.107
• "It is the ground", Shankara [1974] p. 71-2
• "As waves, foam and bubbles", Shastri, [1961] p. 6
• "Ultimate reality", Anonymous [1986] XXXIV, p. 36
• "There was something", Waley [1934] XXV, p. 174
• "This Being is One.", McLeod [1968] p. 163
• "the supreme godhead of Zoroastrianism", Dhalla [1972] p.19-20
• "It seems to me", Einstein [1930]
• "In their struggle", Calaprice [2010] p. 153
• "Everyone who", Calaprice [2010] p. 152

• Asimov [1966], p. 184

• Paine [1794]

• White [1896], chloroform, smallpox

• "At least one popular movie", The Matrix, 1999, Directed by the Wachowski Brothers
• "As an example of imaging techniques, PET scans show that violent criminals have less frontal brain activity," [Carter] p. 93
• "As to electrodes, stimulation of the temporal lobes provokes vivid recall," [Carter] p. 27
• "stimulating one part of the amygdala creates feelings of fear and panic; stimulating another part creates warm, friendly feelings," [Carter] P. 90
• "stimulation of the temporal/limbic system may produce intense feelings of joy and even a feeling of God's presence," [Carter] p. 129
• "after surgery removed a tumor," [Carter] p. 81
• "after a brain injury a farmer lost the ability," [Carter] p. 118-119, 123
• "a woman with a damaged hippocampus," [Carter] p. 95
• "a frontal lobe tumor apparently triggered obsessive.," [Carter] p. 74
• "in 1966, the churchgoing, ex-Marine,", [Carter] p. 92
• "Thus the story that in 1874, a physicist professor advised the 16-year-old Max Planck . . . ", http://youtu.be/SCUnoxJ5pho, retrieved January 6, 2015
• "Do any grounds exists for believing consciousness might originate . . . ", http://youtu.be/yosn_GHYiR4, retrieved January 6, 2015

• "[t]here was light everywhere", [Foster] p. 43-44
• ". . . so far from anything", [Foster] p. 36
• "From about half past ten", [Cohen] p. 137-8
• "Lightning rod", White [1896]
• "I beheld with the eye of my soul", [Augustine] Bk. VII,Ch.X
• "God is light, a light infinite and incomprehensible", [McGuckin] p. 138
• "God is light, and those whom", [Lossky] p.121
• "Our mind is pure and simple", [Kadloubovsky and Palmer] p. 132
• ". . . if nothing interferes", [Kadloubovsky and Palmer] p. 137
• "But, Oh, what intoxication of light", [deCatanzaro] p. 24-25
• "If a man who possesses within him", [Kadloubovsky and Palmer] p. 113
• "It illuminates us, this light that never sets", [Lossky] p.121
• "I am The ONE REAL!", [Al-Ghazzali] p. 106
• "I am the Absolute", [Schimmel], p. 66
• "Salt doll", [Nikhilananda] p. 103
• "Beyond the realm", [Budhananda]153

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