“Consciousness is not a thing but a process.” — May (Julian) Sinclair | V2Melody

“Consciousness is not a thing but a process.”

A concise statement of her view of mind as active and developing · Philosophical treatise

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May (Julian) Sinclair

About May (Julian) Sinclair

May (Julian) Sinclair

24 August 1863–14 November 1946

In the turbulent landscape of early twentieth-century literature, few writers navigated the transition from Victorian sensibilities to modernist innovation with the skill and prescience of May Sinclair. Born Mary Amelia St. Clair Sinclair on August 24, 1863, in Rock Ferry, Cheshire, and dying on November 14, 1946, in…

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“The slight lapse of time, so far from dulling or blurring that memory, crystallized it and made it sharp and clean.”

An eloquent observation that distance can sometimes sharpen rather than diminish memory. · Introduction, A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

“The new Idealism will be born again.”

Her confident prediction that philosophical ideas can return in new forms. · Introduction, A Defence of Idealism

“In our present existence we are spirit; but so limited in our experiences that we know the appearances of Spirit far better than we know Spirit itself.”

Reflecting on the difficulty of recognising the spiritual dimension of human existence. · A Defence of Idealism