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René Descartes once wrote: "I think, therefore I am!" With this sentence, the French thinker created a new direction in philosophy. Since then, entire generations of philosophers have tried to deduce from this sentence that humans are only aware of their existence because they think. But is that even true? - Do I think myself or am I thought? This is where the research for Anja Panse's artistic project begins.

Brain researchers, neurologists and scientists from other disciplines are rapidly gaining new insights into the topic of thought formation in the brain and are divided on this issue. It is therefore highly controversial who or what thinks in us. In her exploratory journey, Anja Panse will try to find out what scientific findings on this question are evidence-based and what philosophy and religions have to say on this topic. She will gather her own experiences in scientific experiments and spiritual journeys of consciousness. From these results and personal experiences, a dramatic text will emerge that reflects on the thought patterns within ourselves and makes destructive patterns visible. This text will later be the basis for an auditory performance. The project is an attempt to show that art is perhaps the only corrective capable of making us aware of the disastrous dependencies on destructive patterns of behaviour and our own streams of thought and breaking them open by helping to consolidate our recollection of our infallible sense of self.

Books:

1. Antonio Damasio - Wie wir denken, wie wir fühlen
2. John-Dylan Haynes; Mathias Eckoldt - Fenster ins Gehirn
3. Jochen Kirchhoff - Die Anderswelt
4. Stanislav Grof - Kosmos und Psyche
   
5. Rudolf Steiner - Wie erlange ich Erkenntnisse höherer Welten?
6. Carlos Castaneda - Die Lehren des Don Juan
7. Michael Harner - Der Weg des Schamanen
8. Shakespeare - King Lear
9. Maryanne Wolf - Das lesende Gehirn
10. Robert O. Becker Der Funke des Lebens
11. Michael Andrick Erfolgsleere