This thread is for gnarly, bizarre, or perhaps simply cool science articles, videos, and other knowledge expanding things that are sweet.
with everybody's collective help, we could discover the true source of our existence. I say unexplainable shit should be posted here too. The nerd thread.
this is a pretty awesome science site that has a nice clean layout and covers the full spectrum:
www.sciencedaily.com
anybody else have any links or articles? I want my mind to be blown. Philosophy is fair game, it has to be. Don't let me down geniuses.
this is more philosophy but it still makes you ponder:
http://deoxy.org/w_self.htm
http://deoxy.org/watts.htm
you couldnt just call it the Science Thread? or the Bill Nye Thread? ;)
Quoteyou couldnt just call it the Science Thread? or the Bill Nye Thread? ;)
maybe you animals should fight it out for the new title.
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiicccccceee... good links, good thread
Always like to read this stuff
That was my 420th post, hombres
QuoteThat was my 420th post, hombres
wanna simul-blaze at 3am EST before I pass out for the night?
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2010/Title,59358,en.html
Cool!
QuoteQuoteThat was my 420th post, hombres
wanna simul-blaze at 3am EST before I pass out for the night?
Bummer I missed the boat... I was there at some level though, I'm sure (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/meditationf.gif)
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU[/media]
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate.
The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.
For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.
HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
HOME official website
http://www.home-2009.com
I've read a book by the physicist David Deutsch called "The Fabric Of Reality" which talks about the possibilities of time travel among many other things. Here's a short youtube vid and a TED talk he did:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpyi_8-MMg&feature=player_embedded[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6e4xNoarg[/media]
also if you guys don't know about TED talks.. then do yourself a favor and hop on over to http://www.ted.com
QuoteQuoteQuoteThat was my 420th post, hombres
wanna simul-blaze at 3am EST before I pass out for the night?
Bummer I missed the boat... I was there at some level though, I'm sure (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/meditationf.gif)
that is one of the coolest emo-cons I've ever seen. Baxter needs to put that in face bank.
Quotealso if you guys don't know about TED talks.. then do yourself a favor and hop on over to http://www.ted.com
that link looks awesome, going to check it out in a bitty boo.
Quotealso if you guys don't know about TED talks.. then do yourself a favor and hop on over to http://www.ted.com
For starters, I recommend Sir Ken Robinson & Larry Lessig's talks on Creativity, as well as Enric Sala on Coral Reefs & Pristine Oceans (http://www.ted.com/talks/enric_sala.html)
Oh, and James Randi's overdosing on stage on homeopathic sleeping pills
/Philosophy major
I was watching the James Randi vid, about psychics and the paranormal... when my bath towel hanging on my doorknob started to shake and shudder.
"The weight shifts sometimes," I rationalized. Then it kept shaking, and I popped my earphones out and ran to the door to investigate. And wouldn't you know, it was Buddha himself.
OK, my cat.. named Buddha... he was clawing at the towel from behind the door on the floor....
So I thought that might make for at least a mildly entertaining opening for a response about said vids... uncanny timing on Buddha's behalf :P
That TED site is great! Very cool to have free access to discoveries, theories, and the like. And those David Deutsch ones are mucho interesting. I like the way he presents.
I read that Alan Watts 3-part bit too today, and that's just great reading there. I love reading peoples' thoughts that feel either in some way to confirm thoughts or feelings I've had, or bring light to questions I've pondered... or sometimes just to know that experiences have been shared... I started to read the discussion he had with Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder ("Japhy Ryder" in Dharma Bums) too. I haven't read the whole thing yet, so I don't have anything to say about it as of yet! But that deoxy site is muy bueno.
Awesome infro, peeps 8-)
Oh and P.S, Invisibility Cloak GO!
QuoteI read that Alan Watts 3-part bit too today, and that's just great reading there. I love reading peoples' thoughts that feel either in some way to confirm thoughts or feelings I've had, or bring light to questions I've pondered... or sometimes just to know that experiences have been shared...
on youtube there are some pretty awesome videos that people have made to honor some of the best alan watt's audio recordings that exist. here is my favorite:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4[/media]
shiiiiiiiyat yall.. i fucking love this thread..
QuoteQuoteI read that Alan Watts 3-part bit too today, and that's just great reading there. I love reading peoples' thoughts that feel either in some way to confirm thoughts or feelings I've had, or bring light to questions I've pondered... or sometimes just to know that experiences have been shared...
on youtube there are some pretty awesome videos that people have made to honor some of the best alan watt's audio recordings that exist. here is my favorite:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4[/media]
shiiiiiiiyat yall.. i fucking love this thread..
that videos great. thanks yee.
Good call on the Alan Watts 'tube vids.... watching/listening now
Say, the Leonids meteor shower has been going on this week as well.... I think tonight may be the last main evening for viewing.....
The Leonids shower is one of I think several showers that happen around the same time each year (November, for the Leonids), due to our alignment with certain comets (?) (comet "Tempel Tuttle" being responsible for the Leonids showers) But anywho, think I'll head out late-night and have a look-a-loo, and recommend you all do the same if your sleep schedule allows!
(http://www.thedailyinquirer.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/leonid-meteor-shower-november-2009.jpg)
Oh, quick linkses::
http://earthsky.org/tonight
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids
(http://www.pic4ever.com/images/2lbkos0.gif)
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/secret-spaceplane-eludes-observers-spooks-governments/
space planes!
dark glow I posted that alan watts cartoon on this local radio show in detroits facebook page. I've watched it a couple times, more in amazed at how articulate the man is. in two minutes he explains our entire social indoctrination.
what other philosophers are as juicy as watts? I need something new to sink my teeth into.
He's not really a philosopher but Richard feyman puts a philosophical twist on everyday physics and is very good with words.
QuoteHe's not really a philosopher but Richard feyman puts a philosophical twist on everyday physics and is very good with words.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltEym9H0x4[/media]
this is one of the most influencial videos i've ever seen.. and one of the big reasons why i'm such a sucker for any kind of knowledge-gaining experience these days. it pretty much all stemmed from watching this video along with the entire documentary this was a part of.
If any of you are interested in Richard Feynman, check out this BBC horizons documentary called "Richard Feynman: No Ordinary Genius" it is some very enlightening shizzzzzz.
http://www.torrentdownloads.net/searches/BBC%20Horizon%20%20%20No%20Ordinary%20Genius%20Richard%20Feynman
Sweet sweet sweet, thanks for the vid! I tried to get on here yesterday and ask if you had a recommended link or video, but that just didn't happen.... so I'm super stoked to see you've already got it goin on! Congrats on the promotion too!!! [smiley=thumbsup.gif]
I'm pullin doubles alllllll week 'cept Thursday, so my time is uber limited on the comp... cept when I lurk on the board at work :-X
But I'll check this dude out when I can, thanks again!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2d1HxtXfk[/media]
TERENCE MCKENNA there ya go!
I read a book by him a couple years ago... I think it might've been True Hallucinations (?) It was about his mission to find ayahuasca. I might have the title wrong. It was a great book though, he too is the man.
I find myself nosing around a lot of Buddhist/Tao/Zen/Sufi, etc reading material.... I've always enjoyed/learned from the likes of Lama Surya Das, Osho, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Dalai Lama (of course) and at least a handful more that I'm not thinking of.... refreshing to study these types of philosophies, as they seem to be much more about spirituality and growth of consciousness and awareness more than actual religion.
A favorite quote of mine by Osho is a little something like:
"Thinking shows the futility of everything: even of life, even of love, even of family, even of wealth, even of the world, even of war. But if one goes on thinking, then in the end, this thinking shows the futility of thinking itself. And it is at this point that the person enters the state of no-thought. Then, in this state of no-thought, everything becomes possible for this person-- in exactly the same way as it is for a thoughtless person. But the very quality of this person and his actions is different. He is like a small child."
That's really just one tiny paragraph in a chapter, and I feel it leaves a good bit out still that he further explains and kicks around in the rest of the chapter (and the whole book) but I just wanted to share that little parcel. The mind is a curious thing.....
mckenna wrote a book called "food of the gods" and it's in my top 10.
That Richard Feynman video AND the Terence vid are awesome....... the R.F. vid is great! I'll have to watch the rest of that documentary! Thanks for posting! The T.M. video reminded me of an environmental science class I took a few years back... (/start rant) when my teacher taught about the symbiosis of mycorrhizae and how plants communicate to eachother through interwoven fungus (mycorrhiza) systems that every plant naturally has within its root system... The fungus feeds from the carbs/sugars that the plant (tree, flower, etc) provides.. and in turn it absorbs more minerals than the plant could, perhaps, naturally absorb itself. It just blew my mind when she said that if there is a forest fire, the message is sent underground via the myco, and it can help to protect trees further away from being harmed, as it can help "prepare" them (in what ways I am not quite sure!) Obviously it doesn't prevent fires from spreading, but I found it interesting that science quite possibly connected to the more "flighty" notions I've had about plant communications... (oh they TALK alright! yeah Jen...) And it just reminded me of the Ents in L.O.T.R... and then I blew a fuse somewhere.... (/end rant)
So uh..... well yeah go mycology! :-X Sorry for the lengthy bit there, T.M. gets my wheels turnin every time.... This is a super thread in the vast MMJ quilt 8-)
QuoteThat Richard Feynman video AND the Terence vid are awesome....... the R.F. vid is great! I'll have to watch the rest of that documentary! Thanks for posting! The T.M. video reminded me of an environmental science class I took a few years back... (/start rant) when my teacher taught about the symbiosis of mycorrhizae and how plants communicate to eachother through interwoven fungus (mycorrhiza) systems that every plant naturally has within its root system... The fungus feeds from the carbs/sugars that the plant (tree, flower, etc) provides.. and in turn it absorbs more minerals than the plant could, perhaps, naturally absorb itself. It just blew my mind when she said that if there is a forest fire, the message is sent underground via the myco, and it can help to protect trees further away from being harmed, as it can help "prepare" them (in what ways I am not quite sure!) Obviously it doesn't prevent fires from spreading, but I found it interesting that science quite possibly connected to the more "flighty" notions I've had about plant communications... (oh they TALK alright! yeah Jen...) And it just reminded me of the Ents in L.O.T.R... and then I blew a fuse somewhere.... (/end rant)
So uh..... well yeah go mycology! :-X Sorry for the lengthy bit there, T.M. gets my wheels turnin every time.... This is a super thread in the vast MMJ quilt 8-)
I've been watching this old series from the 80's about Quantum Physics and Consciousness and there's a biologist who explains the idea of "fields" which are, if I get this right, almost a certain type of connective energy through conscious and subconscious.
he talks about how a lot of mechanistic is flawed. how whenever scientists explain something it comes down to genes. birds migrate because of their genes, why do spiders spin webs, because they're genetically programmed to do so by their genes. It explains everything. but he goes on to say when you think about it, that really doesn't explain anything.
I wish I could remember his name it's gnarly shit. he thinks we're all connected through fields. these fields are individual to each organism but connect to the past, present and future of that organism. these fields interact and overlap with all the other fields of everything else that it is surrounded by. a rabbit has it's own field but is connected to all rabbits past, present, future. hence how a group of animals on the opposite side of the world would learn how to do certain things faster after a group on the other side of the world was taught the task. I think they did it with rats and it "worked" but who knows.
they also tested children who spoke english what symbols were more familiar, using ancient chinese text or stories or something and then jibberish or more recent stories. in most cases the kids recognized the ancient texted easier... it's hard to explain what this guy is talking about.
Alan Watts said if you go to a hindu guru or whatever they're called they'll tell you to "stop desiring" and after awhile you'll come back because you realize you are desiring not to desire. the world is balanced by 2/3's good and 1/3 bad, without this balance there would be no good or bad. everything would be meaningless. just concepts of course, not scientific fact or anything. I'm going to sleep now.
The Sopranos are usually relevant to life in many ways. One is when they explain field theory in the context of boxers and hip hop.
In other news, I couldn't find the video on animal intelligence that first showed me Einstein the Parrot, but here is another video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Fpad20Zbk[/media]
Simply put, scientists have shown animal intelligence to be greater than we realize. Bonobos have signs of "culture", including ritual habits. Chimps murder and assassinate. And Grey parrots can count, recognize and name different shapes and textures, and otherwise be smart.
never watched the sopranos, that sounds cool tho. didn't that show end with Tony choking on a meatball?
holy shit, FLYING SNAKES:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/24/131572514/sakes-alive-snakes-that-fly?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
there's a video from national geographic at the bottom. be careful out there in the jungles of Asia people.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/02/nasas-real-news-bacterium-on-earth-that-lives-off-arsenic/
Quotehttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/02/nasas-real-news-bacterium-on-earth-that-lives-off-arsenic/
Sweet news of the weird! (cue Donovan lyrics, "...and all because of the phos-phor-us, there in quantityyyyy....") er, that just came to mind while reading, sryyyy
I just drove past Mono Lake in August on my way out of Yosemite!!! I
thought the place seemed more microbial than usual! ::) No, it was an unexpected surprise though, on my way out.... it definitely had the same haze around it that the Great Salt Lake did... and I only drank from it twice :-X
Here's a pic I took of it in passing
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/china_cat3/101_2823_640x480.jpg?t=1291351138)
Voyager 1 has gone beyond the reach of the sun
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/13/the-wind-is-no-longer-at-voyagers-back/
QuoteVoyager 1 has gone beyond the reach of the sun
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/13/the-wind-is-no-longer-at-voyagers-back/
Cool story. I love the second comment.
"i belong to a race of robots"
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/26132/?ref=rss
solar rays are going to melt us by 2013:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-eye-looming-solar-max.html (http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-eye-looming-solar-max.html)
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Dec 29, 2010, 09:12 PM
solar rays are going to melt us by 2013:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-eye-looming-solar-max.html (http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-eye-looming-solar-max.html)
Over a quick scan, I saw "9 hour power outages" and "auroras"..... maybe by then I'll be holed up in a cabin with solar power watching the auroras without heavy light pollution and a fully charged solar generator :-X :-X :-X
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/crab-nebula-gamma-ray-flares-110106.html (http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/crab-nebula-gamma-ray-flares-110106.html)
Such as, is found in the Crab
Nebula
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/138784main_image_feature_460_ys_4.jpg)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_space_blob (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_space_blob)
I've also been meaning to share this since last summer, when I first got this plant and it was only 6 inches tall!
(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i26/china_cat3/touchme.jpg)
It's the Sensitive Plant (also known as a type of mimosa....) They don't generally do well in a Pittsburgh winter, but this one, though getting a bit gangly, is still green and growing! Some ppls might be familiar with it, when you touch the leaves, they turn under and wilt. (and it's the NEATEST DARN THING TO WATCH!) After awhile, they bounce back and are fine. They look like ya kill 'em anytime ya touch 'em though; it's actually a defense mechanism that can scare harmful critters away from eating it. What happens is the water in the leaves and stem is triggered, upon touching it, to travel down into the roots and base of the plant. And when the water is gone, the plant loses its upright buoyancy... It also closes In the Twiliiiiighttt.... and re-opens At Dawn!
But one of the ladies I worked with at the greenhouses last summer penned the clever marketing line "Touch Me..." on the plant pot, to lure customers... and every day I'd go in and see a few of them on the counter and Touch Me 1 or 2 would immediately be in my head :P Been wanting to post it forever!!
Here's a youtube of the mimosa doin' its thanggg:
Mimosa pudica - Sensitive Plant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3UuHlPLQU#)
Later Edit: So it needs repotted... bad... but I can't find it in me to take it outta the darn pot! I'll just plant something else in it I guess! Like a fragrant herb or something else touchable heh
that plant is f'ing sweet. way cool.
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 12, 2011, 03:35 AM
that plant is f'ing sweet. way cool.
Admit it - you're wondering what'd be like to smoke it
Quote from: el_chode on Jan 12, 2011, 03:36 PM
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 12, 2011, 03:35 AM
that plant is f'ing sweet. way cool.
Admit it - you're wondering what'd be like to smoke it
I want to pretend to eat it.
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 12, 2011, 05:09 PM
Quote from: el_chode on Jan 12, 2011, 03:36 PM
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 12, 2011, 03:35 AM
that plant is f'ing sweet. way cool.
Admit it - you're wondering what'd be like to smoke it
I want to pretend to eat it.
Wait til you see what happens to YOU when you smoke it! There's no youtube of that available. EVER. :-X
AND HEY HEY ALL THE FACES ARE BACK!!!
Now I need to use all of them completely unneccessarily, but for celebrational purposes. ;D ;D :D :D 8) :bath: :dankk2:
P.S. the "Thanks" one is called "dankk" in its html form. ahem
I like when it says it's "Fetching" a preview of your message, too.
The end.
I debated putting this article in the MMJ music section:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm)
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 13, 2011, 01:22 AM
I debated putting this article in the MMJ music section:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm)
Oh man this is awesome... you mighta shoulda
Chiiilllssss........down my spiiiiiiiiiiinnneee......
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 13, 2011, 01:22 AM
I debated putting this article in the MMJ music section:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm)
wonder how far off they are from engineering audio files that when listened to cause such a euphoric effect... and then i also wonder how long it will be before it's illegal.
i'll never understand our society's taboo on mind altering drugs meanwhile alcohol advertising is one of the biggest industries in america.
Quote from: darkglow on Jan 13, 2011, 03:01 AM
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jan 13, 2011, 01:22 AM
I debated putting this article in the MMJ music section:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110112111117.htm)
wonder how far off they are from engineering audio files that when listened to cause such a euphoric effect... and then i also wonder how long it will be before it's illegal.
i'll never understand our society's taboo on mind altering drugs meanwhile alcohol advertising is one of the biggest industries in america.
there is already people releasing audio that they claim give you the same buzz as certain drugs:
http://www.i-doser.com/storev3/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=188 (http://www.i-doser.com/storev3/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=188)
it's bullshit. if I were to speculate on how to maximize dopamine release via what the scientist are saying music wise I'd listen to Phish or Classical music with lots of tension. Tension/Release is Phish's entire jam philosophy for the most part. when bands peak out it's usually out of tension->release. Run Thru comes to mind as an example, they yell, then it gets tense and electronic and then they release again with massive wails at the end. that song gives me chills live almost every time.
There are a ton of apps for iPhone and the like that "get you high"
usually they contain the word binaural and have nothing to do with Pearl Jam
http://stevebass.posterous.com/the-mystery-of-the-box (http://stevebass.posterous.com/the-mystery-of-the-box)
NASA test fires its Methane Rocket, which may aid in deep space exploration.
NASA - Methane engine test fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjoY_cSmQ70#ws)
To me, it is a metaphor for my ass after a night of hotwings and beer.
Yellowstone Volcanoooo Practices Deep Breathing:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110125/us_yblog_thelookout/underground-yellowstone-supervolcano-causing-earth-to-rise-in-some-spots (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110125/us_yblog_thelookout/underground-yellowstone-supervolcano-causing-earth-to-rise-in-some-spots)
A really cool video along with it, to boot
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Oh shewt, yeah Tyler don't get me started on all this madness....
Quote from: darkglow on Jan 13, 2011, 03:01 AMi'll never understand our society's taboo on mind altering drugs meanwhile alcohol advertising is one of the biggest industries in america.
Heh that one gets me goin', especially since I've never been a big drinker.....
And Sticky, I wonder about the dopamine release when listening to music in the headphones at night, in between sleep/wakefulness. I'd love to find studies on what effects that has on the dream state(s). It feels like some serious chemicals are shifting around in the dome sometimes when listening to music falling asleep......
isn't there a chemical that starts to set in when you start falling asleep? it's suppose to keep you still basically so you don't hurt yourself, roll off the bed, etc. that shit about sleep paralysis is crazy. alien abductions, demons, all sorts of shit. waking dreams or whatever. It would be awesome to have trippy ass life like lucid dreams but alas too much weed clouds my dream core. although I did have a crazy quick dream two days ago where I jumped out of the dream and said "why don't we go now?!" mid-wake up followed by a "what the fuck?". dream states are intense. alpha waves n shit. have you seen those lucid dream googles that flash light patterns so when you dream it's easier to realize it? my friend's grandpa has some, they're supposedly really awesome but it could be bullshit.
I actually did a few searches and wanted to post reallllly bad on a few of the "dream"-themed threads that I found on some searches.... but I just ramble a mile a minute sometimes about all that.... *ahem* *trying not to continue said motions* :-X
I'm at a weird place of mind where I am certain I've had 2 lucid dreams in my life, but I only remember one of them. And they were fairly close to eachother as far as when they happened.
Typing about it now, though, makes me feel like the one I can't remember was just extremely short. Like I was able to 'control' my hand, and then the lucidity was gone. Something along those lines.
The OTHER one I won't likely ever forget. I was playing a sick game of hide-and-seek of all things, and I was able to grow and shrink and shape-shift as I pleased. I remember camouflaging my entire body to blend in with plants at one point, and I can't forget controlling myself to shrink into almost nothing, at another point. The invincible feeling of being in control is mind-blowing. I feel entirely blessed or in great fortune to even have experienced it once.
These both happened, as far as I recall, during a more regularly psychedelic time frame of my life, and I always question that. (NOTE: I was not ON anything at the time of dreaming!!! I was just "exploring more realms" in general during that period.) Studying meditation and Buddhism philosophies (not necessarily the dogma of it) has led me to believe that drugs are not needed to go where they are so often associated with taking people. But I'm no spokesperson for it, I'm not the Maharajji, unfortunately! (Though drifting slightly from my goal of not rambling, I would like to mention I dreamt I visited him in the mountains once, and we spoke to eachother in very "normal" ways. He even swore and was pretty vulgar! I guess that was his way of coming back down to the human levels......)
ANYWHO. I better end it there.
I'm not super familiar with those light patterns (well I haven't tried to read about 'em online just yet), but I can already tell I'd love to experiment with all that.... anything to get back that euphoric feeling!!! :o
I've read a bit about alpha waves, but it's been a good while... definitely interesting shiite! Can't recall much about the "falling asleep" chem you mentioned either, though I remember reading something about that.....
For me, deja vu is getting weirder and weirder. I've started to feel like I'm actually putting some of them together with where they "come from" or something.... (and though it hasn't happened a whole lot, it does feel very dream-related) What another WEIRD-ASS sensation all across your whole body when that shit happens... you get the deja vu rollercoaster feeling like you're sucking into a black hole then it just spits you right the f out....
Love the movie Waking Life
those dreams sound awesome. I don't know much about buddism just that the main philosophy behind it is "life is suffering" and suffering is caused by desire. we can not, not desire thus we suffer, endlessly. or do we? waking life is a pretty trippy movie, my friend used to have that on all the time when I went over to his house. the subconscious is amazing, the entire brain is amazing really. brain science is my favorite type of science, how we work and why we do what we do.
whenever I dream these days it's always weird as shit and feels like a real life scenario. except for one dream I've had two or three times now. I'm either moving into or staying at some huge 5 story hotel like mansion. the top floor was haunted. I was sure of it I remember. it was like I stayed in the room a couple nights and haunted ass shit happened, but like evil freaky shit. so I remember peacing out of the 5th floor. neil young playing guitar downstairs but when I looked at him it was a kaleidoscope view. then after that it's this old style empty room, the paint is faded and it has those old school wood floors and Victorian ceilings.
the point I suppose is that even though I don't really remember much from the two dreams, the second time I had the dream I remembered the 5th floor in the dream and went up there again and it was haunted again. It was one of those intensely scary but fun dreams, where you wake up and you try to fall back asleep to see how it ends or something.
I'm going to go get my dream on right now, hope ya have some good ones.
Deja Vu is the first strip club I ever went to. and the only strip club I've ever been taken to by people I worked for (fucking sales people are weirdos, I quit the day I got hired - fuck that bullshit). It seems like if we are just an illusion like Einstein says or we're a little piece of everything like the hindu's and buddist say it would make sense that we perceive instances of time in weird ways. Our brains are like processors almost right? maybe there are effects, there's almost gotta be effects that are messing with our perception of reality. The blue sky I suppose is an example. it's not really blue or whatever. that's kind of a lame analogy.
it seems like all our consciousness is connected, it's one big thing. ying to the yang. black to white. my friend posted a quote the other day something like "we're giant machines built by DNA to produce more DNA". haha, it's kinda true. existence, who knows. I'm hooked on the multiverse shit and if we integrate into the system of universes or if we're limited to our own. I'm pretty stoned as a disclaimer.
Dreams have always been very, very interesting to me. I have had at least one lucid dream:
The only part of the dream I remember: I burst into a shopping mall...who knows why I was there or what I was doing beforehand...but as soon as I entered the mall, I felt very "aware." I was also suddenly very aware of a strong "presence"...something else was in there with me. Suddenly, I stopped and looked at my hands, as if I were awake. I could control everything. And a big, booming voice said "You've figured it out." And I turned around and there was a "God"-like creature. He was big and furry and purple with Big-Bird legs and antennae. And I just felt Euphoric. And Warmth. and Love. It was awesome.
So I started looking into lucid dreaming, seeing if there was a way to stimulate that to happen all the time. I remember reading that keeping a dream log helps as well as focusing your thoughts before you fall asleep. I never got around to looking into it all that hardcore tho. But I really wanted to be able to control my dreams. And actually be "productive" while I was asleep...whether thinking about a homework problem or...whatever. I hadn't really figured out in what ways I could be productive, other than thinking through problems.
On a semi-related note: does anyone here meditate with any frequency? Any tips/books you could recommend? I really want to start some regular meditation sessions. Anyone have any data/info on the benefits?
Damn, Hawk!!
That's borderline out-of-body, in my book. That blows right through 'lucid' into 'spiritually enlightening' (or beyond!) That you looked at your hands is interesting. I've read here and there that focusing on your hands (or a single hand) before drifting off (really focusing on it) is a way some people gear into lucidity. That's very major...
I'd think there are at least a few ways to find productivity in a lucid dream.... definitely working on 'problems,' like you mentioned. But there may be ways to tap into whatever spirit plane is enter-able... communicating with recently deceased? That might be kinda 'out there,' but it's just a thought. Lucid dreams bring about such an "invincible" feeling, it's hard to say what one is actually capable of. I myself would want to explore the mysterious areas of where one goes after one departs. That's likely my largest mystery I can think of, and I think about it daily (not in a gory or disturbing way!) Just such a curious thing. Reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead gets into the "bardos" and the various "stages" the soul seems to travel through, but it's just damn near impossible to explain or believe while still alive. Very curious if one can lucidly explore any such dimensions.... and if one were to MEDITATE while in a lucid dream.... well sweet jeebiss I just can't imagine what that all entails :o
ANYWHO... speaking of meditating, I do practice regularly, but not always in a "conventional" way. I'd love to improve a more "conventional" method, because it seems much more advanced and challenging than the regular meditations I go through in my day. But to me, meditating is being as present as you can be. A good description I once read in some Buddhism book or another was, "When you eat, eat. When you walk, walk. When you read, read." Sounds weird or overly-simple or whatever it might sound like. But it basically means just experience what you're doing as FULLY as you can. It's something you can do any second of your days. Typing this right now, am I distracted? Thinking about something else? Maybe listening to music? I can willingly just shut it all off, and focus on each letter forming as I hit the keys. And that's it! That's all it takes, for starters. Such meditation might seem too simple, like I said, but my short-term memory has sky-rocketed (though it's still faaaar from perfect heh) But when you set your car keys down, you set them down. You become present and take in any surroundings you have time to take in. I stop myself and truly notice where I set them.
Later Edit: You certainly learn a lot about yourself this way, and what weaknesses or strengths you have, mentally. And I feel practicing focus this way is also a helpful step in preventing Alzheimer's and/or dementia, etc... feel like I've read several health magazines with studies finding positive benefits like that. Makes sense, imo...
That's why meditation is a constant practice. Obviously we can't always be in that state (or can we?) I'm still attempting, but it doesn't mean things don't get forgotten or overlooked... I just notice I remember a hell of a lot more in practicing that kind of focus. And it's never boring, really. When I eat, say, a bowl of soup, and remember to 'meditate,' I often look directly at it and all the colors and textures and smells, and it truly does feel like meditation. To notice things in such vividness makes them "come alive," or something.
We all meditate to some Jacket, on a very, VERY regular basis (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/meditationf.gif)
i was talking about this just yesterday, how a simple but effective form of mental "yoga" consists of thinking in 3rd person.. like instead of thinking like "i am driving my car" you would think like "jenn is driving her car" and it makes you alot more conscious of your inner being and the duality that exists inside the ego. some books written by philosophers tell you to focus on the "me" side and to absolutely forget that the other side exists. i think that's damn near impossible. if you move past the simple mindset of just observing things as they are to being the observer that's observing the observer, things seem to become alot more clear and it's much easier to live with yourself.
just my opinion, though.
;)
Interesting stuff. I have lucid dreams somewhat regularly. In fact, I didn't realize is was that rare until I was reading this. I also have dreams that aren't necessarily lucid but I'm able to wake myself up from them when I don't like them. It seems like they are all similar. I'm in some kind of trouble, not even sure usually, and I'm on the run. I have to say my goodbyes to all my family and just when it starts to get to be too much, I wake myself up. Come to think of it, I'm not exactly sure what it is I do to wake myself up now that I'm talking about it. But I always know what to do while I'm actually dreaming. Weird.
Also, I think listening to music is certainly a form of meditation. I've actually been thinking about this a lot recently. It started because I was thinking about how much I enjoy listening to music and how important it is to me. Then I started to think about other people in my life and how that's not the case for them. I just think to myself, "how can they be so indifferent about music". It's just all how it makes people feel, I guess. I'm kind of rambling here... my point is that when I listen to music by myself, everything else disappears. Everytime. No matter what I have going or what was on my mind, I get completely caught up in whatever it is I'm listening to and nothing else enters my mind (until my phone rings, anyway). It's like it's not just the actual music that I am listening to that I like so much but also the background "noise" of thought that the music is able to block out.
So what's the opposite of science?
Where did it all come from? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8M#)
el chode i'm reposting this from page 2 of this thread to give an answer to your question:
Richard Feynman on God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YltEym9H0x4#)
Hahah nice dialogue there (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/voodoodoll_2.gif) I like Richard Feynman's "deal," being based in the mystery and all. I like that he preaches neither for science nor for religion... He's right here and comfortable with not being able to fully explain either.... comforting words in a world pulled in so many directions....
Jon, I have had similar dreams where I've been able to wake myself up... but I've had roughly about the same number of dreams where I can recall wanting to wake up... or some strange sensation of knowing that I wasn't in a permanent reality... wow that was weird to finally put into words. What IS that! "knowing I'm not in a permanent reality" Shewt.. that just hit me in a way, sorry.... OK, OK, I know it might be a fine line, but I think I might go pull up a Dream thread! I know I've seen a few of 'em floatin' around the board...... might be about time ???
And yeah I'd for sure go with music being a form of meditation. There are so many forms. There's Labyrinth meditation, walking meditation, mantra meditation, candle(/or object) meditation... just to name a tiny speck of them... It could definitely be argued that it is another tool to keep you in the present! And keep your mind clear from "debris." At least for the time that you're listening to it. And when you allow it to block out the "small mind" barrage of crap, it can definitely be a beneficial "cleansing" for the day (or night). Like you mentioned, the benefit of music all depends on the listener and what their intentions are and how it affects them. Even maybe so far as how they allow it to affect them. Will they let music take them to the Utopia? Will they give in and let it free their mind in such a way? And some people just might not be wired for music to do that to them.... definitely an individual thing!
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/cancer/story/2011/01/Study-Rise-in-some-head-and-neck-cancers-tied-to-oral-sex-/43056302/1?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ (http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/cancer/story/2011/01/Study-Rise-in-some-head-and-neck-cancers-tied-to-oral-sex-/43056302/1?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_)
Ever so often I find a pic that makes me question reality, like "humans are really doing this and not just in movies?":
(http://www.omega-level.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Tracy-Caldwell-Dyson.jpg)
I'm assuming that's a picture from the International Space Station, Choder? I've unearthed an old thread I posted that guides folks to viewing the ISS as it passes overhead in the night sky. Check it out if you haven't already.
http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0 (http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0)
Quote from: johnnYYac on Feb 01, 2011, 01:39 PM
I'm assuming that's a picture from the International Space Station, Choder? I've unearthed an old thread I posted that guides folks to viewing the ISS as it passes overhead in the night sky. Check it out if you haven't already.
http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0 (http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0)
Yeah, that was the result of their most recent renovation I believe, perhaps sometime in April. it's a gigantic window, the only purpose of which is to make me jealous that I'm not floating on the edge of gravity looking down on the only naturally-occurring hospitable location in the known universe.
Quote from: el_chode on Feb 01, 2011, 02:57 PM
Quote from: johnnYYac on Feb 01, 2011, 01:39 PM
I'm assuming that's a picture from the International Space Station, Choder? I've unearthed an old thread I posted that guides folks to viewing the ISS as it passes overhead in the night sky. Check it out if you haven't already.
http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0 (http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0)
Yeah, that was the result of their most recent renovation I believe, perhaps sometime in April. it's a gigantic window, the only purpose of which is to make me jealous that I'm not floating on the edge of gravity looking down on the only naturally-occurring hospitable location in the known universe.
pretty fucking amazing. hard to put into words really. I want to explore outer space. let's start a private program.
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Feb 02, 2011, 01:16 AM
Quote from: el_chode on Feb 01, 2011, 02:57 PM
Quote from: johnnYYac on Feb 01, 2011, 01:39 PM
I'm assuming that's a picture from the International Space Station, Choder? I've unearthed an old thread I posted that guides folks to viewing the ISS as it passes overhead in the night sky. Check it out if you haven't already.
http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0 (http://mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=12455.0)
Yeah, that was the result of their most recent renovation I believe, perhaps sometime in April. it's a gigantic window, the only purpose of which is to make me jealous that I'm not floating on the edge of gravity looking down on the only naturally-occurring hospitable location in the known universe.
pretty fucking amazing. hard to put into words really. I want to explore outer space. let's start a private program.
There are no laws in space. You can get as high as you want.
I say this because I imagine it to be like I took SCUBA during college and just went to class out of my head every day with a bunch of hippies from the forestry school (though they usually were tripping). We'd put on our dry suits and gear, hop in a heated pool, and float weightless.
I imagine doing that in outerspace is infinitely more awesome. And that experience was one of the most awesome.
I don't know if any of you have ever seen/met a burn patient. But if you have this will blow your mind even more than if oyu're just someone who has their mind easily blown by science
The Skin Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI#ws)
Quote from: el_chode on Feb 02, 2011, 03:40 PM
I don't know if any of you have ever seen/met a burn patient. But if you have this will blow your mind even more than if oyu're just someone who has their mind easily blown by science
The Skin Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI#ws)
Look closely at that open wound-
See past what covers the surface
Underneath chaotic catastrophe-
Creation takes the stage
That's pretty neat.... 'cept, I don't believe they showed the hand after the procedure? I don't recall seeing a picture of his burnt shoulder to compare it with his 'newly revived' shoulder.... unless I looked away at any point and missed it? But that's definitely interesting teqhnologie!
Quote from: el_chode on Feb 02, 2011, 01:22 AM
There are no laws in space. You can get as high as you want.
I say this because I imagine it to be like I took SCUBA during college and just went to class out of my head every day with a bunch of hippies from the forestry school (though they usually were tripping). We'd put on our dry suits and gear, hop in a heated pool, and float weightless.
I imagine doing that in outerspace is infinitely more awesome. And that experience was one of the most awesome.
Man.... scuba class would kick major arse!! And they were tripping.....sweet lordamighty... :o I watched some movie once about an isolation tank and..... I don't remember a whole lot about the movie/plot/etc, other than the tank experience..... amazing that you take away all the senses and it would become OVERwhelming. It gives me chills just to think about that experience.
Also digginggggg
Richard Feynman talks about light (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4#)
Quote from: woodnymph on Feb 03, 2011, 09:27 PM
Also digginggggg
Richard Feynman talks about light (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHJ7FmV0M4#)
heavy
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-why-do-we-sleep.html (http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-why-do-we-sleep.html)
Posted this on Facebook, but thought I'd share here too:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/phys-ed-what-really-causes-runners-high/ (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/phys-ed-what-really-causes-runners-high/)
I found it interesting. I don't really think I've ever had this "runner's high," or if I did, it really wasn't that pleasurable. Maybe I didn't work out intensely enough. I find it particularly interesting because I don't tend to get as much enjoyment from smoking the reefer as lots of people do. I mean, I still do it, but only really get pleasure from it if I'm in the right frame of mind...usually listening to or playing music. Otherwise I usually just feel fucked up and paranoid. I get some relaxation too, but it comes in waves. Paranoid, relaxed, paranoid, relaxed. It's not this supreme, serene pleasure some people describe. I mean I picture Sticky or my buddy Chip from college or Dave Chappelle smoking the reefer...now this particular group of individuals REALLY enjoys it. I'm wondering if I lack these endocannibinoid receptors? Or I don't have as many of them? Or something is "blocking" them? I will blame that for my lack of running motivation ;)
Quote from: Hawkeye on Feb 16, 2011, 02:02 PM
Posted this on Facebook, but thought I'd share here too:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/phys-ed-what-really-causes-runners-high/ (http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/phys-ed-what-really-causes-runners-high/)
I found it interesting. I don't really think I've ever had this "runner's high," or if I did, it really wasn't that pleasurable. Maybe I didn't work out intensely enough. I find it particularly interesting because I don't tend to get as much enjoyment from smoking the reefer as lots of people do. I mean, I still do it, but only really get pleasure from it if I'm in the right frame of mind...usually listening to or playing music. Otherwise I usually just feel fucked up and paranoid. I get some relaxation too, but it comes in waves. Paranoid, relaxed, paranoid, relaxed. It's not this supreme, serene pleasure some people describe. I mean I picture Sticky or my buddy Chip from college or Dave Chappelle smoking the reefer...now this particular group of individuals REALLY enjoys it. I'm wondering if I lack these endocannibinoid receptors? Or I don't have as many of them? Or something is "blocking" them? I will blame that for my lack of running motivation ;)
hmm interesting. my doctor told me to exercise to release endorphins, their advice better not be bunk.
weed makes everybody paranoid once in a while. it's a tolerance thing if you ask me. the more you do it the less prominent the negative effects are. then again I knew a dude who smoked a bowl at a party with some friends and I once and ended up spending most of the night in the bathtub. but he was kinda nutty in the head overall so it's hard to say if it was the chronic or his overactive imagination causing the said result.
from what I've read there are only 3 main cannibanoids that effect your brain when high. 1.) short term memory loss while high 2.) increased appetite, and 3.) healing properties.
I'd expect the opposite of what that article says to happen. it seems more likely an opiate type chemical is being released. whether it's dopamine, serotonin, or endorphins, those are three main "I feel GOOD!" chemicals our brains release. feel free to correct me tho because I'm not really positive about any of this.
they're coming for us.
http://www.allnewsweb.com/page1199999476.php (http://www.allnewsweb.com/page1199999476.php)
UFO seen over Jerusalem updated with translation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0lEqR1Oy3I#)
http://www.space.com/10982-kepler-alien-planets-billion-galaxy.html (http://www.space.com/10982-kepler-alien-planets-billion-galaxy.html)
this is pretty crazy:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/video-goateed-geminoid-robot-guaranteed-freak-you-out (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/video-goateed-geminoid-robot-guaranteed-freak-you-out)
The sweatshirt I got hubs for the birthday:
http://wearscience.com/design/robot/ (http://wearscience.com/design/robot/)
;D
Quote from: vespachick on Mar 10, 2011, 04:25 PM
The sweatshirt I got hubs for the birthday:
http://wearscience.com/design/robot/ (http://wearscience.com/design/robot/)
;D
that is a sweet shirt.
Quote from: vespachick on Mar 10, 2011, 04:25 PM
The sweatshirt I got hubs for the birthday:
http://wearscience.com/design/robot/ (http://wearscience.com/design/robot/)
;D
Hahaaa!! Nice find!!!! ;D ;D
sweet time travel...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163330.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110315163330.htm)
Large Hadron Collider Could Be World's First Time Machine, Researchers' Theory Suggests
ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2011) — If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year -- could be the first machine capable of causing matter to travel backwards in time.
"Our theory is a long shot," admitted Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, "but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints."
One of the major goals of the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson: the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time.
According to Weiler and Ho's theory, these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.
"One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said. "Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."
Unsticking the "brane"
The test of the researchers' theory will be whether the physicists monitoring the collider begin seeing Higgs singlet particles and their decay products spontaneously appearing. If they do, Weiler and Ho believe that they will have been produced by particles that travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.
Weiler and Ho's theory is based on M-theory, a "theory of everything." A small cadre of theoretical physicists have developed M-theory to the point that it can accommodate the properties of all the known subatomic particles and forces, including gravity, but it requires 10 or 11 dimensions instead of our familiar four. This has led to the suggestion that our universe may be like a four-dimensional membrane or "brane" floating in a multi-dimensional space-time called the "bulk."
According to this view, the basic building blocks of our universe are permanently stuck to the brane and so cannot travel in other dimensions. There are some exceptions, however. Some argue that gravity, for example, is weaker than other fundamental forces because it diffuses into other dimensions. Another possible exception is the proposed Higgs singlet, which responds to gravity but not to any of the other basic forces.
Answers in neutrinos?
Weiler began looking at time travel six years ago to explain anomalies that had been observed in several experiments with neutrinos. Neutrinos are nicknamed ghost particles because they react so rarely with ordinary matter: Trillions of neutrinos hit our bodies every second, yet we don't notice them because they zip through without affecting us.
Weiler and colleagues Heinrich Päs and Sandip Pakvasa at the University of Hawaii came up with an explanation of the anomalies based on the existence of a hypothetical particle called the sterile neutrino. In theory, sterile neutrinos are even less detectable than regular neutrinos because they interact only with gravitational force. As a result, sterile neutrinos are another particle that is not attached to the brane and so should be capable of traveling through extra dimensions.
Weiler, Päs and Pakvasa proposed that sterile neutrinos travel faster than light by taking shortcuts through extra dimensions. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, there are certain conditions where traveling faster than the speed of light is equivalent to traveling backward in time. This led the physicists into the speculative realm of time travel.
Ideas impact science fiction
In 2007, the researchers, along with Vanderbilt graduate fellow James Dent, posted a paper titled "Neutrino time travel" that generated a considerable amount of buzz.
Their ideas found their way into two science fiction novels. Final Theory by Mark Alpert, which was described in the New York Times as a "physics-based version of The Da Vinci Code," is based on the researchers' idea of neutrinos taking shortcuts in extra dimensions. Joe Haldeman's novel The Accidental Time Machine is about a time-traveling MIT graduate student and includes an author's note that describes the novel's relationship to the type of time travel described by Dent, Päs, Pakvasa and Weiler.
Ho is a graduate fellow working with Weiler. Their theory is described in a paper posted March 7 on the research website arXiv.org.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit)
A 12 year old discusses some......ideaaass....
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 03:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit)
A 12 year old discusses some......ideaaass....
unreal.. someday we'll be able to reproduce the effects of aspergers syndrome in a lab and we'll be able to unlock the true potential of the human body and mind..
Quote from: darkglow on Mar 29, 2011, 04:34 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 03:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit)
A 12 year old discusses some......ideaaass....
unreal.. someday we'll be able to reproduce the effects of aspergers syndrome in a lab and we'll be able to unlock the true potential of the human body and mind..
Hahah for sure, can't wait ;D Sign me up for the supra-cognitive functioning, I think I've already got several other traits :P
The way that kid talks is just wild.... so fast... so matter-of-factly
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 05:22 PM
Quote from: darkglow on Mar 29, 2011, 04:34 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 03:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit)
A 12 year old discusses some......ideaaass....
unreal.. someday we'll be able to reproduce the effects of aspergers syndrome in a lab and we'll be able to unlock the true potential of the human body and mind..
Hahah for sure, can't wait ;D Sign me up for the supra-cognitive functioning, I think I've already got several other traits :P
The way that kid talks is just wild.... so fast... so matter-of-factly
i was drunk when i saw the youtube vid about this guy for the first time this past weekend..
the first thought in my mind was "it's an extraterrestrial being in a human body.. i mean.. he tells his parents he does not "feel right" in the body he's in...
ah well.. if it is i hope he can help us out, eh?
Quote from: darkglow on Mar 29, 2011, 07:21 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 05:22 PM
Quote from: darkglow on Mar 29, 2011, 04:34 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Mar 29, 2011, 03:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110329/ts_yblog_thelookout/for-12-year-old-astrophysics-prodigy-the-skys-the-limit)
A 12 year old discusses some......ideaaass....
unreal.. someday we'll be able to reproduce the effects of aspergers syndrome in a lab and we'll be able to unlock the true potential of the human body and mind..
Hahah for sure, can't wait ;D Sign me up for the supra-cognitive functioning, I think I've already got several other traits :P
The way that kid talks is just wild.... so fast... so matter-of-factly
i was drunk when i saw the youtube vid about this guy for the first time this past weekend..
the first thought in my mind was "it's an extraterrestrial being in a human body.. i mean.. he tells his parents he does not "feel right" in the body he's in...
ah well.. if it is i hope he can help us out, eh?
Shit, for sure!! The metaphysics of his abilities boggles the crap outta me... let alone the abilities themselves... but in someone so young... that just sends my brain out into la-la land, and I start pondering reincarnation, extraterrestrial concepts... dna... *essploohhhdd* (http://www.pic4ever.com/images/voodoodoll_2.gif)
Hope to hear more about him in days to come......
http://www.nyingma.com/dzogchen1.htm (http://www.nyingma.com/dzogchen1.htm)
Just felt like sharing.....
(http://www.worldofstock.com/thumbs/NPF2253.jpg)
My girl Kara sent this at me today, just thought I'd throw it in the cosmic soup here
How Your Mind Co-creates Reality Holographically (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQ140F32Tw#)
Quote from: woodnymph on Jun 07, 2011, 10:20 PM
My girl Kara sent this at me today, just thought I'd throw it in the cosmic soup here
How Your Mind Co-creates Reality Holographically (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQ140F32Tw#)
:o :o :o
this is either the most unsettling, incredible thing ive ever heard about human consciousness, or the most selfishly human theory ever devised.....whoa. So is this where "bad vibes" or "good vibes" originate from? Is it your own respective consciousness encountering another reality-creating consciousness?? This makes me want to stop watching the news :-\
This also reminds me of an interview I listened to, where Owsley Stanley (aka Bear, the early sound guy and LSD guru of the Grateful Dead) described some experiments he conducted on people taking DMT while measuring sound levels of live music.
He noticed that when a room full of people smoked DMT while watching a band play live, the loudness of the instruments increased significantly and independently of the musicians themselves. He even said that when only one person smoked DMT, the loudness of the music increased. He claimed that the heightened consciousness of people even melted the equipment after a while.
Thanks for blowing my mind!
Quote from: EasyRyder on Jun 07, 2011, 10:49 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Jun 07, 2011, 10:20 PM
My girl Kara sent this at me today, just thought I'd throw it in the cosmic soup here
How Your Mind Co-creates Reality Holographically (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQ140F32Tw#)
:o :o :o
this is either the most unsettling, incredible thing ive ever heard about human consciousness, or the most selfishly human theory ever devised.....whoa. So is this where "bad vibes" or "good vibes" originate from? Is it your own respective consciousness encountering another reality-creating consciousness?? This makes me want to stop watching the news :-\
This also reminds me of an interview I listened to, where Owsley Stanley (aka Bear, the early sound guy and LSD guru of the Grateful Dead) described some experiments he conducted on people taking DMT while measuring sound levels of live music.
He noticed that when a room full of people smoked DMT while watching a band play live, the loudness of the instruments increased significantly and independently of the musicians themselves. He even said that when only one person smoked DMT, the loudness of the music increased. He claimed that the heightened consciousness of people even melted the equipment after a while.
Thanks for blowing my mind!
Whoa dudeski that's an AWESOME study! Owsley is the man. (Or was the man... or still is the man, depending on how you might look at it....) Equipment(/face) melting are very real experiences! I thought the same thought about the human element in the video, but it all rolled together into the other material and I can't seem to grasp a position on where I stand hahahah, I feel like a wave of particles and incapable of judging...much.... hahahahah
But I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's a bit all over the place maybe, but there's more parts I feel resonance with than there are parts I don't... It just gets my neurons in a bunch! :P
Oh, about the news!.... I can't suggest what's better or worse for other people, but I often feel it's a lot of hullabaloo and that if we'd just shut things off for a bit we'd gain our intuitions back a great deal and would focus more on just sending off positive vibes to the external world.... I mean, the news is news, and some of it is interesting, like that crazy Chilean volcano smoke-cloud-lightening-storm incident. But otherwise, we know the world is troubled. We know people suffer. 9 and possibly 10 times out of 10 that we watch the news, we can't and/or don't actually DO much to change the problems, for many extremely variable reasons. So watching such troubles may or may not be deemed, well, helpful? If that makes sense? I think it
could be helpful, that is, has the potential to be helpful, if, by watching it, we had intentional focus groups of people who would pray or send their higher energies to the victims in the incidents we always see. (Or just did that ourselves, even!) And I can't speak for everyone, but I know I'd thoroughly enjoy sitting back and witnessing a one-week period of time when NOBODY watched the news and/or the news wasn't aired. It didn't used to be so accessible you know!
Well I'd go on for ages if I don't end it somewhere, but anywho, glad you enjoyed the vid!! My circuits are off the charts right now, and I ought to be winding down for bed :P
"Circuits... connect the Earth to the Moon... and link our heavenly bodies... not a moment too soon....."
Pause:
(http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01538f07fd48970b-800wi)
The first and likely last image ever of a shuttle docked to the ISS
Hahah niiiiccee
That's sweet shot!
Quote from: el_chode on Jun 07, 2011, 11:31 PM
Pause:
(http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01538f07fd48970b-800wi)
The first and likely last image ever of a shuttle docked to the ISS
::experiences weightlessness::
Some of my favorite books and films on trippy consciousness/philosophy/spirituality/how do-we-know-what-we-know topics:
Ken Wilber - A Brief History of Everything
- The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
Terrence McKenna - Food of the Gods
- The Archaic Revival
Daniel Pinchbeck - 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Carlos Casteneda - The Eagles Gift, The Fire From Within and others
Films:
Mindwalk
My Dinner With Andre
I Heart Huckabees
Its hard to summarize what these books and films are all about. Wilber is more of a philosopher-scientist-Buddhist intellectual and Pirsig is in that realm, too. McKenna and Pinchbeck and Castaneda are definitely focused on hallucinogens and consciousness. Mindwalk and My Dinner With Andre are nerdy, all-dialogue, no-plot kind of films and I Heart Huckabess is a philosophical farce. All of these works are controversial and have been criticized, but they are definitely intriguing if you are into that sort of thinking.
I particularly like Wilber's way of synthesizing knowledge from so many sources from ancient to modern, Eastern and Western, and religious, philosophical and scientific perspectives. Its pretty impressive to me and seems to put lots of the pieces of the puzzle together, showing how we can approach more complete answers to the "big questions" if we try to put together knowledge from all these diverse sources.
If you are into hallucinogens, McKenna's work is fanfuckingtastic and very entertaining. It will really blow your mind, highly recommended!
Lots to dig into in this thread, thanks to all for sharing, there is much I haven't checked out yet that looks pretty cool.
Quote from: el_chode on Jan 29, 2011, 05:14 PM
So what's the opposite of science?
Where did it all come from? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyHzhtARf8M#)
Dude, I hope you aren't trying to suggest that Bill O'Reilly's ideas have any credibility in a discussion of these topics. Talk about clueless, it doesn't get any more ridiculous than him.
Quote from: Shug on Jun 09, 2011, 02:06 PM
Quote from: el_chode on Jan 29, 2011, 05:14 PM
So what's the opposite of science?
Dude, I hope you aren't trying to suggest that Bill O'Reilly's ideas have any credibility in a discussion of these topics. Talk about clueless, is doesn't get any more ridiculous than him.
http://startalkradio.net/ (http://startalkradio.net/)
anyone a fan? I think this guy is hilarious!
http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/leylines.htm (http://www.ancient-wisdom.co.uk/leylines.htm)
"Most cultures have traditions and words to describe the straight, often geometric alignments that ran across ancient landscapes, connecting both natural and sacred prehistoric structures together. Usually the names given to represent these invisible lines are translated to an equivalent of 'spirit', 'dream', or 'energy' paths. However, apart from the physical presence of the sites themselves, proving the presence of a 'connection' between them is something that researchers have found notoriously elusive. "
Haven't read a whole lot about this yet, but a friend just sent me the link, and it seems interesting so far!
http://www.maps.org// (http://www.maps.org//)
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Quote from: woodnymph on Jul 21, 2011, 10:14 PM
Haven't read a whole lot about this yet, but a friend just sent me the link, and it seems interesting so far!
http://www.maps.org// (http://www.maps.org//)
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
this does look sweet, thanks for posting it nymph. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Jul 21, 2011, 10:15 PM
Quote from: woodnymph on Jul 21, 2011, 10:14 PM
Haven't read a whole lot about this yet, but a friend just sent me the link, and it seems interesting so far!
http://www.maps.org// (http://www.maps.org//)
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
this does look sweet, thanks for posting it nymph. :thumbsup:
The more I'm reading about it, the cooler it seems! Glad ya dig too, SI 8) Looks like they've got some cool events in CA and BC!
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/brazilian-glowing-mushrooms-reappear-after-170-years.php (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/08/brazilian-glowing-mushrooms-reappear-after-170-years.php)
Coal-Black Alien Planet Darkest Ever Seen -
http://news.yahoo.com/coal-black-alien-planet-darkest-ever-seen-220601419.html (http://news.yahoo.com/coal-black-alien-planet-darkest-ever-seen-220601419.html)
Fuck this is unbelievably incredible
"The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." - Aldous Huxley
:D
http://hailmaryjane.com/hurricane-irene-could-cause-a-growth-spurt-for-magic-mushrooms/ (http://hailmaryjane.com/hurricane-irene-could-cause-a-growth-spurt-for-magic-mushrooms/)
???
More Alan W
Kind of long, but flowing too well to try and dissect.
From one of the sites Sticky mentioned at the beginning of the thread
http://web.archive.org/web/19990221145429/mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/lsd/alchemy.html (http://web.archive.org/web/19990221145429/mojo.calyx.net/~schaffer/lsd/alchemy.html)
One of these experiments was conducted late at night. Some five or six hours from its start the doctor had to go home, and I was left alone in the garden. For me, this stage of the experiment is always the most rewarding in terms of insight, after some of its more unusual and bizarre sensory effects have worn off. The garden was a lawn surrounded by shrubs and high trees---Pine and eucalyptus---and floodlit from the house which enclosed it on one side. As I stood on the lawn I noticed that the rough patches where the grass was thin or mottled with weeds no longer seemed to be blemishes. Scattered at random as they were, they appeared to constitute an ordered design, giving the whole area the texture of velvet damask, the rough patches being the parts where the pile of the velvet is cut. In sheer delight I began to dance on this enchanted carpet, and through the thin soles of my moccasins I could feel the ground becoming alive under my feet, connecting me with the earth and the trees and the sky in such a way that I seemed to become one body with my whole surroundings.
Looking up, I saw that the stars were colored with the same reds, greens, and blues that one sees in iridescent glass, and passing across them was the single light of a jet plane taking forever to streak over the sky. At the same time, the trees, shrubs, and flowers seemed to be living jewelry, inwardly luminous like intricate structures of jade, alabaster, or coral, and yet breathing and flowing with the same life that was in me. Every plant became a kind of musical utterance, a play of variations on a theme repeated from the main branches, through the stalks and twigs, to the leaves, the veins in the leaves, and to the fine capillary network between the veins. Each new bursting of growth from a center repeated or amplified the basic design with increasing complexity and delight, finally exulting in a flower.
From my description it will seem that the garden acquired an atmosphere that was distinctly exotic, like the gardens of precious stones in the Arabian Nights, or like scenes in a Persian miniature. This struck me at the time, and I began to wonder just why it is that the glowingly articulated landscapes of those miniatures seem exotic, as do also many Chinese and Japanese paintings. Were the artists recording what they, too, had seen under the influence of drugs? I knew enough of the lives and techniques of Far Eastern painters to doubt this. I asked, too, whether what I was seeing was "drugged." In other words, was the effect of the LSD in my nervous system the addition to my senses of some chemical screen which distorted all that I saw to preternatural loveliness? Or was its effect rather to remove certain habitual and normal inhibitions of the mind and senses, enabling us to see things as they would appear to us if we were not so chronically repressed? Little is known of the exact neurological effects of LSD, but what is known suggests the latter possibility. If this be so, it is possible that the art forms of other cultures appear exotic---that is, unfamiliarly enchanting---because we are seeing the world through the eyes of artists whose repressions are not the same as ours. The blocks in their view of the world may not coincide with ours, so that in their representations of life we see areas that we normally ignore. I am inclined to some such solution because there have been times when I have seen the world in this magical aspect without benefit of LSD, and they were times when I was profoundly relaxed within, my senses unguardedly open to their surroundings.
Feeling, then, not that I was drugged but that I was in an unusual degree open to reality, I tried to discern the meaning, the inner character of the dancing pattern which constituted both myself and the garden, and the whole dome of the night with its colored stars. All at once it became obvious that the whole thing was love-play, where love means everything that the word can mean, a spectrum ranging from the red of erotic delight, through the green of human endearment, to the violet of divine charity, from Freud's libido to Dante's "love that moves the sun and other stars." All were so many colors issuing from a single white light, and, what was more, this single source was not just love as we ordinarily understand it: it was also intelligence, not only Eros and Agape but also Logos. I could see that the intricate organization both of the plants and of my own nervous system, like symphonies of branching complexity, were not just manifestations of intelligence---as if things like intelligence and love were in themselves substances or formless forces. It was rather that the pattern itself is intelligence and is love, and this somehow in spite of all its outwardly stupid and cruel distortions.
makes ya wonder.
The Revelation of the Pyramids 1/7 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSYCVAjJsc#ws)
http://www.crystalinks.com/reality.html (http://www.crystalinks.com/reality.html)
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html)
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Oct 03, 2011, 11:29 PM
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html)
sticky, thank you for posting this...i think it may have been life-changing. seriously.
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Oct 03, 2011, 11:29 PM
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/44w7dV/www.ted.com/talks/lang/hun/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html)
This is kind of freaking me out..... I sometimes get hypochondriac... geez.... aaaahhhhh still listening but ahhhh
Her message is definitely what I talk about with a good handful of friends. Beautiful message, glad I watched... it's just such a trip. Such a real one... not just one that fades away in a few hours... the real deal. The body is an intense thing....... crazy mystery.....
I like her description of it, I just get myself in too deep sometimes and feel the experience too close, or something... my own doing. I think probably at least a handful of forum folks have felt her experience in some ways or other in psychedelia (or other means).... what a trip.... thanks for sharing!
Quote from: woodnymph on Oct 05, 2011, 02:17 AM
Her message is definitely what I talk about with a good handful of friends. Beautiful message, glad I watched... it's just such a trip. Such a real one... not just one that fades away in a few hours... the real deal. The body is an intense thing....... crazy mystery.....
I like her description of it, I just get myself in too deep sometimes and feel the experience too close, or something... my own doing. I think probably at least a handful of forum folks have felt her experience in some ways or other in psychedelia (or other means).... what a trip.... thanks for sharing!
yeah, it aint too shabby. the whole time in the back of my mind I was thinking "hmm, but she did have a brain hemorrhage... what if she's crazy now..." haha. still like the idea of the constant flow of energy, interconnected/nirvana, etc. pretty cool to hear it from a brain scientist.
sweeeet: Quantum Levitation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA#ws)
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Oct 18, 2011, 12:24 AM
sweeeet: Quantum Levitation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA#ws)
Sweet indeed. There's some explanation here for you Meissner effect fans;
http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking-will-blow-your-mind--but-how-does-it-work (http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking-will-blow-your-mind--but-how-does-it-work)
Quote from: MarkW on Oct 19, 2011, 11:06 AM
Quote from: Sticky Icky Green Stuff on Oct 18, 2011, 12:24 AM
sweeeet: Quantum Levitation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA#ws)
Sweet indeed. There's some explanation here for you Meissner effect fans;
http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking-will-blow-your-mind--but-how-does-it-work (http://io9.com/5850729/quantum-locking-will-blow-your-mind--but-how-does-it-work)
awesome, definitely added some insight to video. thanks
serious science going down: http://www.health24.com/Graphics/Graphics_About_Men_/3561-3585,32493.asp (http://www.health24.com/Graphics/Graphics_About_Men_/3561-3585,32493.asp)
Niiiiccccceeee!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120104-time-cloak-invisibility-harry-potter-light-optical-fiber-science/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120104-time-cloak-invisibility-harry-potter-light-optical-fiber-science/)
The Real You - Alan Watts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I#ws)
So THIS is what's been missing!!! Bump bump bump
A comfortable space for an occasional clip from the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
"We may say, and even half-believe, that compassion is marvelous, but in practice our actions are deeply uncompassionate and bring us and others mostly frustration and distress, and not the happiness we are seeking.
Isn't it absurd, then, that we all long for happiness, yet nearly all our actions and feelings lead us directly away from that happiness? Could there be any greater sign that our whole view of what real happiness is, and of how to attain it, is radically flawed?
What do we imagine will make us happy? A canny, self-seeking, resourceful selfishness, the selfish protection of ego, which can, as we all know, make us at moments extremely brutal. But in fact the complete reverse is true: Self-grasping and self-cherishing are seen, when you really look at them, to be the root of all harm to others, and also of all harm to ourselves.
Every single negative thing we have ever thought or done has ultimately arisen from our grasping at a false self, and our cherishing of that false self, making it the dearest and most important element in our lives."
This is becoming my favorite thread. (:
I read this quote by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and it reminded me of the spiritual pipeline...
"If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100-billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool."
I knew you'd dig, Mama K! :thumbsup:
Alan watts recordings are awesome but sometimes I just wish people would skip trying to put overpowering and motivational music behind it on youtube vids. It's not necessary
Quote from: darkglow on Dec 06, 2012, 07:07 PM
Alan watts recordings are awesome but sometimes I just wish people would skip trying to put overpowering and motivational music behind it on youtube vids. It's not necessary
Yeah the music comes on a bit strong.
So awesome, Woodnymph!!! The Alan Watts is the best, but I TOTALLY had to turn it down at one point...it was getting a little Wagner-esque for me. :tongue: :grin:
Sometimes, a little music can add an element of depth to a philosophical treatise, but sometimes it starts to scare me...like Carmina Burana...like, settle down...why are we getting so intense?
Quote from: MamaKel on Dec 06, 2012, 09:30 PM
So awesome, Woodnymph!!! The Alan Watts is the best, but I TOTALLY had to turn it down at one point...it was getting a little Wagner-esque for me. :tongue: :grin:
Sometimes, a little music can add an element of depth to a philosophical treatise, but sometimes it starts to scare me...like Carmina Burana...like, settle down...why are we getting so intense?
I did feel like I could fly by the end, tho :bath:
From Hermann Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game:"
I would like to say something more to you about cheerful serenity, the serenity of the stars and of the mind.
You are averse to serenity, presumably because you have had to walk the ways of sadness, and now all brightness and good cheer strikes you as shallow and childish, and cowardly to boot, a flight from the terrors and abysses of reality into a clear, well-ordered world of mere forms and formulas, mere abstractions and refinements.
But, my dear devotee of sadness, even though for some this may well be a flight, even if the majority among us were in fact of this sort--all this would not lessen the value and splendor of genuine serenity, the serenity of the sky and the mind. Granted there are those among us who are too easily satisfied, who enjoy a sham serenity; but in contrast to them we also have men and generations of men whose serenity is not playful shallowness, but earnest depth.
To achieve this cheerful serenity is to me, and to many others, the finest and highest of goals. Such cheerfulness is neither frivolity nor complacency; it is supreme insight and love, affirmation of all reality, alertness on the brink of all depths and abysses; it is a virtue of saints and of knights; it is indestructible and only increases with age and nearness to death. It is the secret of beauty and the real substance of all art. The poet who praises the splendors and terrors of life in the dance-measures of his verse, the musician who sounds them in a pure, eternal present--these are bringers of light, increasers of joy and brightness on earth, even if they lead us first through tears and stress.
Perhaps the poet whose verses gladden us was a sad solitary, and the musician was a melancholy dreamer; but even so their work shares in the cheerful serenity of the gods and the stars. What they give us is no longer their darkness, their suffering or fears, but a drop of pure light, eternal cheerfulness... (sound familiar?)
This kind of cheerful serenity is what I have been concerned with ever since I began dimly to sense its meaning during my student days, and I shall never again relinquish it, not even in unhappiness and suffering.
How I love Hermann Hesse, Woodnymph. Thank you so much for posting that this morning. It seriously made my morning.
Well...until my mind went in the gutter with that version of "Nobody"... :grin: :thumbsup:
Careful with that Axolotl, Eugene.
(http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrqcz14KGH1qgoqcjo1_500.jpg)
Walking down this pathway of meditation lately. Ridding oneself of opinion, or a sense of rightness, is a difficult undertaking. I was watching Living In The Material World earlier...about how George always seemed to have an awareness that all human entanglements are the stuff of Mara/The Devil...the desire to be right...the desire to be the victim...the desire to control...the desire to possess...Desire for anything but unity, really. This desire is what keeps us from consciousness. It is what hides our purpose. The Devil/Mara often came disguised as the 'thought that lingered'.
Beware of Darkness, gang. Also, dudes on elephants. Never trust a man with a proclivity for elephant-based travel. That's not an opinion. That's a fact.
:beer: :bath: :evil: <----note: ironic emoticons.
http://www.intu.org/lotus_4.html (http://www.intu.org/lotus_4.html)
Cool Meditations
http://www.intu.org/imagery.html (http://www.intu.org/imagery.html)