January 2012
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“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
– Virginia Woolf (via howlsamesame)
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It’s funny how the human memory works. At any given moment—seemingly out of the blue—you may remember something that you haven’t thought about in a decade. The thought may be an epiphany, like remembering where you put something that you have lost years ago, or something as trifling as remembering the name of a girl from your kindergarten class that you never talked to and...
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rosymoon-deactivated20120615 asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post 10 things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag back. CHEERS!
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Neurotheology – With God In Mind →
Addressing the general meeting for the “Society of Neuroscience” in 1997, Dr. Ramachandran made comment that “there is a neural basis for religious experience.” Ramachandran’s radical statement catapulted neurotheology well into the public eye. The aim of neurotheology is to question and “explore theology from a neurological perspective…helping us to understand the human urge for religion and...
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nymphknack replied to your post: Hypnagogia (from Greek hypn “sleep” + agōgos…
i get caught in that state a lot, too. my thoughts become incoherent, and kind of silly. it’s like my thoughts are fading into dreams. i don’t see things ever, however, when in that state. but everything looks warmer, and blurs.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I mean.
To elaborate on seeing things, it’s...
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Hypnagogia (from Greek hypn “sleep” + agōgos “leading, inducing”) is the transitional state between wakefulness and sleep (i.e., the onset of sleep), originally coined in adjectival form as “hypnagogic” by Alfred Maury.
I happen to get caught in this state quite often, especially when I am trying not to fall asleep. Usually during these states my thinking...
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Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both parties and because you unflinchingly applaud all songs containing the words country home and mother when sung at the old howard Humanity i love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink and when...
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“You are born of sex. Your every body cell is a sex cell, all your energy is sex...”
– Osho (via mollyetc)
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I think I will go on some trips to Downtown to get lost in the Museum and Theater districts later this week. Now that Thanushka and I have had our sneaking-into-the-music-building-during-closed-without-access-week-to-practice schemes have been foiled I don’t have anything to do until next week, and the suburbs are so boring and banal and so damn ordinary that I don’t think I can last...
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Siddhartha (1922), Herman Hesse
“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets...”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (via levantine-chant)
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“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via nymphknack)
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via arielj-)
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Javanese Court Gamelan of Paku Alaman, Yogyakarta...