This warmly, occasionally humorous, “guru” video has some very interestingly entertaining moments. I don’t travel in guru circles so before today I had never encountered Sadhguru. Sadhguru‘s description of the “monkey brain” reminded me of my time with Cary Tagawa. Both his description of the “problem” (what I call tangent migrations) and our “is it possible, […]
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This was a journal note from 2003: I am increasingly drawn to the analogy (or, possibly, correspondence) between the realm of affects and the realm of physics. Particularly, “Affects are modulations in the density of biophysical locations and that the ‘spaces’ surrounding the effects of affect are warped (shaped) in a way analogous to Einsteinian
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The always great “Marginalian”(The Marginalian) has an article called: “The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention” (https://bit.ly/3H8LMZJ). It makes a number of great points: “Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer,” Simone Weil “If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for
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Over the last decade or so educational conferences seem to have devolved from collaborative learning events to marketing events. Typical conferences of the past, I did over 100 of them, would pay speaker’s fees and pay their travel expenses because they wanted to choose speakers according to their conference’s learning values – according to what
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. This is a continuation of “The Vast Predatory Use of Behavioral Manipulation Devices“. This is how it ends: People are exposed to a very high volume of ads daily (8,000-12,000 estimated) The vast majority of these ads aim to manipulate thoughts and behaviors to serve advertiser interests
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Conversation with Claude.ai – I am in blue. Estimate the number of advertisements of any kind the average adult of the US population during the decade of the 1950s encountered in a day. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to make a precise estimate of the number of advertisements the average American adult encountered
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“My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, Truth is a Pathless Land
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Our political leadership hasn’t yet learned the importance of stewarding our collective intelligence because it’s too busy manipulating the voting behavior of our collective ignorance.
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Since the days of the Monkeys, I have always been able to hear the ‘tech’ in people’s voices. It pollutes the “couldn’t be otherwise” movement (like the note progressions of Mozart) and decreases the voice’s resonance with me. Today the peak of that kind of tech is called “auto-tune”. This video uses my all-time favorite
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