Tag Archives: wonder
fear of wide open spaces
(semantic jungle, make of it what you will) We like to wrap ourselves in security blankets. We cling to things that make us feel ‘secure’; our jobs our homes our religions our identities, or should I say, our identifications? To …
The Chalice or The Blade
Dare 2 Dream (Ode 2 Jacque) – Chris P. Madden
My third contribution to TZM Music Project, now retitled (to my great pleasure) Zeit Tunes!
do we have free will?
My gut is saying no, but, really, what the fuck does my gut know? The more I learn about the structure of the human mind, about the technicalities of our thinking processes, the more I start to see consciousness as …
faster thinking affecting time perception?
One of the many unique and bewildering promises held by nanotechnology is the ability to ‘upgrade’ our brains. IE; make them faster, increase memory capacity. Since I first heard this notion, it’s gripped my imagination, it sounds so… sci-fi, yet …
Shambhala — music fest/spiritual retreat
Shambhala music festival has been my yearly escape for quite a few years now (I’m gonna say 6). It’s nearly a week long, camping in the forest next to some big ass stages and loud music. There are people high …
oh the irony…
(twitter censorship?) That snapshot taken an hour after I posted this tweet: Strangely does not include any tweets that didn’t occur between 4 and 5 hours ago (except mine, in tiny writing, which only appears because it’s MY tweet, not …
First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality
This is very low tech, but actual full immersion virtual reality is more and more becoming a reality. It’s really interesting how easily these guys were made to identify with their virtual female bodies. I truly believe that right now, …
Carl Sagan: great scientist, writer, thinker, marijuana user
When I first read “The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark” about a year ago, I was (and am, constantly) undergoing a transformation in the way I think about the world. That book hit me hard, and it …
