Article by Caitlin Johnstone “The organism’s entirely understandable response to this sense of existential insecurity is to use the human brain’s immense power to create a “me” character whose interests can be looked after using thought and language. From the perspective of the psychological self construct, the world shifts from an ineffable mystery to something …

    New Scientist Offers a Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

Here is a good article that summarizes the elements of and research behind the “Flow State”.   Whereas the Adagio Flow Machine and the Flow State are different, we hypothesis that the Adagio Flow Machine prepares the Flow-Traveler to more easily enter into the Flow State. The Psychology and Theory Behind Flow

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Manufacturing Culture by Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of “Manufacturing Culture”: ❖ In Hollywood the Pentagon rewrites scripts about the military to manufacture consent for a globe-spanning empire to make US soldiers look like good guys to make US wars look like good wars to ensure continued recruitments to ensure a steady supply of young bodies to …

Sunday Until we can experience each thing in its specific “thisness,” as artists so often do, we will not easily experience the joy and freedom of Divine Presence. Monday Beholding happens when we stop trying to “hold” and allow ourselves to “be held” by the other. We are completely enchanted by something outside and beyond …

By Doug Casey International Man   During the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, older generations would sometimes decry rock and roll music. But the fact is, rock and roll music has stood the test of time. Why? It has melody, rhythm, and, in many cases, very poetic lyrics. Rock may be a step down from Bach, Beethoven, …

Why isn’t every person acting as a shaper and artist of reality? Why do people rearrange their pasts to omit that self-realization? The ‘chip’ in the brain is: the non-creative. The blind spot in the mind is the uncreative. The false piece of consciousness is: ‘I don’t create.’ So-called Realists want people to pay total …

In a 1933 essay lamenting the rise of Nazism in Germany, Bertrand Russell wrote: “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Meanwhile the true artists and visionaries, those with the medicine for what ails us, are bullied into silence …

Dr. McGilchrist describes current thinking on left/right brain hemisphere laterality. Dr. McGilchrist suggests to us that historically, western culture achieved a balanced hemisphere state during several periods; the Augustan period in the 6th century B.C., and in Europe during the 15th and 16 century.  But since that time western culture has become dangerously unbalanced.  This …