“The state of flow, like the path that bears its name, is volatile, unpredictable, and all-consuming. Flow feels like the meaning of life for good reason. The neurochemicals that underpin the state are among the most addictive drugs on earth. Equally powerful is the psychological draw. Scientists who study human motivation have lately learned that ( Read more... )

An intellectual is someone who's discovered something more interesting than sex.

--Aldous Huxley

We're on season 3, watching the last season of Lie to Me. The first season is perhaps the best, with plenty of good information mixed in about how to read people's emotions on their faces and bodies. The second season turns into a FBI story, and the third season is more police oriented---they were trying for a larger audience but apparently didn' ( Read more... )

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Nice acrobatics on the part of the ape who would like to frighten away a tall man.

Everybody knows they are going to die,
but no one really believes it.
--Spalding Gray

The Big Ape Dominates Again
Green River Narrows, NC

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Lewy, MD, PhD, been studying melatonin and light effects on sleep and depression xlongtime
cartoon: "Portland weather calls for severe depression with a 30% chance of suicide."
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( text from Coast Guard SAR Journal )

Jung thought that "civilized man...is in danger of losing all contact with the world of instinct" and this loss "is largely responsible for the pathological condition of contemporary culture".