Ever sleep someplace new and wake up tired the next morning? In new places, it takes time for one's mind to dial down the vigilance for real rest. A cite  for the needlessly skeptical and those whose purpose is to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.

Same thing happens with meditating. For me at least.

The exercise is about emptying one's ( Read more... )

Tammuz means twin, and the name Thomas derives from it.

Jesus Christ is the son of God or son of man depending on which gospel you accept as gospel. He had a crew of apostles, and Thomas was one of them. One theory is that Thomas was Jesus Christ's twin brother, and the name is a BIG wink and a nudge. Somehow they pulled a Parent Trap on the ( Read more... )

Watched the final episode of Rick and Morty's second season. As Rick was being put into outer space jail, NIИ's Hurt was playing in the background. After a nap, I woke with the earworm, found the acceptable studio version on Vimeo, and hope it's subsided ( Read more... )

Two Misfits songs have been stuck in my head for the past two weeks.

Some Kinda Hate and Astro-Zombies.

No idea if it's a manifestation of OCD, or my right hemisphere is trying to tell me something. I mean "Maggots in the iron lung won't copulate" is nonsensical, IMO.

Maybe I'm nostalgic for my younger days when I listened to The Misfits without

Julian Jaynes proposed Bronze age and older humans were not conscious in the modern sense. Volition was unknown, but they received directives in the form of auditory and visual hallucinations. The latter are/were generated by the right hemisphere of the brain, and Jaynes suggests the right's analogues to Wernicke's area are Broca's area became ( Read more... )