Thursday, 10 November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
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spent the vast majority of my life living in my head and emotionally numb from the neck down.
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5SENSES AND MIND
We have more than just five senses
As Michael Ashcroft pointed out, the idea that we humans have five senses — sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste—is a belief that dates back 2,000 years to Aristotle.1
Back then, it was a decent guess, but neuroscience has advanced significantly since the days of ancient Greece. It turns out that we have at least four additional senses—and the most underrated and practical of them is known as interoception.
The word has two parts: “intero–” refers to “internal” and “–ception” to “awareness.” In essence, it means awareness of our internal state, which includes learned associations, memories, emotions, and all the data running through the interconnected pipelines of the 100 billion neurons in your body.2
Intero-ception can be contrasted with “extero-ception,” which involves receiving data through the external senses. Most of us tend to prioritize external sense data—like endlessly refreshing a newsfeed after dinner when internally, our body is sending signals to recover and begin winding down.
In the center of the brain lies a remarkably sophisticated piece of biological machinery called the insula. This spongy core is the headquarters for cortical representation, which refers to how your brain processes all the information about your internal state.
Imagine that this area of your brain is like one of those gorgeous 16th-century maps that had “here be dragons” scribbled over the yet-to-be-explored areas. In much the same way, you might think of these cortical maps in our brainstems as having smudges all over them that can only be restored and brought into higher definition through interoceptive exploration.
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r adams
The whole idea of spiritual life is to just get rid of all concepts and ideas and words and dogmas. All these things that you've carried around for years. When we free ourselves from these things we become totally light.
[We] unburden ourselves of all this. Never look for new words and new sentences and new meanings. All you're doing is adding on to the garbage. Empty yourself out totally and completely and you'll be free."
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
WATTS LOWER DIMENSN STRIFE EG WBC V INECTION X HIGHER DIMENSION GOOD HEALTH METAPHOR
WATTS LOWER DIMENSN STRIFE EG WBC V INECTION X HIGHER DIMENSION GOOD HEALTH METAPHOR
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People predict that buying a house will make them much more satisfied with life.
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Being optimistic, outgoing and enjoying laughter are linked to longevity, research finds.
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living cell is enormously intricate, it is only about 1 micrometer in size. And while there are an estimated 37 trillion living cells in the human body, the Earth is 3.5 million times larger than a single person. And while the Earth is massive, it exists in a solar system about 36 billion times larger. So I guess my point here is that complex, meaningful, and profound things can exist within even larger and more complex systems.
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PAST GLORY-DISMAL PRESENT
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I WILL STAY AND PLAY
No feeling “so real,’” no life.:-)
Gotta feel ‘real’ to the dream-characters, else “they” would all just say, “Why bother, I’ll just ‘sleep.” Nothing would happen. Nothing would ‘get done.’ Nobody would take anything ‘seriously.’:-)
Oh…wait! Nothing actually does happen. There are no ‘separate doers.’ Only the One Doer.
WOW!
I just woke up from the dream! This is just an illusion! I’m not, and have never been, the ‘doer!’ There isn’t even an “!” And I find “I” cannot, absolutely cannot, take anything seriously anymore!!
Should the illusory ”I” just sleep, just ignore everything, have no compassion for the other ‘dreamers,’ be aloof and superior?
There is, of course, nothing ’wrong’ with the illusory “I” making that illusory “choice.”
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Life is not an illusion. Life is what it is whatever it is. The illusion is taking our mind’s experience of life as real.
Real is the physical experience of being alive. There are no words, there is nothing to say about this experience. When we attempt to describe it, we are experiencing the mind. Believing, taking seriously, our mind’s description is an illusion.
The etymology of the word mind is memory. Our memories frame our experience of the now, imprisoning us; not allowing us to experience the universe as it is.
Ultimately, experiencing the now as it unfolds allows us to come to the present or more rightfully the pre-sent which is the timeless place from which come all the infinite unique manifestations in the now. In the pre-sent, everything that ultimately is is one.
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But I think “I” will stay & play!
Sunday, 6 November 2022
LT CLMBO- DO YOU EXPECT HYSTERICS?
NO HYSTERICS X NO REACTION X NO 2ND ARROW
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AIR FRYER X CONVECTION X MALLARD REACTION
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While it may be true that “nothing really matters” in the grand scheme of things, that doesn’t change the fact that my life, my experiences, my accomplishments, etc., all matter to me (and, to a perhaps lesser extent, to those who care about me).
And I feel perfectly fine about that.
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God is far away, maybe not even there.
Yoga, kundalini, dhyana, all these sound too esoteric and maybe overrated and hypermarketed.
The Spiritual gurus are too inaccessible or maybe fakes too.
What to do? Can’t rely on God! Can’t rely on the systems! Can’t rely on the Gurus!
They are too shaky or maybe the whole enlightenment thing itself is a big scam, right from the Vedic Sages, the Buddha, and up to these contemporary Gurus. Maybe all of them were and are schizophrenic.
Maybe! I don't know and I have no way to know.
And the damn enlightenment thing is so riskier that I may lose everything else I have been hoarding in my life to the point that they are irrecoverable. I would then lose what I have and may not get what I want too. What the?
All these make every path tough, insecure, and unreliable.
But wait, there is just one more path left.
Who or what is the closest to you, easiest for you to access, and totally reliable?
It’s none other than ‘you’ yourself.
Reflect on yourself. Seek within.
The Vedas declare-
Aham Brahmasmi
Your inside is The SelfTat Vam Asi
You Are THAT
Begin by asking yourself the right existential questions-
- Who wants this enlightenment?
- What is this sound ’en-ligh-ten-ment?
- What is this ‘me’ that wants this?
- Why something is ‘wanted’ first of all?
- What is the nature of this ‘want’ and why this thing flirts with ‘want’ after want? What’s its nature then?
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If enlightenment is ‘knowing and being yourself’, then the easiest path undeniably turns out to be ‘probing and discovering yourself’.
Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi calls it ‘Atma Vichara’ or ‘Self-inquiry’, and He said over and over again that this is the Direct Path.
If by chance, you find this direct and easiest path difficult, then you are left with no options other than to take a call on the other paths we negated above.
It still seems wiser to begin from ‘you’, and make amends, if you should, as you move on the path.
That’s the easiest path as it is the sanest, to begin with.
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Self-inquiry is not meant to get answers. What answer can satisfy, ‘Who am I?’. Nothing! If it does, it is obviously narrow or intellectual.
It is meant to realize the existential awareness, which is the real ‘I’, which awakens when the inquiry fails totally, and the resultant surrendering.
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SN CNMA BYOMKESH HATYAMANCHA
ALMOND OIL SMELL - CYANIDE
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The Lambda-CDM model, the thing most laypeople call the “Big Bang theory”—absolutely DOES NOT say the universe “came from nothing.”
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FEARSOME HARDSHIP
FEARSOME HARDSHIP X DPOS
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NARROW ESCAPES OF WW2 SN TV
BURMA WW2 - WINGATE X CHINDITS
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aerial america SN TV
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BERINGIA
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1867 - RSSIA SOLD ALASKA - 7 MN DOLLARS
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ALASKA IS 2 X TEXAS
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EXPECTING DTR AT MY DTH BED - EDAM DB LINE
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Friday, 4 November 2022
DPN CRSS
NEVER REGD ON EPERMIT
CAUSES AND CONDS
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Simple exercises, including reliving happy moments, can make you happier in just four minutes, research finds.
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Either we’re thinking about the laws of nature all wrong, or your own consciousness isn’t intrinsic to what’s going on inside your head. In fact, your consciousness is about as extrinsic as anything could be: it constitutively involves the entire cosmos. In particular, the early Universe isn’t just part of the story of how you got here; it’s part of who you are.
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GREGER
- Waiting for absolute scientific certainty may result in avoidable disease and even death. For example, had no-smoking efforts taken off when the association between smoking and lung cancer was first reported, instead of waiting for the link to be “absolutely clear,” lives could have been saved.
- The National Academy of Sciences released a landmark report on diet, nutrition, and cancer in 1982, which included interim guidance.
- Concerns were raised about processed meats, which were confirmed three decades later. Processed meat has been officially declared “carcinogenic to humans.”
- The 1982 report’s findings “generated a striking level of disbelief from the cancer community and outright hostility from people whose livelihood depended on foods in question and the food industry whose products were being questioned.”
- Invoking the precautionary principle, the latest science tells us to eat more fruits and vegetables, consume soy products to reduce breast cancer risk and increase chances of survival, and encourages “limiting or avoiding dairy products to reduce the risk of prostate cancer; limiting or avoiding alcohol to reduce the risk of cancers of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, colon, rectum, and breast; avoiding red and processed meat to reduce the risk of cancers of the colon and rectum; [and] avoiding grilled, fried, and broiled meats to reduce the risk of cancers of the colon, rectum, breast, prostate, kidney, and pancreas.” In this context, the researchers are talking about all meat, including poultry and fish.
- We don’t have to wait, nor should we wait, for scientific consensus. We can and should “act on the best available evidence” we have right now.
- The beauty of safe, simple, and side effect–free solutions provided by the lifestyle medicine approach is that they can only help.
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- SUZUKI Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in the imperfection is perfect reality.”
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- “A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it…In this way our life should be understood. Then there is no problem.”
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a- I N PARTS oftheworld where autumnisunderway, squashes arenowonthe menu, and shops are stocking up onpumpkins forHalloween. Ihaven’t always beena fanof squashes, butthemore Ihave learned abouttheir evolutionary history,themore Ihave been charmed byhowsuchunlikely andunpromising fruits came to spreadworldwide. There is abeguilingdiversityof squashes andpumpkins, andtheir rangeof shapes, sizes andcolours gives themmuchaesthetic appeal. Buttheyallbelongtoonegenus – Cucurbita – and fall broadly into only sixmainspecies or subspecies. The ancestors of these originated in Northand CentralAmerica, andmanyofthe cultivars (thedomesticatedplant equivalent of dog breeds)we eattoday belong to one species, Cucurbita pepo. One ofthe surprising things about squashes is that sucha diverse array offruits canbe produced by suchclosely related plants – the pumpkinand courgette (zucchini),for example, are the same subspeciesofC.pepo. The squashes’ ability to exhibit sucha variety offorms, and their complexhistories, makes ithard to determine their wild ancestors.Butwe candraw some generalised inferences on whattheywere like fromthe 12 wild cucurbits thatlive in North andCentralAmerica today. The greatest diversity ofwild squashesnowresides inMexico, butitis thoughtthat Cucurbita probably originated inCentral or SouthAmerica.Thesewildspecies tend tohave round fruits,up to 8 centimetres indiameter,that areunpleasantly bitter-tasting, withahard and inedible rind. The purpose of a fruitis to disperse seeds, and the seeds inside squashes and pumpkins arehighlynutritious,whichposes a question: beforehumans came along,what could possiblyhave eatenthem? Several lines of evidence point tomegafauna – the large animals, over 1000kilograms inweight, that once shaped our ecosystems butlargelywent extinct atthe end ofthe Pleistocene Epoch, around 11,000years ago.Cucurbita seeds have beenfound inthe ancient dung ofmastodons – anelephantlikemammal – and itis easy to imagine suchanimalshavingno trouble cracking openthe tough skins of ancient squashes. What aboutthewild squashes’ bitter taste? Ithasbeensuggested thatlarge animals are less bothered by bitter tastes, as they are less likely to eat enoughof thesemolecules to experience their toxic effects. Smaller mammals, onthe otherhand, tendtobemore sensitive tobitter tastes andhavemore genes to detectthem. So itis possible thatCucurbita evolved its bitter flavours to ensure itwas specifically eatenand dispersed by particularly large animals, whichare also thoughttohave created thehabitats inwhich wildsquashes couldhave thrived. Many oftoday’swild squashes growlikeweeds, requiring recently disturbed ground to gaina foothold.Beforehuman farmerswere around to create this environment,the trampling oflarge beastsmighthave done the job instead. Butthenthe bigmammalswent extinct – probably due to climate change andhumanactivities – and Cucurbita seeds found themselves somewhattrappedwithintheir hard,unpalatable fruits. Today, wild cucurbit species are found in fewer places thanthey oncewere. Yetin2020, anestimated 28milliontonnes of pumpkins, squashes and gourdswere producedworldwide. Domesticationgave the cucurbits a second act, enabling themto spread across theworld and take advantage ofhumans for dispersing and planting their seeds.Wemay originallyhave used squashes only for their nutritious seeds, and perhaps foundotheruses for themtoo– one suggestionis that small gourdsmayhave beenused as floats for fishingnets. Oncewe started selectively propagating cucurbits,they losttheir bitter toxins and gained larger fruits. This act of domesticationis one ofthe oldestintheworld. Archaeological evidence suggests C. pepowas domesticated in Mexico 10,000years ago, around the same time that anumber of plants that are oftendescribed as the first crops – suchaswheat and barley–werebeingdomesticated inAsia’s FertileCrescent. Then C. pepowas independently domesticated a second time,in eastern NorthAmerica around 5000years ago. This lineage gave rise to today’s scallop and acorn squashes, among others,while theMexicanlineage is the one thatincludes pumpkins and courgettes. There are stillmany gaps in this tale ofthe pumpkin, butI hope this provides food for thoughtif youfind yourself carving a pumpkinlater this month, andinspiresyoutocook the fleshyouscoop out, rather thanthrowing itinthe bin.
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- AGENCY
- A bottom-up theory of agency could help us interpret what we see in life, from cells to societies – as well as in some of our ‘smart’ machines and technologies. We’re starting to wonder whether artificial intelligence systems might themselves develop agency. But how would we know, if we can’t say what agency entails? Only if we can ‘derive complex behaviours from simple first principles’, says the physicist Susanne Still of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, can we claim to understand what it takes to be an agent. So far, she admits that the problem remains unsolved. Here, though, is a sketch of what a solution might look like.
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A- A popular narrative now casts all living entities as ‘machines’ built by genes, as Richard Dawkins called them. For Mayr, biology was unique among the sciences precisely because its objects of study possessed a program that encoded apparent purpose, design and agency into what they do. On this view, agency doesn’t actually manifest in the moment of action, but is a phantom evoked by our genetic and evolutionary history.
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- james webb “Ihave coined thephrase ‘Just Wonderful Space Telescope’ as analternative name for JWST”
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- “Renewables arenow by far the cheapest energy source almost everywhere
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- his reveals a crucial dimension of agency: the ability to make choices in response to new and unforeseen circumstances. When a hare is being pursued by a wolf, there’s no meaningful way to predict how it will dart and switch this way and that, nor whether its gambits will suffice to elude the predator, who responds accordingly. Both hare and wolf are exercising their agency.
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