Shroom Theory There’s a very interesting theory about the origins of human consciousness. Way back in the day, when primitive proto humans were just developing a sense of self awareness, it was likely long before we learned how to speak. Since there was no written language to reference, no memories of spoken stories […]
Post Event Persuasion
Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Parasite Carnivore Forest
Moths To A Flame When moths fly around a light, over and over and over, it’s kind of funny but it also doesn’t make sense. From an evolutionary standpoint, it doesn’t seem to be a very effective instinct to go straight toward the light. That trait would seem to have been eliminated from […]
Sex God Consciousness
Random Telepathy Most people have had at least a few experience of paranormal communication. You know it is when your phone rungs, you suspect something is about to happen before it happens. Unfortunately, few people ever follow up on this latent skill. Solitary Wolves https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan12Loop.mp4 When wolves hunt alone, they seem very […]
Collective Dream Resonance
Dream Experiment There was an interesting dream experiment done a few years ago by an independent organization who somehow got a lot of funding. They had several people in a sleep room, and they essentially had to wait until they all went into REM sleep at the same time, which took several nights of […]
Nerf Brain Physics
Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]
Assertive Telepathy
Blender Shopping I went blender shopping a couple weeks ago and I was completely flabbergasted at the different kinds of blenders they had available. One on end of the blender spectrum, they were old school types that were very manual. On the other end, were extremely sophisticated smart blenders that not only had […]
Scientific Birdcage Mythology
Correlation and Causation One of the biggest causes of misunderstanding in the world of science is a mistaking correlation for causation. Especially if you have one main variable, that is driving all the other variables,. Then any two of the driven variables can be correlated, and thereby misunderstood to having a causative relationship. […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
Between Two Hallucinations
Role Model Theory A very common and useful strategy for improving your skills in any competitive game or sport is to play against somebody better. This is why having a good mentor is good, but it has to be carefully calibrated. If they are too much better than you, or they aren’t too […]
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