TV Show A friend of mine and I had just returned from a local bar and we’d decided to watch TV. The Simpsons came on, and I thought I recognized the episode. I told my friend all the funny things that were about to happen. He looked at me and said, this […]
Emergent Alien Consciousness
Self Awareness One of the most perplexing scientific ideas is self awareness. Of being aware of our own thoughts we think them. Of being aware of our own words as we speak them. Of being aware of the never ending loop between brain and speech and thought and ideas and memories and […]
Quantum Brain Matrix
Resonators One of my favorite ideas from science is the idea or resonance. A common way to apply the resonance principle is to a wine glass. If you run your fingers along the rim, the vibrations of your finger along the rim will resonate with the natural frequency of the class. Another […]
Ice Cream Interference Pattern
One Day… I was walking home the other day from the library, and I decided to stop by the supermarket and buy some ice cream. I was in the express lane between two ladies and in front of this guy who had Led Zeppelin T-shirt. The lady at the front had twelve items. […]
The History Erasure Paradox
Hindsight Bias One problem in modern society is hindsight bias. When you rewrite your past to better predict the future. A common metaphor is driving by looking in the rear-view mirror. A much deeper bias is our instinctive, cause-effect generator. This pops in many unexpected and troublesome places. Perplexing Randomness […]
Future Life Regression Hypnosis
Powerful Seminar I went to a really cool past lives regression hypnosis seminar a couple weeks ago. It was more advanced than any other past life regression training I’d been to. Most of them treat past lives metaphorically. As a way to get rid of limiting beliefs that are based on childhood […]
Ancient Books and Human Purpose
Used Book Search I’ve been looking for this obscure book for a long time. I found the reference in the back of another book I got at a used book store a couple of years ago. The reference described this as dangerous metaphysical secrets that ancient governments have continually suppressed throughout the ages. […]
Hypnotic Massage Therapist
Part Time Client I have a client who is a massage therapist. I consult with her once or twice a month. Her main concern is to convert one time clients to long time clients. She has a lot of interesting advertising methods that work very well. She doesn’t have any problems getting clients, so […]
Alone With Your Thoughts
Communication Seminar I went to this really strange communication seminar a long time ago. It was all about non-verbal communication. The theory of the guy that was teaching it was that most of our communication is nonverbal very little of it is based on the words. We had to do a lot of exercises […]
Corn Dog Chaos Theory
Local Carnival A couple of weeks ago me and some friends went down to this local carnival fair. Everything and they had was stuff you’d expect at a kind of carnival fair. They had a bunch of booths selling corndogs and burritos and french fries. They had a couple of sketchy looking Ferris wheels […]