Hot Neighbor I have this really hot but kind of messed up neighbor. She’s not what you would call an intellectual type, but she’s friendly, perhaps overly so. Kind of naive, in that she let’s herself get taken advantage of. She just got dumped in a pretty horrible way and it kind […]
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 […]
The Once And Future Hallucination
The Demon There was this philosopher guy a couple hundred years ago named Descartes. He came up with a problem that was unsolvable then, and unsolvable now. The problem was how do we know whether what is happening all around us is real, or just a hallucination? His idea was that our […]
Bird House Manifesting Technique
Unexpected Heart Attack I had a friend a few years ago who had a light heart attack. He didn’t need surgery or even a stay in the hospital. But for him and his wife it was pretty terrifying. Once the fear was gone and he realized he wasn’t going to die, he got […]
Global Hive Mind
Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Meta Levels of Consciousness
Blood Work One of the jobs that blood has as it moves through the body is to deliver oxygen to the cells of the muscles and pick up CO2 and take it to the lungs to exhale. Then when it drops off the CO2 with the lungs to exhale it picks up 02. Then […]
Cement Mixer Fantasies
Need To Fix Something Recently I started getting into some home development, home-improvement. It all started with the task I had needed to get done or do myself for a while. I was right on the border of whether or not to learn how to do this or to hire somebody to do this. If […]
Consciousness Hallucination
Non Fiction Book Club Lately I’ve been going to this nonfiction book club once a week. It’s a fantastic place to go and have really really interesting discussions. Usually we talk about history books, sometimes we talk about economics or we read economic books and talk about them. We’ve learned to not read and […]