May 2013
16 posts
THIS IS WATER - By David Foster Wallace (by The Glossary)
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Schizophrenia and The Book of Changes by Philip K....
In many species of life forms, such as the grazing animals, a newborn individual is more or less thrust out into the koinos kosmos (the shared world) immediately. For a lamb or a pony, the idios kosmos (the personal world) ceases when the first light hits his eyes—but a human child, at birth, still has years of a kind of semireal existence ahead of him: semireal in the sense that until he is...
I can tell you the exact date that I began to think of myself in the first-person plural — as a superorganism, that is, rather than a plain old individual human being. It happened on March 7. That’s when I opened my e-mail to find a huge, processor-choking file of charts and raw data from a laboratory located at the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of a new...
April 2013
29 posts
(via (1) DOMA INDIA)
The human personality is free. Any limitations are those created by itself. If...
– Seth (via nirvikalpa)
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via emaweezy)
You carry Mother Earth within you,
She is not just outside of you.
Mother...
– Thích Nhat Hanh (via nirvikalpa)
The Shadow just goes on raving and raving. It would be a lot more exciting to...
– Shadow Mantra: Slay the Ego | Spiritual Transformations
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...
– Andy Warhol (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
The intensity of the inner feeling is the dominating factor here. A sudden but...
– Seth (via nirvikalpa)
March 2013
30 posts
The self that you know is but one fragment of your entire identity. These...
– Seth, Seth Speaks, sess 512 (via nirvikalpa)