February 2011
38 posts
January 2011
171 posts
Coronal Hole has opened up in the Solar atmosphere →
CORONAL HOLE: A dark croissant-shaped hole has opened up in the sun’s atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind into space. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the vast opening during the early hours of Jan. 31st:
Researchers call this a “coronal hole.” Solar rotation is turning the coronal hole toward Earth. The stream of solar wind...
This is your brain on meditation →
Excerpt:
“Meditation has both immediate and long term physiological effects. (1) Immediate effects include lowering blood pressure and stress, alleviating pain and anxiety. The long term effects deal with the sculpting of brain structure due to a constant increase in brain activity. The alteration of the brain’s form and function through the increase or decrease in grey matter or the...
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
– William James (via curious—mind)
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve...”
– Fire and Ice : Robert Frost
“When Bayazid (sufi saint) was asked how old he was, he replied, ‘Four...”
– Aldous Huxley, Perennial Philosophy
“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see...”
– Meister Eckhart
“Roughly speaking, every galaxy is about ten times more massive than all the...”
– Leonard Susskind, The Cosmic Landscape
“Words can’t explain things,
Phrases don’t connect with spirit;...”
– Zen Sourcebook
“According to quantum mechanics, the universe evolves according to a rigorous and...”
– Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe (via peopleing)
“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and...”
– Terence McKenna (via afteritall)
“The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams
“The doctor who fails to take account of man’s feelings for values commits...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams (End)
“However great the conceptual knowledge and understanding might be, in the face...”
– Zen Master Zenkei Shibayama
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A Pledge
The pulsating excitations in a breath cordially pronounce an allegiance to the metamorphosis of an enlightened mankind. I pledge that I may playfully joust in the profundity of the dialectic cosmos while the vacuum that so rightfully relinquishes my place, may jovially chuckle and cackle at the comedy before us. So well, will the pixies, gnomes, and fairies make their nocturnal entrance into my...
“The search for Reality
is the most dangerous
of all undertakings,
for it...”
– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via aristela)
“It is not outside, it is inside: wholly within”
– Meister Eckhart
“It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via chadbecks)
“We mus therefore realize that despite its undeniable success the rational...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams
“We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos,...”
– Carl Jung, Dreams
London Taxi Cab Driver Study : On Neuroplasticity →
ABSTRACT: Licensed London taxi drivers show that humans have a remarkable capacity to acquire and use knowledge of a large complex city to navigate within it. Gray matter volume differences in the hippocampus relative to controls have been reported to accompany this expertise. While these gray matter differences could result from using and updating spatial representations, they might instead be...
