Comments on: Dream Dictionaries & Life

By: lyam

lyam — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:40:24 +0000

re: cell phones as barriers, I can totally see that. Every time I use a cell phone, I find myself straining to hear and often repeating things loudly for the benefit of who I’m talking to.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 03:40:57 +0000

your 40 days in the desert was made of squinting at code and reading posts and journals and books.

Ha, awesome. I have to say, I’ve really identified with the whole 40 days in the desert bit for quite some time now.

By: alistair

alistair — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:24:45 +0000

yes but math and german aren`t areas i know much about. there are many theories of harmonics though. cymatics suggest that matter is formed through manipulation of sound. that appeals me as a linguist. words/organised noises making matter. maybe there is more to mantras and chanting ritual than merely relaxation. the tradition of the mystics and shamans include humming, singing and whistling. my personal thesis is that we are the creators of everything by the mere act of consciousness and that we can become more focused in the art and more effective as a result. i have no absolute proof yet though.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:15:02 +0000

On a related note, Have you heard of global scaling?

By: alistair

alistair — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 02:10:57 +0000

interesting that you mention the spiral action in things. electrons spin.universes spin. motors spin. helixes spin. rising and falling can be seen as a two dimensional look at spinning. everything seems to be spinning except our view of the world.it is still and constant. we look and look away and when our gaze returns the image is constant. it is the only place in the universe where this is true.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:58:07 +0000

I get connections when my thinking is feeling (I guess that would be play, probing relationships between senses) . Like lately, I’ve been developing my intuitive sense of electromagnetics (eg magnetic field due to a current in a conductor- I feel/visualize a stream of aligned vortices (electrons) in a frictionless fluid (ether, whatever), and can feel their emergent effect (the rings of magnetic flux surrounding the wire)), and now I’m seeing this kind of emergent spiral action in all sorts of things. I would go into them, but I’m tired of typing in this box, because it is so slow on my computer.

By: alistair

alistair — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:08:25 +0000

yes, it` a little vague. from an nlp perspective the successful behaviours to be modeled are the behaviours of the gurus, mystics and shamans. when we model the behaviour of student we get more student habits. studying, searching, analysis, confusion,etc.
when we model the mystic we get trance, ritual, ingestion of substances, beating of drums, sensual overload, seeing images, talking to coyotes, actually having insight and answers. if we dare.
a direct divine knowledge.
it is a lonely and marginalised existance. people think you`re crazy. if you believe them you will become crazy.
i think you did it through a synthesised meditation made from inquiry, scolarship and determination. your 40 days in the desert was made of squinting at code and reading posts and journals and books.

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:18:37 +0000

That’s all well and good, but it’s a little vague, isn’t it? I know personally I didn’t used to be good at interpreting things like this, but I somehow got good. But looking back, I’m not sure how I did it. I definitely practiced, but what did I practice? From an NLP perspective, what are the successful behaviors to be modeled here? I certainly didn’t do it though meditation.

By: alistair

alistair — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:15:07 +0000

like the joke about how to get to carnegie hall. practice, practice, practice.
but practice what?
practice a quiet meditation. the colours lead to images which lead to impressions and ideas. sometimes you find yourself in that expanded void rushing up and out into insight and the answers appear, fully formed and you laugh because it was so obvious. but impossible to percieve without the practice. like a golf swing.