Month: May 2014
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
Robert Anton Wilson (via alteringminds)
The most advanced shamanic techniques —such as Tibetan Tantra or Crowley’s system in the West— work by alternating faith and skepticism until you get beyond the ordinary limits of both. With such systems, one learns how arbitrary are the reality-maps that can be coded into laryngeal grunts by hominids or visualized by a mammalian nervous system. We can’t even visualize the size of the local galaxy except in special High states.
Wilgus, Neal. “An Interview With Robert Anton Wilson.” Science Fiction Review 5, no. 2 (1976): 32. (via beyond-borderlands)
During waking hours, electrical signals travel from dendrites—antenna-like projections at one end of the cell— through the cell body. From the cell body, they then travel the length of the axon, a single long projection at the other end of the cell. This electrical signal stimulates the release of chemicals at the end of the axon, which bind to dendrites on adjacent cells, stimulating these recipient cells to fire electrical signals, and so on. When groups of cells repeatedly fire in this way, the electrical signals increase in intensity. Dr. Bukalo and her team examined electrical signals that traveled in reverse―from the cell’s axon, to the cell body, and out its many dendrites. The reverse firing, depicted in this diagram, happens during sleep and at rest, appearing to reset the cell and priming it to learn new information.
Source: Backwards signals appear to sensitize brain cells, rat study shows, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Ooooooh
Blake’s etching and last illuminated work, a copy of the classical Laocoön. Some of his personal proverbs are written around it.
The piece is also called “יָהּ[Yah] & his two Sons Satan & Adam” after the writing on the bottom. The Hebrew reads “Angel of Yahweh” and “Lilith” from top to bottom. The Greek is a name, Ophiucus, which means “serpent holder.”
Pishacha.
Pishachas (Devanāgarīपिशाच, Piśāca) are flesh eating demons, according to Hindu mythology. Their origin is obscure, although some believe that they were created by Brahma. Another legend describes them as the sons of either Krodha (a Sanskrit word meaning anger) or of Dakṣa’s daughter Piśāca. They have been described to have a dark complexion with bulging veins and protruding, red eyes. They are believed to have their own language, which is called Paiśāci.
They like darkness and traditionally are depicted as haunting cremation grounds along with other demons like Bhoota (meaning ghosts) and Vetālas. Piśācas have the power to assume different forms at will, and may also become invisible. They feed on human energies. Sometimes, they possess human beings and alter their thoughts, and the victims are afflicted with a variety of maladies and abnormalities like insanity. Certain mantras are supposed to cure such afflicted persons, and drive away the Piśāca which may be possessing that particular human being. In order to keep the Piśāca away, they are given their share of offerings during certain religious functions and festivals.