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[novapsyche]

Comment on this post and I will pick seven of your interests. You then explain them in your journal and re-post.

alan watts: I've enjoyed just about everything I've read written by Mr. Watts. He had a particular knack of explaining philosophical treatises in clear, easy-to-understand prose for the layperson. I recommend The Wisdom of Insecurity to all of my friends, and I have bought several copies of it as gifts.

amygdala: This bit of the brain derives its name from the Greek; it means "almond-shaped". There is both a right and left amygdala (plural: amygdalae), and this part of one's neuroanatomy is the seat of the fear response. It is nestled near the hippocampus (it actually lies inside the temporal lobe) and is part of one of the oldest parts of the brain, the limbic system. Its activation helps "color" memories so that we learn to be cautious of particular stimuli.

hippies: I'm a flower-child who was born one generation too late. Free love; make love, not war; tune in, turn on, drop out--all slogans I keep near and dear to my heart (and often put into practice).

light energy: I suppose I should rename this interest to "photons", but I'm very interested in how light exists, interacts with other substances in the universe, and how the human eye interprets and transduces light.

roche limit: I'm still a novice when it comes to explaining what the Roche limit is, so I'll be lame and reference an outside source: "The Roche limit is the minimal distance, with respect to the center of a planet, at which a satellite is able to orbit without being destroyed by tidal forces. If the planet and the satellite have the same density, the Roche limit is 2.5 times the radius of the planet. Within this limit, the satellite is destroyed by tidal forces." Saturn's rings lie within its Roche limit.

symbolic interactionism: Again, I'll refer to a source other than myself: "'Symbolic interaction' refers [to the theory that] human interaction is mediated by the use of symbols, by interpretation, or by ascertaining the meaning of one another's actions." According to Herbert Blumer, "this mediation is equivalent to inserting a process of interpretation between stimulus and response in the case of human behavior." I first came into contact with this theory when reading articles by Susan Bordo; she is also listed as one of my interests.

vibration: Everything in the universe vibrates. There are few fundamental truths about the universe; I deeply appreciate this one.

Taken from supergee

Comments

[riverrealm.livejournal.com]

I'm also interested in vibration-- always trying to "listen" for it.
Re light energy-- my husband's work is all about physics and lasers. He claims to be a skeptic when it comes to things like using light and color in clairvoyant contexts, but I feel like some part of his consciousness is already there.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

discipline, existentialism, film, idm, polyrhythm, sleep patterns, the five obstructions

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

my husband's work is all about physics and lasers

See, that's very, very cool.

I haven't quite delved into lasers. I'm still trying to deeply understand (that is, working on a metaphysical explanation for) the fact that a particle of light can be in two places at one time.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

In one of my mystic traditions, the teaching is that the amygdala is a key to switching on/off higher consciousness. And that there is a direction connection between Magdala/Amygdala.

I'm not exactly a hippie but I connect very much with some of the people who were early activists/consciousness raisers. Finding some new way to make change.

And you're definitely not too late but it is in my estimation, a roll-up-your-sleeves time for the love generation. I think Hunter S. Thompson said it when writing about the peak of the hippie movement in his famous wave speech: "And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs."

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

alchemy, flower of life, inanna, nlp, pelagius, pythons, seth

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

The only contact I've had with the "wave speech" was its inclusion in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Incidentally, I think that's the strongest, most poignant part of the film.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Thompson said that he thought it was the best bit of writing that came from him - composed in a late night in a Vegas hotel room. His character was mostly a fiction - him as he'd like to be, not as he was. But his heart was with the forces of change and angry about those old forces like Nixon who were counter to it all.

[jdoggiedogg.livejournal.com]

This looks like more fun than the average meme. I'd like to play.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

cosmic, dream interpretation, glass etching, hpf, singing bowls, spiritualism, the moon

[pstscrpt.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll do it. Probably over the weekend, though.

Are you interested in the actual physics of the Roche Limit, or is it metaphorical for something?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

choo-choo bear, john stuart mill, machiavelli, nova (of course), pdf, recursion, typesetting

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

No, not metaphorical. I'm one of those weird New Agers who actually likes studying astrophysics.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

I would interested in the Roche limits for relationships, though. Wait, too close, too close!

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

God, you are so silly!

Does this mean I get to name seven of your interests, too?

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

If you like.