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How to ride your thoughts

Ah, the inner world of thoughts, the endless maze of haze for the intro-verted… Here’s one of those adventures in the art of what I like to call brain fu. (more…)

The 15 seconds sneaking

It’s happened all my life, so along time I’ve managed to figure out its working, its pattern. It comes on occasions, when I fall asleep. It can be during (more…)

Me & The Other Me’s

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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (more…)

The throne and the perpetual commentator

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Sick (but not tired)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after shower, when I (more…)

The joy of walking

As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)

Notions of photography

I used to think of photography as a minor art. In comparison to music or literature, my all-time beloved ones, it appeared to me that photography granted a lower degree of choice to the artist, and was, thus, not that praiseworthy. It made me think of the old joke of the (more…)

Intuition: how it works

During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.

The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)

A reader is not a steamroller

Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)

Children have a time of their own

I wonder if we ever notice how different children are from an adults. At least, when it comes down to space, it is easier to notice the difference: children’s body proportions, with their big heads and shorter limbs, are different to ours, so it is easy to conclude that their experience of space in a different from ours (let alone their different sleep and energy consumption patterns… it is the age of discovery).

But such difference is more subtle when it comes down to time. Time for a child (more…)