rivers intimate to mind travel

In recent posts I have mused on new mental techniques like ‘pistons’ in the mind, and also on the mind experiencing time as dimension(s) beyond the three of the material world. I’m going to work these ideas together here a little more. Lets conduct an experiment. We are sealed in a room, without windows or … Read more

variable carbon star X-TrA

I came across this sweet little southern gem, designated X-TrA last night when fooling around in the vicinity. Held my son, Rowan, up to the eyepiece to have a look too. It’s 1500 light years away but the perfect clear dark sky and very high elevation brought it closer to us last night. Nearly the … Read more

new religious bent

i have in mind a new kind of religion that explains everything. i’m certain that i will get it all right this time. there is an opening salvo on my wardrobe blog. the eternal play of light and dark, matter and spirit, is just the interaction of the finite and the infinite. i call finite … Read more

34 & 1/4

Strange sensation recently, like the tape has run out and I am jamming on my own time. I first felt it when sick a few weeks ago and spent a lot of time lying on the floor and assumed of course that I was dying. I have got to a point where I feel I … Read more

pistons of the mind

I have had lots of ideas flowing freely through my head of late but I haven’t had time to get them all down. Time is the limiter, flattening the peaks of our imagination. I have also been music processing lately, and had an insight into how compression is the bowl to the porridge of sound recording. … Read more

The end of the War on Drugs

Good to read the article in the telegraph about the prohibition of pot coming to an end. I do hope that pot becomes legal, it is such an peaceful drug. Update: and coming from the other side, today I read an article in the Conversation calling for a ban on tobacco in Australia. Two smokable … Read more