tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post3118980106682560503..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Feminists Earn a Dollar for Each Hour of Eternity SquanderedGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34430665717911165052015-10-21T08:09:21.459-07:002015-10-21T08:09:21.459-07:00You know Bob, I just had an insight about what you...You know Bob, I just had an insight about what you said about paying attention to the right hand (and shutting down the left brain). Da Free John, albeit as crazy as he was, also had some spiritual brilliance in his writings. He would talk about the Amrita Nadi as the cave in the heart and that it actually had a seeming location in the body that was "two finger-widths to the right of heart center." Just an interesting correlation.<br /><br />In regards to Roy Masters, he is one of the only mindfulness teachers out there that sees through the fallacy of left thinking. Every other mindfulness teacher elevates it as a higher emergent worldview in consciousness.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52718329057517788712015-10-21T07:49:00.510-07:002015-10-21T07:49:00.510-07:00Magister said "Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Bas...Magister said "Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture"<br /><br />Yo, my pieps! Love that book.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18485612678396614012015-10-21T07:28:00.967-07:002015-10-21T07:28:00.967-07:00Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
I gue...Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture<br /><br />I guess that would make us "pieps"Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13137040907002542742015-10-21T06:45:01.218-07:002015-10-21T06:45:01.218-07:00Yes, that meditation video is already helpful for ...Yes, that meditation video is already helpful for me. It never occured to me that the left brain could be shut down in this manner, thus freeing the right brain. USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-28527592450558723722015-10-20T23:06:37.867-07:002015-10-20T23:06:37.867-07:00Re. the meditation, interesting technique. Thanks....Re. the meditation, interesting technique. Thanks. I can see how it would be helpful to combine that with prayer.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88626031322670578952015-10-20T13:48:13.996-07:002015-10-20T13:48:13.996-07:00Cool.Cool.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-24779422510453475872015-10-20T12:49:36.552-07:002015-10-20T12:49:36.552-07:00Way off topic, I have discovered the last couple o...Way off topic, I have discovered the last couple of months that the boy's medicine is actually cheaper using no insurance than it was when we had "good" insurance through my husband's work. The listed price is higher, but Walgreen's offers a discount for those who aren't covered. I wonder how many people would be paying less month to month without the "help" of their prescription plans?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87634816166271438882015-10-20T11:56:59.505-07:002015-10-20T11:56:59.505-07:00Almost certainly. Being human, though, I'm sur...Almost certainly. Being human, though, I'm sure they manufactured plenty of drama to fill the boredom. Nothing like nursing a feud from your grandparents' days to while the hours away. juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58830651686629501612015-10-20T11:44:27.708-07:002015-10-20T11:44:27.708-07:00Yes, hunter-gatherers had a great deal of slack. ...Yes, hunter-gatherers had a great deal of slack. But it must have been rather tedious, with no developed culture... Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-23137632115442701752015-10-20T11:23:51.777-07:002015-10-20T11:23:51.777-07:00I'll second Mushroom's first.
Interestin...I'll second Mushroom's first. <br /><br />Interesting about the meditation. We try to do the Rosary most days; I find it keeps the hands and mouth busy, and frees up the mind for meditation.<br /><br /><i>I don't want to get into a fruitless he-said, she-said, God-said rehash, but suffice it to say that when the dust settled, man exchanged slack for work. Were our primordial ancestors idiots?</i><br /><br />This is also a great way to describe the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer. Or rather, the historical transition describes what happened when we left the Garden. Initially, as I understand it, they went from having a life of relative leisure to a life of grinding difficulty, frequent famine, and an earlier death. Farming is hard work, especially when you don't really know what you're doing. Why did they stick with it? I guess because they couldn't go back, what with the flaming sword and all...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81881153005181839932015-10-20T10:35:00.433-07:002015-10-20T10:35:00.433-07:00Here's a short guided meditation.Here's a short <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D-RjlJ6vWw" rel="nofollow">guided meditation</a>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25499054925252540662015-10-20T10:14:15.835-07:002015-10-20T10:14:15.835-07:00I remember Masters. He was a strange combination....I remember Masters. He was a strange combination. I might try that.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54553270048400511692015-10-20T10:00:26.906-07:002015-10-20T10:00:26.906-07:00I have resumed meditation lately. Actually it'...I have resumed meditation lately. Actually it's a combination meditation/prayer. It's a modified version of the technique taught by the genius/kook Roy Masters, in which you look through the forehead with eyes closed and focus on the sensations of the right hand. It occurred to me that this must lock down the left brain (which controls the right hand) and free up the right, which is the lens of eternity...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-2157334787605704622015-10-20T09:56:46.595-07:002015-10-20T09:56:46.595-07:00Yes, the guilt of slack is something with which I ...Yes, the guilt of slack is something with which I struggle, and it probably is one of the great attractions of drugs. I have to remind myself of Pascal's dictum: <i>All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.</i><br /><br />Alone with a book is good. Alone with one of those damn phones is not.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4083326306220530982015-10-20T09:50:42.876-07:002015-10-20T09:50:42.876-07:00PCwhipped
That is so beautiful.<i> PCwhipped </i><br /><br />That is so beautiful.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com