Category: Journal
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Bondi at dusk.
A quick overnight train trip to Sydney. Staying in an unexpectedly nice (for the price) unit right above the train station at Bondi Junction.
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An inside day.
This greyscale rain Washed out the day. 8 chapters. 5 mugs. Rained most of the day today. Juno and I moped about inside waiting for a break in it. Read a lot. Cranked up a little percussive dub, spiritual jazz & psychedelic grooviness. Danced around like only the dog was watching and drank way too…
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Embracing an analogue life.
Living an analogue life means embracing a more simple and mindful way of living, away from the digital distractions and fast-paced lifestyle of the modern world. In an increasingly connected world, where we are bombarded by digital stimuli, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and disconnected from our physical surroundings. However, by embracing an analogue lifestyle,…
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Near death experiences and a change in worldview
Hans Zingmark (a pulmonologist) and Anetth Granberg-Axell (a retired physician) wanted to examine the worldview-altering impact of near-death experiences (NDEs) amongst a group of survivors of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in Sweden. Suspending their judgements on whether NDEs are veridical, they wanted to study these reports from a phenomenological perspective. That is, they felt that…
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90 seconds.
90 seconds.still plenty of timeto forget The DOOMSDAY clock has recently been adjusted to stand at 90 seconds to midnight. It has never been this close. What is the Doomsday clock? SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/timeline/ Ok, 90 seconds. Bullet point the reasons for me. SOURCE: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/nuclear-risk/ Listen, now you are depressing me. Can’t you just review a…
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Its all about the avo.
Location: expeditions.cube.singledWalbanga CountryWeather: Sunny. 17C. Yesterday Kelly and I went on a spontaneous road trip out to Braidwood. For lunch, I had the best avocado on toast I have ever tasted. Mint tahini sauce, sesame seeds and smoked almonds (see top pic).As is often the case with a spontaneous road trip…..it was the best day.…
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Thank you to all the Joel’s out there.
Every time my writing battery has drained down to the lead-acid bottom sludge, and I’m questioning if I have anything worthwhile to add to the already hyper-dense, froth and bubbles, online ecosystem, someone drops a particularly encouraging comment or tips me a few dollars for a coffee. It is sunlight to my solar panels. Yesterday…
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Climate emergency: no soup for you.
Recently I became angry watching a news report about a group of ‘kids’ who allegedly threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery in London. That is just vandalism, I thought. And although I am super duper sympathetic to the cause of raising awareness of the climate emergency….defacing precious art is…
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Physics: Things are getting reassuringly weird.
In this short article, cognitive scientist and author Donald Hoffman reminds us that right now physicists are questioning the very existence of our fundamental subjective experiences of space and time.The big question is: What lies beyond? Hoffman argues that the problem in answering this question lies in the fact that we have evolved to possess…
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