Satu Bock
A recovering egocentric.
Eye Signals. Chapter 8 Throughout history, we have been preoccupied with the eyes and their effect on human behavior. Eye contact regulates conversation, gives cues of dominance, 'He looked down his nose at me' or forms the basis for suspecting a liar, 'Look me in the eye when you say that! ' We spend much of our face-to-face time looking at the other person's face, so eye signals are a vital part of being able to read a person's attitude and thoughts.
When people meet for the first time they make a series of quick judgements about each other, based largely on what they see. We use phrases such as 'She looked daggers at him', 'He had that gleam in his eye', 'She has big baby eyes', 'He has shifty eyes', 'She has inviting eyes', 'She gave him a look to kill', 'She gave an icy stare' or 'He gave me the evil eye'. We also say a person has Bette Davis eyes, Spanish eyes, bedroom eyes, hard, angry, blank, private, sad, happy, defiant, cold, jealous, unforgiving and piercing eyes. The Dilating Pupils 1. 2. Words Of Great Wisdom. 1. Rise with the sun to pray. Pray alone. Pray often. The Great Spirit will listen, if you only speak. 2. Be tolerant of those who are lost on their path. Ignorance, conceit, anger, jealousy and greed stem from a lost soul. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. How I Was Able to Ace Exams Without Studying.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Scott Young of ScottYoung.com. In high school, I rarely studied. Despite that, I graduated second in my class. In university, I generally studied less than an hour or two before major exams. However, over four years, my GPA always sat between an A and an A+. Recently I had to write a law exam worth 100% of my final grade. Right now, I’m guessing most of you think I’m just an arrogant jerk. Why do Some People Learn Quickly? The fact is most of my feats are relatively mundane. The story isn’t about how great I am (I’m certainly not) or even about the fantastic accomplishments of other learners. It’s this different strategy, not just blind luck and arrogance, that separates rapid learners from those who struggle.
Most sources say that the difference in IQ scores across a group is roughly half genes and half environment. Rote memorization is based on the theory that if you look at information enough times it will magically be stored inside your head. 1. Chart.gif (GIF Image, 940 × 1725 pixels) Untitled. 5 Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers. Sure, you could improve yourself the normal way, with hard work and years of slow, incremental progress. Or you could use some of your body's built-in cheat codes and just hack your way to awesometown.
These hacks come with various degrees of difficulty, but no risk or potential for injury. And actual scientists say that all of them work. #5. Remember Long Lists With a "Memory Palace" Thinkstock Images/Comstock/Getty Images The human brain sucks at remembering lists. That's weird, because there are other things in life we have no problem with. Digital Vision. The Hack: You're able to find your way around because a whole lot of your mental horsepower is devoted to spatial memory -- learning the layout of your environment. Here's how it works: You pick a familiar place that you know well and can imagine without much problem -- the inside of your house, the layout of your neighborhood, whatever. Comstock/Comstock/Getty Images"Shit, that reminds me, I'm out of chloroform. " #4. 1. . #3. Quick! 5 Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers. Meditation and "Drugs" It's a not-so-dirty little secret that most of today's leading meditation teachers were interested in drugs.
By "drugs," of course, I don't mean alcohol or Oxycontin, but rather that subset of chemicals which our society has deemed unfit for human consumption, including cannabis, psilocybin, MDMA, and others. Many of today's leading Buddhist teachers, for example, credit their first taste of altered mind states not to samadhi but to LSD or mushrooms, and almost every spiritual teacher I know (and I know a bunch) smoked pot. Some still do. So what's the connection? 1. The first and simplest answer is that both drugs and meditation are pleasurable -- and a specific kind of pleasure, namely pleasures of the mind.
I remember, when I had just started meditating, it was like I had received the answer key to a hundred spiritual questions. And, of course, meditation offers these benefits without the side effects of chemicals, and with longer duration. The type of pleasure is similar as well. The Primacy of Consciousness. The Primacy of Consciousness The fundamental nature of reality is actually consciousness. In his documentary Peter Russell explores the reasons why consciousness may be the fundamental essence of the Universe. Many have made such claims from metaphysical perspectives, but the possibility has always been ignored by the scientific community. In this talk, he discusses the problems the materialist scientific world view has with consciousness and proposes an alternative world view which, rather than contradicting science, makes new sense of much of modern physics. This documentary basically seeks answers for these questions: What is consciousness?
Report: The Primacy of Consciousness Processing your request, Please wait.... Share: The Primacy of Consciousness Related Documentaries From The Web. Video. Video. Embedded Commands (NLP) Embedded Commands (NLP) 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School. I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was. Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway.
But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier). 1. This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things. 2.
You can do things quicker than you think. 3. 4. 5. 40 Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask. Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. -Voltaire …because asking the right questions is the answer. Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. Also, check out our sister site, Thought Questions, for more photo-illustrated questions like these; and check out The Book of Questions if you’re interested in reading even more thought-provoking questions.Title photo by: Colin Kinner For all other photo credits please refer to ThoughtQuestions.com Related 40 Photo-Illustrated Questions to Refocus Your Mind Asking the right questions is the answer...
February 23, 2012 In "Happiness" 40 Questions that Will Quiet Your Mind Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers … because asking the right questions is the answer. August 5, 2015 25 Questions that Provoke Thought If the question makes you think, it’s worth asking. January 4, 2010 In "Hacks" The Wilderness of Manitoba - Yellow Yard. Video. Unicursal Hexagram. The unicursal hexagram is so-called because it can be drawn unicursally- that is, in one continuous movement. This is significant when forming figures in ritual magick, where a continuous line is preferred to an interrupted movement. The symbol was devised by the Golden Dawn, and later adapted by Aleister Crowley as a device of personal significance. It is often worn by Thelemites as a sign of religious identification and recognition. The unicursal hexagram was created for the purpose of drawing the figure in one continuous movement, as the other magical polygons are created- the pentagram is one example.
This is significant in ritual magick when invoking and banishing hexagrams must be made. Crowley’s adaptation of the unicursal hexagram placed a five petaled rose, symbolizing a pentacle (and the divine feminine), in the center; the symbol as a whole making eleven (five petals of the rose plus six points of the hexagram), the number of divine union. Video. Video. Video. Video. Video. Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor and creator in many creative fields. He’s perhaps the most well-known painter from all of the 20:th century. He also had some interesting things to say about life. Here are my 7 favourite tips from him. 1. “He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is a great quote because it doesn’t just say that you should “believe in yourself!”. The funny thing is that it’s hard to see how much your beliefs control your performance and how you see your world when you are used at looking at things from just one perspective.
When you think you can do something instead of not your perception of that thing changes. 2. Pushing yourself and stretching is necessary to grow. Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life. Video. The Key to Evolving Beyond Ego: How to Make the Change that Changes Everything by Craig Hamilton. 25 Awesome Thoughts: Read It. Philcrasturbation. Everything the internet was never intended to be used for... Posted by Phil Follow us on. 100 Video Sites where you can Watch TV Serials Online. Full Text Of The Grim Meathook Future Thing | Zenarchery.
I think the problem is that the future, maybe for the first time since WWII, lies on the far side of an event horizon for us, because there are so many futures possible. There’s the wetware future, the hardware future, the transhumanist future, the post-rationalist (aka fundamentalist) future. And then there’s the future where everything just sort of keeps going on the way it has, with incremental changes, and technology is no longer the deciding factor in things.
You don’t need high tech to change the world; you need Semtex and guns that were designed by a Russian soldier fifty-odd years ago. Meanwhile, most of the people with any genuine opportunity or ability to effect global change are too busy patting each other on the back at conventions and blue-skying goofy social networking tools that are essentially useless to 95% of the world’s population, who live within fifteen feet of everyone they’ve ever known and have no need to track their fuck buddies with GPS systems. A Brilliant List of Science Books for People Who Want Their Minds Blown. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR JESUS? I recently listened to an interview with Bruce Sanguin and Rev. Kelly Isola in which Sanguin talked about how he’s applying the Spiral Dynamics model of human development to explain why Jesus means so many different things to so many different people.
I have been a fan of Spiral Dynamics for quite some time. Spiral Dynamics is a theory of human development introduced in the 1996 book by Don Beck and Chris Cowan which was based on the work of professor Clare W. Graves. The following diagram illustrates the different levels of development and their associated characteristics: In his book The Emerging Church, Sanguin applies these stages to how Christians see Christ.
Purple--Christ is the Tribal Christ. Red--The Warrior Christ. Turquoise-The Mystical Christ. I can see my own journey reflected in this spiral. I fully believe we need to have space for people to think for themselves and ask questions, but I've been puzzled lately by the attitudes of some (certainly not all!) Video. Old Maps Online. 10 TED Talks That Will Change the Way You Communicate. August 1st, 2012 By: Alvina Lopez Even the most eloquent of public and private speakers could always stand to tweak their communication skills just a little bit.
After all, the ability to convey feelings and facts stands as essential to keeping the human species rolling along. Both the Internet and bookshelves sport advice a-go-go on how to get points across as clearly as possible, and the venerable open source lecture series TED does not disappoint in this regard. Its best offerings regarding human connectivity encourage essentials not always discussed in manuals and textbooks, so give them some consideration and use them to launch more exploration into how to grow into an effective, evocative communicator. Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch: If communications with people on opposite sides of political, cultural, religious and other common divides so often proves extremely problematic, try Elizabeth Lesser’s simple-but-effective approach.
Let's make everything free. 4d3c1c5d6d3c9.jpg (JPEG Image, 425 × 274 pixels) Superhero Bias. Followup to: The Halo Effect Suppose there's a heavily armed sociopath, a kidnapper with hostages, who has just rejected all requests for negotiation and announced his intent to start killing. In real life, the good guys don't usually kick down the door when the bad guy has hostages. But sometimes—very rarely, but sometimes—life imitates Hollywood to the extent of genuine good guys needing to smash through a door. Imagine, in two widely separated realities, two heroes who charge into the room, first to confront the villain. In one reality, the hero is strong enough to throw cars, can fire power blasts out of his nostrils, has X-ray hearing, and his skin doesn't just deflect bullets but annihilates them on contact.
In another reality, the hero is a New York police officer, and the hostages are three prostitutes the villain collected off the street. Consider this question very carefully: Who is the greater hero? The halo effect is that perceptions of all positive traits are correlated. Best Inventions of the Year 2012. SteveSelf-Altitude.jpg (JPEG Image, 1810 × 1216 pixels) Animal Farm-George Orwell (Full Length Animated Movie 1954) Video. Ethics and Globalization Conference: Session I: Pursuit of Domestic vs Global Welfare. Dropping knowledge :: Table of Free Voices. Propaganda 2.0 and the rise of 'narrative networks' Blog: The power of effective activism. Macy's. Nowtopia: A new politics of work. Our Oil-Soaked Industrial Economy. Share Spray: A New Way To Do Everything. Learn More.
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