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Julian Jaynes Review

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Julian Jaynes Review A little extemporaneous review of Julian Jaynes’ “The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”. The idea is that ancient people were crazy, and all of those mythologies about the gods weren’t merely metaphors, but actual images they saw in waking dreams, hallucinations. Also metaphorical sure, simply because dreams are metaphorical.

Hypnotic story: Aeration

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http://a5.video3.blip.tv/0300005266913/Mesmericpass-AerationHypnoticStory300.mp3 37 minutes. Hope you enjoy!

Mesmeric Pass Podcast Episode 2: Immortality (Telomeres and Telomerase)

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This will be a series of podcasts on aging and immortality. Hopefully I’ll get one of these done each day. Audio file here: http://blip.tv/file/get/Khydraa-MesmericPassPodcastEpisode2ImmortalityTelomeresAndTelome764 Presentation on Telomerase: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtFgJLXvEM Killer study on TA-65: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/10.1089/rej.2010.1085 TA-65 is probably Cyclostragenol: http://digg.com/story/r/ta_65_is_probably_cycloastragenol Same thing for half as much: http://digg.com/story/r/cyclostragenol_5mg_from_astral_fruit_dumb_name Follow my “research” on digg! http://digg.com/mesmericpass/submissions

Mesmeric Pass Podcast Ep.1 – Why you should interpret dreams

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The Case for Interpreting Dreams - How thoughts, emotions and imagery are connected, and how this relates to language and metaphors.

“Bicameral” Man

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Either look at or recall a time when you looked at a statue, preferably in real life. If you look at the face of a statue, and stare at the face for a few seconds, you may start to “anticipate” it making some motion. Not that you consciously believe it will, and I’m struggling to [...]

Voices in the Head

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When talking to someone, you are hearing a voice that clearly comes from outside. If you wish, you can hum a tune, filter their jabber out in the same way you filter out any annoying sound. But a voice in the head apparently is not something like this. As stated before, I only had two [...]

My Experience with Dreams

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I have a real problem with lucid dreams. Whenever I realize that I’m dreaming, I also know that whatever I think of happens. And so I say to myself, “don’t think of some monster attacking me”, and of course then immediately the formless dark monster pops out of nowhere and attacks and I wake up. [...]

Consciousness and Time Perception

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I was thinking about times when I would go to sleep at 11pm, and in what seemed to be 10 seconds later wake up at 3am to go to some wrestling tournament. Time seemed to pass in an instant, and this is because I wasn’t “conscious”. When one undergoes surgery, often the surgery passes in [...]

False Memories

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A link to an excellent video on false memories can be found here A common misunderstanding about memory is the belief that it is some static thing. And this isn’t true, memories are always changing and updating every time you recall them. This is why discussions about past trespasses can get impossible, as each side has [...]

Determinism and Calculation

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Dreams are great evidence that the brain and “the mind” are material and not some magik-matter. We can see how “thoughts” come “to mind” that we clearly did not decide to have. In waking life, information is sent to “the mind”, and the rest of the brain and filtered through other parts of the brain, [...]