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"Stirring through the jasmine in my tea..."
2004-12-07
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Creativity, Insanity, Mysticism, Bipolarity, Numinous Exploding Vehicles
"latent inhibition"+creativity
"We are very excited by the results of these studies," says Peterson. "It appears that we have not only identified one of the biological bases of creativity but have moved towards cracking an age-old mystery: the relationship between genius, madness and the doors of perception."
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indigopowder
Ditto mysticism, or at least part of it: sense of something profound, which may or may not be accompanied by being able to describe what the profundity is. Hmm... probably ditto some psychedelic experiences too, and peak experiences, and suchlike. Numinousness.
c.f., Jodawijournal - April 18th, 2003, +/- Jodawijournal - April 17th, 2003
Deja-goo doesn't have my post on a similar subject from 1995. Batards. I think I posted it to LJ, but I didn't find it, so:
( In article <3nhc0e$dmt@louie.udel.edu>, from about April 1995, I wrote about something from about December 1991: )
Someone replied to my post with:
( Dear John Chao, )
"We are very excited by the results of these studies," says Peterson. "It appears that we have not only identified one of the biological bases of creativity but have moved towards cracking an age-old mystery: the relationship between genius, madness and the doors of perception."
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indigopowderDitto mysticism, or at least part of it: sense of something profound, which may or may not be accompanied by being able to describe what the profundity is. Hmm... probably ditto some psychedelic experiences too, and peak experiences, and suchlike. Numinousness.
c.f., Jodawijournal - April 18th, 2003, +/- Jodawijournal - April 17th, 2003
Deja-goo doesn't have my post on a similar subject from 1995. Batards. I think I posted it to LJ, but I didn't find it, so:
( In article <3nhc0e$dmt@louie.udel.edu>, from about April 1995, I wrote about something from about December 1991: )
Someone replied to my post with:
( Dear John Chao, )
Entry tags:
Creativity, Insanity, Mysticism, Bipolarity, Numinous Exploding Vehicles
"latent inhibition"+creativity
"We are very excited by the results of these studies," says Peterson. "It appears that we have not only identified one of the biological bases of creativity but have moved towards cracking an age-old mystery: the relationship between genius, madness and the doors of perception."
— viaindigopowder
Ditto mysticism, or at least part of it: sense of something profound, which may or may not be accompanied by being able to describe what the profundity is. Hmm... probably ditto some psychedelic experiences too, and peak experiences, and suchlike. Numinousness.
c.f., Jodawijournal - April 18th, 2003, +/- Jodawijournal - April 17th, 2003
Deja-goo doesn't have my post on a similar subject from 1995. Batards. I think I posted it to LJ, but I didn't find it, so:
( In article <3nhc0e$dmt@louie.udel.edu>, from about April 1995, I wrote about something from about December 1991: )
Someone replied to my post with:
( Dear John Chao, )
"We are very excited by the results of these studies," says Peterson. "It appears that we have not only identified one of the biological bases of creativity but have moved towards cracking an age-old mystery: the relationship between genius, madness and the doors of perception."
— via
indigopowderDitto mysticism, or at least part of it: sense of something profound, which may or may not be accompanied by being able to describe what the profundity is. Hmm... probably ditto some psychedelic experiences too, and peak experiences, and suchlike. Numinousness.
c.f., Jodawijournal - April 18th, 2003, +/- Jodawijournal - April 17th, 2003
Deja-goo doesn't have my post on a similar subject from 1995. Batards. I think I posted it to LJ, but I didn't find it, so:
( In article <3nhc0e$dmt@louie.udel.edu>, from about April 1995, I wrote about something from about December 1991: )
Someone replied to my post with:
( Dear John Chao, )
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Chao
Copying this to my journal from here because I just got asked about it and it took too long for me to find it.
( The story of "Chao" as my last name )
Entry tags:
Chao
Copying this to my journal from here because I just got asked about it and it took too long for me to find it.
( The story of "Chao" as my last name )