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A few nights ago I was looking into self-hypnosis and hypnosis. Sure, I’ve had many self-hypnosis tapes and CDs over the years. Not that I’m immune to suggestion, but most of them just don’t work. Often there are glaring errors. The facilitator says the stereotypical “sleep, sleeeeeeep” so much that it is comical. The facilitator tells you what not to do, which is practically guaranteed to make you think of actually doing it. Don’t think of an elephant. While researching self-hypnosis, I went off on a tangent and learned about some less well-known techniques. Ideomotor Signaling is based on the concept of a split brain. The seminal book on the topic of a split brain, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, is a must-read for anyone curious about the importance of left brain to right brain interactions. I suspect his theory was sparked by research into surgery that split the corpus collosum to prev...

Found this in an archive from 2005. I have come to realize that some folks, in order to maintain a very narrow belief system, no longer allow themselves to evaluate other belief systems. In essence, other points of view dangerously threaten their fragile little world. That is, their own opinions seem like Universal Truths to them, because no other opinions impinge upon them. Sadly, they become desperate to eliminate diversity from the world – diversity that in their narrow minds seems to be life-threatening aberration. It’s a very easy way to live your life, uncomplicated by consideration of other aspects of the Truth. It’s all black and white. It is the basis of hatred. Jung talks about this concept quite a bit. He saw it as the basis of evil. The evil can’t be in *me* you see. The evil is out there somewhere – shrinks call it “projection”. You can’t have a meaningful debate with a person who doesn’t see your side well enough to com...

I am thankful that I live a relatively simple, frugal life. This post is a little late, I’m just coming off a mental health vacation where I disconnected from a lot of my life. Fortunately much of my life goes on without my actual presence. As a perpetual pessimist with a long memory, I can’t say I was surprised by the real estate crash, the gas prices, or even the stock market’s power dive. I’ve actually been shoring myself up for it. Worst case we have some canned goods in the basement. We bought a small house that we could afford on only one salary, unlike the IDIOTS who bought houses they couldn’t afford. The idiots that my tax money is going to bail out. Does anyone here not know that when the government gives out money, a lot of it comes from my income taxes? (The rest of it comes from foreign investors.) My retirement account has been hemorrhaging money. I don’t expect to ever actually retire, having blown my retirement funds out a cou...

I have an answer for the auto industry. The bailout should take the form of vouchers to individual citizens that can only be used to purchase a car. If you give 100,000,000 citizens $25,000 each, there’s your bailout. Plus the auto workers keep getting paid.

Interdependence is the key word. Enlightened interdependence. Life in all its rich variety, “take a little, leave a little”… However: by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process THEY ALWAYS TAKE MORE THAN THEY NEED. — William S. Burroughs “ Words of Advice for Young People ” From Hallucination Engine by Material. This spoken-word piece by William S. Burroughs (backed up by the avant-garde group Material ) totally sums up the top-down, free-market, TOXIC version of Capitalism that is practiced in the world of multinational corporations. I worked for Tyco Electronics when Dennis Kozlowski was spending my pay raises on company-paid million-dollar birthday parties for his wife. Here is what is happening: Capitalism only works as long as there is growth. So what happens when there is no more? Well, first off your shareholders get seriously pissed off. It is against the law to piss off your shareholders, even if it means screwing over your emp...