my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

“I respond to three questions,â€

[mayavin]

“timp, fluke-mites, gangue and pust vecame his hated enemies;
impactions of the clote were a major annoyance, requiring the sub-
surface use of reamer, drench-bar and hose, in a position which, when
the impaction was eased, became subject to the full force of the effluxion“.
~Tales of a Dying Earth

[mayavin]

The thud and pad of feet dwindled and died.

The horse moved restlessly; the foliage rustled.

A damp air passed down the hollow and chilled the back of Guyal's neck.
Darkness rose from old earth like ink in a basin.

Guyal shivered: best to ride away through the forest, away from the dour
villagers and their numb mounts. Away...

He turned his horse up to the height where the four had passed and sat
listening. Far down the wind he heard a hoarse call. Turning in the
opposite direction he let the horse choose its own path.

Branches and boughs knit patterns on the fading purple over him; the air
smelt of moss and dank mold. The horse stopped short. Guyal, tensing in
every muscle, leaned a little forward, head twisted, listening. There was a
feel of danger on his cheek. The air was still, uncanny; his eyes could
plumb not ten feet into the black.

The Touch of Nothing

With whom do you walk
these early, icy mornings?
Do you hold an image
inside your turning mind?
Thankful yet forgetful
and giving without warning
is my so complex being
Multiple shades of seeing

So sharply you resent yourself,
so graciously you flow
and- but the tangled feeling-
you surely think you know

Shouted out confession
bounces off frozen ground
Penetrating resonance
Boundaries not yet found
And only shining substance
melts softly into air
and aids the wakeful charioteers
with smoothly tumbling stones

Predestined for untanglement,
Unrecognized I stare.
it is for You I walk this earth
with glowing in my bones

Look sharp and do not falter
Head straight into the trap
We do not have instructions
We only have a map
that we must now decipher
alone and yet not so,
For this is not a prison.
You must let yourself go.

To be truly free is nothing,
unless it is embraced
Unknown, untouched, unbroken
and pure and smiling faced

"With what?" you ask the giver
"With what do I make peace?"
'With nothing,' something answers
'With nothing be at peace.'

For when you have found Nothing
your cage will open wide
and in your shaded shelter
you flow with every tide

With only the great absence
of all you think you seek
will sight be given to the blind
and strength unto the weak

I name myself by nothing
because I have no name,
and I am not so tangible
and I am not so tame.
I am the only constant
I never am the same
I am the bowl for water
The fuel for burning flame
Increasing and dissolving
Between and far beyond
I float the water lily
on the surface of the pond

Inside me you existed
before you broke apart
and in you I am present,
enclosed in beating heart

So vividly you drink me,
until you are no more

As a thundering avalanche
is Nothing's
silent
roar

[the fire elf]

What role does intuition play in analysis?

That all depends, of course, on the analyst.


and three ones of multifarious natures

[Oldguy]

WTF? one terce's worth, penny wise is a pound foolish. Mind your sences, cents, scents, rinse, rants, and rents. Clear as Mud? Good. Clarity is overrated. Happy, happy!

[the fire elf]

dun doth the derelicts dunder... mine an wise and secret thunders...
ever which the wayword bound... grandma's broken switch, the ghosts of crowns

[mayavin]

You will be taught to watch for these signs (and others) at the beginning
of any hypnosis course of tuition but accurate assessment of trance depth
only really happens when the hypnotist can evaluate these signs from
personal experience. An important part of this learning process takes
place when the hypnotist takes the part of the subject and experiences
hypnosis from the point of view of his prospective clients. After being
hypnotized a many times the hypnotherapist gains an inside perspective
of the mental processes that take place and an empathy for the physical
nature of hypnosis.

[the fire elf]

[Oldguy]

Dad?

[the fire elf]

nova, what darwin never knew

[Simon of the Playa]

[the fire elf]

latent

[the fire elf]

____________________

[the fire elf]

_____

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

The unresolvable problem is how to explain sentience and qualia and their interaction with consciousness.

One has to do with the definition of reality to which descriptive truths are said to correspond.
Another has to do with the existence of indefinables.

[mayavin]

A number of philosophers have argued that objects that have parts do not exist.

[mayavin]

it is still permissible to assert sentences such as 'there are tables'. This is
because such a sentence can be paraphrased as 'there are simples
arranged tablewise';

[mayavin]

'there are simples'

presuming we didn't drop off some primordial tree to go around being free-range sexy

[Simon of the Playa]

the apple does not fall far from the julia set tree.

[the fire elf]

and what's this? ye know of distances?
from the atom to the tree
mighty thin sliver ye see

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

[Roberto Dobbisano]

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein