Friday, August 12, 2022

Blaise Pascal - PASCAL'S PENSÉES

 



'Books saved me. Despair, stupidity, cowardice, boredom. The great texts hoist us above ourselves, enlarge us to the dimensions of a republic of the mind.'  
 

- Blaise Pascal


INTRODUCTION

It might seem that about Blaise Pascal, and about the two works on which his fame is founded, everything that there is to say had been said. The details of his life are as fully known as we can expect to know them; his mathematical and physical discoveries have been treated many times; his religious sentiment and his theological views have been discussed again and again; and his prose style has been analysed by French critics down to the finest particular. But Pascal is one of those writers who will be and who must be studied afresh by men in every generation. It is not he who changes, but we who change. It is not our knowledge of him that increases, but our world that alters and our attitudes towards it. The history of human opinions of Pascal and of men of his stature is a part of the history of humanity. That indicates his permanent importance.
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T. S. Eliot.






PASCAL'S PENSÉES
INTRODUCTION BY
T. S. ELIOT

A Dutton Paperback


https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm





William James

 


 “The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is compos sui [master of himself] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.”

William James, Psychology: Briefer Course, p. 424 (Harper Torchbooks, 1961)





Jimmy Page Prelude No 4 in E minor, Op 28





Jimmy Page   Prelude No  4 in E minor, Op  28

https://youtu.be/HJYYCQAq-jM




Sunday, July 3, 2022

Monday, June 13, 2022

Big Mama Thornton with the Muddy Waters Blues Band - Full Album (1966)




https://youtu.be/6aexFc7L9GE




Howlin' Wolf - The Greatest Hits (Full Album / Album complet)




 

https://youtu.be/Ay_7JdMjeCE



Saturday, June 11, 2022

The Science of Setting + Achieving Goals | Huberman Lab Podcast #55




 

The Science of Setting + Achieving Goals | Huberman Lab Podcast #55


In this episode, I discuss the science of setting, assessing, and pursuing goals. I explain the neural (brain) circuits that underlie goal setting and pursuit. Then I describe nine science-supported tools anyone can apply toward their goals. I explain when and how to use goal visualization, when to use multitasking and how to use specific rewards to improve the likelihood of reaching your goals. I also explain why envisioning failures and their consequences are effective and how to set goals of the appropriate level of challenge. I also explain how the molecule dopamine is used to gauge our progress toward milestones and long-term overarching goals and how to leverage dopamine for goal pursuit. Finally, I explain a unique tool called 'space-time bridging' that can be used to support all aspects of goal setting, assessment, and pursuit. This episode ought to be useful for anyone seeking to improve their performance in work, school, exercise, athletics, or personal development.

#HubermanLab #Goals #Neuroscience


https://youtu.be/t1F7EEGPQwo




Saturday, April 2, 2022

DMT - Dimethyltryptamine - Before & After - FULL EPISODE | London Real




                         


https://youtu.be/uDqKctXUbm0




FULL EPISODE: https://londonrealacademy.com/episode... 

Brian Rose and Ayahuasca Filmmaker Alexander Ward explore the psychedelic DMT (Dimethyltryptamine). They discuss its potential affects, smoke it, and describe their personal journeys and how it has affected their outlooks on life. 

SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToLondonReal Alexander Ward: (http://www.youtube.com/user/Wardyworks) Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a psychedelic compound widespread throughout the plant kingdom, and occurs in trace amounts in mammals, including humans, where it acts as a trace amine neurotransmitter/neuromodulator. 
The significance of its widespread natural presence remains undetermined. 
Functionally, DMT is analogous to the neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT), the hormone melatonin, and other psychedelic tryptamines, such as psilocybin. 
When ingested, DMT acts as a psychedelic drug. Depending on the dose and method of administration, its subjective effects can range from short-lived milder psychedelic states to powerful immersive experiences; these are often described as a total loss of connection to conventional reality with the encounter of ineffable spiritual or alien realms. 

Indigenous Amazonian Amerindian cultures consume DMT as the primary psychoactive in ayahuasca, a shamanistic brew used for divinatory and healing purposes.

 Pharmacologically, ayahuasca combines DMT with an MAOI, an enzyme inhibitor that allows DMT to be orally active. DMT can produce powerful psychedelic experiences including intense visuals, euphoria and hallucinations. 

DMT is generally not active orally unless it is combined with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), without which the body quickly metabolizes orally administered DMT, preventing any hallucinogenic effect unless the DMT dose exceeds the enzymes metabolic capacity. 

Other means of ingestion such as smoking, injecting, or insufflating the drug can produce powerful hallucinations and entheogenic activity for a short time (usually less than half an hour), as the DMT reaches the brain before it can be metabolized by the body's natural monoamine oxidase. Taking a MAOI prior to vaporizing or injecting DMT prolongs and potentiates the effects. A standard dose for smoking vaporized DMT is between 15--60 mg. 

This is generally inhaled in a few successive breaths. The effects from smoking DMT last for a short period of time, usually 5 to 15 minutes, dependent on the dose. The onset after inhalation is very fast (less than 45 seconds) and peak effects are reached within a minute. 

In the 1960s, DMT was known as a "businessman's trip" in the US because of the relatively short duration (and rapid onset) of action when vaporized. In the UK DMT is classified as a Class A drug, while in the US it is regarded as a Schedule I drug. DMT and ayahuasca 

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Mike Tyson on Doing DMT | Joe Rogan




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https://youtu.be/EmJsTf6hCRM



Thursday, March 17, 2022

How To Make Friends With Crows






How To Make Friends With Crows

#Crows #AnimalFriendship #Corvid #MurderOfCrows #CrypticChronicles
Crows are familiar over much of the continent: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests. Their flight style is unique, a patient, methodical flapping that is rarely broken up with glides. But, a little-known fact is that these birds are so intelligent, humans can befriend them in a very unique way throughout the animal kingdom. 



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