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I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t ... See more
The Creative Independent • On navigating the tension between physical and digital realms
There are certain aboriginal tribes who get disturbed if you take a photograph of them. They’d say something like, “don’t do that, our souls are trapped in there.” The fear is that the picture imprisons the essence of the subject. Once you look at a picture of yourself, you might slip into “looking at being,” instead of “living through becoming”—yo
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The British philosopher R G Collingwood noticed that the painter doesn’t invent painting, and the musician doesn’t invent the musical culture in which they find themselves. And for Collingwood this served to show that no person is fully autonomous, a God-like f