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Psychotic disturbances, by contrast, are characterized by a break from reality and from the grounded aspects of the lower chakras. They most often manifest as a lack of predictable patterns and a failure to contain one’s energy appropriately.
Anodea Judith • Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self
The branches that do not correspond to the outcome of an observer’s measurement evolve independently and are of no further relevance, along with all parts of the tree growing out of them.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
It sounded like a synonym for abandon.
Maggie Stiefvater • The Dream Thieves
“It is impossible to design an apparatus to determine which hole the electron passes through, that will not at the same time disturb the electrons enough to destroy the interference pattern.” If an apparatus is capable of determining which hole the electron goes through, it cannot be so delicate that it does not disturb the pattern in an essential
... See moreRobert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Heisenberg imagined that electrons do not always exist. They only exist when someone or something watches them, or better, when they are interacting with something else. They materialize in a place, with a calculable probability, when colliding with something else. The “quantum leaps” from one orbit to another are the only means they have of being
... See moreCarlo Rovelli • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
networks tend to produce or reflect order or disorder.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
centrifugal
Joan Didion • After Henry: Essays
it broke these pronounced units of sound apart into their acoustic components.