Jeff VanderMeer charts Area X's impossible terrain in his Southern Reach trilogy. The first book of the series, Annihilation, flirts with various genre conventions but warps and refracts them. Most often, VanderMeer is cited as a foremost writer of the New Weird, which, in the tradition of Lovecraftian Old Weird, deals with the wonder and horror at... See more
Here’s the deal with theta: it’s a different kind of knowing than beta. Beta is a crisp, oh-I-just-cogitated-this-thought. But experience in theta is knowing. Theta hits you in a total, murky, deep-but-diffuse way.
Most productivity advice is rooted in force
“Hack your willpower”
“Discipline your mind”
“Push through”
This may work short-term. But it burns you out.
The trick to long-term productivity is desire.
Those... See more
anger release is incredible. it’s extremely helpful. the book ‘healing back pain’ is a 200p-long confirmation of the power of moving anger
the issue is: i can’t release anger comfortably in cities / in the vicinity of others. knowing people are around stifles it
solutions??
When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more
If you aren't in the VIEW mindset, that means blocking off information.
'Impartiality' is a way of listening and acting without having an agenda, without choosing a side in the conflict ahead of the needed knowledge.
'Wonder' is a version of curiosity where the desire to know