Thought it might interest you people that Ritalin is being discussed in the popular techie ajax-based links-sharing and discussion site Digg. It doesn't happen...
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Jun 4, 2006 5:12 pm
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Sounds kind of like a "Help me people who agree with me, I'm getting clobbered at a digg debate" post. The reason your getting clobbered is because: a. Your...
... Ritalin, along with other chemical neurohacks, was discussed in today's Times as well: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2209952.html Now, as...
... I guess this where the paradigm-correction aspect of R is important. I'm guessing he wants his pills because they allow him to function in situations which...
... Hash: SHA1 ... Well, I posted my thoughts there -- the program's a bit unruly, doesn't seem to handle threads all that well, or nested threads at all, and...
... I had the relative good fortune to go to "good" private schools for the latter part of my school career .. and there was, AFAICR, no talk about ADHD and...
... Finding any more again this time? Background for those that haven't read it: STA roughly describes an evolution of consciousness: Figuration is what we do...
This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and...
... [..] OK, a pretty head-brainy approach here, with linguistic concepts brought into consciousness and given sticky labels (complete with Capital Letters.)...
... [STA] ... Kind of just confirming that I'd grokked it the first time around. I'm impressed all over again, though, by how much he packs into such a small...
... I don't think Barfield's idolatry implies Alan's Packing, it's simply moving away from the direct experience of meaning within the environment. It applies...
... Now that's an interesting article I nearly missed. It says really interesting stuff, for instance, this shocked me: "Ritalin and Modafinil, the first...
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Jun 6, 2006 1:29 am
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[resend, Yahoo seem to have eaten the first version of this response] ... [Idolatry] ... Yes, "packing" for Alan seemed to refer more to the headless chicken ...
... Well, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engram_%28Dianetics%29> gives the definition "a painful memory containing unconsciousness and contained as part of the...
... I think this sounds a little like translocation as described by Alan in TTA chapter 4 :) ... It's not. If anybody's looked at how science and math develop,...
(Hey kids, it's tangent time! Hope I don't completely derail your discussion. I'm elaborating on all this because it deals with my off list discussion with...
Rewritten, the first version was horribly written and have several mistypes (could instead of cloud for instance): This metaphor might fit: A person from the...
... It's certainly a pre-requisite for it .. Actual physical teleportation may or may not be possible, but the Mystery of Tillich's "Ground of Being" is enough...
... Yes, and Barfield was influenced by Steiner. Barfield identifies Goethe as strongly able to live in Original Participation, a last vestige if you like....
... No FP in R? What about the Humanet / noosphere? Returning to consciousness to find science + toys in our kit bags? Shunting planets around just for the...
Here is the history of progstone by posts per month: http://scwizard.i4host.net/calander.PNG Also viewable by going to the bottom of the yahoo groups homepage....
... [Group activity] ... It's not always obvious. Some people tend to drive or nucleate discussion, and when they post, things kick off - Alan's an obvious ...
... Well, there always seems to be some sort of increase in people's energy coming into the summer, and I guess the majority of posters are in the northern...
Some extracts from a private email I've just written, that I thought might ring a few bells, or even be useful, here .. ... Having been pondering on [this...
[..] Alan burbles on a lot about novelty, and novelty seeking. I ... "There's nothing new under the sun" ... "Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity" ... there's a...
... [..] ... [..] ... I've just found this sentiment mirrored by Simone Weil. From "Gravity and Grace": "When something seems impossible to obtain despite...
... [..] Regarding Weil's "Gravity and Grace" again, it occurs to me that Weil's "gravity" may map nicely to Alan's re-creative ("thermodynamic") phenomena,...
