In modern academia, those who survive are those who adapt or become skillful in practicing internal political power games and don't mind if they have to give up their innate inner drive for quest and knowledge. - Marco Masi marco-masi.com/fpe-introducti…

Trying to sound like a guitar on the keyboard … soundcloud.com/user-744611847…

Well done ! IMHO, mental hygiene, the art of keeping a healthy mind, requires to minimize the consumption of poisonous (dis-)information, like it is fed to us by the mass media. Luckily, there is a whole spectrum of healthier info-bubbles to choose from.

The Unexpected Comeback of the Conscious Universe - Pt. IX. - What is Life from the mystical perspective? open.substack.com/pub/marcomasi/…

Probably nobody outside of academia will care, but still, it is important to speak out the depressing truth. Thank you, Sabine ! youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlG…

If you want to call that singing, yes

Playing around with iPad's 'Garage Band' again #SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/Pj4oq

How about doing a one-hour music meditation on Steve Reich's 'Drumming', which creates a hypnotic, trance-like effect by its repetitive structures and phasing patterns ?youtube.com/watch?v=uDhwFT…

This strange piece called 'The IR project' was spontaneously mixed together in 2008, when I tested a new multitrack recording app. It is certainly not for everyone. And to be listened to with headphones only (-: dropbox.com/scl/fi/b21ssp8…

Today, instead of my regular meditation practice, I was listening to my own improvised chanting (Gregorian or Buddhist style), enhanced by strong reverb, using a headset and the VocaLive app on an iPad. I had forgotten how powerful singing can be...

Revisit the 2018 'Silurian hypothesis': would it be possible to detect a pre-human industrial civilization in the geological record ? bit.ly/41NI9AO

Bernardo Kastrup votes convincingly for the ultra-terrestrial hypothesis as the most likely explanation of `nuts-and-bolts` UAP. Their inhabitants would need to communicate with us symbolically, due to a lack of shared concepts. bernardokastrup.com/2024/01/uaps-a…

'When I released myself from interpretation, I found the freedom to see the fundamental lessons of quantum mechanics: probabilities, uncertainties, non-locality, entanglements, and so much more, and apply those lessons to my life' nautil.us/how-i-learned-…

Researchers have discovered that some populations of monkeys have entered the Stone Age.

They have started using stone tools to break nuts and shellfish, making them a further type of primates to do so after us.

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Moon anomalies, again. iflscience.com/the-moons-far-…

Fully agree. And I also hate 'clusters of excellence'. Good work is self-evident.

Lee Cronin thinks imagination can generate novelty that is fundamentally unpredictable from initial conditions and causally affects the future. What has reductionism done to us that we find such a statement remarkable ? youtube.com/watch?v=CGiDqh…

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