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Well-dressed Ideas…Illich Limits to Medicine
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Well-dressed Ideas… Boissonnet, The shifting appearance
I read this for you. It is written by Phillippe Boissonnet. It was published in the Journal of Physics in 2017. The title is The shifting appearance/disappearance of holographic images and the dynamic ontology of perceptual and cognitive processes. Whoa. This mind-blowing title perfectly describes the content of the article that was presented at the 9th International…
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Well-dressed Ideas… Kwan, Lies and Weddings
I read this for you. It is the latest novel by the scintillating writer Kevin Kwan. The title of the book is Lies and Weddings. The main point of the book is to entertain and transport you to the most deliciously excessive people and places. Such over the top luxury! The way to integrate the exotic world of Kevin…
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Well-dressed Ideas… Kellogg, Zero Waste
I read this book for you. It is Katherine Kellogg’s 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste. Does anyone really want to go zero waste. What the fuck is zero waste? Right, oh, wasting nothing. How about being wasted. Can you go zero waste and still get wasted? Oh yeah, it’s not a state of consciousness it’s the…
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Well-dressed Ideas… Conti, Trauma
I read this book for you. Paul Conti, a doctor wrote the book. It’s a long damn title. It’s called Trauma the Invisible Epidemic How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It. The main point is that trauma is viewed as an epidemic that requires medical intervention because our responses to the horrors of…
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Well-dressed Ideas… Barrett, Irrational Man
I read this for you. Irrational Man a Study in Existential Philosophy written by William Barrett. It’s a deep-ass book. It was first published 1958. 1. The main point of the book is that we live in distraction from the conditions of life. People believe in religion, and other transcendent dimensions to distract themselves with fantasies of another…
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The Brain Adds What We Do Not See
What we see, and what we think we see, are two different things. The fact that the brain makes stuff up in visual perception is a reality that I never tire of exploring. I am convinced that if we ground our understanding of ourselves in the actual basics of perception, we could take a load of…
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My Camino Walk
Clearing my home of all possessions was my Camino walk. A pilgrimage of a lifetime. Sorting, purging, sorting, purging, stumbling, holding, sorting, and purging. An endless cycle of releasing stuff. So much stuff carried to my back parking lot that T-boned the laneway. Endless trips of leaving for others what no longer possessed me as being…
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Yeats and Public Art
Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. I love those lines from the poem The Stolen Child by Yeats. And I love that the world is full of qualities that cannot be understood. The endless stream of panaceas on…
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To Be Without Authority
For my thesis in fine arts I made an installation in my studio. The piece was comprised of a fragile papier-mâché and wire couch. With the slightest current of air the couch would sway. It was placed against a wall that referenced a school blackboard from a time when teachers made children write lines. The…
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Everyone Has a Blind Spot
The starting point of visual perception is light, obviously. The eye is essentially like a camera that sends signals to the brain to represent what is perceived. An image is created through light that is projected onto the back of the eye onto a sheet of photoreceptors. Photoreceptors as the term suggests are the cells…
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Where Art Thou Freud
Where art thou Freud, heaven, hell, bardo, or are you a soft spirit circling the earth. Your cocaine fuelled genius still surrounds us. What did you honestly mean by the word ego? Words are symbols. Sometimes words have a direct connection to the thing described such as chairs. Once we start to name attributes of mind and…
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I am My Brother’s Keeper
Do you think people living on the streets are cultures canaries in the coal mine? Canaries were taken down in the coalmine by miners because the birds suffered or died before the miners due to noxious substances. This warned the miners to get out. Maybe people living on the street are powerful reminders of danger…
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Street Art
God I love renegade art. The street artist reminds us to “4 Give”. What is more powerful than forgiveness?
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Jesus,Jung, and Kate
Kate is bedfellows with Jesus (JC) and Jung. Why not, they all think the same way. In JC’s teachings people are bad and in need of redemption. Jung also described humans as having a dark side that he called the shadow. The nasty traits of the shadow according to Jung must be acknowledged to get along…
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T-bone Realty~House for Sale S.W. Central Wpg
Light filled living and dining room with oak flooring Vintage stools are perfect seating for dog and bird watching in the western facing garden. A perennial flower garden fills the inner grounds in the summer months. The large windows provide a connection to nature in the cold inhospitable months of Manitoba. Western sunlight flooding the…
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Eternalizing the Moment
Eternalizing the Moment (ETM) is a distorted relationship with time. This mindset perceives a momentary slice of time and responds as if it is going to last forever. People gripped in this relationship to time are indicative of anxious repetitive personality profiles (ARPPs). Such persons are completely oblivious to the dynamics of time as everchanging. The idea of…
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Deer Philosophy
Emotion is the primary driver of our actions, so it is useful to explore common patterns of behaviour that emotions are wrapped up in. Projection is a typical human behaviour pattern. It is a term associated with Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis and enduring Cultural Master of mass acceptance of his version of the dynamics of…
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Honour Brian Sinclair
God I love that idea – honour Brian Sinclair at 425 Elgin Avenue by creating a memorial sculpture and revitalizing the building and services. The medical clinic located in the basement of 425 Elgin is where Brian Sinclair sought medical expertise on September 21, 2008 and was referred to the Health Sciences Centre Emergency where he…
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The Boss is My Saviour
The desire to find something or someone beyond ourselves to save us from an undesirable experience is as natural to humans as breathing. Life is bound by desire according to Buddhism, as well as anyone else that takes even a squinty-eyed glance at humans. The Boss became my saviour one pain-filled night, as I lay in…