Alot of people seem to be in serious denial about what they really actually know. And it’s typically the one’s who seem to be the most confident about themselves who end up in trouble in the end.

One aspect of the problem seems to center around the fact that many people do not make a clear enough distinction between what they actually really know for sure and what only they ‘think they know’ – or what they ‘presume to be true’ because someone that they trust told them “this” or “that”. Or maybe they’ve read something in print and didn’t check it out to make sure that their sources were cited and verified, and so on.

Keep your eyes peeled, and beware of the illusion(s)!

These topics of smell and memory are fascinating and would appear to be dis-proportionately overlooked by modern scientific inquiry. The implications of these hypothesese are obviously serious with potential for good, yet ripe for abuse at the same time. In my opinion, this represents a type of potentially dangerous knowledge put into the wrong hands.

Hopefully this will be studied more by the right researchers.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201112/have-merry-trippy-christmas

“This all seems rather innocent and arbitrary – unless you know something about people like the Sami, Koryak and other reindeer-herding people who live in the far north of Europe and Siberia. Clearly, the Christmas tradition has roots in many different places and times: Christianity, pagan winter solstice celebrations, old Germanic mythologies, etc. But these aspects of Santa mythology seem to come directly from these reindeer-based cultures.

The key to understanding Santa is Amanita muscaria – the well-known red and white mushroom with a long history of shamanic use from Western Europe to Siberia. I am convinced that Santa is essentially a shaman that has quietly yet forcefully entered into the consciousness of Western culture”

I kiss my sweetheart, and hold her lip in mine, and just pause like that, touching lips. We both feel a “flowing” of pleasure and a feeling of “energy”, raditing out from our lips, stimulating responding sensations in other parts of our body.

Our current modern medical models suggest that what is happening is a release of, at least, oxytocin and theobromine and possibly a veritable cloud of other molecules.

The question I ask is, is this purely endogenous, happening ‘inside the body’? Or is it possibly partly exogenous, coming from outside – with one or the other of the two of us releasing and emitting to the other stimulating chemicals? – causing that specific feeling of a flow of sensation passing back and ofrth between us as the chemicals move thru the thin skin of the mouth and nose and start chemical cascades thru each others body and nervous system?

Look at this kind of thing for yourself. Add to the observation base. See if you can affect or use this phenomenon.

At least to become a better kisser, lol.

Then, I started working on another “content problem” – and that became the “Second Content Problem” – requiring that I rename the original content problem the “First Content Problem.

What is teh “Second Content Problem”? Well, it’s tricky to articulate, but here’s one version. Except for direct personal experience (experiences one personally has had), and indirect personal experience (experiences that one has seen in others, or received direct reports about from another living person), which are pretty strictly limited, or major source of information about all this esoteric stuff comes to us in teh form of some kind of recorded ‘content’. Books, primarily, some ancient, some merely old, some modern, and to a lesser degree modern content like movies, videos, tapes, and so forth. (Include architecture and art and all the other forms of content in this package…)

But, it’s all “content” – information that has been MANUFACTURED as a kind of cultural stuff, a product, considered valuable, and traded, bought, and sold, almost always for a profit or benefit on the part of it’s manufacturer.

If it’s cultural STUFF, manufactured for a profit or a benefit, how do we seperate it’s cultural and business functions from whatever elements of ‘fact’ or ‘truthful reportage’ or ‘esoteric value’ that it might contain?

Thats the second content problem – how do you seperate the commercial or political function of the content from it’s esoteric value, it’s functionality for the practicioner? How to seperate the gold from the ore that carries it?

Death comes for us all, and I think of death a bit differently than most, so for me expressing condolences is not my usual response to the death of a thinker.

I am mispelling his name, and will correct it, but leave my original spelling as well.

I met Isaac a few times. I always hoped he would get the chance to do some final analysis of his intentional religion experiments.

At least have the decency to spell his name right. If that’s too much for you, you could correct the first name. Or the last name. Either one.