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  6. Posted

    ok so I agree but dont really know how to reply to the previous posts.....ummm

    I cant figure out whether its me, or is everyone and everything just a little bit errr strange at the moment (for lack of a better word)

    maybe Ive been left to my own devices too long. I can relate with the notion that the heart centre is the mediator between the physical and mental spects of the self. I feel pulled between to forces of light and dark....but all i am left in a sort of confused ecstasy, if feel like a sinical sahdu...

    ....recieving rays of light and information from some kind of godforce, yet totally unconvinced such things even exist.

    and trying to apply scientific logical analysis to the ultimate subjective questions??? synchonicities come thick and fast but I pass most of it off as subconscious manifestations and the mind selecting stimuli that validates a possible mania of some kind.

    What works, works i suppose. That is the only real thing that links science to the numinous on the same plane methinks.

    :scratchhead::)

  7. Posted

    wicked :)

    im not sure what im looking forward to most; the fat minimal or the NIGHTTIMEKILLAHH!!!!

    or the morning chunky creamy stuff......

    oh...and any budding djs/producers out there....monolake aka Robert Henke (one of the genii responsible for Ableton Live) is giving a lecture on computer music.

  12. Posted

    http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...3AU243%26sa%3DN

    The HBBB system amplifies the heartbeat of the driver in real-time by interfacing the car audio with a heartbeat sensor. By hacking on the technology/hobby that is often used as psychological armor, territory-marking tool, the project turn the body/vehicle relationship inside-out, addressing the vulnerability of human body and emotion and aims to understand our obsession on automobiles and it’s modification.

    heart_spinner400.jpg

    gettin down medical style yo ;P

  16. Posted

    fully, will have to check out Ace Ventura. Theres a new zenon comp coming out soon as well as Tristan's debut, anything on Zenon is pretty quality IMO.

    SCS's set was after Neuron Compost (Gi'iwa) at Quatum relic at about midday, those two provided the cleanest few hours of tunes ive heard and the location waz immaculate. If you've got an oztrance login check out the photos. Ive been going to parties for a few years, an I reckon you cant beat aussie daytime prog!

    Pondscums nighttime is alien psybermusic for sure, check out oddish (on soulseek? i think its an internet only release). Im not promoting pirating music, so buy it if you can :unsure:

  18. Posted

    sounded like pretty typical and non-colorful progressive psy

    well theres the evidence that samples dont cut the mustard.

    Hearing it live probably has affected my opinion tho =D

    But listen to the whole album through and then tell me what you think. Of the Aussie psyprog I would say this is a new benchmark.

    Very subtle, different and deep.

  22. Posted

    Which tribal group used vilca?

    Vilca being; A.peregrina is widely used in the South American amazon according to 'One River'

    Virola is evidently less common? with internet technology and the whitification of native tribes, I wonder how relevant these tribal use lineages are and will be in the near future,

    Just a thought

  23. Posted

    whether or not you see rapacious crocodiles or cheesy leprechauns is the construct part, the feel of the other consciousness is the authentic part?

    actually i think i'd like people better if i could see past their stylized flesh puppetry and perceive raw matrices of energy (probably look a bit like an alex grey painting), and hear them as modulated gibberish that nonetheless transmits a wide band of soul knowledge and tricky little games, but no such luck, without the spice, its all pretty lumpy and chunky... low rez reality.

    here here, though I would be a confused little chap if my normal mode of perception was replaced entirely by this 'direct' perception. Ever get that feeling your body is made of soft rubber?

    took a low res photo while taking a n~D walk ;)

    holographic_lava_by_lithoptrix.jpg

  25. Posted

    A very interesting report on some 'classic' psychology:

    http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/10/how-and-w...o-ourselves.php

    A classic 1959 social psychology experiment demonstrates how and why we lie to ourselves. Understanding this experiment sheds a brilliant light on the dark world of our inner motivations.

    The ground-breaking social psychological experiment of Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) provides a central insight into the stories we tell ourselves about why we think and behave the way we do. The experiment is filled with ingenious deception so the best way to understand it is to imagine you are taking part. So sit back, relax and travel back. The time is 1959 and you are an undergraduate student at Stanford University...

    As part of your course you agree to take part in an experiment on 'measures of performance'. You are told the experiment will take two hours. As you are required to act as an experimental subject for a certain number of hours in a year - this will be two more of them out of the way.

    Little do you know, the experiment will actually become a classic in social psychology. And what will seem to you like accidents by the experimenters are all part of a carefully controlled deception. For now though, you are innocent.

    The set-up

    Once in the lab you are told the experiment is about how your expectations affect the actual experience of a task. Apparently there are two groups and in the other group they have been given a particular expectation about the study. To instil the expectation subtly, the participants in the other groups are informally briefed by a student who has apparently just completed the task. In your group, though, you'll do the task with no expectations.

    Perhaps you wonder why you're being told all this, but nevertheless it makes it seem a bit more exciting now that you know some of the mechanics behind the experiment.

    So you settle down to the first task you are given, and quickly realise it is extremely boring. You are asked to move some spools around in a box for half an hour, then for the next half an hour you move pegs around a board. Frankly, watching paint dry would have been preferable.

    At the end of the tasks the experimenter thanks you for taking part, then tells you that many other people find the task pretty interesting. This is a little confusing - the task was very boring. Whatever. You let it pass.

    Experimental slip-up

    Then the experimenter looks a little embarrassed and starts to explain haltingly that there's been a cock-up. He says they need your help. The participant coming in after you is in the other condition they mentioned before you did the task - the condition in which they have an expectation before carrying out the task. This expectation is that the task is actually really interesting. Unfortunately the person who usually sets up their expectation hasn't turned up.

    So, they ask if you wouldn't mind doing it. Not only that but they offer to pay you $1. Because it's 1959 and you're a student this is not completely insignificant for only a few minutes work. And, they tell you that they can use you again in the future. It sounds like easy money so you agree to take part. This is great - what started out as a simple fulfilment of a course component has unearthed a little ready cash for you.

    You are quickly introduced to the next participant who is about to do the same task you just completed. As instructed you tell her that the task she's about to do is really interesting. She smiles, thanks you and disappears off into the test room. You feel a pang of regret for getting her hopes up. Then the experimenter returns, thanks you again, and once again tells you that many people enjoy the task and hopes you found it interesting.

    Then you are ushered through to another room where you are interviewed about the experiment you've just done. One of the questions asks you about how interesting the task was that you were given to do. This makes you pause for a minute and think.

    Now it seems to you that the task wasn't as boring as you first thought. You start to see how even the repetitive movements of the spools and pegs had a certain symmetrical beauty. And it was all in the name of science after all. This was a worthwhile endeavour and you hope the experimenters get some interesting results out of it.

    The task still couldn't be classified as great fun, but perhaps it wasn't that bad. You figure that, on reflection, it wasn't as bad as you first thought. You rate it moderately interesting.

    After the experiment you go and talk to your friend who was also doing the experiment. Comparing notes you found that your experiences were almost identical except for one vital difference. She was offered way more than you to brief the next student: $20! This is when it first occurs to you that there's been some trickery at work here.

    You ask her about the task with the spools and pegs:

    "Oh," she replies. "That was sooooo boring, I gave it the lowest rating possible."

    "No," you insist. "It wasn't that bad. Actually when you think about it, it was pretty interesting."

    She looks at you incredulously.

    What the hell is going on?

    - More on the aformentioned link

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