Three Brain-Balancing Exercises: 1. Practice singing or rapping on a particular topic; trying to focus on rhyme, melody, and rhythm. Do not rely on memorized materials. Record yourself so you can go back later and look for unexpected or unintentional utterances. 2. Describe, in present tense, spontaneously arising mental images using concrete detail in all [...]
A rhizomatic network is one with multiple non-hierarchical entry and exit points. Here’s a particularly compelling visual demonstration: (video) Return to Page
As previously discussed, Mastermind groups are nodal points for group mind consciousness. The multimind is a breakdown of the structures and protocols of one’s personal consciousness. While we’re not declaring this as a conclusion, we do feel that using the multimind model as a way to evaluate a group mind at least provides a starting [...]
Ornstein, Robert. (1986) Multimind: The multimind is the non-unified parts and separate processes that run the actual work of mental cognition. An example of this is sub-personalities; elements and triggers that form specific responses that make up an overall personality structure. Return to Page
Proprioception is the awareness of internal, muscular systems at work. Being aware of the movement of muscles, the heart beating, or one’s lungs working is a proprioceptive awareness. Return to Page
Hoffer, Eric. (1963) The True Believer and Frank, Thomas. (2005) What’s the Matter with Kansas? bookend nicely the problematic nature of democracy. Return to Page
“Language for the Kabbalists is always mystical. It ‘reflects the fundamental spiritual nature of the world’. Speech reaches God because it comes from God. This belief is echoed, incidentally, but in a secular way, by the post-structuralist thought of people such as Jacques Derrida whose proclamation of a ‘new thinking’ holds that all knowledge and [...]
Dilts, R., Grinder, J., Bandler, R., and DeLozier, J., (1980) Neuro-linguistic Programming Vol. 1 Return to Page
Calhoun, Craig, Ed. (1992) Habermas and the Public Sphere pp 109-142: Nancy Frazer’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy” provides an excellent starting point in understanding the function of the subaltern. Return to Page
Both public and counter-public spheres of discourse are social spaces, even subaltern groups have their own internal networks that influence the larger social spheres. That which cannot be referenced in public discourse will find its expression elsewhere in the social spaces of a culture. A quick primer on how subalterns form outside of the hegemonic [...]