Footnote 102
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Exercise
Write out a story, or at least a description, of the idealized version of your life. Write this in third person, seeking to objectively portray who you ideally would like to become. By then creating a storyline around this character, you begin building a model in your mind of how you might become that character. [...]

Footnote 95
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

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 five senses [...]

Footnote 89
Sunday, December 7th, 2008

“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 [...]