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#2339 12/18/00 05:41 AM
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---Remember when you were a teenager?---

yeah.... good times, good times. A lot like yesterday... and the day before. And now that you mention it, a bit like tomorrow. And the next two and a half years.


Which makes me think, how is Yale? Good school, or overrated? I have to start thinking about these things, or so I'm told.


Are you suggesting I conserve my "youthful energies" and this will improve my focus elsewhere? I don't know the technicality of it all, but I do know that the adrenal gland is drained of a hormone, DHEA, with the burning of testosterone, involving with high energy activities, and release of sexual energy. I just went to my natural health doctor a couple of weeks ago and he found my adrenals messing up my whole system, so to pump them up, I'm taking GinYam, which naturally has DHEA. I've just been exhausted lately (past six months) and after sleep, anywhere from 5 to 14 hours, I still feel drained. I have trouble getting out of bed in the mornings, I think I hit the snooze button at least half a dozen times. I'm looking forward to the Qigong tapes which I will be ordered after I get back from Christmas with the relatives. I've tried kundalini yoga and many different meditations from my books over the past four years, but nothing that has been all that soothing. I think I might have to try out the bwgen sometime to see what you've been raving about all this time.


Now, talking about this third eye, it is one of the chakra point, the Ajna. Wait, I'm reading from Dr. John Mumford's "A Chakra & Kundalini Workbook," and he's talking about something I think you would find interesting. "Deep dreamless sleep: Often accompanied by snoring. It is possible to retain consciousness in this state--Yoga refers to it as 'Turiya.' (p.164)" I wonder what brain wave frequency is induced in this state? Is this your delta meditation? He's says there are four levels of consciousness, "1. waking consciousness 2. dreaming consciousness 3. Dreamless sleep 4. Turiya (conscious dreamless sleep?) (p.173)" Interesting. Well, back to the third eye. I never have felt such a thing, if ever I have pressure in my head, it more often than not is the uncomfortable, throbbing headache variety. Nothing pleasurable, nothing that makes me feel in a heightened state of consciousness. I guess I'll have to try the amygdala exercises.


---My third eye DIES; it actually fizzles out after a good night’s sleep.---


So without the benefit of your delta meditation, how do I go about starving my brain of theata waves while getting my dose of delta and not end up hallucinating during school?( as much fun as that is. )


Well, I've got an hour's worth of Latin to do. It's times like this I wish I really had all that LS taught mastered. But I'm too busy doing Latin.








#2340 12/18/00 08:41 AM
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Which makes me think, how is Yale? Good school, or overrated? I have to start thinking about these things, or so I'm told.

Tim, looks like we are kindred spirits.

My advice to you in terms of choice of college is not to go someplace for “its name” or to waste your life pursuing prestige and cash. I made this mistake, initially. And I may have ruined my life as a result. My grades are not that good simply because I am majoring in Garbage. My classes are boring; I’m simply uninterested in learning this crap and then it spewing back, thus the lack of motivation. I fear that I may have limited my options, so that after graduation I will not be able to pursue my true passions. Investment banking is my main option at the moment—a horrible way to die.

So, choose a college based on your interests. I don’t care if it is Ozark University. I don’t care if it’s a two year college in Alaska. If you’re not pursuing your passions, you’ve got nothing, in my opinion and profound and sad experience.

Here are some fitting excerpts from Diderot’s Encyclopedia. As the age of Enlightenment was winding down and Romanticism was coming to, the concept of the Genius changed radically. No longer was the genius a man of ultra-reasoning capabilities. The genius was now considered to be a man of boundless passion and creativity. Conformity vs. Divergence.

“The man of Genius has a soul with greater range, can, therefore, be struck by feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receives an idea that does not evoke a feeling: everything stirs him and everything is retained within him.”

“The rules and laws of taste would place shackles on genius: he breaks them to soar to what is sublime, pathetic, or noble. The taste of a man of Genius is defined by his love of this eternal beauty that characterizes nature and by a passion to make his tableaux conform to some kind of model that he has created and according to which he has an idea and a sense of the beautiful. The need to express the passions that move him is continually obstructed by grammar and usage: often the idiom in which he writes hinders the expression of an image that would be sublime in another idiom. . . .Finally strength and abundance, a certain kind of roughness, irregularity, the sublime, and the pathetic—this is the character of genius in the arts; he does not touch lightly, he does not please without astonishment, he even astonishes by his imperfections.”









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