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How to expand subjective time during the lockdown and beyond.
Reading Time: 15 minutesA three-step technique for creating space, slowing down and enhancing creativity. One of the challenges of living, working and socializing all from home during this Pandemic-induced lockdown is that the spatial structure of our days has been largely dissolved: where before we’d have a repertoire of different spaces for different activities, now…
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Towards a General Theory of Parties
Reading Time: 10 minutesParties are the highest form of human art and the purest arena for self-expression. For millennia, festivals, booze-ups, house parties, birthdays, feasts, lock-ins, weddings, wakes, raves, dances, and religious rituals of all different shapes and sizes have been the pre-eminent conduits in people’s lives for love, transcendence, friendship, intellectual progress, and spiritual…
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Zooming into Flora – a technique for touching heavenliness
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you get up very close to some flora such as these and carefully elongate all other aspects of reality from the centre of your mind by staring adroitly at said flora and doing things like breathing very particularly it’s possible to taste – distantly, a mere flicker of flavour- what…
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Laughter Meditation with Larraji
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had the pleasure of going to a brief but masterfully delivered laughter meditation class at the Serpentine Gallery this last weekend by “musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner, Laraaji” who lead a series of workshops during the opening days of the Grace Wales Bonner exhibition that has since become a lasting shrine of sound.…
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On the connection between imagination and memory
Reading Time: 2 minutesHere’s a sweet little link between the nature of imagination and memory as evidenced in the brain of a rat considering which way to go next in a maze, the activity of whose cortex is being measured live by in-vivo recordings. It’s from some seminal work done by Adam Johnson and A…