Experiencing the numinous…
a stroke of insight – Jill Bolte Taylor’s presentation (TED Conference 2008) Blow your mind…
Author: Nik
err, maybe you better think before you add more memory to your machine
a short excerpt from the excellent wnyc.org radiolabs on the underground memory racket and how it may be affecting you! [audio:http://www.niksnexus.net/media/radiolab060807.mp3] You can listen to the complete show in context at the above link.
the great underground movement for life…
some excerpts from Paul Hawken’s percipient work on the “Largest Social Movement in History!” – Blessed Unrest Inspiration is not garnered from the recitation of what is flawed; it resides, rather, in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. “Consider” (con sidere) means “with the stars”; reconsider means to rejoin the Read More
Now this is what I call visionary technology!
[youtube]s-DqZ8jAmv0[/youtube]
Obamalamadingdong
OK, so we know that Obama is perhaps a media darling, and may be somewhat of a whore to the whole military-industrial /corporate purse string complex like all the others (excluding Ron Paul and a few other unusual, unlikely suspects)- but we think at least he actually cares enough to attempt to initiate change for Read More
“… in the first decade of the new millennium, humanity has entered into a condition that is in some sense more globally united and interconnected, more sensitised to the experiences of suffering of others, in certain respects more spiritually awakened, more conscious of alternative future possibilities and ideals, more capable of collective healing and compassion Read More
“you suck at photoshop” tutorials
yes, “you suck at photoshop” tutorial 1 • tutorial 2 • tutorial 3
Psychedelic Science
BBC’s Horizon documentary on the evolutionary use of psychedelic drugs in medicine can now be viewed courtesy of google video here, bless them. … talks to the new generation of researchers looking at compounds such as ayahuasca, ibogaine, ketamine and lsd. Interesting.
A Retrospective
watch video clip…
Those who don’t feel this love
pulling them like a river those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water
the poetess
click play button to hear this poem: As I begin to read your poems Their power enters my body Your faithful, deep feeling words Slip through my unsuspecting skin I feel them enter my bruisey heart As easily as air enters my lungs There is an affinity I dive into the pool It takes me Read More
Burning Man
[Album=1]
Zeitgeist
“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing happened” ~ Winston Churchill Paranoid of conspiracy theories? Can’t see the wood for the trees? Try this perspective out for size, never underestimating the power of denial and the investment in ones belief system… The Read More
Big Sur
[album=2]
Grooving
vmix.fr totally rocks my trousers. Soulful, funky, deep house streaming loud, has me gettin’ down in the garden! (planting a marriage of bamboo, lavender, ceratostigma, arbutus and acanthus – ‘nother subject)
The coup is complete – have you heard the news?
Freedom next time. If you listen to the news, then it would behoove you to recognise your media’s position. This is an enlightening talk from erudite investigative journalist, John Pilger, given recently in Chicago and broadcast today on NPR – Demacracy Now, by Amy Goodman. Here’s my edit, but the full monty is here [audio:http://www.niksnexus.net/media/freedom_later-media_talk.mp3]
Now this woman’s got some balls…
Ursula Martinez talk about cunning stunts
The Wise Dog
One day there passed by a company of cats a wise dog. And as he came near and saw that they were very intent and heeded him not, he stopped. Then there arose in the midst of the company a large, grave cat and looked upon them and said, “Brethren, pray ye; and when ye Read More
iphone for the rest of us: [update]
First of all: iPhone will work on any GSM carrier; that’s the whole purpose of standards like GSM, and iPhone is a GSM phone.
Where Everything is Music
[quicktime width=”240″ height=”170″]http://www.niksnexus.net/media/tuck.mov[/quicktime] Looking like he just stepped out of period Versailles – eccentric virtuoso, ghostly pale, long slender fingers, curly locks – Tuck strutted and Patti scatted and we sat on the grass at the ocean’s edge, listening and that was cool – didn’t reach down into my soul or anything, but it was Read More
The Fountain
Directed by Darren Aronofsky. 2006. This is a film of extra-ordinary beauty and richness (my humble opinion). Deepening layers of visual poetry and symbolism reveal themselves on each successive viewing. It plays on the inter- connectedness of the past, the present and the future. It’s about mortality and the eternal love life of the soul. Read More
Paternal Angst (or Ode to my Stepfather)
Rest in peace you fucker [look, though ignoble, this is just a public rant to get it out of my system, unto the ether, OK] his brutal strength crushed my spirit his iron fist rules made me passive aggressive his stupid love made me hate – at least him his idiot dogma though, freed my Read More
real resources – the UN and the rapacious corporation
letter to the editor: The Economist: [No, really, it’s interesting] The issue of unfulfilled promises by the United Nations, in-spite of best humanitarian intentions, misses a critical point. In the big picture, they are competing with far more powerful entities that control resources (we) might have distributed more equitably. Coca Cola, for example, are uniquely Read More
Polish pageant
On the European Union Treaty Tellingly, EU leaders coldly swatted aside a Polish request for laws on “public morality” to be exempted from the charter of fundamental rights. Given the Poles’ record of populist social conservatism, it was feared that an exemption would lead to “gays being tarred and feathered” on the streets of Warsaw, Read More
our fearless leader
How can the boy president commute a sentence when he can’t even construct one? ~ Joseph W. Schultz thanks to Chris Case at the floatingworld for the quote of the month.
‘bin feeling adrift lately? [updated]
A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky from the Universities of Virginia and Massachusetts shows our Solar System to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining. The Milky Way is the blue spiral, the dwarf galaxy is the red stream and our sun’s position is marked by Read More
last night
Last night the moon came dropping its clothes in the street. I took it as a sign to start singing, falling up into the bowl of sky. The bowl breaks. Everywhere is falling everywhere. Nothing else to do. Here’s the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall towards the glassblower’s breath. this is half moon Read More
teaching the machine ~ we are the web
or, you + me + web 2.0 … . [youtube]6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube]
The Food Revolution
[audio:http://www.niksnexus.net/media/Pollan128K.mp3] www.bioneers.org