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DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - 記憶 Ki-Oku YouTube video by iMUSIC HARMONY

vibin' out, keepin it rolling with one of the most unique instrumental albums of the 90s... and that's saying quite a lot! #記憶 #triphop #acidjazz #downtempo
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speaking of authoritarianism, I can't believe how degrading the checkout process at Mariano's has become. was purchasing only two items and had to call someone over 3 times because of scanning computer errors (item not in system??). anyone else convinced they're programmed to inconvenience the poor?

Music for Meditation: Inner Stillness - David & Steve Gordon YouTube video by Adam’s Lossless Music Collection

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#meditation #calm #stillness

From Brain to Mind - Spatiotemporal Neuroscience - Georg Northoff YouTube video by Northoff Lab

"There is no mind!" - Georg Northoff

Is it perhaps only a matter of attempting to put a label on that which is itself nameless and formless: mind is empty, given structure only by the dynamics of the patterns it embodies?
#neuroscience #braindynamics
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a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Mind Breaths", number thirty-five in the City Lights Pocket Poets series, sits on a brown Ikea table along with a small metal pair of scissors, a SharpStone cannabis grinder, a pile of stems, rolling papers, and a tapered hand-rolled joint in an randomly expressionist still life.

"Manopubbaṅgamā dhammā manoseṭṭhā manomayā"
- Dhammapada

["All mental states are preceded by mind. Mind is their arbiter and all are derived from it..."]

"Breathe, breathe in the air / Don't be afraid to care..." - Pink Floyd

all "reality"(tm) is simulated / constructed by our brains anyway. you'd like think the head of one of the world's major religions would have a better grounding in philosophy, phenomenology, etc

A wildly colorful full-page colored drawing, with flowers, a dazed-looking herb lady growing from a stem, a sunbathing sprite lady, and a butterfly, with a background of wavy colors and decorative circles

An entry for the #BlueskyArtShow in the theme of #green? Well ok, as long as green can bring a few friends.

Thank you so much, so pleased that you love it!

a carpet of small black-eyed susans and assorted prairie perennials pokes its collective head out of the soil through a layer of mulch

stuff coming up from last year 🌱🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿 #spring #perennials #landscaping #permaculture

Mac and Watts traverse... the door dimension...

HERE COMES THE JUDGE / PIGMEAT MARKHAM [CHESS 2049] YouTube video by 45rpm Studio

Born 122 years ago today: the esteemed legar scholar Pigmeat Markham, died 1981. When I've reached the end of my public defender career, I want to recite this song in the courtroom before the judge takes the bench (because it WILL be my last day on the job).
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I haven't replaced my glasses since they got knocked off my face, shattered and lost in the dark. I have plans to replace them, but... in the mean time i've learned that there are other ways of seeing

*taps the sign*

Marketing has infected every facet of our lives.

'The Constitution Is Clear and the Stakes Are High': Coalition Demands Congress Rein In Pro-War Trump | Common Dreams "From Greenland to Venezuela to Iran, President Trump has shown that he is willing to recklessly enter military conflicts without congressional support," noted an Issue One campaigner.

'The Constitution Is Clear and the Stakes Are High': Coalition Demands Congress Rein In Pro-War Trump www.commondreams.org/news/iran-wa... #warpowers #coalition

In his latest book, part 2 of his 3 vol history of the US Constitution, Prof Akhil Reed Amar definitely settles the question of why the Electoral College was created: to protect the interests of slave-holders. We shall discuss that and more on May 8th.

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another character in a Tom Stoppard play, Bernard from Arcadia, questions the utility of knowledge that isn't self-knowledge, seemingly echoing a similar sentiment about a reality rooted in ethics

pp. 511-512, Third edition, A History Of Philosophy by Frank Thilly, revised by Ledger Wood 1951

"...of an ethically ordered spiritual world. Lotze's logic and metaphysics are thus rooted in ethics. We cannot think of anything existing that ought not to exist; our forms of thinking - the logical laws - are rooted in the demand for the good, and reality itself is rooted in the highest good."

"...Such a universe would have neither meaning nor ethical worth. We can interpret reality only as something which we can absolutely approve, as something absolutely good; hence the phenomenal world cannot be a meaningless illusion, but must be conceived as the manifestation..."

[as an aside, this is strikingly similar to a profound question that emerged from a mushroom trip many years ago: 'are we only here to catalog?']

"Lotze also bases the acceptance of metaphysical idealism on practical or ethical grounds. It is intolerable.. to suppose that a cold material atomic mechanism should exist for the sole purpose of picturing, in the feeling soul, a beautiful illusion of colors and sounds..."

the pile also contained a university-level philosophy intro course book from the 1940s; it's a revision of a popular text originally published more than a century ago. despite its quaint anachronisms it's worth its weight in gold in this era of less than authoritative sources and media saturation

i very much enjoyed reading "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" aloud after inheriting a copy from a pile of books on an upper floor of a rental i was living in the landlord was literally going to throw away, like those sports bro nazis had any idea what was up there

by the terms of a legal settlement i am forbidden to contact various local residents i've never heard of. i wonder if that would include leaving copies of Waiting For Godot or Cervantes lying around in the street where they may find them? Speaking of literature RIP Tom Stoppard who passed November

it feels like i'm applying damp bandages of soil mix to this stressed and eroded urban plot. gotta remember that as much needed as it is right now, the key to long-term soil health is #compost and #mulch

A dark green and orange bud of Pineapple Express sits on the underside of its Cresco jar lid, along with an extreme macro close-up photo of the end of the bud with a dense carpet of clear trichomes.

Is it really Monday? Maybe it's one of the best days ever to enjoy this contemporary classic! Suddenly moving 40+ pound shovelfuls of planting mix and digging trenches for shrubbery seems not only doable but actively enjoyable in the sudden heat. Vroom!! #cannabis #pineappleexpress #sativa #hybrid

apologies to Weary Woodsman for initially omitting your credit in the tracklist below - it has been corrected!