Category: Consciousness
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Mistakes, Entropy, and Infinity OR A Blog Post to Keep You Going
Do you ever mess up? Make decisions that clearly aren’t a good idea? Wish you could take back what you did? I know you have. I have too. Because we’re humans. With all the beauty, ugliness, stupidity, and genius that comes with it. Entropy dictates we can’t go back in time. We can’t change what […]
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Motor Imagery and Visualization in Jiu Jitsu OR How to Get Better at BJJ if You Can’t Train
This week I won’t be going to jiu jitsu class because of a cold. Rest and recovery is what I need. And lots of hot Aguapanela with ginger (a Latin American home remedy for when you are sick, and it’s tasty). Since starting BJJ over a year ago, I’ve had to take weeks off, here […]
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Dreaming Again
I’m dreaming again. Since quitting booze and smoking weed two and a half years ago, I’ve been able to remember my dreams upon waking up. My dreams are a mix of third-person watching other people be characters in an unfamiliar-familiar setting, first person feelings as I do something fun and weird, and also feeling as […]
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BJJ, Life, and The Universe
When starting jiu jitsu your body often goes into fight or flight when you spar. Will you give up or rise to the occasion and find out what you’re made of? A beautiful representation of the rich duality of life and death. Humanity at its finest. And you get to wear a cool Gi too. […]
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Open Everything Up!
Enough already, it’s time to… Open the fitness gyms Open the jiu jitsu gyms Open the kickboxing schools Open the MMA schools Open the college campuses Open the Public schools Open the private schools Open the middle schools Open the high schools Open the daycares Open the camps Open the pools Open the bowling alleys […]
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What Will You Do When the Aliens Come AND 3 Ways to Prep for the Alien Invasion
It’s nighttime. You’re in bed. And your mobile device lights up. I thought I turned off all my notifications, you think to yourself. It’s the new National Wireless Emergency Alert Ready System the government has been testing out this past year. It reads… EMERGENCY ALERT / ALERTE D’URGENCE / ALERTA DE EMERGENCIAEXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACESHIPS INBOUND. SEEK […]
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Season 3 of the Three Body Podcast is OUT NOW
Brought back the podcast! Here are 6 new episodes for you Episode 1 – Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman I was first introduced to the wonderful writing of physicist, Alan Lightman, about five years ago. I found his book during one of my many autodidact adventures into science. In that book, Alan Lightman takes his […]
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Listen to the UFO REPORT here
The report has dropped! (click here to read all nine pages) Today, UFO nerds and geeks everywhere, converged on the internet to be the first citizens to read the highly anticipated UFO report from the US Department of Defence and Navy. I was one of them. General Summary:– UFOs are real– 144 reports were analyzed […]
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The Push and Pull of the Accelerating Universe OR What the Heck is Going on?
What’s Happening? Simultaneously, there is a push towards the future, while there is a pull back to the past. Now more than ever, there is this feeling of, “The cat is out of the bag.” A secret that became known. A fact revealed, previously hidden. Things are speeding up. Going to Mars. Back to the […]
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The End of the Universe According to Monkeys
On a recent podcast episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage, guest Brian Greene made a claim that suggested if we were to wait long enough (and able to see the end of the universe) that a brain would manifest itself in space. Here’s the transcript I took from the audio, around the 17min40sec mark. “[…] […]
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