{"id":275,"date":"2009-01-30T04:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-01-30T04:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:59:42","slug":"hey-kids-try-this-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/30\/hey-kids-try-this-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey kids!  Try this at home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">This might be old news for some of you mind hackers, but there are ways of <em>proving<\/em> that your brain and body filter out external &#8220;reality&#8221; and add their own interpretations.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>And you don&#8217;t even need fancy drugs, or a laboratory.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Next time you&#8217;re trying to argue the Black Iron Prison position, suggest a few of these experiments:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Verdana;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/graphics\/011109_hacking_your_brain\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"#000080;\">http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/graphics\/011109_hacking_your_brain\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Verdana;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"black;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">Ok, so they aren&#8217;t earth shattering.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>But at the very least, they demonstrate that we are constantly creating our own personal universe inside our heads.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s good to know that it&#8217;s at least <em>possible<\/em> to consciously manage some of our perceived pain.<span style=\"yes;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>And it should be pointed out that the Purkinje Lights effect is not only the basis for Gysin&#8217;s Dream Machine (<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dreamachine\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dreamachine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Times New Roman;\">), but it&#8217;s been suggested that Nostradamus used the same techniques to create his visions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be old news for some of you mind hackers, but there are ways of proving that your brain and body filter out external &#8220;reality&#8221; and add their own interpretations.\u00c2\u00a0 And you don&#8217;t even need fancy drugs, or a laboratory.\u00c2\u00a0 Next time you&#8217;re trying to argue the Black Iron Prison position, suggest a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/30\/hey-kids-try-this-at-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey kids!  Try this at home!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,112,63,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-by-others","category-black-iron-prison","category-science","category-seeing-is-believing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}