A man named Charlie who rode a pedicab in Austin and made electronic music once lent me a book called LSD and the Mind of the Universe. It was written by Christopher Brache, a professor of religious studies, documenting his journey through 73 strong doses of LSD. His wife assisted his odysseys, but when she …
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Micro-dosing ushered in my life a wave of stillness, joy and vibrance. Then, after some months came the crest.
I have always been driven by a burning hunger to understand all of existence. When I was a young boy, I actually believed that I would grow up to be the one to find the Grand Unified Theory of Physics: the final single answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything. As I …
As our sensory-material world draws us into its web, being distanced from its sensations and objects feels unsatisfactory. This is because we have identified sensations and activities as the source of our pleasures. In meditation there is an effort to 'be' rather than 'do': a steady dis-identification from the objects of consciousness, including the self, …
In a previous post I'd shown a way to get the Lyapunov exponent from the time series data of any map. In this quick tutorial, I'll show you a cleaner way to get the Lyapunov exponent for the specific case of the logistic map, and then using a really short script in Mathematica, plot it …
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