Later is Now, bhillboy.
Y’all are not going to do the work to find the wisdom of Tacitus or any of the other luminous intellects who have graced these pages through the years. (and there have been many) Hell, you don’t even run the simple searches to see if the subject of your thread has been discussed before. Granted, Tacitus is not an easy read. He caressed and cajoled massive concepts of human awareness and interaction. His logic and prose was often convuluted and occasionally descended into babble. But what do you expect from uber-sensuous NLP porno-shamanism Zen? He was the one. The one of us who had the best chance of seeing through the matrix. The one of us who, for a few shining moments, could see beyond the illusion we call a world.
Soooo… while I’m reading through this collection of threads (along with some of his posts in other threads), I’m going to post a few of the gems out back here. Make it a little more accessible.
tacitus:
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Instead we are waist deep in clutter, trivia, rumor, political saber rattling, junk logic, junk science, and whatnot that really doesn’t add up to too much at the end of the day.
A major part of positioning oneself for success (in anything you choose to define as success) is clearing out as much irrelevant crap as humanly possible, simplifying you mental maps for maximum efficiency, or as someone once said, genius consists of having the fewest moving parts, digging much deeper into your subject than everybody else is doing, establishing high quality social networks that support your ambition, having a reputation for credibility… meaning that people can pretty accurately predict the result of an interaction with you…
So I’d say… devote some consistent time to mental focusing and quieting… put a player with headphones, decent quality, a squirt bottle of an integrative pheromone… and as often as reasonable… do some mental integrative process when you can…
Mmmmmm… random observations on Civilization In Decline…
Since I haven’t watched television in 2.5 years, brief forays back in to toob-land are unsettling… is it me or are we in a death spiral of progressive collective assholification ? Political discourse, once (or maybe not) the domain of adults, seems to have degenerated to early adolescence… it’s just.. weird…
Art Dudley recently put it this way… “watching television today is like watching a sewage collection truck with a talking donkey at …
since I’ve been playing a lot with pheromones in relation to light sources… these things have been taking me by surprise, as I never thought of light quality as a significant influence on pheromone response… my experiments are now suggesting (at best a suggestion, much need to be done to confirm or disconfirm these “discoveries”… i.e. that they are not just random coincidences that create the illusion of correlation of of strong causality…)
I have been testing identical pheromone mixes on multiple sexual partners, and changing the light used during sex… with an incandescent, broad spectrum blue light, as opposed to a true monochrome LED emission blue, the pheromone mix produced a playful more emotional, verbal communicative state that did not have a fundamental, animalistic sexual note, it was as if under the influence of blue energy, the mind was more humorous, free floating, non goal driven, the pleasures were diffused around emotions, feeling, and physical sensations… while under the orange light the identical pheromones were part of a “lightening bolt orgasm” experience where the orgasmee is struck with a stunning, whole body spasm, breathless type of orgasm… I noticed my own feelings and energy flows were also quite sensitive to the light color… substantially more so than without the presence of pheromones…
I am starting to think that as light has an impact on the hypothalamus, and pheromones certainly do as well, the hypothalamus must be co-reacting to the intersection of these two factors… perhaps the ideal environment would have a three color mixing panel where precise light levels, color saturation, and hues could be specified to ideally react with the pheromone state… this may be a major component in why people will have one type of pheromone experience in one environment and a very different on in another, such as under corporate energy saver fluouescents, or under moonlight, on in bright daylight, or say, orangey club lights… I do notice how many clubs and bars have converged on an orangish color… must be that the bar sells the most drinks under these conditions… makes me wonder what happens in the middle of the spectrum with greens, yellows, indigos, and maybe also with really pure LED violet colors…
noise shaping often means arranging spectral distribution… there are whole claaes of noise colors, blue noise, brown noise, 1/f noise which might not be the same as brown noise, red noise… and of course, one of my favorites, black noise … yup, it exists as either a mathematical construct (cauchy noise) or stuff you can listen to… I sorta came to this by observation when I was listening to raindrops hit the window and noticed that certain patterns of raindrops that came in persistant-intermittent spatters of a certain frequency were having an exceptional general effect on my neurology … this “shaped randomness” which had bursts and lulls does satisfy some of the definition of “black noise” , somewhat as does the crackling sound of a fire…and to some extent also the babbling brook sound, which is somewhere between brown and black noise, I was thinking if you could replicate some of that mesmerizing stacatto that is both consistent and inconsistent you have a non distracting sound (that’s the major drawback to most attempts at romantic-erotic-sensual music… it over engages the mind, and the mind atempts to synchronize with the music, which can be at odds with the body mind rhythms ) where the pure white noise source is overconsistent… so it would seem that the trick on the level of auditory neurology, is to randomize in very controlled ways that allow the mind to flow freely and remain deeply focused without being “thoughty” … odd thing is a bunch of smart Chinese have introduced this identical idea as a therapeutic device that emits infrasonic energy as a way of introducing “healthy randomess” into ill parts of the body… if you place one of their infrasound transducers on your mattress, the bed will wurble with an almost imperceptible, but delightfully strange sense of aliveness… which, naturally will be the subject of an upcoming experiment… and what shall we call this one, The Black Noise Orgasm ? Probably will be noisy in any case… some of these women when they let go, man they really let go… I think I completely understand the true origin of the opera now… as for babbling brook sounds… I knew this gal who ran an excellent cathouse, she fully grokked the aesthetics of sex, and went to the trouble of obtaining small illuminated tabletop fountains for each room that produced a specific gurgling sound… she must have searched for ages before she found the ones that generated the exactly right combination of softness and plangeance with the precisely right noise structure… something about that sound could trigger profound erotic states of consciousness , especially when coupled with flickering oil lamps… althought I think flicker noise or 1/f noise is somewhat distinct from black noise, a degree of blackness/cauchy persistance seems to cause the sound to have a much deeper traction in the mind…
I would never conclude anything of the sort… the real action is in the mind itself… the mind is a “reality generating machine”… so the things you perceive as existing outside of yourself are actually the mind’s (meaning the lower and intermediate perception forming process as the higher “meaning” forming processes) description of reality… music is only vibrating air molecules that takes on beauty and meaning within your mind… of course a composer’s mind had to appreciate how to vibrate those molecules so your mind would react to them in a positive way. It is hard to know how one variable will impact the individual’s sense of pleasure or meaning… I’ve been listening to many slow wave type musics, drones, ambients, stuff designed for mental exploration, meditation, massage… even some with binauaral beat layers for specific frequencies… thinking that if you experience them just so you might induce a consciousness shifting state during sex… pheromones are one possible high quality experience shaper that might alter or deepen this moment into some kind of mind opening trance phenomenon… pheromones+carefully designed environment+right person+mental preparation might = extra-galactic head repositioning…
There is this outrageously bizarre women I discovered who say she does super-deep level sex hypnosis… although her, emmmmmm, specialty appear to be somewhat of an acquired taste: …
Maybe I’ll stick to recordings of cicadas, surf pounding on the beach, north indian classical music…
as with most brain chemisty, endorphins and enkeaphalins are a large topic, and there is a new class of “bliss neurotransmitters” called anandamides… they supposedly give you feeling of pleasure and satisfaction from eating fatty foods and smoking pot, among other things…
“The researchers found that anandamide is part of a network of nerve cells in an area of the brain called the striatum, which coordinates all body movements and other motor behavior. In the striatum, the anandamide network inhibited dopamine’s attempts to stimulate the body’s motor nerves. Normally, nerve cells regulate this behavior by releasing anandamides at the same time they release dopamine. In order to temper the effects of dopamine, the anandamides bind to nerve cell sites called cannabinoid receptors, so-named because they are targets of tetrahydrocannabinol (marijuana’s active ingredient) as well as related chemicals like anandamides. When anandamides were bound to these receptors, body movement in the rats decreased.”
This might explain why after good sex or smoking cannabis materials, people tend to be lethargic and physically sort of stuporous..
Some pheromones or putatives might, that’s a very tenetative “might”, have a moderate impact on endorphin or anandamide receptors..
However, as the drug companies figured out with other aspects of brain chemistry… this issue might be how fast a particular brain breaks down pleasure chemicals… as many medicine like Prozac actually work by preventing the breakdown of neurotransmitters… it’s up to your brain to make them…
there’s something about aerobic sex that appear to have an awesomely tonic effect on the entire body-mind apparatus… hooray pheromones! … it seems like it is maximizing Heart Rate Variability by some poorly understood mechanism that I would guess has to do with rejuvenating the vagus nerve(s) signal quality, or the way the vagus nerve is communicating with the brainstem… also have observed that when doing a lot of aerobic fucking it is very easy to maintain my weight regardless of what I eat or when… but it has to be fully engaged, passionate sweaty sex… the critical element is the deep sense of engagement on multiple levels of being… it just has to be retuning the sympathetic-parasympatheic balances of the autonomic nervous system which include appetitive responses… the implications of this are fairly astounding… that “passionate sex deficiency” might actually be a clinical condition that we, as a health conscious society, must address with all of our available resources… imagine if these clusters of depression, obeisity, cardiovascular disease, low grade rage that often manifests when operating motor vehicles, substance abuse… could all be fucked into oblivion… Harris will get the Nobel Peace Prize…
now tinkering with nature sounds and shaped noises… Jane the legendary whoremistress of the legendary Jane’s was right about the musical tones of water when right on the money… some recordings are too white noisy, waterfalls come to mind, and some are too sputtery-crackly like fire recordings… surf and wind sounds have been middle level successes… the best by far are the sounds of slow moving streams and very delicate shorline sounds that have a burble, almost a laughing tone to them, sort of a musical randomness with a low frequency ebb and flow… when all else is in place these sounds can be so freaking erotic… and some eastern bamboo flute sounds, or mixtures of ambient musics and wet sounds… they seem to create a state of long time distortion and help delay and synchronize orgasms and build ups to near orgasms so you can stay in the zone for a long time and resultantly have a potent brain massage…
since I’ve been playing a lot with pheromones in relation to light sources… these things have been taking me by surprise, as I never thought of light quality as a significant influence on pheromone response… my experiments are now suggesting (at best a suggestion, much need to be done to confirm or disconfirm these “discoveries”… i.e. that they are not just random coincidences that create the illusion of correlation of of strong causality…)
I have been testing identical pheromone mixes on multi…