Recently, while travelling in Nepal I stopped for lunch in a quaint mountain town called Bandipur, located a few miles southeast of Pokhara. In one restaurant I noticed a grey-bearded man with long hair writing intently on notebooks strewn about his table. This level of main-character energy is pretty rare so I felt compelled toContinue reading “The ‘Integral Psychology’ of Sri Aurobindo”
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Ideasthesia
An explanation posited by Danko Nikolić, a neuroscientist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, that the experience of synaesthesia (the mixing of sensory inputs, e.g. seeing a colour when hearing a sound) may be mediated semantically. In order words, it is the idea of the input, not the direct experience of the input itselfContinue reading “Ideasthesia”