Berniegourley

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• My Year of Discovering How Weird the Mind Gets, Pt. III [Meditation]

  

  This is the third installment in a series of posts on my study of altered states of consciousness. The January and February posts described my experiences with... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Undertow

  jungle river undertow eddy swirl lightly etched on that glass sheet where does that vortex pull, beneath mirrored waters, reflecting gray clouds? what lies in... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Know Your Strangeness

  

  know your strangeness otherwise, it's like a tattoo on the back of your neck the world can enjoy it, but you never will sure, it means tearing down a house one... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

  

  Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and for No One by Friedrich Nietzsche My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page The gist of this philosophical novel's... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Anxious Joseph E. LeDoux

  

  Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety by Joseph E. LeDoux My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book examines the neuroscience... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Blue Ed. by Ameena Hussein

  

  Blue: The Tranquebar book of Erotic Fiction for Sri Lanka by Ameena Hussein My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page This is an anthology or erotically-themed short... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mentally Rodential

  

  my mind jumps about it scurries it scampers it lurches it cowers like a foraging rodent, one at risk of starving because it keeps dropping its acorn at the sigh... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Sunrise Beach

  

  people stagger down to sunrise beach, like a zombie horde, bed creases still fading Sunworshipers - in the literal sense - not the kind seeking some shade of... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Relativity [a Sonnet]

  in the space of a blossom's drift to earth i feel the gravity give way below i've all the time for terror, shock, and mirth as tics and tocks go viscous in thei... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Perspective

  red lights glint off the rails no trains pass by tonight moon striped in jet contrails I wonder who's in flight perched upon a boxcar jets seem so far from... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Bonk by Mary Roach

  

  Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page Mary Roach specializes in nonfiction on quirky topics that... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

  

  The Tempest by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The storm (i.e. tempest) in question takes place off a remote, desolate, and magical... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Burns & Eva...

  

  Psychotherapy: A Very Short Introduction by Tom Burns My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page The word "psychotherapy" conjures images of a patient on a burgundy... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mythic Moonlight

  

  faces glow in mythic moonlight a world away from here you may ask what makes it mythic? the stories that one hears a young son regales his mother, who hangs on... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2019 SOCIETY

• 5 Melancholic Works of Nonfiction You Should Read

  

  5.) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: Deep life lessons learned inside a Nazi death camp. 4.) Being Mortal by Atul Gawande: A medical doctor... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

  

  Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The book's lead, Clay Jannon, takes a job as night clerk at a 24-hour... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

  

  The Diving Bell And The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page If it had been written under ordinary circumstances, this would... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille

  

  Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille My rating: 4 of 5 stars This story follows a couple through a destructive series of events as they chase sexual hedonism.... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Split Personality

  i am sender and receiver of the voiceless voice i am projector and audience of movies of the mind i am perpetrator and victim of pleasure and pain i am a human... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Block of Time

  

  some say time is a block - a finished work, not full on one side of the present and empty on the other - all causes and effects are settled - except the... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL