Frank, it was definitely a panic attack, but with a strange sense of observing
myself having one. I have had similar experiences where I was aware that my
body was going into shock, but somehow remaining independent and being able to
"manage" the process with meditation and breathing techniques.
Dave,
Would you call the anxiety you experienced a "panic attack"? I've had a
couple each of which was stimulated by a dream in which I was going to be
trapped inside of something (claustrophobia). In each case it took
medication to dissipate the intense anxiety. Also, I think I had a milder
at
An experiential (400 mike trip):
In the beginning there was Nothing — the Singularity. Then a quite literally
impossible differentiation occurred; setting of a chain reaction of
differentiation and hence Something(s).
This experience parallels the Taoist dictum that from One came Two, from Two
It's OK. I fixed your larding format.
Just like with your challenge to what "possible" means, we have to also challenge the use of "random". You
can't say "experience is random" without some kind of _set_ or _space_ of experiences from which to choose. E.g. it
makes sense to say things like "Th
Glen,
Forgive me for larding but it is the best way for me when I have a yet a little
to say back to somebody who has had a lot to say a lot.
Nick Thompson
thompnicks...@gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
-Original Message-
From: Friam On Behalf Of glen
Sent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds
We see something like this in evolutionary justifications of various phenotypic
traits, the most egregious being evolutionary psychology, but including Nick's
hyena penis and the ontological status of epiphenomena. Yes, I'm posting this
