Archive for January, 2009
29
Jan
Posted by Niko in Thought. Tagged: "energy", "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", aldous huxley, ancient wisdom, consciousness, depopulation, doors of perception, great thinkers, inner conflict, interview, language, mike wallace, mind control, modern times, nicole terry creates, operate your brain, Philosophy, raw, Reality, reason, robert anton wilson, robert crumb, servitude, subjective perceptions, Thought, timothy leary, william fulbright. 3 Comments
“We must dare to think ‘unthinkable’ thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about ‘unthinkable’ things because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops [...]
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26
Jan
Posted by Niko in Voluntary Simplicity. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", botany, bushcraft, edible plants, essays, feral permaculture, feralkevin, foraging, henry david thoreau, medicinal plants, mushrooms, nicole terry creates, plantain, road kill, Voluntary Simplicity, walking, weeds, wild plants. 9 Comments
“Live free, child of the mist — and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Walking
Urban Foraging
Edible and Medicinal Plants: Plantain
Identify Wild Mushrooms & Edible Mushrooms
Edible Wild Plants
Feral Permaculture
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21
Jan
Posted by Niko in Thought. Tagged: "culture", "douglas adams", "george carlin", "nicole terry", "nicoleterrycreates.com", "the mental mindfield", alan watts, bill hicks, civilization, great thinkers, industrial revolution, institutions, jim morrison, john lennon, john zerzan, louis ck, meaingless life, modernity, myth of self, philosophers, Philosophy, primitivism, robert crumb, technology, technosphere, television, terrence mckenna, Thought, wonko the sane, work as play. Leave a Comment
“It seemed to me that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization I could live in and stay sane.” ~’Wonko the Sane’ (Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the [...]
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15
Jan
Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", agent smith, century of the self, edward bernays, engineering of consent, happiness machines, human desire, natural born killers, nicoleterrycreates, obedience, propaganda, psychology, public relations, security, sigmund freud, sociology, the matrix, v for vendetta. 2 Comments
“It is chiefly the psychologists of the school of Freud (who have pointed out that many of man’s thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which has been obliged to suppress. A thing may be desired not for its intrinsic worth or usefulness, but because he has unconsciously come to see in it a [...]
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13
Jan
Posted by Niko in Voluntary Simplicity. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", another man's treasure, dead can dance, dumpster diving, freeganism, freegrans, nicoleterrycreates, simple life, Sustainability, sustainable living, Voluntary Simplicity. 4 Comments
You build me up then you knock me down.
You play the fool while I play the clown.
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum.
You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I’m serving time in disillusionment.
I don’t believe you anymore…I don’t believe you.
~The Ubiquitous [...]
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9
Jan
Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", alan watts, clint eastwood, elegant simplicity, freedom, gorillaz, humanity, living, nature, nicoleterrycreates, Simplicity, the beautiful planet earth, the end of civilization. 3 Comments
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything…” ~Alan Watts
The Beautiful Planet Earth
Simplicity
Baboushcka In Love With The Forest
We Are Earth: Do You [...]
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7
Jan
Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "douglas adams", "nicole terry", "the mental mindfield", civilization, flight of the conchords, human beings, human nature, klaatu, madv, national geographic, nicoleterrycreates, society, the day the earth stood still, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the humans are dead, the humans project, when humans disappear. 1 Comment
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ~Douglas Adams (from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
The Humans Project
Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
When [...]
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3
Jan
Posted by Niko in Voluntary Simplicity. Tagged: "nicole terry", "nicoleterrycreates.com", "the mental mindfield", city chickens, desiderata, freedom, garden girl, gardening, jim morrison, max ehrmann, path to freedom, permaculture, simple living, Simplicity, Sustainability, sustainable living, urban homesteading, vertical gardening, Voluntary Simplicity. 3 Comments
“You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. “
~Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952
Path To Freedom
Vertical Gardening (1 of 3 videos, click here to [...]
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