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  • Morning Yoga Routine + Bonus Workout

    Morning Yoga Routine + Bonus Workout

    Your humble editor recently got sober and decided it was well past time to get back to a regular yoga practice. In order to re-establish the habit, I decided to do my teacher training over again from start to finish. I am currently in week four and feeling major benefits. Given the success of my practice, I thought I’d share some videos from my teacher, which lay out a good routine to be practiced daily in the early morning, plus one workout video I like to add after meditation is done. The morning routine consists of 5 minutes of pranayama, a short asana routine of stretches, and then seated meditation. It makes up an ideal morning to start a positive day. Without further ado, here is Anmol Mehta to demonstrate.

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    And the bonus workout I do after a short break:

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  • DC NFT’s

    DC NFT’s

    So I snagged a couple of NFT’s from the DC fandome event and trying to figure out what use they are and what I want to do with them. I didn’t win the NFT lottery by winning these guys as they are both “common” but I think I can post them right? I barely somewhat understand the crypto I own and really don’t understand these things, but C’est la vie right?

  • Dad Grass

    Dad Grass

    Dad Grass boxes

    Just ordered some joints from a company that’s selling CBD hemp flower as the way to get somewhat (maybe?) high. The company pines for the day of sneaking a pinch of old compressed mexi brown from your Dad’s stash. Billed as a much mellower smoke than the crazy engineered hydroponics and melt your brain strains available at the dispensary, it’s also the polar opposite of the dabs that all the kids are into these days. It’s also 100% legal to ship to all 50 states. While it seems crazy to me what I just paid to smoke rope, what the hell, I’d like a tiny head change without getting actually high. If this seems up your alley you can order from this link and get 10% off

  • 2021: the year Tarot became fashionable … again.

    2021: the year Tarot became fashionable … again.

    Every day I find some kind of occult related creator content dropped into my YouTube suggestions, so it wasn’t exactly a surprise to see a tarot history video in there. What was a surprise was the fact that it was on the famed French fashion house Christian Dior’s channel … um, excuse me, what?

    Yes, the video is a brief history lesson on the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck . The designer Maria Grazia Chiuri created an entire collection based on the tarot, for Dior’s Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2021; after finding herself doing some soul searching after 2020 forced us all to become recluses.

    I guess this is not the first time that this designer has found inspiration in the cards for Dior … the Spring/Summer 2017 Ready to Wear collection had “Tarot Dresses” … along with cute bags to match. Also, apparently, Monsieur Dior himself was really into having his cards read before each of his collection’s runway shows. Ok, so there’s a long standing connection. Got it.

    Dior hired a film crew to create something that’s a lot like a Jodorowsky epic, but instead of surrealistic montages blowing out the back of your skull for 3 plus hours, this one is only 15 minutes, and is downright spritely in its tone. The rest of the channel’s videos about the collection are interesting in their own right … from short making-of’s about the mini-film to vignettes on some of the individual looks … you can find the whole kit and caboodle in a playlist HERE.

  • Pirated movies of Christmas past: The Adventures of Mark Twain

    Pirated movies of Christmas past: The Adventures of Mark Twain

    It was the 1980s and every holiday season, school would get out on the Friday before Christmas, which meant I’d spend the next 2 weeks with my grandparents while my mom was at work. My grandfather, a computer engineer (read as: middle class hacker), would pirate movies with his coworkers in their downtime. As soon as I arrived to their house, he’d hand me a box filled with VHS tapes, with titles written heiroglyphically on masking tape, plastered to the sides of them. I’d look into the box, see all the tapes, and look up at him, BEAMING with joy. The first film I plucked from the box: The Adventures of Mark Twain.

    For those who’ve never seen it, it’s the tale of the famed American writer, Mark Twain, coming to the decision that humanity is utterly irredeemable, and so he plans his death by meeting up with Halley’s Comet, while some of his most famous literary creations aim to convince him otherwise.

    One of the best scenes is where Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Becky Thatcher are at a special machine, viewing the various tales that have come from the depths of Twain’s own mind. At one point, they land on ‘The Mysterious Stranger’; a tale that Twain never actually finished, but featured a character he called both “Satan” and “No. 44”.

    My pirated copy of this tape found its way over to my friend Lindsey’s house, which was just 3 doors down. Her mother ooohed and ahhhed over the tape, curiously praising Twain’s literary legacy as “wholesome” and “exemplary of “traditional Christian values.”

    Obviously, having never actually read any of his work, she was quite disturbed when, one day, after I’d left the tape at their house, Lindsey’s mother declared a family movie night. As the movie went on, she proceeded to get more and more uncomfortable, finally ejecting the tape after the scene described above. I wasn’t allowed to play at their house after that due to my new “child of Satan” status. My grandpa just laughed. Frankly, so will you after you watch this awesome film!

    The artistry of the claymation figures is just wonderful, the story is thought provoking and poignant, and despite all the dark content, it’s a great movie to watch with your kids … or you can just send them off to your parent’s place, pour a drink and smoke hashish, and enjoy it. It is your winter time holiday.

    You can watch the full movie here while it’s available.

  • Training AI on 2020 headlines … get a grip, it’s funnier than you think

    Training AI on 2020 headlines … get a grip, it’s funnier than you think

    Janelle Shane started to train a GPT-3 on its headlines, just to see which ones it’d come up with on its own, and I honestly can’t think of a more insightful way to end this ridiculously miserable, hell hole of a year than that.

    Reading through the rest of her tumblog is a jaunt through brilliance … AI creating recipes and recipe reviews, AI creating romantic how-tos based on Victorian tutorials, Halloween costumes that AI thinks your friends and neighbors will notice and hate, even AI generated posts about her AI posts.

  • Mushroom or Musician??

    Mushroom or Musician??

    The description on this latest YouTube find states: “Through the magic, or rather, science of bio-data sonification, this flush of oyster mushrooms get a shot at playing a eurorack modular synthesizer before they become dinner.”

    Sigh … I think I just found my new favorite channel. This guy’s hooking friggin’ cordyceps mushrooms and giant amethysts up to this synth! New channel, but even with only 19 videos in as of this article, I’m subscribed.

  • The Psychic Capitol of the World

    The Psychic Capitol of the World

    On the latest episode of ‘Excuse me,what?’, they visit the people of the “psychic capitol of the world.”

    Cassadaga, Florida, USA … a tiny, 57 acre, unincorporated community, built by a leader in the American Spiritualism movement, which peaked in popularity in the latter half of 19th century. This town has more psychic mediums per capita than anywhere else in the world, and quite an interesting past.

    A Mr. George P. Colby was a famed, travelling Spiritualist medium (1848-1933). At the bright age of 12, he was baptised at a church in Minneapolis. Minnesota, and soon afterward, began to experience the abilities of clairvoyance and psychic healing.

    According to him, he was visited by many spiritual guides, but the most clear and frequent called itself ‘Seneca’ and described itself as the spirit of a great Native American chief. George said that Seneca had told him as a child that he’d found a great Spiritualist community in the American South, and in 1894, that’s exactly what he did.

    The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded by George in December of 1894, and has remained something of a refuge for the psychically inclined ever since. It even found a place on the US National Registry of Historic Places.

  • AfterSkool with Randall Carlson

    AfterSkool with Randall Carlson

    I noticed the other day that the YouTube channel AfterSkool had created a condensed version of Randall Carlson’s work, and thought you’d appreciate it. Watch that new video featuring Randall Carlson and his work here.

    I had the opportunity to see Randall Carlson in Minneapolis, back in 2014, at the (now defunct) Paradigm Symposium . The lecture he gave was exciting, rife with geology, the occult traditions, semiotics, myths and legends and more. He really encouraged the audience to look at human history from a perspective using modern science and technology to unravel ancient tales and symbols in order to understand ancient human experiences, and apply them to our future understanding of the world around us.

    However, not everyone agrees, of course. A quick Google search of his name immediately brings up everything from questions of his sanity to the breadth and depth of his actual knowledge, and all the Joe Rogan pocasts he’s been on, including the 3 episodes he did with the writer Graham Hancock.

    You can find Randall’s website here, his old YouTube channel GeoCosmic Rex there, and his new YT channel, plus his podcast ‘Kosmographia’ here.

  • The senseworldcafe subreddit

    The senseworldcafe subreddit

    In order to try and make a place for discussion of these posts and topics and in order to avoid running a forum or allowing comments on the site itself we’ve created a subreddit devoted to just those things. Come by have a visit and make your voice heard. We take suggestions and criticism well, so feel free to chime in on what we post. Reddit community guidelines do apply, but we won’t ban your post just because you didn’t like something. Join the conversation!