Nocturnal Celestial Emissions from The SeaGoose Nebula

So today I got up and it is a nice 95 degrees (I honestly love the heat) here in Kentucky, I was sitting outside and started to talk to a neighbor who was running out to get her mail, about air conditioning and how she has her air conditioning blaring and her power bill was going to be high this month, that got me to thinking about power and electricity and then I realized I honestly have no clue how we get and harness something that is dependent on every day so I went on the Internet and did some learning.

I am not going to talk about how we convert power into light or information such as bulbs and computers cause I have basic idea of how that works, but what I meant is the scheme as a whole, my prior knowledge is, damns and turbines turn and cause friction and then the power company does something with this power, that is about it for my previous knowledge.

Electricity comes from electrons, electrons have a negative charge. Conductors have free electrons some more then others, and the goal is to get those electrons moving. The moving electrons transmit electrical energy from one point to another. Electricity needs a conductor in order to move. There also has to be something to make the electricity flow from one point to another through the conductor. One way to get electricity flowing is to use a generator.

The generators need to spin to create electricity, these are basically big magnets, in most cases the thing spinning the generator is a steam turbine. The steam might be created by burning coal, oil or natural gas. Or the steam may come from a nuclear reactor. Once the AC power is either converted from DC, or generated in 3-phase AC  the distribution grid sends out the AC current into your home so that you can power your toys. From earlier, water is used but not the most common way and the water is used to make the generator spin, I figured I would mention it because of the statements I made before about what I thought I knew about power.

Power travels from the power plant to your house through a system called the power distribution grid.

The process is a lot more complicated and interesting then I made it here but this was the way I broke it down to remember it in my head, now that I know more about I think that I will be doing a lot more reading on this subject, mainly on magnetism, maybe I could be the next Tesla, ha, also the power company does a lot less then I thought. Note: I did not expand much on AC or DC because I remember a bit about Alternating and Direct current from Chemistry Class, but I do think that you should look it if it peeks your interest.

When I start looking into subjects I have found that nothing is to complicated to understand if you have a desire to understand it.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

We all should take some time to explore our minds.

Humans are not able to conceptualize things that they have not experienced. Now picture infinity not an infinity amount of something (which is still impossible) but an infinity amount of nothing/ everything. Due to the cycle of life and death we as human will never have the ability to picture the pure concept of infinity. What we as humans are good at doing is thinking logically, just like computer we can visualize 0:1, on/off, life/death. With the thought of what leads to thought, in your head you can meditate on why the brain is not able visualize a concept that it can create for ever and still make no progress. (this last statement is pure sentiment there is no way I can ever know for sure, ha)

The idea of psychedelic thought is new me,  I have not tried to write about it a lot and while I try to tune my writing frequency to it, please bare with me I plan on and will get better at it, now that I understand more about the practice, the idea is not new me the word and meaning is, I had never understood why my thoughts lead me in the direction of the grandeur humanistic experience or to try to control my brain, but I’m now very happy to know that others have tread many trails down this road and created thoughts for me to ponder.  First I find it that one person cannot truly explain what psychedelic thought, the reason is that I have heard this kind of grand thinking on every subject from lol, motorcycle maintenance (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: good book with a really interesting exploration of what quality is.) to economics. Also some don’t need psychedelics to think in such a matter, so don’t ever excuse a train of thought just because someone has not experienced what you think you have. But what is that way of thoguht that I speak off, to be honest I don’t think I am good enough writer to verbalize it but hey ill try. The structure of psychedelic thought is one of being loose and firm at same time you listen to an idea or create one, and you believe it; at the same time not believing it, its a pure form a listening you take information for the love having that piece of information as a reference, you make no outright snap opinion on it but rather you apply it to you and see if it fits what you know or believe, or have experienced and try to see if you can use the new thought, so not only is everything possible, but its all impossible because one is in the believe that experience is completely subjective. Taking that experience is completely subjective how can reality not be shifting to fit each individual. Ill try and explain, love is different to everyone, so is friendship and all other words, the reason is; we each have a difference experience when learning a word so the association that we have with that word is different.

Its hard to write it in a way that I find will make sense to other, but really what do I know what makes sense to others so please do not take insult, the only reason I question anything is because I am not quite sure if it makes sense to me, which I find kinda funny.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

Terence Mckenna: Reclaim Your Mind

If you’re ever alone, out in the woods, in the dark (And you can’t be scared; because if you are, what’s out there might actually get you.), if you are calm and collected; sitting in solitude; and completely engulfed in the darkness… Your mind will start to wander.

First you fight to supress the fear and anxiety towards the unknown that surrounds you. Once the fear of the wild is surpressed, your mind wanders towards your self and your life. Balancing the books and organizing what to do with yourself is no small task, especially when the books are in your head (and being alone), the “to-do’s” seem so far away. Don’t be discouraged, eventually, even the most daunting of thoughts will pass, and then you are left with only one road to follow… The road inward.

Getting to know yourself is harder than you would think. Your mind is its own ocean, to which the bottom is far from being reached. So many inreresting sidebars and detours are found on the road inward. Say, you think of a subject like love, you might think of music, and then you think of a band, and then a song, and then a person that you listened to that song with, and eventually, no matter where you treaded- all thoughts lead back to: What is most important to you. If you get there, this thought/ question/ obstacle/ desire/ all of them rolled into one, will most -likely consume you (I hope if you’re a serial killer you’re not reading this!), it will become your purpose and your creed, and hopefully it will put your world into upheaval. It will be like… having your favorite t-shirt, super-glued to your body. It’s familiar, it looks good and you love it, but by god all you want to do is rip it off and get as far away from it as possible.

Making yourself whole takes time, I mean- isn’t that what life’s all about; Finding what missing pieces of the puzzle you can before time runs out? (If you thought I was going to have some secret-of-life bullshit- You were way off!)  I hope you find a solution, or a plan, or something that helps make your dreams and goals closer, but I believe that true happiness is a rare gift on earth; So, you might not get there. Don’t worry about that. The path to where I’m going can be reached by any side-street, highway, by-way, sidebar or detour. They all end up on the same path. Speaking of which, I need to get back on the path this was intended to take.

Once you are left alone, in the dark, away from everything; away from the meaningless numbers of the everyday; away from yourself (even if the feeling is copasetic); and finally, away from the restraints of everything, but your ever-expanding mind… You will find yourself hearing a strange and foreign voice.

I’ve heard it called a concience and I’ve heard it called… more sinister things.

Let me introduce my self. I, myself and I, am/is/are that voice.

Coming direct from the back of your head.

Let me tell you some stories. I think you’ll like what I have to tell.

Anyways- It’s nice to meet you.

I have o first start with a Hello and welcome to this experiment on which we, my friends and I will be trying to express a little about whats going on in our individual universe. I can only speak for myself, but will be writing on anything and everything, well things that I find interesting, I fancy myself a psychonaut, the idea of exploring my own mind gives me unquantifiable joy, in trying to organize the ideas in my head I have done a lot reading and psychedelic exploration on a vast amount of subjects. My goal will be to convey myself in words, in the hopes that will inspire some kind of reaction in anyone, weather it be a good or bad reaction is not of much importance to me because I will surly be interested in reading the good and bad, but be sure that I will read it for the only reason is that I find peoples opinions important especially if they go to the step of expressing it. The idea of a blog is interesting to me because for the very reason of instant reaction to anyones materialization, I have to say the thought of what others think about my musing is very exciting, cause I have the potential of learning so much from others who have something to contribute to my thoughts is the reason to be on the internet.

Introductions are in order, I am BrotherShine, well at least that what I named myself when I started using the Internet, my given name is Magnus. I am not so good at speaking on myself and I do apologize for the non cohesiveness of this introduction but I find it difficult to wrap a person into a words, I truly feel that you will get to know me as you read more, and hey you might after you read my things you might not like and like some of the other contributers to the site better.
Well I think i am done with this, my first entry and I have to be honest it was pretty painful for me cause basically i am trying to sell myself to you and I hate sales, the idea of selling oneself to the vast audience is something I find strange. But now I have introduced myself I can open the flood gates to a the world I have been creating in my head, so please sit back and enjoy the tour.

To make this trivial world sublime,

take half a gram of phanerothyme.

- Huxley

To fathom Hell or soar angelic,

just take a pinch of psychedelic.

-Osmond

I thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind.

My flickr page if you wanna see some photos of my dog:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/brothershine/

A good description of what I believe a psychonaut can be like from wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychonaut