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Kate King (Ford, NY) Portfolio Twitter: @KateKingg Instagram: @katekingg Kate King now has Twitter! Apparently, word in the modeling industry is getting around that an Off Duty Social Media presence impacts a models booking value, as Karolina Kurkova went on record with Vogue UK.
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Look what someone did to our mystery section. LOOK AT IT.
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“ “Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information but by increasing the capacity of seeing.
By transforming what it is that sees, what is seen is transformed also.”~ Belsebuub in ‘Gazing into the Eternal’
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How To (Temporarily) Experience A Phantom Limb
fuckyeahpsychologyandmedicine:
I placed a coffee cup in front of John and asked him to grab it [with his phantom limb]. Just as he said he was reaching out, I yanked the cup away.
“Ow!” he yelled. “Don’t do that!”
“What’s the matter?”
“Don’t do that”, he repeated. “I had just got my fingers around the cup handle when you pulled it. That really hurts!”
Hold on a minute. I wrench a real cup from phantom fingers and the person yells, ouch! The fingers were illusory, but the pain was real – indeed, so intense that I dared not repeat the experiment.
— Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain p. 43
The phantom limb syndrome is one more piece of evidence for the fact that we don’t perceive reality as it really is but that we perceive a reality as it is constructed by our own minds. There are no inherently red or blue photons (light particles) to be found in the physical world, but we do perceive a world of color around us.
“In short, phantom limbs are a mystery only if we assume the body sends sensory messages to a passively receiving brain. Phantoms become comprehensible once we recognize that the brain generates the experience of the body. Sensory inputs merely modulate that experience; they do not directly cause it.” – Melzack
During the course of evolution not only our bodies evolved but so did our cognitive functions, including our sense of self. Sensory input that was redundant to practically make sense of our surroundings, like high and low pitches, slowly got discarded. While other cognitive tools gave us advantages still used today.
Some of these tools gives rise to optical illusions. Like the Kanizsa triangle below where it seems there is a white triangle covering three circles and another triangle. While in fact there is no white triangle, your mind just thinks there should be one. (Cover areas of the image and the white triangle will dissapear.)
Illusions like these have revealed alot about perceptual processes in psychology. The following phantom limb illusion you can try at home reveals a three-way interaction between vision, touch and proprioception (the perception of the relative position of parts of the body). It makes sense of what objects that arise in our awareness belong to the self or to the outside environment. Some philosophers of mind came to the same conclusion as eastern contemplatives have, the nature of the self is purely experiential and it is relative to our mode of investigation.
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CARTEROSE: What I learnt this week, which I thought was pretty cool. On the topic of business and how a manager or director runs that business depends on knowing what you do or don’t have, what you need and if you know how to execute those needs or skills. Image Superstore is only new and there first steps is becoming consciously competent. Have a read. Its simple…
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You only have two fears when you are born.
When you are first born your only fears were of falling and of loud noises. They are built into your DNA and have been passed down from generation to generation as a survival mechanism
Their sole purpose is to keep you alive, and create emotion that will motivate you to avoid danger.
Every other fear you face you have learned throughout your life.
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Random Fact #35
“Freudian slip” is an error in speech that is thought to come from true desires in the unconscious mind
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The Enneagram Blogspot The Enneagram personality theory was first developed by Oscar Ichazo in 1931, and it was later modernized by psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo and a group of Jesuit priests. With their new findings on the study, psychologist Don Riso and Russ Hudson formed the Enneagram Institute, which has improved apon the theory and now brings it to us in its most modern form.
Types
There are 9 types of personalities, each defined by a certain ego fixation, i.e. psychological need. Although each of the 9 types are active within you, one ego fixation will be so strong or deeply ingrained within you that it will determine your personality.
Ego fixations of the 9 types include:
Type 1: The Reformer - To be good, to have integrity, to be balanced.
Type 2: The Helper - To feel loved.
Type 3: The Achiever - To feel valuable and worthwhile.
Type 4: The Individualist - To find themselves and their significance (to create an identity).
Type 5: The Investigator - To be capable and competent.
Type 6: The Loyalist - To have security and support.
Type 7: The Enthusiast - To be satisfied and content—to have their needs fulfilled.
Type 8: The Challenger - To protect themselves (to be in control of their own life and destiny).
Type 9: The Peacemaker - To have inner stability “peace of mind.”
