I'm continually surprised by how well the US economy is doing. Maybe at some point in the not so distant future, the house of cards will fall. The house of cards broke down last summer, with the collapse of those two Bear Stearns hedge funds. Since the card-house was so elaborate, it's taking several months for the whole thing to come tumbling down. Mish notes that the Federal Reserve has started to shrink ('deflate') the money supply - which is, of course, the end of the economy as we know it, as debt-based currencies require an ever-expanding money supply to keep the whole illusion of prosperity going.
While the oil companies are doing very well, most the oil money is going to oil-producing countries, such as Dubai/UAE. The oil companies have to pay market price for the oil they don't produce themselves.
It's one thing to carry out a coup d'état, and quite another to run your conquered country into the ground after you've taken power. Bush & Company will get their due someday... It's hard to see how we'll get there from here, but of this I'm certain.
McCain should drop out because his candidacy is entirely media-created. If the media played McCain's "100 years in Iraq" and "bomb, bomb, bomb iran" soundbites like they did Dean's Scream, he'd go away promptly.
The reality is that John McCain is a Psychopath. Most people get a sense of this, and he'll be routed in November should fortune favor the Democrats with his nomination. Even though polls show him ahead, polls also showed that Giuliani was a front runner. The old way of polling is no longer valid because there are so many more voters this time around.
McCain should quit now and quit wasting our time with his blather... Though I guess 'We the People' need him to split the Republican delegates with Romney, leading to a brokered convention and Ron Paul's nomination.
he's not even going to get close to being chosen Last I checked, Maine came out with 56% for Romney, 21% for McCain, and 19% for Paul.
McCain should hang his head in shame and drop out right now. 2% better than the dark horse candidate? That's pathetic.
The establishment hates Ron Paul because his platform is to take their toys away. The economic collapse we are now experiencing makes the likelyhood of Paul running away with the Republican nomination increasingly likely as spring turns to summer.
Ron Paul is leading, but most people think they like another show better. The piper plays his flute and they happily follow, not realizing that they're being led over a cliff. Only now that people are starting to fall off (home foreclosures, layoffs, recession) do they realize that they were led into a dead-end.
"Dennis is a great man, and has never compromised himself, yet he hasn't ever accomplished anything." From the Wikipedia: "In 1998 the council honored him for having the "courage and foresight" to stand up to the banks and saving the city an estimated $195 million between 1985 and 1995.[16]" This was some 19 years after his term as Mayor ended. I think that counts as something. Kucinich and Paul think in terms of a long-term vision, whereas most Americans are conditioned to 'live in the moment'. I seem to recall making a post here about how the Chinese people's thousand-year sense of history will help them win the present economic war... Ah yes, it was about the inevitable decline of the corporate system.
And as the system burns to the ground, or as the lemmings are falling en masse off the cliff, leaders like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich will be around to salvage what we can, and to help us build something better for the future.
Ron Paul is right about one thing: the Federal Reserve system is Evil and Must Die. What replaces it is a matter for debate, but the legal monopoly for the issuance of currency must come to an end.
See I Want the Earth plus 5% for a fictionalized history of central banking.
Note how you never hear Ron Paul "succeeded" in doing anything. That was my point. No one can hold Ron Paul responsible for any of his accomplishments, because that would require accomplishments. Who else holds Bill Clinton responsible for sticking the final dagger through the American Prosperity Machine? Is that an accomplishment? A super-recession is now inevitable - if only we'd had a congress full of Kucinich- and Paul-types to actively debate what's best for the whole of the country's population...
Ignaz Semmelweiss campaigned for years to get maternity doctors to wash their hands before entering the maternity suite. He eventually ended up in an asylum, iirc. Years later, after the germ theory of disease became accepted, hand-washing became routine. But Semmelweiss was ignored, and many women and children died needlessly.
The developing recession was preventable, just like all those deaths. If only we had a few more good people in Congress...
If you want to actually accomplish something, then one of the candidates who can accomplish something might be better. In Arizona, like many/most other states, only registered party members can vote in their party's presidential primary election.
I look at the present election as-if it's already November: who could possibly beat Hillary or Obama? Based on the numbers, 'dark horse' candidate Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate with a snowball's chance in Phoenix. In comparison to Clinton and Obama, McCain has no money and no support for his "100 years in Iraq" platform, and Romney is just spending his own money to try to buy the nomination.
So, if you're registered as a Republican, a vote for Romney or McCain is a vote for Obama or Clinton. A vote for Paul counts for something.
Ron Paul is the best candidate because he tried to prevent the housing bubble, by introducing bills to abolish the Federal Reserve system. He gets no coverage from the Media-Political Complex because his platform is to take their toys away.
As for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton has done nothing to distance herself from Bill Clinton's 'free trade' policies (NAFTA, GATT, WTO), which made the housing bubble much worse than it otherwise would have been. Clinton's recession arrived the first time in March, 2001, which was too late for him to get credit, and too early for it to be Bush's fault. Bush tried the standard Keynesian "stimulus" recession remedy, but all the stimulus flowed into Chinese factories and non-productive units of housing. Now the economy's goose is cooked, so we should be thinking about who best to lead the country's reindustrialization. Obama may lack experience, but he's not evil.
Some people do not give up even when they do not succeed. They refuse to accept defeat and continue to try even when common sense tells others there's no use in trying.
Stubbornness is a trait of successful people. What's the story about all the trials Edison went through to successfully make his first lightbulb?
For example, I still can't read Harry Potter. If I were to accept the covert suggestion these Good Germans offer, "if at first you don't succeed give up", I'd be miserable like millions of other depowered humans on our little globe today. But I believe in possibility, and I'll eventually get my imagination working like it's supposed to. It took me years to define the problem, more years to find a solution, and another three years to implement it.
Yes, I much prefer the old "if at first you don't succeed, try try again." Not the same thing over and over, of course, but always trying something new.
I've got one person applying the low-carb philosophy, and she's doing quite well - the extra pounds are just melting off. We've got her fight-or-flight response pretty much under control now, and that's probably most important overall.
All good points.
But when the debate is no longer about science but about agendas, power and money, However would our global elites justify their 'carbon taxes' if it was definitively determined that changes in underwater volcanic activity was the primary cause behind observed climate changes?
In regards to climate change, this statement is the most reasonable one I've heard:
Select and undertake only those actions which are also worth undertaking for other reasons or for their own sake, until the emergency itself becomes certain. -linky
By this criterion, carbon credits and taxes are a distraction from the real problem.
If one has to add fear (by offshoring) over their heads to drive a point, something is terribly wrong.
You're more likely to get shot as well. Someone here once recommended Going Postal to me, and it covers such intentional marginalization of the working class, iirc.
You are correct that the page I linked to was about housing. The previous page in the same blog's feed concluded with these lines:
It is thus pretty clear that the balance of the macro and financial news is strongly bearish. Thus, the most likely scenario is one of a serious US recession in 2008; the main issue now is not whether we will have a recession or not but rather how mild or severe such a recession will be.
The housing bubble is much, much worse than the dot-com bubble, because a lot more people own a house than owned tech stocks. Millions of people are underwater on their houses, even those with stellar credit. And some of those 'prime' borrowers are starting to walk away from their homes.
Anyhow, thanks for holding my feet to the fire - that was sloppy, and I'm supposed to do better.
None of these points is really arguable. Except that trends to change, and often rather suddenly.
For example, the United States is now entering the most severe recession since the Great Depression. Hispanics migrants never really wanted to leave their home countries; economic necessity made them head north. Due to the recession there's less work, they're sending less money home, and a few have started heading back to where they came from.
Nootropics, popularly referred to as "smart drugs", "smart nutrients", "cognitive enhancers" and "brain enhancers", are substances which are claimed to boost human cognitive abilities (the functions and capacities of the brain).... Typically, nootropics are alleged to work by increasing the brain's supply of neurochemicals (neurotransmitters, enzymes, and hormones), by improving the brain's oxygen supply, or by stimulating nerve growth.
This stinks like pharmaceutical white-wash to me: "lookie, people are using our Meth to become smarter! Pay no attention to the children who experience sudden death while using our product!"
This sounds a touch facetious, but you do know that prisons are essentially training grounds to make better criminals, right? And that the U.S. has a greater percentage of the population training to be criminals than anywhere else in the world?
So shutting most of the prisons is a good option (there are, of course, a few violent inmates who are not releasable), as long as you provide ways to help 'reprogram' (via self-hypnosis training or Energy Psychology) the newly freed inmates so that they can lead productive lives.
It had to do with the rubber on the rollers not aging well... My 5L had the same problem - rollers were replaced and it worked just fine for another 8 or so years, though I heard it gave up the ghost last week - fuser perhaps?
I think 20 years sounds about right. What good would locking 2 people up at $35,000/year (or more?) apiece for 20 years do? Which future laser-weilding assailants is this supposed to deter? Only tens-of-thousands people are going to read about this story, leaving millions of kids with laser toys who might do something similar.
Just as a summary: Fuck politics. Keep that shit outta my nerd paradise./rant There was this thing called a "Housing Bubble", and millions of nerds' parents are now underwater on their houses. That means that the nerds are going to have to move out of the basement to the street when the house gets foreclosed on. Unless your parents' house is paid for in full, this includes you.:) (lol, jk)
Teh Bubble will resolve itself with a recession. Seeing as how a politician (Bill Clinton) sent much of our technology manufacturing capability to China, I wonder what the technology-obsessed will do when they can't afford to buy their silicon gadgets anymore. Hope you know how to solder...
What I don't understand is/.'s support for someone to whom Microsoft's "monopoly" would just be a normal, acceptable result of said free market? The free market is dead. It was killed off in the post-civil war period, when corporations were declared to have the same rights as people. This allowed the original monopolies to form, and even though they were "broken", the concentration of power they represented never got dispersed back to the people. See Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900.
The government school monopoly is also important in building and maintaining the corporate monopoly over the everyday lives of people everywhere. See Gatto's Underground History (free on the site), or search google video for an interview.
Ron Paul's campaign is about empowering individuals, which is as good a remedy to the monopolies as any other.
I've shared much of my own experience, and I never know if anyone ever follows up on the information conveyed. Most here on the internets are information junkies that think knowing about something is the same as actually doing it. Their loss.:)
As for the vodka, it burned the back of my tongue a little, and made my throat scratchy - I'm not much of a drinker anymore (never was, really), so perhaps I'll have to work on my shooting technique. I felt the 'warm feeling in the gut' you described, and after a while the scratchyness went away.
I did some training with dried habanero peppers at the start of November, so perhaps that helped. I've been trying to use more cayenne pepper in my food too. I frequent a small natural food store, and the owner used to love her little hot peppers. She told me about how she'd carry a matchbox filled with peppers so she could add them to everything she ate. At one point she could handle the peppers and touch her eyes without any pain - just a little watering of the eye. I guess she decided she'd gone too far, and cut back on her pepper consumption.
Was reading along, and saw this post of yours because I added you as a 'friend' after I saw your habanero vodka post.
Anyways, I now have a jar in the closet half-filled with Vodka and 8 or so Habanero peppers (I'd forgotten how many you suggested when I was at the store) - it's labeled 10-24-07. After a month or so I poured half the tincture back into the vodka bottle, and left the other half in the closet to sit for the rest of the 4-6 months you recommended. I put the vodka bottle in the freezer, as directed.
I thought when I saw your post today that I'd tell you I made the drink. Then I figured that I might as well take my first shot. It went down alright - I wonder what 15 habaneros would be like!
Cross-posted your post (with credit) to a story on K5 on this record-breaking pepper, and shared some pepper stories of my own. Some weeks later I found a little ziplock bag filled with the little red peppers I mentioned in that post. The seeds sprouted, and I now have seven seedlings about to put out their first true leaves. I've got someplace heated to keep them for the winter, so hopefully I'll have my own crop of fresh peppers for my next batch of vodka.
Thanks for sharing your capsicum consumption method.:)
This is a neat story too - I don't have any experience with time distortion myself, but I know an 'old' (65?) martial artist who has very good control over his perception of time. He moves much faster than my eyes can track...
-james
Time distortion is a hypnotic phenomena
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The human perception of Time is a subjective experience. With training, one can either speed up or slow down how fast things seem to be going.
What usually happens is that the boring minutes seem to drag, and the pleasurable moments pass too quickly. One can use hypnosis/etc to switch this around, so that boring hours can seem to pass in minutes, and the good times seem to last forever. Bandler addresses this in his Design Human Engineering system. Milton Erickson, M.D. (psychiatrist who specialized in fixing people with hypnosis) also used time distortion in his work, iirc (and was the original inspiration for much of the NLP founders' developments). Any good book on hypnotic phenomena should cover time distortion too...
Why pay $12-$20/book when I can get it used for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99 (Goodwill, divide by 2 on half-price-day), $0.25 or $0.10 (Disabled American Veterans Thrift Store)?
I bought a couple new books back in the day, for titles that I didn't want to wait for. But now I'd rather be surprised at what I find.
There was one book that had been recommended to me some 2.5 years ago. I almost checked it out of the library this fall, then a couple days later I found a copy at Goodwill for $1.99.
Yes, I wondered myself for a long time if my preferred modality was something other than visual. But I didn't get any imagery of any sort, and finally figured it out. Nine years has left a lot of ground to cover, so I'm glad that I was able to give enough of the details (over the course of several posts) to allow you to get a handle on my particular situation.
I just posted another reply in this thread - you might find something else there.
The only kind of fiction that I can currently read are books based on a movie - Star Trek & Star Wars, mostly. This way some of the visuals have already been supplied by the motion picture makers.
During my last year of high school I obtained a copy of Win Wenger's The Einstein Factor, which discusses the use of "mental imagery" for creative problem solving. I was fascinated because I'd never had an experience with this fabled "mental" sort of imagery, whether the 'image' was visual, kinesthetic, auditory, gustatory or olfactory in nature. But I did remember having a dream once or thrice many years before, and I figured 'dream imagery' was similar to the "mental imagery" Dr. Wenger was talking about in his book.
After a few years of trying to get a mental picture, I figured that it's not so much that I don't get imagery, it's just that it's locked at an unconscious level of awareness. To make an analogy, it's as if I have a 'gnome' that examines the pictures for me, and reports back verbally ('digitally') what the contents thereof are. I did get the occasional flash of conscious imagery in those early years - it was as if I was the seeker looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and I'd find the occasional gold nugget scattered on whatever trail I was hiking on. The occasional flashes stopped once I figured out the physical condition that prevents imagery formation and the resolution thereto. To conclude the analogy, figuring things out was as if I stopped looking for the pot of gold and started panning in the nearby creek.
I've got my 'predicament' mostly figured out, so I mainly post to help others who might be in a similar situation realize that they're missing out, or to help a librarian/teacher like yourself realize yet another reason why someone they're working with might have trouble with the written word.
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While the oil companies are doing very well, most the oil money is going to oil-producing countries, such as Dubai/UAE. The oil companies have to pay market price for the oil they don't produce themselves.
It's one thing to carry out a coup d'état, and quite another to run your conquered country into the ground after you've taken power. Bush & Company will get their due someday... It's hard to see how we'll get there from here, but of this I'm certain.
McCain should drop out because his candidacy is entirely media-created. If the media played McCain's "100 years in Iraq" and "bomb, bomb, bomb iran" soundbites like they did Dean's Scream, he'd go away promptly.
The reality is that John McCain is a Psychopath. Most people get a sense of this, and he'll be routed in November should fortune favor the Democrats with his nomination. Even though polls show him ahead, polls also showed that Giuliani was a front runner. The old way of polling is no longer valid because there are so many more voters this time around.
McCain should quit now and quit wasting our time with his blather... Though I guess 'We the People' need him to split the Republican delegates with Romney, leading to a brokered convention and Ron Paul's nomination.
McCain should hang his head in shame and drop out right now. 2% better than the dark horse candidate? That's pathetic.
The establishment hates Ron Paul because his platform is to take their toys away. The economic collapse we are now experiencing makes the likelyhood of Paul running away with the Republican nomination increasingly likely as spring turns to summer.
And as the system burns to the ground, or as the lemmings are falling en masse off the cliff, leaders like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich will be around to salvage what we can, and to help us build something better for the future.
See I Want the Earth plus 5% for a fictionalized history of central banking. Note how you never hear Ron Paul "succeeded" in doing anything. That was my point. No one can hold Ron Paul responsible for any of his accomplishments, because that would require accomplishments. Who else holds Bill Clinton responsible for sticking the final dagger through the American Prosperity Machine? Is that an accomplishment? A super-recession is now inevitable - if only we'd had a congress full of Kucinich- and Paul-types to actively debate what's best for the whole of the country's population...
Ignaz Semmelweiss campaigned for years to get maternity doctors to wash their hands before entering the maternity suite. He eventually ended up in an asylum, iirc. Years later, after the germ theory of disease became accepted, hand-washing became routine. But Semmelweiss was ignored, and many women and children died needlessly.
The developing recession was preventable, just like all those deaths. If only we had a few more good people in Congress...
I look at the present election as-if it's already November: who could possibly beat Hillary or Obama? Based on the numbers, 'dark horse' candidate Ron Paul is the only Republican candidate with a snowball's chance in Phoenix. In comparison to Clinton and Obama, McCain has no money and no support for his "100 years in Iraq" platform, and Romney is just spending his own money to try to buy the nomination.
So, if you're registered as a Republican, a vote for Romney or McCain is a vote for Obama or Clinton. A vote for Paul counts for something.
Ron Paul is the best candidate because he tried to prevent the housing bubble, by introducing bills to abolish the Federal Reserve system. He gets no coverage from the Media-Political Complex because his platform is to take their toys away.
As for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton has done nothing to distance herself from Bill Clinton's 'free trade' policies (NAFTA, GATT, WTO), which made the housing bubble much worse than it otherwise would have been. Clinton's recession arrived the first time in March, 2001, which was too late for him to get credit, and too early for it to be Bush's fault. Bush tried the standard Keynesian "stimulus" recession remedy, but all the stimulus flowed into Chinese factories and non-productive units of housing. Now the economy's goose is cooked, so we should be thinking about who best to lead the country's reindustrialization. Obama may lack experience, but he's not evil.
For example, I still can't read Harry Potter. If I were to accept the covert suggestion these Good Germans offer, "if at first you don't succeed give up", I'd be miserable like millions of other depowered humans on our little globe today. But I believe in possibility, and I'll eventually get my imagination working like it's supposed to. It took me years to define the problem, more years to find a solution, and another three years to implement it.
Yes, I much prefer the old "if at first you don't succeed, try try again." Not the same thing over and over, of course, but always trying something new.
The original /. story on Taubes' book also included a link to an mp3 of an interview. Which I thought was quite interesting.
I've got one person applying the low-carb philosophy, and she's doing quite well - the extra pounds are just melting off. We've got her fight-or-flight response pretty much under control now, and that's probably most important overall.
In regards to climate change, this statement is the most reasonable one I've heard:
By this criterion, carbon credits and taxes are a distraction from the real problem.
If one has to add fear (by offshoring) over their heads to drive a point, something is terribly wrong.
You're more likely to get shot as well. Someone here once recommended Going Postal to me, and it covers such intentional marginalization of the working class, iirc.
The housing bubble is much, much worse than the dot-com bubble, because a lot more people own a house than owned tech stocks. Millions of people are underwater on their houses, even those with stellar credit. And some of those 'prime' borrowers are starting to walk away from their homes.
Anyhow, thanks for holding my feet to the fire - that was sloppy, and I'm supposed to do better.
For example, the United States is now entering the most severe recession since the Great Depression. Hispanics migrants never really wanted to leave their home countries; economic necessity made them head north. Due to the recession there's less work, they're sending less money home, and a few have started heading back to where they came from.
Mexicans sending less money home, studies find
More indications that money flow slowing to Mexico
Mexicans Miss Money From Relatives Up North: "Like Mr. Rivera, some of the men who went to work in the United States illegally have returned discouraged. And less work means less money to send home -- particularly from the southern United States and other areas where Mexican migrants are a more recent presence."
You're right about the military being 'a small shadow of its former self', though.
This stinks like pharmaceutical white-wash to me: "lookie, people are using our Meth to become smarter! Pay no attention to the children who experience sudden death while using our product!"
This sounds a touch facetious, but you do know that prisons are essentially training grounds to make better criminals, right? And that the U.S. has a greater percentage of the population training to be criminals than anywhere else in the world?
Incarcerated America.
So shutting most of the prisons is a good option (there are, of course, a few violent inmates who are not releasable), as long as you provide ways to help 'reprogram' (via self-hypnosis training or Energy Psychology) the newly freed inmates so that they can lead productive lives.
It had to do with the rubber on the rollers not aging well... My 5L had the same problem - rollers were replaced and it worked just fine for another 8 or so years, though I heard it gave up the ghost last week - fuser perhaps?
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Locking this couple up is a waste of money and a waste of their lives. Punishment never works, according to The Tough on Crime Myth, so something else ought to be done.
Teh Bubble will resolve itself with a recession. Seeing as how a politician (Bill Clinton) sent much of our technology manufacturing capability to China, I wonder what the technology-obsessed will do when they can't afford to buy their silicon gadgets anymore. Hope you know how to solder...
The government school monopoly is also important in building and maintaining the corporate monopoly over the everyday lives of people everywhere. See Gatto's Underground History (free on the site), or search google video for an interview.
Ron Paul's campaign is about empowering individuals, which is as good a remedy to the monopolies as any other.
I've shared much of my own experience, and I never know if anyone ever follows up on the information conveyed. Most here on the internets are information junkies that think knowing about something is the same as actually doing it. Their loss. :)
As for the vodka, it burned the back of my tongue a little, and made my throat scratchy - I'm not much of a drinker anymore (never was, really), so perhaps I'll have to work on my shooting technique. I felt the 'warm feeling in the gut' you described, and after a while the scratchyness went away.
I did some training with dried habanero peppers at the start of November, so perhaps that helped. I've been trying to use more cayenne pepper in my food too. I frequent a small natural food store, and the owner used to love her little hot peppers. She told me about how she'd carry a matchbox filled with peppers so she could add them to everything she ate. At one point she could handle the peppers and touch her eyes without any pain - just a little watering of the eye. I guess she decided she'd gone too far, and cut back on her pepper consumption.
Hi,
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Was reading along, and saw this post of yours because I added you as a 'friend' after I saw your habanero vodka post.
Anyways, I now have a jar in the closet half-filled with Vodka and 8 or so Habanero peppers (I'd forgotten how many you suggested when I was at the store) - it's labeled 10-24-07. After a month or so I poured half the tincture back into the vodka bottle, and left the other half in the closet to sit for the rest of the 4-6 months you recommended. I put the vodka bottle in the freezer, as directed.
I thought when I saw your post today that I'd tell you I made the drink. Then I figured that I might as well take my first shot. It went down alright - I wonder what 15 habaneros would be like!
Cross-posted your post (with credit) to a story on K5 on this record-breaking pepper, and shared some pepper stories of my own. Some weeks later I found a little ziplock bag filled with the little red peppers I mentioned in that post. The seeds sprouted, and I now have seven seedlings about to put out their first true leaves. I've got someplace heated to keep them for the winter, so hopefully I'll have my own crop of fresh peppers for my next batch of vodka.
Thanks for sharing your capsicum consumption method.
This is a neat story too - I don't have any experience with time distortion myself, but I know an 'old' (65?) martial artist who has very good control over his perception of time. He moves much faster than my eyes can track...
-james
The human perception of Time is a subjective experience. With training, one can either speed up or slow down how fast things seem to be going.
What usually happens is that the boring minutes seem to drag, and the pleasurable moments pass too quickly. One can use hypnosis/etc to switch this around, so that boring hours can seem to pass in minutes, and the good times seem to last forever. Bandler addresses this in his Design Human Engineering system. Milton Erickson, M.D. (psychiatrist who specialized in fixing people with hypnosis) also used time distortion in his work, iirc (and was the original inspiration for much of the NLP founders' developments). Any good book on hypnotic phenomena should cover time distortion too...
Why pay $12-$20/book when I can get it used for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99 (Goodwill, divide by 2 on half-price-day), $0.25 or $0.10 (Disabled American Veterans Thrift Store)?
I bought a couple new books back in the day, for titles that I didn't want to wait for. But now I'd rather be surprised at what I find.
There was one book that had been recommended to me some 2.5 years ago. I almost checked it out of the library this fall, then a couple days later I found a copy at Goodwill for $1.99.
Yes, I wondered myself for a long time if my preferred modality was something other than visual. But I didn't get any imagery of any sort, and finally figured it out. Nine years has left a lot of ground to cover, so I'm glad that I was able to give enough of the details (over the course of several posts) to allow you to get a handle on my particular situation.
:)
I just posted another reply in this thread - you might find something else there.
The inability to visualize is related to/caused by a chronic autonomic nervous system imbalance.
Thanks for posting, and have a nice day.
The only kind of fiction that I can currently read are books based on a movie - Star Trek & Star Wars, mostly. This way some of the visuals have already been supplied by the motion picture makers.
:)
During my last year of high school I obtained a copy of Win Wenger's The Einstein Factor, which discusses the use of "mental imagery" for creative problem solving. I was fascinated because I'd never had an experience with this fabled "mental" sort of imagery, whether the 'image' was visual, kinesthetic, auditory, gustatory or olfactory in nature. But I did remember having a dream once or thrice many years before, and I figured 'dream imagery' was similar to the "mental imagery" Dr. Wenger was talking about in his book.
After a few years of trying to get a mental picture, I figured that it's not so much that I don't get imagery, it's just that it's locked at an unconscious level of awareness. To make an analogy, it's as if I have a 'gnome' that examines the pictures for me, and reports back verbally ('digitally') what the contents thereof are. I did get the occasional flash of conscious imagery in those early years - it was as if I was the seeker looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and I'd find the occasional gold nugget scattered on whatever trail I was hiking on. The occasional flashes stopped once I figured out the physical condition that prevents imagery formation and the resolution thereto. To conclude the analogy, figuring things out was as if I stopped looking for the pot of gold and started panning in the nearby creek.
I've got my 'predicament' mostly figured out, so I mainly post to help others who might be in a similar situation realize that they're missing out, or to help a librarian/teacher like yourself realize yet another reason why someone they're working with might have trouble with the written word.
Thanks for responding, and have a nice day.