One of the benefits of being the spouse of a Georgia Tech professor is taking advantage of free offerings from the school. We had started a 4 week meditation class in an attempt to reduce stress and see if it would help me with some back pain that I was having. But the metaphysical nature of the teachings kept me from really being able to use the teachings. Lines like, "build a tunnel from your heart-center to the candle..." weren't working for me. I know that there are tangable and observable benefits to meditation. Being a skeptical kind of guy, the spiritual side to the teachings keep me from really getting much out of the class and we stopped going after the second week.
What got me thinking about such things was reading an article about the Dalai Lama working with scientist to document the changes on the brain and body when meditating. I would think that a tech school could develop a mediation program that was inclusive of scientific aspects that the students could relate to. I would certainly be more likely to go to that one.
Also see:
Wired News: Scientists Meditate on Happiness
Wild Divine Home Page "the Journey to Wild Divine is a unique program for mind & body that links biofeedback hardware with your computer..."
The Science Of Binaural Beat Brainwave Entrainment Technology frequency-based brain alteration
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Movies:
Finally finished some movie watching started over Thanksgiving weekend. It started with a post turkey-diner viewing of Reefer Madness! The Movie Musical. Based on the original propaganda film "Reefer Madness" (available here for free download) this one had Christian Campbell, Robert Torti, Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming, Neve Campbell, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Spanger and Steven Weber in it. Great scenes like Jesus Christ "lording" over a heavenly cocktail lounge, marijuana induced sex-madness and catchy songs made this a great way to wind down. Seriously good stuff.
Lat night, we finished Mad Hot Ballroom which followed a collection of NYC grade-school kids in their mandatory ball-room dance classes. Really charming, with the kids being both funny about boy-girl stuff and really coming alive as they preform in a city-wide competition.
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And finally, Mystery Sites: more weirdness in the good U.S of A.
More Scientology fun. Now everyone can see where the Scientologist keet their secret stash of records, alien bodies and rejected Tom Cruise movie scripts. The circles etched in the New Mexico desert are signs for future Scientologist to follow in order to unearth a repository of teachings and documents important to the group.
A Place in the Desert for New Mexico's Most Exclusive Circles from the Washington Post
Scientology landing strip - Microsoft TerraServer Imagery
Scientology landing strip - Google Map
A Florida television station reports on a community outside of a state prison where the homes have no public records, the police won't allow filming and the folks won't talk about the place.
First Coast News | Local News - The Secret City
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