In an icy day
Sitting in the back of the car
Watching people go by
Sinking in the depths of the abyss.
Watching darkness come by.
In a warm day.
Feeling so alive.
Watch that butterfly.
It is dead now.
Why don’t I cry?
Fool!
At the moment a tear goes down.
I could swear…
I could hear her laughing out loud…
Walking in the cold.
Inside an old car,
Me passing by…
The abyss is calm now.
The car is gone.
Forget the butterfly.
What an icy day…
A dead leaf falls on the ground.
The most beautiful scenes, are filled with death and destruction.
But only if we keep on seeing with our eyes…
Maintaining direct eye contact really is strenuous for the brain, according to new research, and it uses up scarce cognitive resources that we need for things like reasoning and verbal processing.
There are many reasons for avoiding eye contact ― social anxiety, being lost in thought, or feeling strong emotions like guilt or embarrassment ― but sometimes we drop another’s gaze simply because it’s too mentally taxing.
A Japanese study published in the December issue of the journal Cognition found there is some interference between eye contact and verbal processing in the brain, which may be why we periodically avert our eyes during conversations. The researchers found that eye contact uses the same mental resources as complex reasoning ― so, when carrying on a conversation that requires us to reason, we may periodically drop eye contact as a way to conserve those cognitive resources. In other words, maintaining eye contact can take a lot of effort. (1)
Seeing. Listening. Thinking.
Everything entails using the brain. Everything entails thinking. And research also shows that the development of our brain, sensory perception and motor skills happen in sync. (2)
So why do we think of thinking as something special? “I think therefore I am” said a philosopher once upon a time. But could something so common be so important as to define who we are? If thinking is the default, shouldn’t we seek our identity in something less common? And what does the synchronized development of the brain, the senses and our self actually mean?
Lower your gaze.
Close your ears.
There is no one talking…
You are talking to yourself. You are the only one here…
The daily rising and setting of the sun propels what is thought to be the world’s largest migration: Tiny zooplankton move from the near-surface waters — where they spend the night feeding — down into deeper, darker waters during the day to avoid predators that rely on sight for finding a meal. It was thought that in the perpetually dark waters of the Arctic winter that such a migration wouldn’t happen. After all, there’s no sunlight for weeks or months.
Now a new study that combines 50 years of observations from locations across the Arctic shows that zooplankton are still migrating in the depths of winter. But with the sun gone, they have tied their timing to the next biggest source of light — the moon. In spring and fall, when the sun sets and rises daily in the Arctic, zooplankton follow their normal pattern of vertical migration, moving down deep in the day and rising toward the surface at night. But after the sun sets for winter, the zooplankton adjust their schedule, swimming up and down the water column not every 24 hours but every 24.8 hours, following the rising and setting of the moon. And every 29.5 days, when there is a full moon, the mass of zooplankton fall to a depth of about 50 meters, where they can keep out of the brightest moonlight. The movement may help hide the zooplankton from predators that need light to find their prey, the researchers say. [1]
From the Moon to the Sun and back.
Once we worshiped the Moon, then we followed the Sun. Once we were creatures with emotions. Now we are creatures with logic. Once we worshiped Dionysus and Panas. Then we worshiped Apollo.
Then Jesus came to Earth. And set things straight. There is no Sun. There is no Moon. Have faith and you will see. There is only Light. Deep within.
Let go of the Moon. Let go of the Sun. Follow your Heart.
