Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Sensory Deprevation

Dustin.

sensation

tactile hallusination

alpha beta: brain waves which we experience life with.

pheta: lack of sensation

POPULAR MECHANICS, 1962

toke LSD and talked to Dolphins.

striped of 'outside' simulation.

arent used to lack of stimulation

leave what hallusinations happen in tank, and revisit next session.

tank- extends to the universe, not limited to the sensation of the limits of our body.

aristotle:



programming: what goes on in your mind

GANZFELD procedure: undifferentiated light source. causes hallusinations. amplifies neuro noise.

also torture device- used on war prisoners (bad hallusinations)



example : 'self program' with no sensation, one replaces the spot of sensation with programs, manifested from the inside ego. these images, hallucinations are used therapeutically to uncover inner struggles.

a man who kept a lot of keys goes into sensory deprevation:

has hallucinations of a room, which each room locked, and he has to open each room with his keys. each room is one of his inner problems.


each room embodies: 'meta programatic storage'

James Turell

city of Arhirit, 1976. walk into ganszelt.

references:

chris salter

robert irwin - coming out of sense deprivation - trains his mind to remember what it feels like when coming out of sense deprivation - paints this way.

light works, paints himself.

seeing is forgetting the way one sees.

paintings >>>>>> conditions of perceptions.




INTERnauts, instead of astronauts, exploring the inside.

philosphers that do drugs

Aldolf Hucksly

Simong Freud

Dream House

Shannon Weibe.

Carl Yung:
disagrees with Freud, human behavior cannot all be reduced to sexual theory.

Memories, dreams, reflections.

Dreamt of a Tower, and built a real tower of representation of his dream.

Additions of the house were not meant for physical need, but for psychological development of his thoughts.


Maternal hurth, oneless of the self.

Annex- concept of self, inwardly focused, objective view of nature of consciousness.

yoga room (!) - committment of self to spirit: link between psychology and religion.

Top addition - felt like he no longer 'needed' to hide.

path to individation and self-discovery.

secondar sources:

Vaughan Hart - Jung's Bollingen tower attempt to build a 'house of dreams' in which alchemical symbols have been seen to represent clues to its meaning, following his own analysis of such symbols in actual construcion.

Suzanna Lenard - the Tower: manifestion of underlying archetypal structure of the psyche

4 parts of a person:

sensation
intellect
feeling
intuition

Lucy Huskinson - Heidegger - design is not assembly of building components according to abstract geometric principles, it is a learning process of an individuation.

Gaston Bachelard

Oneiric House. cellar and attic/ we choice usually one of them. one dark, one light, so different from each other. how does this reflect on our ego.

Pjoter Muller - Jung's House

Tots Haur U R

Grego Schneider - Lives and works in this house. replicas of rooms, rooms inside rooms, etc.

artificial lights and ventilation system

additional references:

clare cooper marcus - house as a mirror of self

charles baudelaire - the double room 1 room, multiple meanings.

comments: house in a house in a house.

Jung - symbolic.

Schneider - phenomenological


Dustin.

sensation

tactile hallusination

alpha beta: brain waves which we experience life with.

pheta: lack of sensation

POPULAR MECHANICS, 1962

Monday, January 11, 2010

Awakening:

In which Proust, Valery, and Benjamin say much about the Disturbances at the End of Sleep

Heller-Roazen, Daniel, The Inner Touch, Archaeology of a Sensation, Zone Books MIT Press, 2007.

Chapter 7.

Awakening discusses the state where one is departing the sleeping world, and entering the waking world. At this state, ones orientation is determined by their present bodily position in the waking world, and their bodily position prior to their sleeping state.

the state which one is awaking is one which one becomes, new a waking being. This being is new each time one wakes. In the inner world, which Nada describes in the course outline, the blur between 'awake' and 'asleep', is a threshold where one is not composed yet as a waking inner body in the outer world. The geographical context of the outer body truly determines the inner body and outer body coherence in the state of waking.

The outer body is the constant, however in both the waking/sleep worlds.