Pattern Interruption

Digital Age Hopes, Stone Age Acceptance

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Acceptance, Stone Age, Mindware, Mindfulness, Hope, Information Age, Pattern Interruption, Reading, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Most weeks I pick up two or three random books (from a local store that sells used books). Some of them I read cover to cover, others - I skim. I fi...

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The Bilbao Effect: Architecture of Pattern Interruption?

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Function, The Bilbao Effect, Form, Mindfulness, Architecture, Ouroboros, Essence, Pattern Interruption, Arts News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Consider Bilbao-effect (not necessarily, Bilbao-style) buildings not as pointless architectural excess but as existentially relevant topographical alarm-clocks for urban consciousness.

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Poetry: a Zen Sin?

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ego, Zen Buddhism, Pattern Interruption, Discursive Mind, Direct Experience, No-Mind, Self-Narrative, Poetry, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

"Words are not known in all the Buddha-lands." (Lankvatara). I know and yet I use them - not just to survive or make a living but - of all reasons - ...

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Lo Fi, Bang & Olufsen, and All That Cheating Jazz (Part 1)

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Uncertainty, Form, Jesse James, Low Fidelity, Propaganda, Mindflow, Lo Fi, Journalism, Sound, Certainty, Mindlessness, MSNR, Loyalty, Consciousness, Mindfulness, Media Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Tiger Woods, Essence, Pattern Interruption, Guarantee, Cheating, Mind, Hi Fi, High Fidelity, Promise, Noise, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Informed consent: I've got this blog on my mind. I think it can explain some things about our culture of Low Fidelity and all that Tiger Woods/Jesse...

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Dogs Crow, Cocks Bark

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taoism, Politics, Metacognition, Fact, Not-Knowing, Epistemology, Knowing, Fiction, Opinion, Dialectics, Mind, Zhuangzi, Pattern Interruption, Politics News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Small Knowledge said: "Ji Zhen holds that the world was not created by anything, and Jiezi holds that it was created by something. Which is correct an...

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Pattern Interruption Hall of Fame: Zach Galifianakis

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mindfulness, Pavel Somov, Authenticity, Pattern Interruption, Presence, Comedy, Pattern Break, Rascal Sage, Zach Galifianakis, Diogenes of Synope, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

By living life in contradiction, by embodying the contradiction, Galifianakis seems to be promoting a dialectically nuanced view of reality, which is an invaluable counterweight to the mindset of oversimplification.

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Mind Interrupted is Mind Awake

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mindlessness, Mindfulness, Confusion, Schematic Thinking, Pattern Interruption, Nonduality, Clarity, Dichotomous Thinking, Healthy Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

This is a short-attention-span/pattern-interruption post for the minds on the go. Format: five pattern-interruption thoughts to, perhaps, further...

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Joaquin the Koan

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zen, Stanislavski, Pavel Somov, Koan, Letterman, Pattern Interruption, Rapper, Dostoyevsky, Rascal Sage, Joaquin Phoenix, Diogenes of Synope, Gurdjieff, Entertainment News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

The Fall-Winter of 2008-2009 in American history will be remembered for three things: who won the presidential election, who won the Super Bowl and... what the hell is going on with Joaquin Phoenix?!

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