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Doing nothing is known as limin, an alternate state of consciousness , no problem mon tomorrow soon come
I looked it up. I think I am beginning to understand this "Island thing". My term for "limin" is "nagual", which I think is the same thing. Thanks, Bombi.
Limin
Limin ( li'-min ) (n) a conscious perception of one's surroundings; awareness. (v, possessive) to be aware of one's surroundings;
Word Creation:
Definition of subliminal: a subtle sensory stimulus that one is not aware of its existence but may in some manner respond to it; below the threshold of conscious perception.
Posted : February 26, 2014 9:51 pm
Try going to a quiet beach, get comfortable, stare at the ever level horizon, hear the sounds, feel the power of the sun, the trade winds, the surf, the salt of the water and gravity defied. It may last a moment or forever, look up irie. What 20 someting days left?
Posted : February 26, 2014 10:52 pm
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Try going to a quiet beach, get comfortable, stare at the ever level horizon, hear the sounds, feel the power of the sun, the trade winds, the surf, the salt of the water and gravity defied. It may last a moment or forever, look up irie. What 20 someting days left?
Bombi, I had been waiting for you for 5 days. Thanks for showing up.
irie
to be at total peace with your current state of being. The way you feel when you have no worries.
Posted : February 26, 2014 11:15 pm
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Day 5 (continued).
A pause is a very important concept when playing music. I played guitar (as an amateur) for the last 20 years, and then started to take classical piano lessons. On the piano music sheet, a pause is designated by a single symbol, and it simply means "stop playing". But it took me 20 years to really understand what this means. One way to think of piano playing is to understand it as taking action to excite the strings (by hammering them with a key), causing them to vibrate, which produces the sound. The other way to think of it is that when you play, you suck the silence out, which makes it possible to hear the sound. The silence can be sucked with various intensities, which produces what's known as "dynamics", or the variation of volume. Silence is a sound, too, with volume 0. It is just as important as any other sound. The greatest pianists have mastered the art of not making sounds to perfection. If the pause is too short, the music would feel rushed. If the pause is too long, it would feel artificial. The difference of 50 microseconds could make all the difference.
I've been pausing a lot since I came to STX. Might take me another 20 years to master the art of pausing the existence.
Posted : February 26, 2014 11:48 pm
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Day 5 (continued).
Peter (the rooster) stopped by. He came close to the porch where I was limin. He was accompanied by another rooster, so I wondered about Peter's sexual orientation. Then I thought whether it was appropriate for me to judge Peter by his sexual orientation, and maybe I should take a tolerance class of some kind.
Peter cocked his head, and looked at me as if we was sizing me up. I sat motionless, maintaining the eye contact. On the mainland, there is a "3-second rule". It refers to the amount of time during which you can maintain the eye contact with a man before he perceives it as aggression, or with a woman before she perceives it as sexual advance. Dogs are sensitive to staring, too. Cats are different. I can stare into my cat's eyes for 5 minutes straight, and she participates, but she recognizes neither authority nor intent. Eventually, she gives up, not because she admits the defeat, but because she has better things to do with herself. Peter crowed tentatively, which I took as "It's my territory, but I don't wanna fight", and retreated. I wonder: when roosters interbreed with their own offspring, does it produce the chicks with the birth defects?
Posted : February 27, 2014 1:03 am
Since Irie and Limin were new to you, how at you at mastering the ego?
Can you sit in silence and truely have silence? is your inner monologue silent with you or does it still run on, commenting on things? (this seems to be more difficult with women, I suspect it's the greater connection between the two hemispheres of the brain).
If you wish to reach the true silence, the meditative silence when even the ego pauses with you here's a simple exercise:
come to a calm place/state and ask your self this question (no need to say it out loud)
"what is my next thought" and wait for the inner monologue to answer. (it won't be able to)
Since the ego only lives in the past and has no creative ability it will be unable to answer, as you work at this more and more you can extend this silence and be truly present, in a quiet peaceful state.
After practice this happens easier and easier, this is the goal of many different religions, zen philosophy etc..
it goes very well with beach relaxation (or any relaxation).
Posted : February 27, 2014 1:24 am
Ok I have to ask WHAT GIVES?? A positive person such as myself has been flamed when I say how freaking awesome these islands are - stating I have rose colored glasses, (dumbest phrase ever) in the honeymoon phase, and even "not living real island life" because I've ton back to the states a few times. Now people are flaming this guy (troll or not IDC) saying the same stuff that positive people get flamed for???!!!??? ROFLMAO. I think some people need to..... step.... away... from... the... computer. Hilarious to me. Its so frustrating to see people jumping on other people for THEIR OPINIONS. You know the old saying. If you DON'T like what you're reading, there's a little arrow on the top left corner of your monitor - its called the back button. Use it.
Have a great day! :~)
Posted : February 27, 2014 1:34 am
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Since Irie and Limin were new to you, how at you at mastering the ego?
Can you sit in silence and truely have silence? is your inner monologue silent with you or does it still run on, commenting on things? (this seems to be more difficult with women, I suspect it's the greater connection between the two hemispheres of the brain).
If you wish to reach the true silence, the meditative silence when even the ego pauses with you here's a simple exercise:
come to a calm place/state and ask your self this question (no need to say it out loud)
"what is my next thought" and wait for the inner monologue to answer. (it won't be able to)
Since the ego only lives in the past and has no creative ability it will be unable to answer, as you work at this more and more you can extend this silence and be truly present, in a quiet peaceful state.
After practice this happens easier and easier, this is the goal of many different religions, zen philosophy etc..
it goes very well with beach relaxation (or any relaxation).
Thank you for the feedback, Liquid. The terms Irie and Limin are new to me, but I understand the concept of the internal dialog by having read the books by Carlos Castaneda. I have not gone much beyond the theory, though.
Posted : February 27, 2014 1:35 am
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All of the condominiums that I looked at were built in the 60', 70', and 80'. Back then, the real estate developers in America had the idea that kitchens and bathrooms would be the places where family members would be sent for punishment. Consequently, the kitchens and bathrooms are tight, window-less, cheaply-made, and claustrophobic.
I have a house built in the late 50's; it definately matches this, but not only that, there are some very interesting floor lay out decisions, like... there are two bathrooms next to eachother in one hall.. it cracks me up... at some point I plan on lots of wall removals in an attempt to open the floor space up.
I found exactly what I was looking for!
This is just beautiful, but priced about $150K higher than the top of my price range.
Posted : February 27, 2014 2:44 am
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Posted : February 27, 2014 9:35 am
nice kitchen but i do not like the stove. nice bath, but gold fixtures-ugh and the columns ick. other than that-nice place
liquid flouride-we can as women not have a dialogue in our head every minute -not difficult 🙂
Posted : February 27, 2014 12:03 pm
Thank you for the feedback, Liquid. The terms Irie and Limin are new to me, but I understand the concept of the internal dialog by having read the books by Carlos Castaneda. I have not gone much beyond the theory, though.
very powerful books,, "the flyer" or "their mind" is much more than a concept, it's a reality we experience every day.
taking it into practice has very profound outcomes on daily life; Castaneda even gives excellent advice on lucid dreaming (just picture your hands!) if you've already read The teachings of Don Juan that's pretty awesome; one of my favorite books; you're in the right location to move forward with the knowledge gained there, especially with 25ish days to go :).
The Teachings of Don Juan are corroborated in the Dead Sea Scroll translations, giving it much more weight (IMO).
This is just beautiful, but priced about $150K higher than the top of my price range.
that was a pretty spectacular place...
FYI, I offered about 80,000 less (almost a third of the total price) than asking price on my place and got it pretty easily.... don't be spooked off by the initial asking price, in most cases it's based on pure fantasy
Posted : February 27, 2014 12:58 pm
Why did you lift and re-post images directly from Amy Land-de-Wilde's listing page for this property? If you're just sharing a listing, you should say.
Posted : February 27, 2014 1:01 pm
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'ello moderators ... sorry ... Good morning, moderators!
nice kitchen but i do not like the stove.
The flat top? What's wrong with it?
If you're just sharing a listing, you should say.
Listing on Amy's Page for 525 Coakley Bay
Yes, that's the one.
very powerful books,, "the flyer" or "their mind" is much more than a concept, it's a reality we experience every day.
taking it into practice has very profound outcomes on daily life; Castaneda even gives excellent advice on lucid dreaming (just picture your hands!) if you've already read The teachings of Don Juan that's pretty awesome; one of my favorite books; you're in the right location to move forward with the knowledge gained there, especially with 25ish days to go :).
"The teachings of Don Juan" remarkably changed the way I perceive things. Powerful book, indeed.
Posted : February 27, 2014 2:03 pm
speee1dy
nice kitchen but i do not like the stove.
The flat top? What's wrong with it?
Most VI residents would rather have a gas/propane stove -- most cooks as well -- electricity is very costly and can be unreliable here but gas stoves will work during prolonged outages. Also any electric appliance that has digital/computer chip controls are very prone to mother board/CPU failure from surges and brownouts which are common and they require a very expensive major appliance surge protector and/[or whole house protection as well.
Posted : February 27, 2014 3:54 pm
Most VI residents would rather have a gas/propane stove -- most cooks as well -- electricity is very costly and can be unreliable here but gas stoves will work during prolonged outages. Also any electric appliance that has digital/computer chip controls are very prone to mother board/CPU failure from surges and brownouts which are common and they require a very expensive major appliance surge protector and/[or whole house protection as well.
Absolutely! I lived with an electric stove here for 10 years and hated it for the duration for all the reasons you gave - not to mention that just from a cook's perspective, the inability to immediately turn down the heat without waiting for "cool-down" is a real pain. When subsequently looking for a new place to live I immediately disqualified every place with an electric stove.
Posted : February 27, 2014 4:17 pm
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Day 6.
I came up with this thing which I call the "Locality Principle". The LP states the following:
"Everything else being equal, the effect of a particular event is inversely proportional to the square root of the distance between the location of the event and the location of the observer".
Formulaically, it looks like this:
M(E) ~ (1 / sqrt(D)),
where M(E) is the magnitude of the effect, and D is the distance.
For example, if you hear that someone was killed in a car accident on your street, it's a big deal. If you hear that someone was killed in a car accident on the adjacent street, it's slightly less significant. And if you hear that 35,000 people die in car accidents in the U.S. every year, you care very little.
The LP can be applied universally to a number of subjects. Let's say that you are shopping for a condominium on STX. In the same condo complex, a condo right on the water might cost you $300K, but the same condo just 100 feet away from the water would be only $240K. As you go further and further away from the beach, the same condo would cost even less, and the difference in price would be small, whether it's 4 miles from the beach, or 5 miles from the beach. When you are that far, 1 mile doesn't make much of a difference. That is, the relationship is logarithmic, rather than linear, as LP postulates.
On STX, the LP is more pronounced than on the continent. That's because STX is a very small island far away, so what happens on the island is far, far more important than what happens off the island. The continuum of the smooth transition of effects is broken, because when you live on the island, things are either very close, or very far. There is nothing in between. STXers love to talk about WAPA (the water and power authority which sets the electricity cost) and Hovensa (the oil refinery company on STX which was closed in 2012). STXers can talk about WAPA and Hovensa all day long, and they never get tired of it. That's because the effect of these two things is huge due to proximity. The cost of electricity trickles down to the cost of pretty much all of the consumer goods and services on the island, and the closure of Hovensa affected the availability of jobs on the island in a dramatic fashion.
Posted : February 27, 2014 4:18 pm
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Most VI residents would rather have a gas/propane stove -- most cooks as well -- electricity is very costly and can be unreliable here but gas stoves will work during prolonged outages. Also any electric appliance that has digital/computer chip controls are very prone to mother board/CPU failure from surges and brownouts which are common and they require a very expensive major appliance surge protector and/[or whole house protection as well.
Ah, of course. I should have known this by now. Thanks.
Posted : February 27, 2014 4:26 pm
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Day 6 (continued).
The people on STX look good. My host is a 70+ year old lady who lived on the island for the last 40+ years. She looks like 45. I am not exaggerating to compliment her. I am 47. Next to my host, I look awful. The skin on my face is dry, and my face muscles are tense most of the time. Here on STX, I already feel the improvement. I can breath through my nose easily, which I could not do on the continent. The air here is clean, fresh, and moist, yet it's not humid.
Posted : February 27, 2014 4:50 pm
you hit your visit at the right time. in the summer we have tons of humidity. also looks pretty clear right now but there are days that the desert dust is so thick you could cut it with a knife. and that does make breathing more difficult.
someone else answered your question to me perfectly.
Posted : February 27, 2014 7:19 pm
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you hit your visit at the right time. in the summer we have tons of humidity. also looks pretty clear right now but there are days that the desert dust is so thick you could cut it with a knife. and that does make breathing more difficult.
Thanks, speee1dy. I researched quite a bit before I came here, and had the (apparently totally wrong) impression that the weather is pretty much the same all year around. Where does the desert dust come from?
someone else answered your question to me perfectly.
What does that mean? What was the question and the answer?
Posted : February 27, 2014 7:45 pm
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Day 6 (continued).
One word that I frequently hear on STX is "snowbird".
Here is the dictionary definition: snowbird:
snowbird
1.Irritating old people who come down to Florida from Northern states, drive like maniacs, and should be illegal.
2.disgusting old people from northern states who wear speedos on our beaches. God help us all.
The snowbirds are controversial because, on the one hand, they support the local economy by infusing it with currency, and on the other hand, they disturb the natural rhythm and cycle of local life. When you are in the symphony hall listening to Beethoven, the worst thing that could happen is that someone utters a single cough. Typically, this is a not-so-subliminal signal to other people to start coughing, too. By now, the symphony hall is full of coughing sounds, reflecting from the walls designed to enhance the propagation of sound. People like to cough and yawn in groups, because conformity is a way of survival. The concert piano players are trained for many years to totally submerge themselves into music, and to ignore the audience. When I play piano, my teacher sometimes moves around as if she is performing an Irish dance, and produces harsh noises with random items. She is teaching me to ignore her.
Posted : February 27, 2014 8:45 pm
Thoroughly enjoying this blog of your experience. Making me laugh and miss my island.
Same here.
Posted : February 27, 2014 9:12 pm
snowbirds are just people who come for the winter every year. They do seem to mostly be older, but when you're young, it's hard to have two homes.
Posted : February 27, 2014 10:19 pm
snowbirds are just people who come for the winter every year. They do seem to mostly be older, but when you're young, it's hard to have two homes.
Snowbirds also refer (and I think more generally) to the young people who come here to latch onto jobs in the hospitality industry in high season. Since the economy has slumped there are WAY less of them than in years past - the jobs just aren't here like they used to be.
Posted : February 27, 2014 10:59 pm
