Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
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Why the World Gets Quieter When It Snows | the Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future
called an ‘anechoic chamber’. If you stand in one for too long, the sound of the blood in your ears will apparently drive you insane.
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
“Rebecca Solnit put it much the same way…: ‘I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought.’ In other words, thoughts – or souls – can get left behind if their hosts move too quickly.”
“Slow down and tune into our seismographs.” The invitation is to practice “sensing to the depths” by finding one’s own inner still point, dropping through the layers of white noise, or using a finely-tuned instrument to hear the subtle signals.
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
What do we sense from our different perspectives? What do we “hear” and what are the different qualities o... See more
Nancy Zamierowski • Slow down and tune into our seismographs
Half of us are plugged into iPods, immersed in daylong concerts of our own choosing, virtually oblivious to the environment—and for those who are not plugged in, there is nonstop music, unavoidable and often of deafening intensity, in restaurants, bars, shops, and gyms. This barrage of music puts a certain strain on our exquisitely sensitive audito
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