Pixies – Levitate Me lyrics

High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here
At the corner of your lips
As the orbit of your hips
Eclipse
You elevate my soul

POW!

My point is that this feeling, not the same feeling as the feeling of laughter, Alan Watts called AWAKENING, not “elevation”.

Scientists often ‘discover’ things that have been known about for thousands of years, things that run deep in our religious history– albeit forgotten over the last few hundred.

However, I’ll be the first to admit that putting ancient ideas into modern scientific language (certainly a challenge in and of itself) tends to be more fruitful for engineering than when expressed in the language of poetry ;P It’s too bad that most of the scientists studying “elevation” probably only get the equivalent of a throat-laugh out of it (at best).

In light of all this, the whole Obamamania thing has completely changed my view of politics. You heard it here first my friends: IDEOLOGY IS DEAD. You look around and see problems and corruption, but it doesn’t matter what laws are created, ethics legislation or whatever, because laws do not make people. It’s important to realize that all the people you see as corrupt in government and on wall street are a reflection of YOU. Congressmen and CEOs are just people. I used to be a fatalist libertarian but now I see that people en masse can be changed, all it takes is a positive, inspiring message. If you are truly inspired you can inspire others… That does not mean you should start a non-profit and buy commercials or protest and yell and scream or any of that shit. Ideology is dead and so is advocacy. All you have to do to inspire others in a real way is to BE INSPIRING. Ideology is dead because there are no answers to anything. Just BE GOOD, DO WHAT YOU LOVE, and DO WHAT’S RIGHT. That’s it.

Obama’s real challenge: Can he inspire Congress?

“The feeling is very different when you *get* it right away and from when it must be explained to you.”

OR, alternatively,

“The feeling is very different when you don’t get it right away, when it must be explained to you.”

not:

“The feeling is very different when you don’t get it right away and when it is explained to you.”

doy

* Feeling like you can do anything, even something unsafe or illegal
* Needing very little sleep, yet never feeling tired
* Dressing flamboyantly, spending money extravagantly, living recklessly
* Having increased sexual desires, perhaps even indulging in risky sexual behaviors
* Experiencing hallucinations or delusions
* Feeling filled with energy

Some people think that they are just “over their depression” when they become manic, and don’t realize this exaggerated state is part of the illness – part of bipolar disorder. A person who has depression and mania is said to have Bipolar I.

In addition to Bipolar Disorder I, the American system of diagnosing this disorder also includes Bipolar Disorder II, which involves symptoms of hypomania instead of full-blown mania.

Hypomania – a less extreme form of manic episode – could include:

* Having utter confidence in yourself
* Being able to focus well on projects
* Feeling extra creative or innovative
* Being able to brush off problems that would paralyze you during depression
* Feeling “on top of the world” but without going over the top.

Hypomania does not include hallucinations or delusions, but a hypomanic person still might exhibit some reckless or inappropriate behavior. A person who has moods of depression and hypomania is said to have Bipolar II.”

Secondly, I wanted to weigh in just briefly on mania. If you get those feelings as described above when you are high, that means you are high, not “elevated” and certainly not bi-polar. If you have ongoing depression and self-medicate with certain chemicals, you can put yoursef into a manic state. But if you or a doctor is trying to figure out if you are bipolar (i.e. depression and mania), you really can’t count when you were high as the manic part.

If a doctor suspects you are bi-polar, based on the behaviors listed above they will not prescribe an anti-depressent (due to a concern that it will make you go manic.) They will instead prescribe a mood-stabilizer. The lamictal/lithium route is fine for some, but for many others it can present a frustrating and time consuming dead end.

It’s probably just God’s way of letting me know He Approves of herb.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image/imagerecords/7000/7314/saturn_cas_lrg.jpg

Earth is the collection of almost 4 pixels in the upper left inside the rings.

or ask a hardcore fanfic/slash devotee. they troll through thousands of crappy fics to make those romance novel-esque plot devices of angsty happiness light up all the right parts of their brains and rumble down in their stomachs.