Category Archives: 5. EXPERIENCE

The word experience , originates in the Latin experientia meaning an act of trying. In a general sense experience refers to the personal events, situations, and circumstances, that flow together throughout life and how those things are interpreted by the individual. We can also refer to collective experience, or an experience that is understood to be shared by a group of people. My interest is to explore the experience of learning from various perspectives in order to reveal its diversity and presence in various contexts.

Experience: Transience — Younger Next Year

Posted on 06/05/2010 by Brian Alger

Cul­ture can not only be con­fin­ing, it can be phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally, and men­tally unhealthy. We live inside a set of cul­tural assump­tions that often remain invis­i­ble to us. Some­times, these sub­con­scious assump­tions can cause us to live in extreme cir­cum­stances. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Experience: Random Musing on Mental Incontinence

Posted on 06/02/2010 by Brian Alger

I’m con­vinced that the great­est legacy of dig­i­tal media will be the emer­gence and per­va­sive assim­i­la­tion of men­tal incontinence.

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Inertia — Communication Incontinence and Our Collective Inability to Reduce Salt

Posted on 06/02/2010 by Brian Alger

One of my favorite blogs related to issues sur­round­ing food and food pro­duc­tion in Mar­ion Nestle’s Food Pol­i­tics. In Salt Under Siege she revis­its the prob­lems with high lev­els of sodium in our food sup­ply and tracks how var­i­ous enti­ties … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Yoga Philosophy and Clarifying Our Experience

Posted on 06/01/2010 by Brian Alger

In a Yoga prac­tice, learn­ing isin­tensely focused on the clar­i­fy­ing the nature of our own expe­ri­ence, and authen­ti­cally com­mu­ni­cat­ing that expe­ri­ence to oth­ers. Learn­ing phi­los­o­phy in a Yoga prac­tice means that our own expe­ri­ence is the cur­ricu­lum and our minds … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Habit: Involuntary Routines

Posted on 02/05/2010 by Brian Alger

How much of our expe­ri­ence is dri­ven by invol­un­tary ten­den­cies and habits? Under­stand­ing the nature and essence of habit in our lives is an essen­tial task. Habits are both inevitable and unavoid­able. They are a medium of per­cep­tion; a com­plex … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Meaning: What should I do with my life?

Posted on 02/01/2010 by Brian Alger

[Explor­ing Life] Aris­to­tle posed the ques­tion, How should a human being lead his life? It is a uni­ver­sal ques­tion that touches every human life on the planet. For some, the ques­tion vis­its us only once in a while; for other, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Cultural Conditioning: Mobile vs. Sendentary Lifestyle

Posted on 01/27/2010 by Brian Alger

[Explor­ing Life] The body is designed to be in motion. In Take a break, it could save your life Jeremy Lau­rance reports that remain­ing sta­tion­ary for long peri­ods of time as a habit­ual lifestyle char­ac­ter­is­tic will threaten the health of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Identifying Universal Emotions of Humankind

Posted on 01/16/2010 by Brian Alger

From: Five emo­tions you never knew you had Pre­sup­po­si­tions in Arti­cle That uni­ver­sal emo­tions exist That there are cur­rently “six basic” emo­tions of humankind — joy, sad­ness, anger, fear, sur­prise and dis­gust That these six emo­tions were essen­tial to our sur­vival as … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Experience: Research and Knowing Nothing

Posted on 01/14/2010 by Brian Alger

Many researchers have already cast much dark­ness upon this sub­ject, and it is prob­a­ble that if they con­tinue, that we shall soon know noth­ing at all about it – Mark Twain

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Inevitables in Life: Suddenly I Realized I Forgot To Live…

Posted on 01/09/2010 by Brian Alger

[Explor­ing Life] One of the great­est fail­ures of life­long learn­ing is to live an unlived life, or a life that in hind­sight is filled with regret. How many of us in the twi­light years of our life look back on … Con­tinue read­ing →

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