thinking
"Thinking is like cosmic knitting,"Waldorf school founder Rudolf Steiner wrote nearly one hundred years ago. Steiner developed a comprehensive handwork curriculum for Waldorf students based on this idea, filled with knitting, sewing and woodworking, believing that "a person who is unskillful in his fingers will also be unskillful in his intellect, having less mobile ideas and thoughts."
An article about how working with your hands, stimulates your mind...All students and teachers need to read it...My thinking has destroyed my ability to have a successful career, to have a happy male-female relationship, to have peace of mind in tranquil situations as well as stressful situations and above all else to consistently make money in the Stock Market. And there it is for all who want to see and read...
"In that sense, TED thinking is like a one-night stand with ideas. One night stands can be fun, and may sometimes even lead to something more - but they're not the great, worthy love affairs that change our lives. So I worry: TED thinking encourages something like an obsession with trivia - when it's the searing, painful, transformative experience of Big Love you and I should be aiming at."
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.