Open up your mind
no new tyres; telepathy; clubbing nostalgia; lifeprotips; star maker
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
– Jean de La Fontaine
Hey! It’s been a few weeks. I’ve been so busy working on an important project, and I’m so excited to… nah. I was in a vortex reading all the articles, reviews, and videos - including Italian YouTubers - ever published on the internet about a motorcycle… I had already bought.
Then I studied the best tyres I could put on that new bike. Until exhaustion. Metzeler M9 RR? Bridgestone S23? Michelin Power 6?
Extensive comparative tabs on Perplexity, longer than your Instagram feed? Absolutely.
Have I banked enough knowledge to welcome you into a tyre shop confidently? Probably.
Do I even need to change my tyres yet? No.
Time spent on research for the bike: xxx hours.
Time spent riding it so far: six hours – one ride.
Anyway, I now go from 0 to 200 km/h in under 10 seconds, so I can take on any RS6 or GT3 that pulls up next to me at a red light. It all makes sense.
Now, let’s talk telepathy.
This podcast
The huge success of The Telepathy Tapes (Top 10 on Spotify & Apple Podcasts for months) shows that we want to believe. Whether telepathy exists or not, our appetite goes beyond the scepticism and the pseudoscience controversy that the show raised.
I listened to all the episodes, and despite the concerning lack of rigour in the experiments, I enjoyed questioning my assumptions and rationale – opening the doors of what if.
Exploring how thoughts and feelings might be shared is fascinating, and it reminded me again how little we know about consciousness. Nothing is far-fetched on that topic.
This track
Open up your mind. Listen to her, repeating these words for ten minutes in a row.
(triggers sweet early 2000s clubbing memories, right? An anthem in Paris at the time: L’Enfer, Studio 287, afters at Kit Kat and Follow Me here we go)
This LPT
hit me like a train. I’m that great unsolicited life coach… for others.
‘I will move mountains for imaginary people but not for myself.’
Interlude
I miss the Tumblr era, when we’d post a music video, a mood, just like that.
This book
I didn’t add this novel to my book recommendations, as it’s a bit wordy and hard to digest. Star Maker is still mind-blowing, and I keep thinking about it, so it deserves a few words here.
Star Maker is a science fiction classic. The narrator travels through time and space in the cosmos using guess what... telepathy. Not just to communicate, but to inhabit species.
Some of the advanced civilisations he encounters have group minds, telepathy being a key part of their existence and the only form of communication and beyond. Think telepathic intercourse and so on. Again, it doesn’t feel far-fetched at all.
A great book to open up your mind.
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