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Playing Possum on the Mountain

Have you ever walked into a public bathroom and suddenly realized you're in the wrong one? Where's the urinal's? Or maybe you've entered a room expecting to join a meeting and you quickly realize you're in the wrong one. Oops! Or you turn a corner expecting to see one thing and you find something entirely different. I almost walked off the top of a building that way. These are all examples of reality being 'real' and our expectations being entirely wrong.

Well.......I had a midnight visitor last night and he was the one suffering from severe disorientation. Mrs. Cog and I had so much fun with the images, video and narrative she decided to cook up a video and short story to post so you could enjoy it too.

Please join me in reading (and watching) Playing Possum.

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Tighten Those Chin Straps Folks Because Here Comes a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD)

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Cognitive Dissonance

 

Please stick with this piece dear reader for it does not end on the same path from which it starts.

Being a child of the 50’s and 60’s, it comes as no surprise to anyone from that era that I’m a bit of a space buff. From the moment I saw my first televised rocket launch I was hooked and have never fully recovered from my childhood obsession. Beginning with Project Mercury and the suborbital flight of Alan Shepard in 1961, followed shortly by the three orbits of John Glenn, then progressing through Project Gemini where America practiced the space skills needed to eventually land on the moon and culminating with the Apollo Program and (supposedly) several trips to the moon, one thing they all had in common was the seriousness of everyone involved. Going to space was serious business performed by serious people. There was no joking around because failure wasn’t an option. Continue reading Tighten Those Chin Straps Folks Because Here Comes a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD)

Waking Up is Hard to Do

Waking Up is Hard to Do

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Cognitive Dissonance

 

Do you remember when you first woke up, that point when it all became frighteningly clear to you? I certainly don’t, and if rigorous honesty is employed I doubt you do as well.

I make this statement with a high degree of certainty based not just upon my own personal experience, but from countless conversations over the years. Stated simply, ‘waking up’ is not an on/off switched event, but rather a process of slowly clearing away the fog of self deception and comforting illusion. Just as we do not instantly wake from our overnight slumber fully aware and properly functioning, so too do we fail to shake off decades of deep social conditioning and propaganda in an instant. Continue reading Waking Up is Hard to Do