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Jeffrey Michael Samudosky – Redwood Octopus
Category Humanity
Things associated with humanity
Paleolithic cave paintings tied to altered states of consciousness
Were the ancient ancestors getting high as they tagged caves with trippy cave art? Why yes. Of course they were. The researchers describe the experience: Hypoxia in Paleolithic decorated caves: the use of artificial light in deep caves reduces oxygen…
Why is Cthulhu on this 1700 Gravestone?
Photo by The Archivist Reverend Ichabod Wiswall, Duxbury MA. Pilgrim emissary to the court of King & Queen William and Mary. Friend to convicted witch Captain John Alden (Son of the more famous John Alden).
The Deep Roots of Writing
Was writing invented for accounting and administration or did it evolve from religious movements, sorcery and dreams? The administrative hypothesis is that great states developed writing to better account and control people and armies. And yet “For one thing, in…
Some depressing imagery
Maria Popova describes depression, “It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a bellowing bass line, until it drowns out the symphony of life.…
Dancing Plague of 1374
In 1374 a dancing mania swept over the German city of Aachen. In 1888, historian Justus Hecker describes the symptoms:They formed circles hand in hand, and appearing to have lost all control over their senses, continued dancing, regardless of the…
Having weird dreams?
Dream theory published in 2021 offers the “Overfitted Brain Hypothesis.” To oversimplify: During waking hours people focus on what is important at the moment, and intentionally ignore all the other data streaming in. We focus on the trees. At night…
Now, a Love Song.
Hey There Cthulhu, Written by Eben Brooks, Performed by OneFlewCoop.
Lovecraft Dream in Paris
This is not photoshop! In 2007, artist Julien Attiogbe installed a new facade at 39 Avenue George V in Paris consisting of distorted images of the actual building. The result was this Lovecraftian dream space at a Parisian intersection.