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In parapsychology, hypnagogia is the study of the transitional states to and from sleep: the hypnagogic and the hypnopompic states of consciousness. Note the spelling difference: "-agogic" but "-opompic". The related words from the Greek are agōgos "leading, inducing", pompe "act of sending", and hypnos "sleep".
"Hypnagogia" was coined by Dr Andreas Mavromatis in his 1983 thesis,[1] while "hypnagogic" and "hypnopompic" were coined by others in the 1800s. The term "hypnagogic" was originally coined by Alfred Maury[2][3] to name the state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. "Hypnopompic" was coined by Fred Meyers soon afterwards to denote the onset of wakefulness. The term "hypnagogia" is used by Dr Mavromatis to identify the study of the sleep-transitional consciousness states in general, and he employs hypnogogic (toward sleep) or hypnapompic (from sleep) for the purpose of identifying the specific experiences under study.[4]
Mental phenomena that occur during this "threshold consciousness" phase include lucid dreaming, hallucinations, out of body experiences and sleep paralysis.

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Smaller villages and hamlets were part of a very robust exchange network of specialized communities, connected with stone-paved paths. Villages specialized in salt production and fishing, like Chengue in the Parque Tairona, are evidence of a robust Tairona political economy based on specialized staple production. Chengue contains at least 100 terraces and was inhabited by about 800 to 1,000 people in 15 hectares by 1400. The Tairona are known to have built stone terraced platforms, house foundations, stairs, sewers, tombs, and bridges. Use of pottery for utilitarian and ornamental or ceremonial purposes was also highly developed as a result of fairly specialized communities.

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In 1599, the Tairona revolted against the Spanish, apparently because economic and religious pressure from the Spanish had become intolerable. The main aggression was the killing of priests and travellers along the roads connecting the Spanish city of Santa Marta and the Tairona centers of Bonda and the villages of Concha and Chengue. Secondary targets were the churches and houses of known bureaucrats of the colonial administration. However these data are from Spanish testimonies from the trial against the Tairona chiefs in 1602. The Chiefs of Chengue and Bonda were sentenced to death, their bodies dismembered, their villages burned, the populations relocated and incorporated into the Encomienda system. By the mid-17th century, many Tairona populations were completely abandoned and the region was engulfed by forest.

Their descendants today are the Kogi people.

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Ekab or Ecab was the name of a Mayan chiefdom of the northeastern Yucatán Peninsula, before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century.

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The swami demonstrated the capacity to enter the various states of consciousness at will, as evidenced by remarkable changes in the electrical activity of his brain. Upon relaxing himself in the laboratory, he first entered the yoga nidra state, producing 70% alpha wave discharge for a predetermined 5 minute period, simply by imagining an empty blue sky with occasional drifting clouds.

Next, Swami Rama entered a state of dreaming sleep which was accompanied by slower theta waves for 75% of the subsequent 5 minute test period. This state, which he later described as being 'noisy and unpleasant', was attained by 'stilling the conscious mind and bringing forth the subconscious'. In this state he had the internal experience of desires, ambitions, memories and past images in archetypal form rising sequentially from the subconscious and unconscious with a rush, each archetype occupying his whole awareness.

Finally, the swami entered the state of (unconscious) deep sleep, as verified by the emergence of the characteristic pattern of slow rhythm delta waves. However, he remained perfectly aware throughout the entire experimental period. He later recalled the various events which had occurred in the laboratory during the experiment, including all the questions that one of the scientists had asked him during the period of deep delta wave sleep, while his body lay snoring quietly.

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Most vandalised article: George W. Bush

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The dish was a fricassée, with at least 16 sweet and sour ingredients.

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Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group
■ Source: Mrs. Ronald E. Robeson
■ Serves 4 to 6

Ingredients Edit
■ 4 small zucchini squash, thinly sliced (2½ to 3 cups)
■ 2 tbsp chopped onion
■ 3 tbsp margarine or butter
■ 2 tomatoes
■ 1 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
■ 1 tsp sugar
■ ¾ tsp salt
■ ½ tsp oregano
■ ⅛ tsp garlic salt
■ ⅛ tsp pepper
■ 4 Oz. mozzarella cheese, grated
■ 2 tsp margarine or butter
■ ½ to ¾ cup Pepperidge Farm stuffing

Directions Edit
1. Sauté zucchini and onion in margarine until limp. Place in oiled dish.
2. Top with the 2 tomatoes which have been peeled and cut in wedges.
3. Mix the Parmesan cheese, sugar, salt, oregano, garlic salt and pepper and sprinkle over the tomatoes.
4. Sprinkle with grated mozzarella cheese. Top with 2 Tsp margarine or butter mixed with Pepperidge Farm stuffing.
5. Bake in 350 °F oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

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Generally, vegetables that grow above the ground should be cooked uncovered. Those that grow underground should be cooked covered.

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Fedor Vesna (Belarusian: Фёдар Вясна, Russian: Фёдор Весна Polish: Fedor Wesna, Theodor Wiosna[1]) was a famous 14th century Lithuanian falconer and ruler of Vitebsk from 1392 to 1393.

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When asked about the demons or Hellrides, Willis would often comment that he was trying to "stay the hell out of prison" by "not hitting people in the street with bricks."

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I found this page via xkcd. It explains why when you first look at an analog clock, the hand indicating seconds some times seems to wait more than a second until it moves.

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Psychological manipulation is a type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.[1] By advancing the interests of the manipulator, often at the other's expense, such methods could be considered exploitative, abusive, devious, and deceptive. Social influence is not necessarily negative. For example, doctors can try to persuade patients to change unhealthy habits. Social influence is generally perceived to be harmless when it respects the right of the influenced to accept or reject and is not unduly coercive. Depending on the context and motivations, social influence may constitute underhanded manipulation.

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Intelligence
The Eurasian Magpie is believed to be among the most intelligent of birds, and among the most intelligent of all animals. Magpies have been observed engaging in elaborate social rituals, possibly including the expression of grief.[7] Mirror self-recognition has been demonstrated in European magpies.[8] The magpie is thus one of a small number of species, and the only non-mammal, known to possess this capability.[9] The cognitive abilities of the Eurasian Magpie are taken as evidence that intelligence evolved independently in both corvids/crows and primates. This is indicated by feats such as tool use, their ability to hide and store food across seasons, episodic-like memory, and the ability to use one's own experience in predicting the behavior of conspecifics.[2] Various behaviours have been observed that indicate intelligence. It has been observed that they cut up their food in correctly sized proportions, depending on the size of their young. In captivity magpies have been observed counting up to get food, imitating human voices, and regularly using tools to clean their own cages. In the wild, they organise themselves into gangs, and use complex strategies when hunting other birds, and when confronted by predators.[10] Along with the Jackdaw, the Eurasian Magpie has been found to have a nidopallium approximately the same relative size as is found in chimpanzees and humans, and significantly larger than is found in the gibbon.[3] Like other corvids, such as Ravens and Crows, their total brain to body ratio is equal to that of great apes and cetaceans, and only slightly lower than in humans.[11]

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From socialist hair to serial killers, and all the Justin Bieber-related topics in between, Wikipedia does a fine job feeding fun facts to us ADHD Internet surfers looking to distract ourself with some quick arcana. But when it comes to serious learning — the stuff that maybe you were relieved to get a C+ on back in school — Wikipedia may be leaving us in the dust. That's the preliminary finding from a Japanese study presented at the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management in Maui.
"Although Wikipedia articles are frequently listed by average search engines on top ranks, they are often too difficult for average readers searching (for) information about difficult queries," reads the abstract of the study. To arrive at this conclusion, researchers compared corresponding entries on English Wikipedia, Simple Wikipedia (a dumbed-down version of the main site), and that Willy Loman of collected facts, Encyclopedia Britannica.

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