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Black Swan

A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise. Nevertheless, people tend to concoct explanations for them after the fact, which makes them appear more predictable, and less random, than they are. Our minds are designed to retain, for efficient storage, past information that fits into a compressed narrative. This distortion, called the hindsight bias, prevents us from adequately learning from the past.

LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED [4.19.04]
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

www.edge.org/3rd_culture...b_index.html

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Was 9/11 a Black Swan?
"A black swan is a unpredictable event that defies prediction." ...


WAS 9/11 A BLACK SWAN?
Nassim Taleb, a scientist-philosopher-businessman, makes the case that 9/11 was a black swan. A black swan is a unpredictable event that defies prediction. An outlier. I agree. He expands:

A vicious black swan has an additional elusive property: its very unexpectedness helps create the conditions for it to occur. Had a terrorist attack been a conceivable risk on Sept. 10, 2001, it would likely ... read more
Mon, September 11, 2006 - 1:11 PM permalink - 2 comments
 
Cancer: The Great Mother
Cancer, the Great Mother, represents the feminine force that spirals all life upward to higher levels of being. Cancer is the sign of the home, fertility, reproduction, intuition, feeling, desire, strength, protection and insistency. She is the jungle, the forest -- the mystery, depth, passion ... She is the spiraling evolutionary force apparent in the natural cycles of all things -- a lunar month, a solar year, a life, the Earth, the manifestation of an idea into being.

The cycle teach... read more
Sat, July 1, 2006 - 9:07 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
The Violet Flame
The Violet Flame is a high-frequency spiritual energy that can transmute (transform) negative energy and karma into positive energy.

"As you begin to use the Violet Flame, you will experience feelings of joy, lightness, hope and newness of life, as though clouds of depression were being dissolved by the very sun of your own being ... The Violet Flame forgives as it frees, consumes as it transmutes, clears the records of past karma (thus balancing your debts to life), equalizes the flow of... read more
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