The Greatest Escape - Adventures in the History of Solitude
Table of Contents
Highlights from the book The Greatest Escape: Adventures in the History of Solitude (c) 2004 by David Stimpson - a kind of a Bible and eulogy on Solitude and Silence.
Prologue
- life of solitude - either through periodic retreats or continuing inner solitude in society - may be the best answer to cries that modern world is inevitably a “lonely crowd.”
- your lonely quietude may be bothered by demons of lust, vainglory, or melancholy. Your fears and vanities will follow you into solitude.
- The essential thing is to be apart from society for some time, physically, mentally, or spiritually.
- There is the simple joy of doing nothing, appreciating life away from the crowd.
Overture
Nietzsche’s call
- like Heraclitus in the Temple of Artemis, the Buddha under his Bodhi Tree, or Thoreau at Walden Pond, Nietzsche felt and thought best an most deeply when alone.
- The deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword."
- every philosopher, says Nietzsche, is a hermit.
- You’re not really a Friend [of Solitude] unless you’ve either chosen isolation or, if it were thrust upon you, you came to appreciate its therapeutic, creative powers.
Petrarch’s Life of Solitude
The Apologia
- be still and see that I am God (Psalm 46)
- begin, in this life, to feel the delights of the life eternal.
- Among the great benefit of books, says Petrarch, is that they do not ask for food or drink and are content with a narrow portion of one’s house, yet they provide inestimable treasures of mind. In their authors, on has unfailing companions always prepared to be silent or to speak, to stay at home or to accompany him in the woods, to travel…
- isolation without literature is exile, prison, and torture; but supply literature, and it becomes your country, freedom and delight.
- Petrarch stresses, however, that his closest friend in solitude was his own reflective mind.
- solitude can supply what he calls a “divine fertility of intellect”
Laura and a Writing Cure
- around the age of forty “I renounced abruptly not only those bad habits, but even the very recollection of them - as if I had never looked at a woman. This I consider to be among my greatest blessings, and I thank God,
- his love for Laura was all part of his spiritual education. At first, she had been his exquisite worldly torment; then a guiding light from heaven; finally, his salvation.
Augustinus
- he admits that he is still tied to the miseries of the world by two “fetters of gold”. One is his love of Laura; the other is his desire for fame, as symbolized by the laurel wreath with which he was crowned poet laureate.
- earthly success may run counter to his heavenly goals, that he should put virtue before glory
Lady Solitude
- Solitude is indeed something holy, innocent, incorruptible, and the purest of human possessions. To whom does she reveal herself amid forests, for whom does she display her charms and thorns? … With whom, finally, does she ingratiate herself, who does she seek to please, except the person who has penetrated the inmost recesses of solitude and for whom therefore there is no solitude?
- Let the others be constantly in a state of restlessness and agitation, let us establish ourselves with feet firmly planted on the rock.
A Brief History
- But what vistas of mystical sensation, what luminous mental landscapes, what avenues of planetary reverie are opened up when one follows these voyagers through the void! – John Cowper Powys, A Philosophy of Solitude, 1933
Prehistoric Solitude
- no one in the house understood him, and no one believed in him.
The Power in Caves
- One of his teachers, Pherekydes, portrayed caves, or what he called hollows in the Chthoni (the “earth mother”), as receptacles of the divine hand of creation.
- the cave at the summit of the mountain signifies the most typical site of the divine epiphany, the place where, after a period of occultation, a redeeming god, a prophet, or a cosmocrator make his appearance.”
Above Ground
- a shaman cannot become truly powerful until he is capable of “seeing the body as a skeleton” - in other words, contemplating the reality of death
- True wisdom is only to be found far away from people, out in the great solitude, and it is not found in play but only through suffering. solitude and suffering open the human mind, and therefore a shaman must seek his wisdom there.
solitary initiation
- having thereby feed himself of all vestiges of self, intellect, and other noisome worldly illusions, the neophyte should learn through psychodramatic experience that samsara (the material world of the senses) and nirvana (the transcendental void of the spirit) are one
hermits of india
- munis, or “silent sages”
- “maddened with silence.”
- “we have mounted the wind! our bodies are all you mortals can see!”
power hermits
eremitic epidemic
heterodox hermits
- recluse may achieve “a state of joy and ease born of detachment”… at a still higher level of attainment, the recluse may “suppress all reasoning and investigation,” then “hold aloof from joy,” so as to enter a state of “attentive equanimity.” finally, he may give up happiness and sadness completely to enter “a state of pure mindfulness and equanimity beyond both pain and pleasure.”
compromise, sophistication
- virtually al of them [howto guidebooks] begin with the same advice: “find a lonely spot.”
- if one is satisfied with living alone in an empty place, regarding the agents of defilement as bitter enemies, and content with his own company, then he may drink the “nectar of spiritual exultation” and enjoy “happiness greater than that of paradise.”
- redirection of passions to a higher degree of “pleasure” in immortality or god’s grace.
greece and rome
- solitude - as an “end in itself” and the highest realization of the good life in the polis. “for contemplation,” says artistotle, is “the highest form of activity, since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known.”
- after Narcissus died, according to Ovid, he was transformed into a beautiful spring flower.
- Pythagoras “sought out not only agreeable seclusion but even vast and frightful wildernesses, and often went on toilsome journeys in deserted regions in his zeal for investigating the truth.”
- Democritus, was so enamored of solitude that he “tore out his eyes in order to see the truth and avoid seeing the mob, which is the enemy of truth.”
- Abaris … lived without food, and traveled all over the world as a wandering missionary like Aristeas bearing a golden arrow, symbol of the god Apollo.
- the goddess of “avenging Justice” welcomed him graciously and taught him the marks of true Being, the immortal essence of all things. As important, she taught him the method of correct thinking - that is, logic. The dialogue marks the first appearance of logical argument in Greek philosophy. Using that powerful tool, the goddess explains that Being must be the only entity that exists, because it is the only thing that did not “come into being.” For if Being came into being in the past or will do so in the future, then “it is not.” But since Being does exist, says the goddess, it must be “unborn and imperishable, whole, unique, immovable, and without end.” She even asserted that Being has a shape: “It is complete on every side, like the mass of a well-rounded sphere.”
- one may rise on the wings of Eros through several interrelated stages toward a kind of enlightenment: first, by directing one’s love to other bodies; then by transforming that love into a meditation on the “beauty in souls”; then by turning one’s mind to “the great ocean of beauty, and in contemplation of it give birth to many beautiful and magnificent speeches and thoughts in the abundance of philosophy.” Finally, at the highest level, one may contemplate “being by itself always in simplicity.” “Therein,” said Diotima, “is life worth living.” For he who comprehends “Beauty itself” will be “the friend of God, and immortal if any man ever is.”
- both Parmenides and Socrates imply that the way to understanding the transcendent world of Being or the imminent worlds of Truth and Beauty is through a mental journey of some kind.
Heraclitus
- Without tension and change there would be nothing, and no self-understanding. As to what is the ultimate nature of Nature, Heraclitus warns that we will never know - “so deep is the logos.”
- One should, in other words, steer clear of the watery element (drunkenness, weepy passions, the mob) and face the truths of existence squarely, without the supporting hope of a loving divinity.
Lonely Pleasure
- The objective of moderation and “the end of all action,” says Democritus, is euthymia, which may be translated as “cheerfulness,” “well-being,” or “contentment.” … equanimity, tranquillity, and a wise retirement from social turmoil.
- The man who wishes to have serenity of spirit should not engage in many activities, either private or public, nor choose activities beyond his power and natural capacity. He must guard against this, so that when good fortune strikes him and leads him on to excess by means of (false) seeming, he must rate it low, and not attempt things beyond his powers. A reasonable fullness is better than overfullness.
- Democritus maintained that contentment will grow as one is satisfied with less
- his emphasis on pleasure was the opposite of self-indulgence or libertinism, for he viewed it not as excess, but as the absence of pain and anxiety.
- “Withdrawal into obscurity is the best form of security.”
Roman Retirement
- “I’m alive, royally alive, when free of all you adore and rise up as high as heaven,”
- “You ask me to say what you should consider it particularly important to avoid. My answer is this:” he wrote to the young Lucillius, “a mass crowd.”
- The wise man is content with himself
- The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is home-grown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking for outside itself or any part of itself it is on the way to being dominated by the fortune.
- Men seek seclusion in the wilderness, by the seashore, or in the mountains - a dream you have cherished for yourself. But such fancies are wholly unworthy of a philosopher, since at any moment you choose you can retire within yourself.
Otherwordly Directions
- Philo’s man of virtue does not love solitude out of misanthropy. He is rather a lover of men who spends his time in an out-of-the-way place to avoid the vices of the multitude.
- “alone with the Alone”
- cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiseling your statue until there shall shine from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you shall see the perfect Goodness established in the stainless shrine.
- to rise through mystic contemplation above the pains and flaws of this world to an ideal world of perfection, where “the essential man outgrows Being, becomes identical with the Transcendent Being.”
- “image to archetype.”
- This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, - liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth - a flight of the alone to the Alone.
Ancient China
- history of solitude in China is one of balance and worldly practicality.
- Stop your thinking, he said. Destroy your concepts. think without “thinking.” The text reads: Let there be no seeing, no hearing; enfold the spirit in quietude and the body will right itself. Be still, be pure, do not labour your body, do not churn up your essence… When the eye does not see, the ear does not hear, end the mind does not know, then your spirit will protect the body and the body will enjoy long life.
The “Best Men”
- shih ritual, in which an adept would make himself or herself as quiet as a corpse in order to communicate with the dead.
- “Do not stay in a state which is in disorder. When the empire possesses the Way, be seen. When the empire does not possess the Way, hide.”
- Don’t escort the big chariot; You will only make yourself dusty. Don’t think about the sorrows of the world; You will only make yourself wretched.
- If only my mind can be beautiful, it matters nothing that I often faint for famine."
- Keep your soul from confusion, and it will come naturally," says Wang: Await in emptiness, before even inaction. All other things proceed from this…
- When I looked, my startled eyes saw nothing. When I listened, no sound met my amazed ear. Transcending Inaction, I came to Purity, and entered the neighborhood of the Great Beginning.
Taoist Philosophers
- “It is ever so that the essence of things is what gives them life.” That essence - the Tao - is silent, compact, and obscure, which no fixed place. The supreme quality for men, therefore is also quiescence.
- If quiescent, you will then obtain it. If hasty, you will then lose it.

- “When you have little, you’ll attain much,” he wrote. “With much, you’ll be confused.”
- The secret lies with understanding - or, more precisely, feeling, absorbing, and living in “the true essence of things.”
- tales that do not over-explain but rather point the way to freedom, happiness, and perfection in unexpected quarters.
- The first step, she explains, is to put the world outside of your-self… then to put things outside of yourself… then to put life outside of yourself, at which point you will be able to achieve the “brightness of dawn” and to “see your aloneness.” At that point, she says, one can “do away with past and present” and “enter a place where there is no life or death.”
- not only to withdraw for a time from society but literally to isolate oneself from oneself - from all the excess baggage of one’s painful memories, rigid habits, and learned feelings.
- “You have too many policies and plans and you haven’t seen what is needed…  Instead, you must fast!"
- Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but the spirit is empty and waits on all things. The way gathers in emptiness alone…
- the ancient Chinese hermits advocates a kind of worldly mysticism… they were somehow less ashamed of the body and more optimistic about prospects of being happy in the world.
- be more like Emperor Yao, who neither possessed men nor allowed himself to be possessed by them. “So I ask you,” says the Master, “to rid yourself of hardship, to cast off your cares, and to wander alone with the Way to the Land of Great Silence.”
The Desert Fathers
- “Abolish every childish time of life,” he says: My son, throw every robber out of your gates.  But he who will not guard these things will become like a city which is desolate since it has been captured, and all kinds of wild beasts have trampled upon it.
- “only those who are solitary will enter the bridal chamber.”
Paul and Anthony
- As happened in India and China, it is no coincidence that the flight to the desert coincided with a period of dramatic socio-economic change and associated questioning of traditional values.
Desert Wisdom
- “A man who lives apart,” said the reformed Ethiopian robber Abba Moses, “is like a ripe grape. And a man who lives in the company of others is a sour grape”.
- the way to salvation in the desert was to seek purity of heart by cultivating one’s “inner man.”
- “Any trial whatever that comes to you can be conquered by silence.”
- take care that you never bring into this cell the words of another."
- My Rule is to receive you with hospitality and to let you go in peace".
- If you cannot attain stillness where you now live, consider living in exile…
- The proof of having achieved a state of apatheia will come, says Evagrius, “when the spirit begins to see its own light, when it remains in a state of tranquility in the presence of images it has during sleep and when it maintains its calm as it beholds the affairs of life”.
- “You too must reach the point where you no longer take offence at anything”.
- “There are not many outstanding experts in worldly philosophy,” he said. “But I would claim that rarer still are those who are truly expert in the philosphy of stillness.”
Sufi Soloist
- Do you ever fear solitude? If you had tasted the delight of solitude, you would long for it, away from your self. Solitude is the beginning of the worship of God. What is the first thing you find in solitude? Peace far away from human intercourse and safety far from the evils which accompany it. When may the servant taste the bliss of intimacy with God? When his love for God becomes pure and he communes with him with a sincere heart. When is his love pure? When all his desires are concentrated in one: to obey God.
- “If you are capable of erecting an iron wall between yourself and your desires, then do it”
- “the people are the wild beasts of God on the earth. They show no affection for any human being.”
- serving God through asceticism - that is like breathing vinegar and mustard. Possessing divine knowledge - that is like scent of musk and ambergris.
- “he renounced everything save God.” Thereafter, his true self was at one with the Infinite, so he had nothing more to either renounce or desire.
The Tavern of Ruin
- Peace, brothers, is my aloneness. Because my Beloved is alone with me there - always. I’ve found nothing to equal His love, That Love which arrows the sands of my desert.
- drinking of wine as a symbol of the joyful ecstasy of divine union… The cup of unending joy
- What you get by wanting is only as big as your capacity to desire. Give you desire therefore, think that whatever you get is what you want, and in this acceptance find ease and joy.
- Renounce desire a hundred times or else not once will you embrace your desire.
- The wine we really drink is our own blood. Our bodies ferment in these barrels. We give everything for a glass of this. We give our minds for a sip.
- Externally he is congenial with everyone. Inwardly, he is a stranger to all. He is at peace with all people, yet within himself tranquillity is to be found only in Divine Love.
- Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence.
- “The phenomenal is the Bridge to the Real,”
- one must rise above all things worldly, including asceticism and preprogrammed concepts of Heaven. It only stands to reason, therefore, that no images are inherently bad; any of them may provide concrete material to build a joyful spiritual bridge or tools to break out of the prison of ordinary life.
Medieval Europe
- anchorite is not to think highly of himself, but rather that he is being enclosed so as not to fall further into sin
Return of Plato
- See ’to it that there is nothing at work in your mind or will but only God. Try to suppress all knowledge and feeling of anything less than God, and trample it down deep under the cloud of forgetting.
- Be still. How? The author recommends focusing the mind on a single word, such as “love” or “God.”  Do this and I assure you these thoughts will vanish.”
A Tumult of Love
- “take off your clothes,” so that “not the slightest thing can be between you and me.”
- to love nothingness, to flee somethingness, to stand alone, and to “drink the water of suffering.”
- the first step toward becoming a bride of Christ (a state that may be attained equally by men or women) is renunciation of self and the world to the point of complete emptiness and lowliness. One should become like a valley between two mountains awaiting the radiance of the sun (i.e., Christ) as it rises to noontide.
The Dark Night
- “We have got realize,” she says, “the littleness of creation and to see it for the nothing that it is before we can love and possess God who is uncreated.”
- No soul can rest until it is detached from all creation.
Scholars and Ch’an Masters
- with the right mental attitude of equanimity, one may find the joys of solitude even in the city
Bodhidharma
- the emptiness is also fullness, containing all forms and phenomena above and below Heaven.
- a state of “not craving” should be the object of true meditation and attentive living.
Zen Soloists
- personal enlightenment (of the selfless self) can occur in the same way as one can see the universe in a dewdrop on a moonlit night.
Modern Recluses
- Sorry the man, to my mind, who has not in his own home a place to be all by himself, to pay his court privately to himself, to hide!
- all of man’s unhappiness derives from one thing, which is not knowing how to rest quietly in a room.
- he was frequently “the happiest of men” when alone.
- The sentiment of existence, stripped of another emotion, is in itself a precious sentiment of contentment and of peace which alone would suffice to make this existence dear and sweet to anyone able to spurn all the sensual and earthly impressions which incessantly come to distract us from it and to trouble its sweetness here-below.
- To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from the society."
- “I am at home in MYSELF, I speak my own language, I hate extraordinary things,” says Teste. “Only weak minds need them.”
- For sanity, he says, turn away from man to the enormous eternity of rock and to life attuned to that reality, as typified, for example, by a hawk.
On Cloisterphobia
- It is an awful satire, and an epigram on the materialism of our modern age, that nowadays the only use that can be made of solitude is imposing it as a penalty, as jail.
The Hermit Bashers
- the Protestant Christian, beginning with Martin Luther, became what might be called a “do-it-yourself” clergyman responsible for the welfare of his own soul.
- Quaker meetings, which begin in silence and remain so until any one of the attendees is moved to speak.
- Rather than believing that religious contemplation might help to foster spiritual life, the Protestant, says Weber, places greater emphasis on a belief that selfless, worldly industry is the way to achieve God’s grace.
- the religious valuation of restless, continuous, systematic work became “the surest and most evident proof of rebirth and genuine faith.”
- the ascetic discipline of the monk and the hermit - the self-denial, the submission to authority, the dedicated industriousness for a greater good - was transformed into the worldly asceticism that is now the foundation of that most successful of modern institutions: the corporation. We might better term it the “capitalist monastery.”
- “the spirit of religious asceticism - whether finally, who knows? - has escaped from the cage. But victorious capitalism, since it rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer.”
No Manner of Purpose
- The chief complaint, rather, is lodged against the hermit’s flight from social responsibilities.
Missing the Good Things
- some warn of another danger that the secular Friend of Solitude enjoying spiritual, philosophical, or antithetical flights is just wasting his time with worldly pleasures.
- The intrepid philosopher may indeed be exploring the depths of his soul, but he is missing the most profound adventure - that is, climbing a real spiritual ladder to God.
- True solitude is found in humility, which is infinitely rich. False solitude is the refuge of pride, and it is indefinitely poor. The poverty of false solitude comes from an illusion which pretends, by adorning itself in things it can never possess, to distinguish one individual self from the mass of other men. True solitude is selfless.
- life of solitude will almost inevitably run afoul without the discipline and support to be found in a religious community.
The Hermit’s Madness
- J. Moussaieff Masson, for one, posits that “all ascetics suffered massive traumas in their childhood in one of three ways: they were sexually seduced, or they were object of overt or covert aggression, or they lost those closest to them early in their lives.
- pervaded by sadness; their rituals, their obsessive gestures of every kind, are an attempt to recapture the lost childhood they never had.
Reply to Cloisterphobes
- fear that should solitude again become popular all the achievements since the Renaissance will be lost and the world would again plunge into medieval darkness.
- “but solitude is the school of genius”
- “I was never less alone than when by myself.”
- soon-to-be-world-historical figure withdraws into solitude at a certain troubled time in his life, and at a crucial turning point in the development, more commonly the disintegration, of his civilization. Alone, he rethinks the predicaments in which he finds himself. Then, in a mysterious action of the soul, he produces new seeds of thought that may be capable, at one extreme, of altering the growth pattern of the entire civilization, or at the other, of destroying genius in madness.
- “Willed introversion,” Cambell explains, “is one of the classic implements of creative genius.”
- Emptiness, stillness, limpidity, silence, inaction are the root of the ten thousand things.”
- “All the great nations have been prepared in privacy and in secret. They have been composed far away from distraction.”
- being alone for a while can add depth, clarity, and perspective to thought that might otherwise be drowned out in the clamor of social life. As an added benefit, quiet mediation may be therapeutic. Or it may be charged with inspiration, divine or otherwise.
Economics of Solitude
- it is in solitude - perhaps only in solitude - that one may learn to become truly social.
- “solitude is necessary for society as silence is for language and air for the lungs and food for the body.”
- only someone who is ready for anything, doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
- hermits make the best lovers, in both the spiritual and physical senses.
- Much of that time would be better spent going for a walk, admiring landscape, digging our gardens, or on “science and art; not to impress somebody, but for love of beauty that each discloses.” We could even be quit occasionally, he adds: Better than such discourse doth silence long, long barren silence square with my desire.
Compromise
- do not argue against such things as friendship and simple enjoyment of life, but rather for greater balance between the life of solitude and that of society.
- “start cultivating a relationship with poverty” by appointing certain days on which he gives up everything and makes himself at home with next to nothing. “At the end of it, believe me,” he says, “you will revel in being sated for a penny, and will come to see that security from care is not dependent on fortune - for even when she is angry she will always let us have what is enough.”
- only through complete isolation and dedication to the infinite do we have any hope of achieving enlightenment. All other solitudes, says Merton, are false.
- Enlightenment or grace may come in away we cannot fathom in advance. So again, in the meantime, let us try to enjoy, understand, and live life in the world as it is - and let us do so in periods of solitude which will quicken our sensibilities and possible lead us to subtle answers to the unanswered questions.
Marketing Solitude
- tendency of consumerism to oversimplify and to debase what must be a subtle, personal, secret feeling if the gift of solitude is to work its magic.
Extreme Solitude
- asceticism is as much the lot of men tied to jobs and mortgage payments as it is the practice of religious hermits
- for philosophers, scholars, and sundry free spirits, self-deprivation and even lust for glory are justified because they constitute a “preparation of the intellect for its future ‘objectivity.’”
- Wisdom, proclaims Nietzche’s Zarathustra, is a woman: “She always loves only a warrior.”
The Case for Mysticism
- It was out in the Great Solitude that the first Iglulik shaman discovered shamanism and he later dove physically into the ground to discover the secrets of hunting. After days of fasting in solitude, the young Ojibwa initiate discovered the secrets of how to grow corn and thereby save his tribe. Buddha achieved enlightenment only after many years in ascetic solitude, when he looked like a skeleton with skin. And Saint John of the Cross made a point of saying that it was the “Dark Night” of his suffering in solitude that led to his unfathomable nearness with God.
Judgment versus Faith
- true faith required selfless, meditative prayer and stern discipline… those who are not willing to work at it patiently will finally end in compromise. Here, as elsewhere, compromise is only another name for failure.
- If we are to be truly happy and fulfilled, to understand the rhyme and reason for All, or enter the tavern of ruin, then stronger medicine, more perseverance, and a jarring life experience may be required. These may be necessary if we are to renounce worldly desires and embrace sufferings - thereby to rise above both to another plane.
 – Abba Moses, fourth-century Egypt.
Parade of Hermits
- often soul-wrenching - time spent alone can produce some of the most extraordinary riches.
- Secluded meditation guards him who meditates, lengthens his life, gives him strength, and shuts out faults; it removes ill-fame, and leads to good repute, it drives out discontent, and makes for contentment, it removes fear and gives confidence, it removes sloth and gives vigor, it removes greed, hate, and delusion; it slays pride, breaks up preoccupations, makes thought one-pointed, softens the mind, generates gladness, makes one venerable, gives rise to much profit, makes one worthy of homage, brings exuberant joy, causes delight, shows the own-being of all conditioned things.
- what Patanjali emphasizes is the highest attainment of the yogi, who should finally renounce the siddhis and rise to the “infinite knowledge” and final liberation of the Self, which he calls the “Rain-Cloud of Divinity.”
- solitude may be creative by providing a mental environment that helps to produce something that wasn’t there before.
Search for Consistencies
- the fruits of solitude are remarkably consistent across time and culture, there is little consistency in the outward circumstances of the Friends’ eremitism.
- Simplicity of life - and, at higher strength, poverty and asceticism - seem naturally to be associated with the life of solitude.
- Diogenes Laertius, he was once spotted laughing to himself in a lonely spot. When asked why he took such pleasure when alone, he uttered this famous reply: “That is just the reason!”
- bitterness of mind should be “avoided like a plague.”
- education seems to have provided a discipline of thought that enabled them to get busy with creative output in time alone.
- Consciousness has never functioned in the manner of a conventional computer, which allows some processing to go on entirely separately from all other processing in the same machine. Instead, we are constantly distracted by the social noise of daily affairs, along with the internal residue of society in the form of memories, regrets, desires, and habits.
Creativity
- “The righteous man,” says the Sufi al-Arusi, “is changed forty times a day, but the hypocrite remains in the same state for forty years.”
Reverie
- Solitude leads the mind to those sources from whence the grandest conceptions are most likely to flow.
- “for by reason of the disturbance caused by this affair of the world he cannot see his sins, but if he lives in the peace and quietness of the desert he is able to see God clearly.”
- By “fasting,” he does not mean simply a restriction of diet, nor merely intense concentration alone. He advocates, rather, a complete emptying of the normal self, with its excess baggage of fears and habitual beliefs
- world’s greatest, most creative thinkers - he mentions recent ones, from Descartes to Wittgenstein - lived alone for most of their lives. Storr reasons that creation begins, in its first stage, with preparation, during which the creative person develops an interest in a particular subject, collects material, reads everything he can on the subject. Over time the accumulated material simmers in the mind. “We do not understand what goes on during this period of incubation,” Storr admits, “but it is a necessary prelude to the next stage, that of illumination.”
- dreams have an information-processing function, which is concerned with allotting new experiences to the right slot in permanent memory.
- In such a solitary, daydreaming state, the prepared mind, with its mysterious sorting process, may be better equipped for performing the essential and difficult creative task of “forming new links between formerly disparate entities.”
- The best way to arrive at this state is through walking, forgetting, and a “cheerful imagination.” “Movement which does not come from outside then occurs inside us”
Passion
- Nietzsche states explicitly that by avoiding the distracting effects of both physical and social intercourse, inner resources of passion can be used to boost intellectual powers.
- “the ‘higher phallus,’ with the head as the seat of creative realization.” Neumann explains that as consciousness develops in individuals it takes its impetus from innate animal instinct. That instinct, or libido, is required to make the ego strong enough to break away from the collective unconsciousness - that is, the collective transpersonal archetypes of the world, or what Neumann terms the “Earth Mother.” As the conscious ego develops sufficient autonomy, it then has a desire to use the same libidinal energy to reenter the mysterious Earth Mother. The result is enrichment of both consciousness and libido.
Inner Resources
- The obvious problem with the source of creative energy is that human passions are very difficult to control
- “capacity to be alone” is something developed early in life.
- It also helps if one has something to be passionate about - a problem to be solved, discovery to be made, or a project to be completed - which will, in effect, distract one’s attention from the distractions of society.
- “if you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
Altered States
- Sometimes the best thing is to set aside the burden of concentration and go for a walk.
- An occasional return to society can easy the sense of loneliness and balance the mind, and nearly all of the Friends who we associate with extreme solitude made such forays.
- Shamanic states, in other words, may make possible in preliterate culture a form of thinking that employs intuitive abstraction without making use of the rational abstractions available to modern thinkers.
Voices
- It is an effort to strike out beyond the limits of intelligence
- Perhaps he is right not to attempt explanation, for that would be to murder the mysterious wit, which is the soul of all creativity.
Joy
- “To shun familiarity with others, as if they were a thorn in the flesh, shows a sound judgement”.
- Thoreau said that more than being a writer of books, he wanted to make his life a work of art. Often, he went a step further to advocate appreciating life as a transcendent work of art, in idleness.
- the super-sensibility that solitude helps to engender
Moderation
- strategic moderation. “The truest happiness,” as the philosopher explains in his Letter to Menoecus, “does not come from enjoyment of physical pleasures, but from a simple life, free of anxiety, with the normal physical needs satisfied.”
- “We must not send our desires upon a distant quest, but we should permit them to have access to what is near, since they do not endure to be shut up altogether.”
- “cleaner conscience” is one of the greatest rewards of the secluded life. “In solitude,” he said, “one is removed from the object of the sin, from temptations as well as the influence of wrong-minded men.”
- When the mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the crowd: it is so easy for it to go over to the majority.
- there is a sense of well-being and physical and mental control that may be achieved by following a program of strenuous training - which, appropriately enough, is precisely the meaning of the Greek askesis, from which our word asceticism derives.
Defence Mechanisms
- Buddha continues to recommend a balanced asceticism in the form of mendicancy and self control.
- according to Freud, the “oceanic feeling” which the mystic aims to achieve is merely “memory of a relatively undifferentiated infantile ego state.”
- “childhood remains within us a principle of deep life, of life always in harmony with the possibilities of new beginnings”.
Self-Aggrandizement
- Alexander himself said, “Had I not been Alexander, I should have liked to be Diogenes.”
Enlightenment
- in the reality that most of those who would speak of enlightenment will agree that it is real and powerful, but ultimately indefinable.
Detachment
- Plotinus likewise plotted the course to that immortal realm through a flight to the Primal Beauty of the Alone. “To attain it,” he says, “is for those that will take the upward path,” and enter the celebrations of the Mysteries laying aside garments, “in the nakedness, until passing on the upward way all that is other than God, each in the solitude of himself shall behold that solitary-dwelling Existence, the Apart, the Unmingled, the Pure.”
- “No soul can rest,” she said, “until it is detached from all creation.”
- wandering homelessness
- if you have nothing, you have nothing to lose; if you desire nothing you have everything to win.
- there is no hope of achieving a true and lasting happiness in the world as it appears to us viewed through the lens of desire.
- suicide is just another form of self-caring and desire. So truly to give up desire, one must give up desire for death, perhaps even desire for enlightenment, along with one’s incessant pessimism. As a second step, then, one may think: “Instead of isolating myself from the world, why not just give up the idea that I deserve or might win any further rewards from the world than the mysterious majesty of existence that already presents itself before me? What more do I want?” At that point, something miraculous seems to happen. For aside from all the philosophy and religious dogma that later come into play and quicken the process, optimism beings to grow, seemingly from nothing.
- If you abandon the affairs of the world, your body will be without toil. If you forget life, your vitality will be unimpaired.
- The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace.
Selfless Love
- It is literally eroticism, he writes, which gives chaste souls the energy or motivation to climb the spiritual ladder to God.
- “If they ask what Love is”, he says, “tell them it is the sacrifice of will. For if you have not left your will behind, you have no will at all.”
- Yes, to become lowly, lowlier still - as lowly as possible. This is the great secret of mystical life. And then, having reduced oneself to a single point and become nothing more than a soul and heart which loves, to get used to a complete reversal of the usual position - the eternal position of pride, and the uneasy position of the ego which always sees itself as the center of the universe.
Thoughtless Philosophy
- Only when there is no pondering and no cognition will you get to know the Way. Only when you have no surroundings and follow no practices you will find the rest in the Way. Only when there is no path and no procedure can you get to the Way.
- to become a true bride of Christ one must not only become lost in a fierce tumult of love; the lonely contemplator must also have “lost himself in a Waylessness and in a Darkness, in which all contemplative men wander in fruition and wherein they never again can find themselves in a creaturely way.”
Experience
- gratitude for the majesty of existence.
- Youth are initiated into adulthood by “killing” their youthful ways, by being taken away from the protection of their mothers and families, and by being introduced forcefully to the great but also fearsome world outside the tribe where ancestors and good and evil spirits lurk. As Eliade puts it, the initiate “dies” to the temporal, profane world and is reborn into the world of the sacred, which is beyond time and the font of the group’s culture, spiritual values, and protections. The initiatory death, he says, “provides the clean slate on which will be written the successive revelations whose end is the formation of a new man.
- the neophyte should now be emancipated from all concepts, pious and impious.
- “We do not need philosophy to drive us to work. Necessity will do that,” he says. Rather, we need philosophy to “kill boredom, to destroy inertia, to dispel lethargy, to drive away weariness, to overcome a sense of futility.”
- We must philosophize with our malice. We must be as gods, selecting and rejecting. To accept the Cosmos in its entirety is the gesture of a slave not of a man.
Brihadratha’s Lesson
- his penance, no matter how fervent, will do him little good until he cultivates an understanding of this own Soul, which is also the Soul of the universe.
- Incomprehensible is the supreme Soul, unlimited, unborn, unthinkable - His soul is space itself! In the dissolution of the world, He alone remains awake.
- Verily, freedom from desire is like the choicest extract from the choicest treasure. For a person who is made up of all desires, who has the marks of determination, conception, and self conceit, is bound. By being the opposite of that one is liberated.
- Enlightenment will only come, says Sakyanya, when “the intellect stirs not.”
Solitude in Society
- Those who do well, do well wherever they are. – Meister Eckhard
Alienation
- contemplation, which is essentially asocial, is a primary end of the zoon politikon.
- proliferation of computers that digitize our minds, nine-to-five jobs that so sap our spirit we never have time to come back to ourselves.
- Narcissism, he explains, “appears realistically to represent the best way of coping with the tensions and anxieties of modern life.
- In response, the narcissist may turn to the literature of self-help and what Lash terms “the ideology of personal growth.”
What Is to Be Done?
- Hegel’s basic point that alienation - in other words, solitude in society - is essential to individual human maturity and dignity.
- what matters is to increase men’s capacity to cope with alienation.
- it is only when we intentionally cultivate alienation and actively set the world outside ourselves once in a while that we will have a chance of seeing the world as it is.
- Without alienation from the world, they say, one cannot know God. The worst form of estrangement in society is not one’s separation from a warm, well-tempered community - but one’s isolation from the transcendent, all-powerful One, which is the only true reality.
- The state of existence is the state of estrangement… Man as he exists is not what he essentially is and ought to be. He is estranged from his true being.
- “In moments of solitude,” he writes in his essay Loneliness and Society, “something is done to us. The center of our being, the innermost self that is the ground of our aloneness, is elevated to the divine center and taken into it. Therein can we rest without losing ourselves.”
Deleting Loneliness
- I found many warnings that the sense of loneliness will continue to increase with changes in demographics, along with advances in technology and instant global communications.
- The first step is to choose solitude, to find a lonely spot, a place that you can love and where you might escape your tolls, troubles, and distractions. There, you might listen to your timeless self; sort things out; moderate desires, or ponder how best to redirect your life to something important and true, something that will fire your passion.
- Your worst fear, in addition to thoughts of death, is likely to be your fear of separation from the safety and nurturing warmth of society. But that is part of the adventure. Perhaps most important thing to remember is that separation is also freedom.
- If you lose yourself in waylessness, you may discover something wonderful there. You may not find the happiness you expect, but you may discover something larger that is beyond your expectations and for which, like all art, music, solo journeys of shamans, philosophy, and religion, words can spoil the meaning.
Inner Solitude
- it is possible and preferable to be solitary in a positive sense in society - simultaneously and continuously.
- he could evoke a solitude of mind no matter where he was. Even in the city
- mediate not on the ocean or starry heavens but on that which happens to be before me here and now.
Karma Yoga
- It is not to relinquish worldly actions, but all attachment to the fruits of that action.
- wise men should act with detachment to preserve the world.
- he discovers joy in himself; joined by discipline to the infinite spirit, the self attains inexhaustible joy.
- Bhagavadgita advocates not so much saving the joys of time alone for latter half of life, but rather solitude in society, acceptance of fate, and responsibility in the world accompanied by spiritual innerness.
- His nature is free of conditions, Win or lose, It makes no difference to him. Alone in the forest or out in the world, A god in heaven or a simple beggar, It makes no difference!
- Never seek the solitude of the forest, Nor running from the crowd. Always and everywhere, He is one and the same.
Knight of the Faith
- “thundering silence,”
- the way of the world and the way of the spirit should also be regarded as the same,
- action in the world of affairs with the tranquillity of inner retirement
- “The small hermit lives in the mountains. The great hermit lives in a town.”
- “The world is like a bride,” says al-Ghazali, “He who loves her combs and decorates her hair. The ascetic blackens her face, tears her hair out, and rends her clothes. But he who possesses the knowledge of God is completely absorbed in God and does not worry about her at all.”
- Westerners who do see the value and possibility of spiritual solitude in the world tend to be novelists, philosophers, or heretics.
- If he really has God and only God, then nothing disturbs him…
- One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in his mind.


INVADERS FROM MARS (director: William Cameron Menzies; cast: Arthur Franz (Dr. Stuart Kelston), Helena Carter (Dr. Pat Blake), Jimmy Hunt (David Maclean), Leif Erickson (George MacLean), Hillary Brooke (Mary MacLean), 1953)
An enjoyable B- movie but not quite as good as its reputation suggests it would be. If you can suspend critical judgment regarding the thinness of the story and the robotic acting and taut dialogue that should have been made funnier instead of playing it so straight, then you should be in a receptive mood for what the 1950s took for schlock cyberspace. We are in the prime time of hardened cold war attitudes, which are bristling with military solutions and a case of good old paranoia to keep us on our toes. So what better or easier target for all our pent up anxieties, than for the Martians to be the bad guys.
Now there might be just as many people in this country who believe in flying saucers as there are who don't, so when we see a flying saucer land in someone's backyard and disappear in the ground, the film is on familiar sci-fi turf.
The film does a good job of setting up an eerie tension around the Martians landing and it builds up a dark mood around the small town that is invaded and the fear that a young boy has when his parents are abducted. It will show this invasion through the eyes of this very bright schoolboy, David (Hunt), and have his reactions be the rational way we are expected to see things. When he wakes up to hear a humming noise and see the spacecraft land, he quickly tells this to his rocket designer father, George MacLean (Leif Erickson), who is working on a secret space project. He is someone the Martians are particularly interested in because of his scientific skills. When he goes out to look in his backyard and is abducted by the Martians, all his son could do is helplessly watch as he is taken underground.
For the first part of the film, the boy desperately tries to explain to the incredulous adults what he saw. When his father returns, he is a changed person: becoming cold and mean, and there is a crystal device stuck in the back of his neck giving him orders from the spacecraft.
David is comforted from all this by a Dr. Blake (Helena), who follows through on the story he tells her and shields him from all the others the Martians have abducted and who are brainwashed into carrying out the Martians missions; such as, blowing up the rocket factory.
In order to stop them, the army is called in with their tanks and armor. At last, we see the underground tunnels of the Martians and we see the Martians who are mutations of green minuscule human beings kept under glass globes.
The director, William Cameron Menzies, was the first Oscar winner for art direction in 1928, and was production set designer for GWTW. In this cheapie production, he makes the most of the sets he created, and in the final battle scenes between the army and the Martians, they look good enough to add a certain amount of necessary chills to the film.
As the film progresses, we want to know if the kid's parents can be saved, if they can get the crystal devices out of the heads of those abducted, and if there is life in outer space.
To answer some of these questions from a scientific point of view, the astrologer, Dr. Kelston (Franz), the boyfriend of Dr. Blake and mentor of David, is called upon to offer explainations. We are told that Mars is a variable distance of 300 million miles away from the earth, that there is not enough oxygen on the planet to support life but underground cities could have been built there, and that the Martians bred these synthetic humans to save their species as a precaution from an attack by us. Anyway, life on Mars doesn't seem so hot, so why not come to America the land of opportunuty, a haven for those seeking a better life.
The only thing serious about this movie, is that it was done in a serious manner. Aside from that, it's a harmless tingler with enough thrills in it to make it pleasantly watchable. It is one of those movies where you can find enough in it to think it wasn't so bad; and, it really wasn't so bad when you come to think about it. The most interesting part of it, is that it gives you a clear view of 1950s attitudes. It reflected a time that was much different from the way things are now: parents spoke to their children in a respectful manner and vice versa, there was a naïveté in its political concerns, and it idealized the small town concepts of America. There are many old-timers who wish America could return to those simpler times...even though those times had masked the bigger problems they couldn't face, the problems that blew up in the '60s and changed the language and attitudes of the country.This film was made 46 years ago but seems as if it came from a nostalgic time that will never be with us again. It is worth seeing mainly for those reasons.
REVIEWED ON 7/6/99 GRADE: C
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How to clean your dirty AirPods Pro and charging case
by Michael PotuckAirPods Pro bring a new form factor that includes an in-ear design. With that comes new parts to keep clean, and you’ll likely see them become dirtier than AirPods since they’re worn inside your ears. Even after a short time, AirPods Pro can get gunked up. Read on for how to clean your AirPods Pro and charging case.
Many were hoping AirPods Pro would come in black as well as white, but they launched in just white. While white looks simple and sharp, it shows dirt and earwax more easily. There’s also the in-ear tips to deal with now, and Apple has updated its guide on cleaning AirPods Pro, including the ear tips. Read on below for all the details.
How to clean your dirty AirPods Pro and charging case
- Handy items include: cotton swab, flosser pick, microfiber cloth, Blu Tack, isopropyl alcohol
AirPods Pro earbuds
- Wipe down your AirPods Pro with a clean microfiber cloth
- Slightly dampen your cloth with fresh water (or distilled) if needed
- Make sure to let them totally try before putting them back in the charging case or in your ears
- Remove some of the excess cotton from an end for a more precise cotton swab tool
- Gently use a flosser pick to break up and remove tough-to-reach spots
- Blue Tack is another great way to remove dirt and gunk from the black speaker grilles
AirPods Pro ear tips
- Use a dry, clean microfiber cloth or a cotton swab to clean the outside
- To thoroughly clean them, pull firmly on the silicone ear tips to remove them
- Rinse them with fresh water (Apple says to skip the soap and other cleaners)
- Dry them off with your clean cloth
- Blue Tack can be used to clean the speaker grilles when you have the ear tips off
- Push them back into place until you hear a click (make sure the oval shape is lined up)
AirPods Pro charging case
- Use a dry, clean microfiber cloth to wipe down your AirPods Pro charging case
- If needed, slightly dampen your cloth with isopropyl alcohol
- Make sure to keep liquid out of the charging port/contacts
- Blue Tack is again a great way to remove dirt and gunk from the outside and inside of the charging case
If you end up with debris or build up down toward the charging contacts in your charging case, you could try a manual air blower before giving canned air a try. It’s best to refrain from sticking anything down toward the charging contacts to avoid damage. Head to your local Apple Store or AASP if you need more help than basic AirPods Pro cleaning.
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Swift based data grid component based on UICollectionView
. SwiftGridView
allows for quick and easy data grids that are fully customizable with powerful built in functionality.
Features
Swift Grid View supports many of the expected features for a data grid in an easy to use package.
DataGrid Cell Types
- Headers and Footers
- Section Headers and Footers
- Row Cells
Cell Selection
- Full Row or Single Cell Selection
- Multi selection
- Header or Footer Selection
Additional Functionality
- Sticky section headers
- Frozen Columns and Rows
- Grouped Headers
- Pinch to expand size (experimental)
Requirements
- Xcode 10.0+
- iOS 12.0+
Installation
Swift Package Manager
SwiftGridView is easily installed and managed using SPM.
- In Xcode navigate to File → Swift Packages → Add Package Dependency…
- Paste the repo URL (
https://github.com/nlampi/SwiftGridView.git
) and click Next - For the Rules either choose Up to Next Major for stable compatible releases or Branch
master
to remain up to date with the latest - Click Finish
CocoaPods
For installation with CocoaPods, add the pod information to your Podfile
:
pod 'SwiftGridView', '~> 0.7'
Usage
For detailed examples of how to utilize, see the example projects.
Documentation
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License
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SwiftGridView is released under the MIT license.


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YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS A film review by David N. Butterworth Copyright 1998 David N. Butterworth
*** (out of ****)
Savage, perceptive, and brutally funny, "Your Friends & Neighbors" is a perfect antidote for anyone considering cheating on his or her partner.
Continuing where he left of with last year's "In the Company of Men," writer/director Neil LaBute has crafted another unsettling film in which his characters say the kinds of things many of us would be hard pressed to admit to even thinking.
Jerry and Terri, although names seem inconsequential in "Your Friends & Neighbors," are live-in lovers whose problems in the bedroom set the film's wheels of deceit in motion. Jerry (Ben Stiller) likes to talk during sex, but it affects Terri's concentration. Terri is played by Catherine Keener, who finally gets the neurotic anger bit right.
Jerry teaches theater to college students but occupations, too, appear to count for little in this film (for what it's worth, Terri writes advertising copy for the sides of tampon boxes--surely only a man could have come up with that?). The on-the-outs couple get together with some old married friends of theirs, Barry and Mary, played by "Men"'s Aaron Eckhart and "Heat"'s Amy Brenneman, who are experiencing some sexual dissatisfaction of their own. They've barely finished with dessert when Jerry secretly asks Mary out on a date. And it's not exactly for coffee.
Barry likes to hang with his misogynistic friend Cary (Jason Patric in a brilliant performance of such psychological cruelty it'll make your skin crawl). The two men compare notes by boasting about their sexual exploits at, where else, the health club. Jerry sometimes hangs out with them too, but it's pretty obvious he doesn't care for Cary's misplaced machismo.
Nastassja Kinski (playing an artist's assistant called Cheri) rounds out the sexually suspect sextet. Along with falling for one of the film's fivesome, she's a key player in a recurring gallery motif that empirically strips social intercourse down to its most mundane roots.
Although the entire cast is laudable, Patric is a standout. In a particularly uncomfortable episode, the camera slowly zooms in on him delivering a scene-stealing monologue. With a bead of sweat hanging from his lower lid, Patric has the look and all of the malevolence of Alex in "A Clockwork Orange." At times LaBute's envelope-pushing dialogue seems designed solely for shock value, but Patric's performance cannot be faulted; it's hard to believe this is the same actor who floundered his way through "Speed 2."
Cary is a guy without an ounce of sympathy, sensitivity or, let's face it, moral fiber. If he was *your* best friend, you'd need some serious counseling too.
The film, which toys with the idea of what constitutes a good or bad person, is at its best when its characters go picnicking on one another with caustic, uncompromising viciousness. It's not always pretty, but it is insightful and LaBute milks the humor from these troubled situations with consummate skill.
The film's final scene doesn't work, but it's one of the few that don't.
Like the inscription "hold me" that Mary scrawls in a book she lends to Jerry, "Your Friends & Neighbors" will make you want to hold onto what you have--the wife who chews her fingernails, the husband who watches too much television--recognizing that there are friends and neighbors out there not worth having.
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- Select two slices of bread
- Smear peanut butter on one side of one sliceof bread
- Smear honey on one side of the other slice of bread
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Procedure:
12 grams seeds
350 ml water
1 tsp citric acid
2 Tbl sugar
I put all the ingredients in a variable-speed blender. I started at a low speed, until the seeds were all cracked, then increased to the highest speed. I left it at this speed until the black shells had been ground to the consistency of small coffee grounds. I let the mixture stand overnight, so the shells and seed chunks settled out. Then I poured off the 200 ml on top and threw out the rest. I estimate there was the equivalent of 6-8g worth of seeds in this fraction, but this is a guess.
The object of all this is to get the highest ratio of alkaloids to seed pulp. The citric acid and sugar are simply to improve the taste, which isn't too bad given this preparation. The procedure is not efficient, as it wastes a lot of the seeds, but they are cheap, and it gave good results.
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Results:
I ingested the mixture at 9:00am and drove to a nearby trailhead for a day-hike. For the first two hours I noticed nothing, and was convinced the whole thing was a failure. Then I began to feel a bit lightheaded, and wondered if maybe there was a slight effect. Within half an hour after this I was feeling strong effects. The effects increased rapidly. They reached a plateau that lasted about 2 hours. During this time there were very significant sensory and psychological effects, sometimes almost overwhelming. Then the effects slowly tapered off for about 3 more hours. After 12 hours they were almost completely gone, but there was a slight feeling of lethargy and depression that lasted until the middle of the following day.
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Notes:
By the way, I'm trained as a research chemist, in grad school at UC Berkeley a couple or three decades ago.
This stuff was easily in the same class of strength as LSD and 'magic' mushrooms, both of which I tried a few times many years ago. I have to admit that it was some kind of 'mid-life crisis' thing that led me into this experience, I kind of missed my old hipplie-dippie days and was looking for a safe and legal way to get a little of it back. I'm not sure about the 'safe' part, like I said, this is a strong psychoactive drug, make no mistake. It's not some kind of half-assed 'herbal substitute', it's the real thing. Among the effects were:
- Strong auditory hallucinations. I was walking in the woods, and they are fairly open in places. I heard a lot of odd echos of my own footsteps off of larger trees and bluffs. The sound of these echos was almost overwhelming, like an army of ghosts walking with me. Streams and small waterfalls sounded like a thousand tiny bells being struck over and over again. Sometimes I'd just hear one fundamental note in a stream, like it was a single bell, sometimes I'd hear many. The effect was so strong to be almost overwhelming and unpleasant at times.
- Moderate visual hallucinations. No 'trails' like I remember from my youthful experiments. Clouds looked very strange and in odd motion. If I closed my eyes I saw some very strange patterns, like fractal images, that would become pretty strong visuals after time. If I opened my eyes they kind of quickly rearranged themselves into the visual scene. But nothing like I remember from 'magic' muchrooms, which were really strong visually.
- Moderate psychological effects. At times I felt I was a disembodied agent being transported in a robot body across a cartoon landscape. My mood flipped from elation to fear several times, although I was able to keep it under control by reminding myself that it was just the effects of a drug that would eventually wear off. I felt I was having some profound insights, none of which I am sure was really all that profound. The only one that stuck with me was that 'reality' may just be made up of layers upon layers of 'hallucinations' piled up so thickly as to be unchangeable, and that the drug I had taken was simply peeling back a few layers and letting me see things another way.
Also, odd things would startle me. I remenger watching some ants coming out of a nest in the ground and suddenly feeling very menaced by them. It's like they were all staring at me in anger. But I never totally 'lost myself', as happened to me once when I ate about a handfull of 'magic' mushrooms.
-Moderate physical effects. My body felt very tense and my eyes became quite bloodshot. Oddly, my pupils never dialated much, but they did get kind of twitchy.
To be honest the whole experience was more unpleasant than pleasant in the balance. But it was damned interesting. I'm not sure I'll ever repeat it, but I'm not sorry I tried it once.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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Hello World. This is my project web page. The purpose of this web page is to slowly document my slow descent into insanity progress through the course of my project.
My hoobies are...
- Making stuff
- Running tabletop rpgs for my friends
- Sketching
My interest ranked are..
- Engineering
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- Playing Video Games


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User functions¶
User apply¶
With functions that release the GIL (e.g., many NumPy functions, Cython), one can bypass Xarray and use Rasterio to write concurrently.
The example below applies a custom function concurrently over an image.
Note
GeoWombat will not handle image alignment with the geowombat.apply()
function.
def my_func(block, arg):
return block * arg
import geowombat as gw
gw.apply('input.tif', 'output.tif', my_func, args=(10.0,), n_jobs=4)
User functions as DataArray attributes¶
User functions that do not use a Dask task graph can be passed as attributes. Unlike the example above, the example below has guaranteed image alignment. Functions and arguments can be passed as Xarray attributes. Here is an example that uses one user argument.
import geowombat as gw
# Function with one argument
def user_func(block, n):
return block * n
with gw.open('input.tif') as ds:
# Functions are given as 'apply'
ds.attrs['apply'] = user_func
# Function arguments are given as 'apply_args'
ds.attrs['apply_args'] = [10.0]
ds.gw.to_raster('output.tif',
n_workers=4,
n_threads=2,
separate=True,
overwrite=True,
compress='lzw')
In this example, a keyword argument is also used.
# Function with one argument and one keyword argument
def user_func(block, n, divider=1.0):
return (block * n) / divider
with gw.open('input.tif') as ds:
# Functions are given as 'apply'
ds.attrs['apply'] = user_func
# Function arguments are given as 'apply_args'
# *Note that arguments should always be a list
ds.attrs['apply_args'] = [10.0]
# Function keyword arguments are given as 'apply_kwargs'
# *Note that keyword arguments should always be a dictionary
ds.attrs['apply_kwargs'] = {'divider': 2.3}
ds.gw.to_raster('output.tif',
n_workers=4,
n_threads=2,
separate=True,
overwrite=True,
compress='lzw')
Applying in-memory GeoWombat functions lazily¶
Several GeoWombat functions execute in-memory, and are therefore not optimized for large datasets. However, these functions can be applied at the block level for Dask-like out-of-memory processing using the user function framework. In the example below, geowombat.polygon_to_array()
is applied at the raster block level.
import geowombat as gw
import geopandas as gpd
# Confirm that the GeoWombat function is supported for block-level lazy processing
print(hasattr(gw.polygon_to_array, 'wombat_func_'))
with gw.open('input.tif') as src:
# We can load the geometry spatial index once and pass it to the block level.
# However, be sure that the CRS matches the raster CRS.
df = gpd.gpd.read_file('vector.gpkg').to_crs(src.crs)
sindex = df.sindex
src.attrs['apply'] = gw.polygon_to_array
# All arguments must be passed as keyword arguments
src.attrs['apply_kwargs'] = {'polygon': df,
'sindex': sindex,
'all_touched': False}
src.gw.to_raster('output.tif',
n_workers=4,
n_threads=2,
compress='lzw')
By default, user functions expect a NumPy array as the first argument. It might be desirable to combine a GeoWombat function that operates on a DataArray. To achieve this, we can decorate the function as a lazy wombat.
import geowombat as gw
from geowombat.core.util import lazy_wombat
@lazy_wombat
def user_func(data=None, polygon=None, sindex=None, all_touched=None):
"""Converts a polygon to an array and then masks the array"""
mask = gw.polygon_to_array(polygon=polygon, data=data, sindex=sindex, all_touched=all_touched)
return (mask * data).astype('float64')
with gw.open('input.tif') as src:
df = gpd.gpd.read_file('vector.gpkg').to_crs(src.crs)
sindex = df.sindex
src.attrs['apply'] = user_func
# All arguments must be passed as keyword arguments
src.attrs['apply_kwargs'] = {'polygon': df,
'sindex': sindex,
'all_touched': False}
src.gw.to_raster('output.tif',
n_workers=4,
n_threads=2,
compress='lzw')
The above example is similar to the following with the geowombat.mask()
function.
import geowombat as gw
with gw.open('input.tif') as src:
df = gpd.gpd.read_file('vector.gpkg').to_crs(src.crs)
sindex = df.sindex
src.attrs['apply'] = gw.mask
# All arguments must be passed as keyword arguments
src.attrs['apply_kwargs'] = {'dataframe': df,
'keep': 'in'}
src.gw.to_raster('output.tif',
n_workers=4,
n_threads=2,
compress='lzw')


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The client requests included attracting clients and redesigning his website. After audience target analysis, marketing strategy by PPC ads and website design, we reached a result of instant leads. In total 188 applications for a budget of $1,249 and the price of the lead is $6.64. The website CRO has increased by 41%.
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Our team made an individual analysis, customized the ads campaign and redesign the brand. The client started with the budget of $1,150. The goal on this project was to attract clients through social media channels and manage them under one account. With FB ads over 1,000 live subscribers attracted to social media and got 35 new potential clients in one month.
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Controller Overview¶
The Controller enables users to manipulate the playback of their data source, and create new cells as they record their observations.
The Controller has two main areas: the keypad on the left, which maps directly to your keyboard, and the Timeslider on the right, which represents the current playback position.
The following sections describe the two areas in detail, and provide a useful reference for working with the Controller.
Keypad¶
Important
You cannot use the number keypad for inputting numbers into Datavyu. It will only perform the actions described here.
The Controller’s keypad maps directly to the number pad
on your keyboard or external keypad and the on-screen representation
helps users remember what key performs what function. When you press
a key on the keypad, a visual indicator onscreen mirrors the
keystrokes. Some keypads may change the ordering of certain keys: for
instance, some keypads may have a Num Lock
key
rather than a clear
button but the Controller takes different
keyboards into account and simplifies the keys as much as possible.
Familiarize yourself with both the Datavyu controls and your
keypad to maximize coding efficiency.
Playback Controls¶
jog left (
1
): moves the playhead back one frame. If the frame rate is not set, jog will move the playhead in one second increments. Holding down jog left plays backward slowly.pause (
2
): pauses playback. Pressing pause again resumes playback. Pause only works if play (8
) has first been pressed.jog right (
3
): moves the playhead forward one frame. If the frame rate is not set, jog will move the playhead in one second increments. Holding down jog right plays the source forward slowly.shuttle left (
4
): rewinds, initially at 1/32 of playback speed. Repeatedly pressing the shuttle left key increases the rewind speed to a maximum of 32 times playback speed.stop (
5
): stops playback.shuttle right (
6
): fast forwards initially at 1/32 of playback speed. Repeatedly pressing the shuttle right key increases the fast forward speed to a maximum of 32 times playback speed.play (
8
): starts playback.
In addition, shift
find (+
): jumps to the time of cell
offset.
Note
For users of Mac OS X: recent versions of OS X do not allow you to
hold down a key as a default. Instead it brings up a
mini-menu to help you select common accents for that letter. If you
want to be able to jog by holding down the 1
or
3
keys, you will need to open your Terminal and run the
following command:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
To undo the change, run the same command but with -bool true
rather than -bool false
.
Coding Controls¶
set cell onset (7): sets the onset for the current cell.
point cell (=): creates a new cell whose onset and offset values are the playhead’s current position.
set cell offset (9 and
.
): sets the offset for the current cell.find (
+
): moves the playhead to the onset time of the current cell, which is shown in the box to the bottom right of the find button. Selecting a different cell will update this time.go back (
-
): moves the playhead back by the amount of time set in the Jump back by box to the right of the go back button. You can change the increment by selecting that box and editing the value.new cell and set previous offset (
0
): creates a new cell and sets its onset to the playhead’s current time. If the previous cell does not have an offset, adding a new cell with this key sets the previous cell’s offset to the current playhead time, minus one millisecond.new cell and set current onset (
Enter
): creates a new cell and sets its onset to the playhead’s current time.
Tracks¶
Note
The tracks walkthrough video is a good way to familiarize yourself with this area of the Controller:
The Tracks area of the Controller helps you visualize where you are within a data source’s playback. You can control the scale using the slider bar in the top right: moving it to the right zooms in, allowing you to manipulate smaller time periods than would otherwise be feasible. You can also zoom in on a selected region by clicking on the magnifying glass icon next to the slider bar. The red playhead shows the current playback position.
You can choose to focus on a single region by moving the green region boundaries. Datavyu will start playback from the leftmost boundary’s position, and stop at the rightmost boundary.
The Tracks area of the Controller also includes five buttons:
Lock All: locks the tracks to prevent the user from changing the synchronization between multiple tracks.
Add Bookmark: adds a bookmark at the playhead.
Snap Region: sets the region to the length of the selected cell: the left boundary is placed at the cell’s onset, and the right boundary at the cell’s offset. You can also use the
ctrl +
keyboard shortcut to snap the region.Clear Region: removes the region boundaries. You can also use the
ctrl -
keyboard shortcut to clear the region.Magnifying Glass icon: zooms in on the timeslider to focus exclusively on the snapped region.
Add Data¶
Important
Do not use the VLC plugin because it is not fully implemented and tested. It has frame accuracy problems and therefore is not suggested. Please use Quicktime instead. If your videos do not play smoothly in Quicktime, please convert your videos if you would still like to use Datavyu.
Datavyu currently supports video through QT. To convert video file types, see: Convert File Formats. If you are going to be working with multiple data sources see: Code Multiple Data Sources at Once.
Providing you have adequate processing power and a sufficiently strong graphics card, you should be able to work with high-resolution video files without challenge.
To add a data source:
Click the Add Data… button in the top left corner of the Controller.
A file selection window will open. Select the data file you will be coding.
If the data source is a video file and Datavyu is unable to determine its frame rate, it will ask you what the video’s frame rate is. You can determine the frame rate by opening the video in QuickTime Player, and selecting Show Movie Inspector from the Window menu. The Inspector presents information about the video. The frame rate is labeled FPS, or frames-per-second.
Datavyu uses the frame rate to accurately play and jog through videos, so it is important that you set the correct frame rate.
If Datavyu cannot read your video’s frame rate or if it reads the wrong frame rate. You can manually set the frame rate by double clicking on Steps per second and writing the correct frame rate. Please press Enter and Datavyu will use your new frame rate.
See also


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Taken from Erik Meijer's talk in "Principles of Reactive programming" at Coursera.org
trait Socket {
def readFromMemory(): Array[Byte]
def sendToEurope(packet: Array[Byte]): Array[Byte]
}
val socket = Socket()
val packet = socket.readFromMemory()
val confirmation = socket.sendToEurope(packet)
| execute typical instruction | 1/1,000,000,000 sec = 1 nanosec |
| fetch from L1 cache memory | 0.5 nanosec |
| branch misprediction | 5 nanosec |
| fetch from L2 cache memory | 7 nanosec |
| Mutex lock/unlock | 25 nanosec |
| fetch from main memory | 100 nanosec |
| send 2K bytes over 1Gbps network | 20,000 nanosec |
| read 1MB sequentially from memory | 250,000 nanosec |
| fetch from new disk location (seek) | 8,000,000 nanosec |
| read 1MB sequentially from disk | 20,000,000 nanosec |
| send packet US to Europe and back | 150 milliseconds = 150,000,000 nanosec |
trait Socket {
def readFromMemory(): Array[Byte]
def sendToEurope(packet: Array[Byte]): Array[Byte]
}
val socket = Socket()
val packet = socket.readFromMemory()
// block for 250,000 ns
// only continue if there is no exception
val confirmation = socket.sendToEurope(packet)
// block for (more than) 150,000,000 ns
// only continue if there is no exception
1 nanosecond
->
1 second
(then hours/days/months/years)
1 nanosec -> 1 sec
| execute typical instruction | 1 nanosec |
| fetch from L1 cache memory | 0.5 nanosec |
| branch misprediction | 5 nanosec |
| fetch from L2 cache memory | 7 nanosec |
| Mutex lock/unlock | 25 nanosec |
| fetch from main memory | 100 nanosec |
| send 2K bytes over 1Gbps network | 20,000 nanosec |
| read 1MB sequentially from memory | 250,000 nanosec |
| fetch from new disk location (seek) | 8,000,000 nanosec |
| read 1MB sequentially from disk | 20,000,000 nanosec |
| send packet US to Europe and back | 150 milliseconds = 150,000,000 nanosec |
1 nanosec
->
1 second
7 nanosec
->
a) 1 second
b) 17 second
c) 7 second
d) 0.7 second
20,000 nanosec
->
a) 5.5 hours
b) 18 minutes
c) 3 days
d) 1 month
250,000 nanosec
->
a) 1.5 year
b) 19 hours
c) 3 days
d) 7 weeks
8,000,000 nanosec
->
a) 6 days
b) 5 months
c) 13 weeks
d) 3 years
20,000,000 nanosec
->
a) 27 days
b) 6.5 months
c) 9 years
d) 1.5 year
150 milliseconds = 150,000,000 nanosec
->
a) 5 years
b) 11 months
c) 17 years
d) 3 weeks
| execute typical instruction | 1 nanosec | 1 sec |
| fetch from L1 cache memory | 0.5 nanosec | 0.5 sec |
| branch misprediction | 5 nanosec | 5 sec |
| fetch from L2 cache memory | 7 nanosec | c) 7 sec |
| Mutex lock/unlock | 25 nanosec | 0.5 min |
| fetch from main memory | 100 nanosec | 1.5 min |
| send 2K bytes over 1Gbps network | 20,000 nanosec | a) 5.5 hours |
| read 1MB sequentially from memory | 250,000 nanosec | c) 3 days |
| fetch from new disk location (seek) | 8,000,000 nanosec | c) 13 weeks |
| read 1MB sequentially from disk | 20,000,000 nanosec | b) 6.5 months |
| send packet US to Europe and back | 150 milliseconds | a) 5 years |
trait Socket {
def readFromMemory(): Array[Byte]
def sendToEurope(packet: Array[Byte]): Array[Byte]
}
val socket = Socket()
val packet = socket.readFromMemory()
// block for 3 days
// only continue if there is no exception
val confirmation = socket.sendToEurope(packet)
// block for 5 years
// only continue if there is no exception
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RELATIONSHIP WITH THE GHANA CATHOLIC YOUTH COUNCIL (GHANCYC)
The National Movement for the past forty years, of the existence of the Ghana National Catholic Youth Council
has collaborated through the various platforms. Meetings Four routine annual major meetings are organized
and supervised by GHANCYC:
- Annual General Council Meeting, (highest decision making body), in September
- Full Timers Meeting (A/DYC Chaplains and National Coordinators), in March
- National Executive Committee Meeting, in June
- Provisional Study Sessions, in February and March Programs
- World Youth Days: observed/celebrated at Diocesan, National and International levels where the youth
gather to witness to their faith and share their culture.
- Provincial Youth Study Sessions: Youth are selected from A/DYCs for training in leadership,
project/report writing, computer, book keeping, time management etc. for effective and efficient output
in the Parishes.
- Workshop on income generating projects: organized to build the self-reliance concept in the youth.
Pax Romana’s cordial relationship with GHANCYC, other sister Movements and Member Bodies has been
unparalleled. Other Collaboration Pax Romana Ghana Federation seeks to establish are as follows;
- PAX Collaboration with the National Catholic Laity Council
- PAX Collaboration with the Association of Catholic Teacher Trainees
- PAX collaboration with the Catholic Media Practitioners
- PAX Collaboration with the Catholic Law Practitioners
- PAX Collaboration with the Catholic Business Professionals
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Predict from a apd_pca
# S3 method for apd_pca score(object, new_data, type = "numeric", ...)
| object | A |
|---|---|
| new_data | A data frame or matrix of new samples. |
| type | A single character. The type of predictions to generate. Valid options are:
|
| ... | Not used, but required for extensibility. |
A tibble of predictions. The number of rows in the tibble is guaranteed
to be the same as the number of rows in new_data
.
The function computes the principal components of the new data and
their percentiles as compared to the training data. The number of principal
components computed depends on the threshold
given at fit time. It also
computes the multivariate distance between each principal component and its
mean.
train <- mtcars[1:20,] test <- mtcars[21:32, -1] # Fit mod <- apd_pca(mpg ~ cyl + log(drat), train) # Predict, with preprocessing score(mod, test)#> Warning: collapsing to unique 'x' values#> Warning: collapsing to unique 'x' values#> Warning: collapsing to unique 'x' values#> # A tibble: 12 x 6 #> PC1 PC2 distance PC1_pctl PC2_pctl distance_pctl #> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> #> 1 -1.16 0.664 1.34 42.9 87.6 43.0 #> 2 1.84 0.345 1.87 95.3 42.2 95.4 #> 3 1.23 -0.259 1.26 47.3 36.7 36.8 #> 4 0.461 -1.03 1.13 0 98.5 25.5 #> 5 1.34 -0.157 1.35 52.5 27.4 44.7 #> 6 -1.61 0.217 1.62 89.2 31.7 89.3 #> 7 -1.98 -0.159 1.99 96.4 27.5 96.2 #> 8 -1.25 0.579 1.37 48.0 82.0 59.1 #> 9 -0.103 -1.60 1.60 0 1 87.3 #> 10 -0.231 -0.0655 0.241 0 6.76 0 #> 11 0.700 -0.793 1.06 22.4 96.0 24.4 #> 12 -1.64 0.184 1.65 90.6 29.2 90.6


The Truth is that It just doesn't matter.
Nothing really matters; nothing is really important.
and the Truth about that is
that any deviation in belief from
this universal Truth
is merely self-important delusion.
This is not to suggest that we should value nothing.
On the contrary, our Values are what define each of our individual Characters.
John values honesty and integrity.
Therefore, he determines a human being's Value
in accordance with his perception of that person's
honesty and integrity. This determination is applied
equally to himself.
So, John's image of his own Value (self-worth, self-esteem),
and, actually, the entirety of his self-Image
is based upon his perception of his relationship to his Values.
John's Mind is quite like a map of all his Images.
So, his Image of himself exists in relation to all of his other Images.
Here is a poem about my life in Berkeley
Now I will speak of True Mind.
True Mind is the philosopher's stone.
True Mind is the accurate Image, which truly depicts
reality.
This is not to say that True Mind must depict all of the Real.
I merely claim that True Mind depicts something
of the Real, something we may call
Body.


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JPEG File Interchange Format, or JFIF, or, more colloquially known as just "JPEG" or "JPG", is a popular 2D bitmap image file format, offering lossy compression which works reasonably well with photographic images.
Format is organized as a container format, serving multiple "segments", each starting with a magic and a marker. JFIF standard dictates order and mandatory apperance of segments:
This page hosts a formal specification of JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) File Interchange Format using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.
meta:
id: jpeg
title: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) File Interchange Format
file-extension:
- jpg
- jpeg
- jpe
- jif
- jfif
- jfi
xref:
ecma: TR/98
forensicswiki: JPEG
justsolve: JFIF
loc: fdd000017
mime: image/jpeg
pronom:
- fmt/42 # JFIF 1.00
- fmt/43 # JFIF 1.01
- fmt/44 # JFIF 1.02
wikidata: Q26329975
license: CC0-1.0
imports:
- exif
endian: be
doc: |
JPEG File Interchange Format, or JFIF, or, more colloquially known
as just "JPEG" or "JPG", is a popular 2D bitmap image file format,
offering lossy compression which works reasonably well with
photographic images.
Format is organized as a container format, serving multiple
"segments", each starting with a magic and a marker. JFIF standard
dictates order and mandatory apperance of segments:
* SOI
* APP0 (with JFIF magic)
* APP0 (with JFXX magic, optional)
* everything else
* SOS
* JPEG-compressed stream
* EOI
seq:
- id: segments
type: segment
repeat: eos
types:
segment:
seq:
- id: magic
contents: [0xff]
- id: marker
type: u1
enum: marker_enum
- id: length
type: u2
if: marker != marker_enum::soi and marker != marker_enum::eoi
- id: data
size: length - 2
if: marker != marker_enum::soi and marker != marker_enum::eoi
type:
switch-on: marker
cases:
'marker_enum::app0': segment_app0
'marker_enum::app1': segment_app1
'marker_enum::sof0': segment_sof0
'marker_enum::sos': segment_sos
- id: image_data
size-eos: true
if: marker == marker_enum::sos
enums:
marker_enum:
0x01: tem
0xc0: sof0 # start of frame 0
0xc1: sof1 # start of frame 1
0xc2: sof2 # start of frame 2
0xc3: sof3 # start of frame 3
0xc4: dht # define Huffman table
0xc5: sof5 # start of frame 5
0xc6: sof6 # start of frame 6
0xc7: sof7 # start of frame 7
0xd8: soi # start of image
0xd9: eoi # end of image
0xda: sos # start of scan
0xdb: dqt # define quantization table
0xdc: dnl # define number of lines
0xdd: dri # define restart interval
0xde: dhp # define hierarchical progression
0xe0: app0
0xe1: app1
0xe2: app2
0xe3: app3
0xe4: app4
0xe5: app5
0xe6: app6
0xe7: app7
0xe8: app8
0xe9: app9
0xea: app10
0xeb: app11
0xec: app12
0xed: app13
0xee: app14
0xef: app15
0xfe: com # comment
segment_app0:
seq:
- id: magic
type: str
encoding: ASCII
size: 5
- id: version_major
type: u1
- id: version_minor
type: u1
- id: density_units
type: u1
enum: density_unit
- id: density_x
type: u2
doc: Horizontal pixel density. Must not be zero.
- id: density_y
type: u2
doc: Vertical pixel density. Must not be zero.
- id: thumbnail_x
type: u1
doc: Horizontal pixel count of the following embedded RGB thumbnail. May be zero.
- id: thumbnail_y
type: u1
doc: Vertical pixel count of the following embedded RGB thumbnail. May be zero.
- id: thumbnail
size: thumbnail_x * thumbnail_y * 3
doc: Uncompressed 24 bit RGB (8 bits per color channel) raster thumbnail data in the order R0, G0, B0, ... Rn, Gn, Bn
enums:
density_unit:
0: no_units
1: pixels_per_inch
2: pixels_per_cm
segment_app1:
seq:
- id: magic
type: strz
encoding: ASCII
- id: body
type:
switch-on: magic
cases:
'"Exif"': exif_in_jpeg
segment_sof0:
seq:
- id: bits_per_sample
type: u1
- id: image_height
type: u2
- id: image_width
type: u2
- id: num_components
type: u1
- id: components
type: component
repeat: expr
repeat-expr: num_components
types:
component:
seq:
- id: id
type: u1
enum: component_id
doc: Component selector
- id: sampling_factors
type: u1
- id: quantization_table_id
type: u1
instances:
sampling_x:
value: (sampling_factors & 0xf0) >> 4
sampling_y:
value: sampling_factors & 0xf
segment_sos:
seq:
- id: num_components
type: u1
doc: Number of components in scan
- id: components
type: component
repeat: expr
repeat-expr: num_components
doc: Scan components specification
- id: start_spectral_selection
type: u1
doc: Start of spectral selection or predictor selection
- id: end_spectral
type: u1
doc: End of spectral selection
- id: appr_bit_pos
type: u1
doc: Successive approximation bit position high + Successive approximation bit position low or point transform
types:
component:
seq:
- id: id
type: u1
enum: component_id
doc: Scan component selector
- id: huffman_table
type: u1
# Extra wrapper for EXIF, as there is extra 0 byte that needs to be
# parsed. The actual EXIF specification is defined in external .ksy
# file, as it is shared with other formats (TIFF, PNG, XCF, etc).
exif_in_jpeg:
seq:
- id: extra_zero
contents: [0]
- id: data
size-eos: true
type: exif
enums:
component_id:
1: y
2: cb
3: cr
4: i
5: q


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