Who Drives My Bus

The situation here is not unlike a bus in
which different passengers are constantly
competing and scheming to take over control
of the driver's seat, and when they do, they
take the whole bus and all the other pasengers
on their trip. For example, someone makes a
contemptuous remark to us: this is the cue for
a hated or worthless image to take over the
driver's position. Egos at every level of
consciousness go on the trip of rage or rejection,
directed at the other and/or at self. The heart
beats violently, the cells shiver in fear, the other
is perceived as mean or stupid, etc,; and whatever
trip the bus was on before is, of course, completely
disrupted while all systems go on this detour.

--Ralph Metzner

hat tip-Steve Toth

Liquid crystals

Karen Neill

The orientation of molecules within a liquid crystal can be seen by viewing the crystals using polarised light. Regions that have the same colour here have the same orientation of their constituent molecules. Nikon 190 digital camera with polarisers, attached to a laboratory microscope