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roof-brain chatter

noun

Etymology

Term coined by author Joseph Chilton Pearce in his 1973 book The Crack In The Cosmic Egg.

Definitions

  1. incoherent, idle thoughts "at the top of the brain"

    • ...babble that goes on in our heads — the 'roof brain chatter' as Chilton Pearce calls it in his book, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg.
    • Notes In the early stages of meditation, it is very easy to be distracted by what Pearce calls 'roof-brain' chatter (Pearce, 1982), the seemingly endless flow of thoughts and ideas that refuse to go away when we sit down to meditation

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for roof-brain chatter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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