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Listener Mail: The Face That is Gazed on as it Gazes

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Do You Take a Picture of You in a Mirror?

In jewish tradition, when a person dies and the family is in a period of deep mourning called shiva, mirrors are covered. On a logical level, it could be so that people don't try to spruce up their appearance. But on a mystical level, It could be an avoidance of the deceased in case they are in the mirror,. And then allan also writes, i treat vat p t s d, when we talk to them about their experiences on deployment and how psychotic that was. We refer to it as stepping through the looking glass, where reality is topsy turvy and psychotic.

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