Anita Parmar

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Marcolli is not simply explaining art to scientists and science to artists; she charts unexpected interdependencies that illuminate the universe
Lumen Naturae | The MIT Press
The main themes we’ve picked up are that adrenaline is not the fuel – far from it, adrenaline is unwanted. Living in the now is definitely a huge attraction, being present. The strength and depth of the bond that develops when you climb with someone else is something you don’t get from playing tennis. When you tie on, you put your life in each other’s hands.
After the fall - Sidetracked
The risk forces the mind to live solely in the now and achieve that pure thinking, almost like meditation
After the fall - Sidetracked
I think my progression into climbing was so quick, accelerated by my course at Plas y Brenin, my confidence and my over-enthusiasm that, while I wasn’t taking stupid risks, I didn’t have enough time to compute the ‘what if’ properly. When you start climbing it is scary but the focus that I needed to climb and not fall can be so all-consuming that you don’t have time to compute the ‘what if’. For me, if I started to feel scared or think about consequences then I couldn’t concentrate as well on the task at hand. So now, analysing this mindset, I can say that I didn’t like to trigger any adrenali…
After the fall - Sidetracked