Last night I photographed a bunch of male Blue Ghosts floating around, searching for flightless females on the ground below. β£
Iβve read there are similar bioluminescent beetles in other parts of the world, but this specific species is unique to this region. β£
β£This is 20 back-to-back, 30-second long-exposures of the same spot. In other words, all the light my camera could capture for 10 straight minutes, combined into one image.β£
β£And sorry, I do not share blue ghost locations because I have seen too many people shine flashlights on them, try to catch them, etc and Iβm not going to be a part of that. I do know people who offer guided tours (which is also great for people unfamiliar with being out in the forest at night), so please feel free to ask me for a referral for that.
[Asheville Pictures in Western North Carolina]
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19. The Mind is not self-luminous, since it can be seen as an object. This is a further step toward overthrowing the tyranny of the βmindβ: the psychic nature of emotion and mental measuring. This psychic self, the personality, claims to be absolute, asserting that life is for it and through it; it seeks to impose on the whole being of man its narrow, materialistic, faithless view of life and the universe; it would clip the wings of the soaring Soul. But the Soul dethrones the tyrant, by perceiving and steadily affirming that the psychic self is no true self at all, not self-luminous, but only an object of observation, watched by the serene eyes of the Spiritual Man.
- PataΓ±jali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. the Book of the Spiritual Man
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