roof-brain chatter

English

Etymology

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

Noun

roof-brain chatter (uncountable)

  1. incoherent, idle thoughts "at the top of the brain"
    • 1984, David V. Tansley, The raiment of light: a study of the human aura, page 198:
      ...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.
    • 1990, Philip Burnard, Learning human skills: an experiential guide for nurses, page 241:
      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
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