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roof-brain chatter en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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