From French cachalot, from Spanish and Portuguese cachalote, from cachola (â big head â). Pronunciation IPA : /ËkaÊÉlÉt/, /ËkaÊÉlÉÊ/ IPA : /ËkÃ¦.ÊÉ.ËlÉt/ Noun . cachalot (plural cachalots) The sperm whale. 2011, Richard Shelton, Sheep, pig, whale, Times Literary Supplement, 22 Sep 2011:
This is the warning from Wilson about Cosmic Trigger. Cosmic Trigger deals with a process of deliberately induced brain change. This is called 'initiation' or 'vision quest' in many traditional societies and .. a dangerous variety of self-psychotherapy in modern terminology. I do not recommend it for everybody..
The Cosmic Year. The Cosmic Calendar is a scale in which the 13.7 billion year lifetime of the universe is mapped onto a single year. This image helps to put cosmology, evolution, and written history in context. At this scale the Big Bang took place on January 1 at midnight, and the current time is mapped to December 31 at midnight. At this scale, there are 434 years per second, 1.57 million years per hour, and 37.7 million years per day.