Okay, the question has been asked, so I feel it's only fair to answer it. Why choose Mindflip for the name of this webpage and for this domain? Initially, it was just a random thought I had (which if you know me already, that's not an uncommon occurrence). I had been looking for a good domain name to register for some time, and I wanted something that sounded interesting and that I could be proud of, but also something which was general enough that I could use it for any number of different "end products."

On a more literal level, I thought the word mindflip evinced some interesting Psychological and Metaphysical images, which were some of the directions I wanted to go with a web page. Later on though, I came across some interesting references that I had never intentionally planned, but which fit in nicely with the idea I had in mind. Here are a few of them, for posterity's sake, anyway:

Like a fish
pulled from its home in the water
& thrown on land:
the mind flips & flaps about
to escape the sway of bedevilment.

--Dhammapada Verse 33
    Gautama Buddha

Riff Raff: With a bit of a mind flip
Magenta: You're there in the time slip
Riff Raff: And nothing can ever be the same
Magenta: You're spaced out on sensation
Riff Raff: Like you're under sedation
All: Let's do the time warp again

"Time Warp"
from the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Probably the most common occurence of "mind flip" brought to my attention

"in your mind, flip the shape over and down to make the bottom wing of the butterfly."

--from a web page on quiltmaking, but taken
    out of context it's extremely poetic. :) I had to list it.

If you still can't make up your mind, flip a coin. Some things should just be left to chance.

--from an unknown love advice column

As he was speaking, mind flipped to a statement by one of my satirizing instructors (in medieval philosophy, no less) in rabbinical school. He admonished the class that if we felt we had come to seminary because of a "calling," we ought "to hang up." My teacher meant two things: (1) that if we were hearing voices, we ought to take time off from our rabbinical school studies; and, more seriously, (2) experiencing God in an everyday, concrete way with normal human senses and in a literal fashion does not necessarily comport with the Jewish tradition.

"God's Presence/HaMakom"
Rabbi Howard Apothaker

Once again the irony of this very loose association should seem very coincidental to those who know me well

Give me strangled synth riffs that wiggle inside my
head give me samples that make my mind flip.

Hit The Floor 2 by MX www.hyperreal.org