- Rupert Sheldrake (1942 - )
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Morphic Fields
Sunday, May 05, 2024
Fossilization of Time
It’s an act of God."
- Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948 - )
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Eyes of the Dreamer
and from it pours forth the fiat
that fashioned the world.
This is the dynamic silence of creation,
the tremendous dramatic silence of
new birth forever taking place-
new worlds forever fashioning.
light of these spiritual orbs,
there is no darkness,
for they dwell in the presence of
limitless light and at midnight see
the sun shining under their feet."
- Manly Hall (1901 - 1990)
Monday, April 29, 2024
Transpersonal Experiences
- Stanislav Grof (1931 - )
The Holotropic Mind
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Liquid Vortex
Upon a liquid vortex wrought
By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
And thine doth like a convict sit,
With marline-spike untwisting it,
Only to find its knottiness abiding;
Since all the tools for its untying
In four-dimensional space are lying,
Wherein they fancy intersperses
Long avenues of universes,
While Klein and Clifford fill the void
With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed. "
Monday, April 22, 2024
Hypertelescopic Imagination
- Olaf Stapledon (1886 - 1950)
Star Maker
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Folded and Hidden
"The greatest lessons of nature are the lessons of the fresh, eternal qualities of being: The variety and freedom, the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality—each toward all and nothing supersedes the rest;
I fully believe in a clue and purpose in nature,
effusing life and power, for hidden purposes.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Nature, Containing All
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Hallucinatory Character of the World
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
Monday, January 15, 2024
Time and Space
"Because of the hazy, nondefinite character of quantum physics (called the Heisenberg uncertainty principle), at the dimensions of the Planck length, space and time churn and seethe, with the distance between any two points wildly fluctuating from moment to moment, and time randomly speeding and slowing, perhaps even going backward and forward. In such a situation, time and space no longer exist in a way that has meaning to us."
Monday, January 08, 2024
Symbolic Communication
- Bernardo Kastrup (1974 - )
UAPs and Non-Human Intelligence
Sunday, January 07, 2024
Cosmogenesis
- Brian Thomas Swimme (1950 - )
Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Cosmic Serpent
- Jeremy Narby (1959 - )
The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Walls of the Worlds
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
It’s a Visual World
Leonora Carrington (asked if there had been other artists in the family): My mother used to paint biscuit tins for jumble sales. That’s the only art that went on in my household.
Interviewer: I wonder where it came from?
Leonora Carrington: I have no idea.
Interviewer: No other artists in our family? None at all?
Leonora Carrington: Why are you fixed on the idea of heredity? It’s not hereditary … comes from somewhere else, not from genes. You’re trying to intellectualize something desperately, and you’re wasting your time. That’s not a way of understanding, to make a kind of intellectual mini-logic. You never understand by that road.
Interviewer: What do you think you do understand by then?
Leonora Carrington: By your own feelings about things …if you see a painting that you like… canvas is an empty space.
Interviewer: If I got one of your pictures down from upstairs and said to you what were you thinking when you painted this…?
Leonora Carrington: No. It’s a visual world, you want to turn things into a kind of intellectual game, it’s not… the visual world, it’s totally different. Remember what I’ve just said now, don’t try and turn it into a …kind of intellectual game. It’s not… It’s a visual world, which is different. The visual world is to do with what we see as space, which changes all the time. How do I know to walk –that’s one concept– to this bed and around it without running into it. I’m moving in space. Or I can have a concept of it and then I can see it as an object in space…”
- Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011)
Don't try to intellectualize art
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Observer-Centric Virtualities
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
The Direction of Time
- Hans Reichenbach (1891 - 1953)
The Direction of Time
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Capturing Surrealities - #2
"Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can
look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try
to follow where they lead."
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Capturing Surrealities - #1
Monday, October 23, 2023
Expanding Our Vision
- Eric Kandel (1929 - )
The Age of Insight
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
We Are Stories
the twenty complicated centimeters
behind our eyes, lines drawn by traces
left by the (re)mingling together of
things in the world, and oriented
toward predicting events in the future,
toward the direction of increasing entropy,
in a rather particular corner of this
immense, chaotic universe."
- Carlo Rovelli (1956 - )
The Order of Time