Thu 10 May 2012
Posted by PJ under nature, quote of the day, science
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“Don’t fight forces, use them.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller, Shelter
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Wed 9 May 2012
Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, science, the universe
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“Physicists are increasingly accepting the idea that there are infinite realities stacked together like the pages of a never-ending book. So there are infinite versions of you, living out infinite different lives in infinite parallel realities.”
—Marcus Chown, The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow’s Science
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Tue 8 May 2012
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writers, writing
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“Serious writers, I should say, are on the whole more vain and self-centered than journalists, though less interested in money.”
—George Orwell, “Why I Writeâ€
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Mon 7 May 2012
Posted by PJ under art, music, perfection, quote of the day
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“My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often—in fact, mostly—at the expense of everything else in my life.”
—Stan Getz, quoted in Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz by Donald L. Maggin
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Fri 4 May 2012
Posted by PJ under letting go, quote of the day
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“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”
—Brooks Atkinson, “December 31,†Once Around the Sun
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Thu 3 May 2012
Posted by PJ under cats, existentialism, video
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Some of you may remember this video of Henri, Le Chat Noir. Thanks to dalaruan, I’ve found the original film. I hope there will be more, although Henri may be too weary to go on…
Thu 3 May 2012
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, right and wrong
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“We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.”
—Mark Twain, “A Double-Barrelled Detective Storyâ€
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Wed 2 May 2012
Posted by PJ under conscious and subconscious, craft, illusion, quote of the day, the universe, wonder
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“Consciousness itself may be the primary creative force in the universe, and our knowledge of the physical properties of the physical world is far from complete. The emerging picture is a cosmos that is an interconnected harmonic web, vibrating with creativity and intelligence, in which separateness is an illusion.”
—John E. Mack, “Messengers From the Unseen,†Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Fall 2002, Vol. 98, No. 2
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Tue 1 May 2012
Posted by PJ under fairies, reading, research
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On the nature of nature spirits, where the idea might have come from of tiny invisible beings responsible for the growth of plants, et al.
W. Y. Evans Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries:
In the positive doctrines of mediaeval alchemists and mystics, e.g. Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians, as well as their modern followers, the ancient metaphysical ideas of Egypt, Greece, and Rome find a new expression; and these doctrines raise the final problem—if there are any scientific grounds for believing in such pygmy nature-spirits as these remarkable thinkers of the Middle Ages claim to have studied as being actually existing in nature….
These mediaeval metaphysicians, inheritors of pre-Platonic, Platonic, and neo-Platonic teachings, purposely obscured their doctrines under a covering of alchemical terms, so as to safeguard themselves against persecution, open discussion of occultism not being safe during the Middle Ages, as it was among the ancients and happily is now again in our own generation….
All these Elementals, who procreate after the manner of men, are said to have bodies of an elastic half-material essence, which is sufficiently ethereal not to be visible to the physical sight, and probably comparable to matter in the form of invisible gases. Mr. W. B. Yeats has given this explanation:—’Many poets, and all mystic and occult writers, in all ages and countries, have declared that behind the visible are chains on chains of conscious beings, who are not of heaven but of earth, who have no inherent form, but change according to their whim, or the mind that sees them. You cannot lift your hand without influencing and being influenced by hordes. The visible world is merely their skin….’ [From Yeats’ Irish Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales]
Wentz again three paragraphs on:
And independently of the Celtic peoples there is available very much testimony of the most reliable character from modern disciples of the mediaeval occultists, e.g. the Rosicrucians, and the Theosophists, that there exist in nature invisible spiritual beings of pygmy stature and of various forms and characters, comparable in all respects to the little people of Celtic folk-lore.
Yeats’s words do somewhat remind me of the famous opening of the Reverend Robert Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth, wherein he says these beings
are said to be of a midle Nature betuixt Man and Angel, as were Dæmons thought to be of old; of intelligent fluidious Spirits, and light changable Bodies, (lyke those called Astral,) somewhat of the Nature of a condensed Cloud, and best seen in Twilight. Thes Bodies be so plyable thorough the Subtilty of the Spirits that agitate them, that they can make them appear or disappear att Pleasure. Some have Bodies or Vehicles so spungious, thin, and delecat, that they are fed by only sucking into some fine spirituous Liquors, that peirce lyke pure Air and Oyl…
Tue 1 May 2012
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, stupidity
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“Look at how stupid the average person is. Then realize that, statistically speaking, half the population is stupider than that.”
—attributed to George Carlin
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