Category: Method or META HODOS
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Cymatics
Cymatics (from Greek: κῦμα “wave”) is the study of visible sound and vibration, a subset of modal phenomena. Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement are made visible in a thin coating of particles, paste, or liquid.[1] Different patterns…
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‘You must change your life’ or ‘You must change life’?
…The guiding thread of the book, then, is an investigation into the various ways in which the call to change your life have been articulated from antiquity to the present… Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. This is the first set of reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics (Cambridge: Polity…
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Reference
Once I happened to visit a museum with a friend more versed in painting than I. His remarks, his very presence, keyed the sensibilities with which I was able to see. I saw more, and I saw in a different way. My capacity to perceive was deeply enlivened in proximity…
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3D insect flight
@BBCNews reports XRay video of flying insect. A team of scientists from Oxford University, Imperial College, and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have used very intense X-rays to film inside an insect as it flies. The footage is a 3D reconstruction, made up of several X-ray images, and shows…
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Mona Lisa stopped smiling – A Conversation on the Phenomenology of News | Circa Blog
If the goal of the news is to make sense of the world — then we must “model” the shape of the world with our stories. I would argue many traditional tools and processes reflect the world, but don’t model it. What is this distinction, and how does Circa get…
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Feel like shouting!
So much hatred and dread in this old world. So much love and joy. All is flowing… all this beauty and happiness punctuated with this every day struggle and frustration. To be in this wonderful flowing reality and not let the power of life reveal itself in each breath, each…
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Becoming the Vessel | The Ptero Card
An informative piece from Ptero9 that reminds me how much philosophizing requires going to the margins or as Jaspers would call it, the boundary situations, where we engage in the loving struggle with others who are also attempting self-actualization. So, how do we accept being in the margins, enough to…
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Keeping Vigil
I call the time between first and second sleep the Night Vigil, following the old monastic traditions. For me, Night Vigil begins with an examination of conscience: Oh thou Encompassing, thou All, thou One. How can I give myself over to thee without examining who I was this day? Open…
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Ecstasy
“Blessed and holy, I would say, is he to whom it has been given to experience such a thing in this mortal life at rare intervals or even once; and this suddenly and scarcely for the space of a single moment. In a certain manner to lose yourself as though…
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Editing Your Life’s Stories Can Create Happier Endings : Shots – Health News : NPR
Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person\’s own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process \”story editing.\” And he says small tweaks in the interpretation of life events can reap huge benefits. This process is essentially what happens during months, or years,…
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Maybe Logic Academy
Goes well with my own thinking about philosophizing and why we keep asking questions. Founded in 2004, Maybe Logic Academy is an innovative online learning institution and community. The Academy features online courses by some our most important and ground-breaking writers, theorists, artists and teachers. Over the past nine years,…
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Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very much are looking at the world as though technical or…
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Art and Inner Spaces
“Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity—my heavens, that’s what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into…
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tilting between dusk and dawn
groggy from napping rainy yet warm Texas dusk feeling out of place The weather has been out of sorts in Denton lately. Tomorrow is Halloween and we have yet to have a real cold snap. The weather has been humid and hovering around 75˚. It could be in the 80s…
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Worrying is Preposterous
Brothers and sisters… Terence McKenna Worrying is presposterous… And you know what else… Culture is not your friend!
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The Last Words of Hassan i Sabbah | Burroughs
Okay. Another video from William S. Burroughs. But look here: NSFW. This is an example of the cut-up technique developed by Brion Gysin and perfected by Burroughs. It does not necessarily make complete sense. But it is very cool. And it is a great example of where the notion of…
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Quote: Style and the linguistic bases of Roman rhetorical devices
Originally posted on Wetwiring: I decided recently to brush up on my Latin (it has been a damp week in Ireland so far), and so dug out old grammars, dictionaries, and anthologies. I turned to Cicero (kik-er-oh I keep reminding myself), as the flavour of some of the orations seemed…
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