Middle Age

Even though most of alchemical thought seems absurd in comparison to modern scientific thinking, it should not be forgotten that the Middle Ages greatly influenced present culture.
from The Mystica webpage

Middle Age

Even though most of alchemical thought seems absurd in comparison to modern scientific thinking, it should not be forgotten that the Middle Ages greatly influenced present culture.
from The Mystica webpage

bending the reality

Ukiyo-e by Sharaku. The 1794 print of Kabuki actor Otani Onji II in the role of Edobe, a servant.

bending the reality

Ukiyo-e by Sharaku. The 1794 print of Kabuki actor Otani Onji II in the role of Edobe, a servant.

will and representation

Schopenhauer, on the contrary is analytical. He does not create a sophisticated picture of the world. He only gives an answer to the question `what is the world': it is will and representation.
from Principia Cybernetica Web

will and representation

Schopenhauer, on the contrary is analytical. He does not create a sophisticated picture of the world. He only gives an answer to the question `what is the world': it is will and representation.
from Principia Cybernetica Web

vortex

a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at it's center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn
from Webster dictionary

vortex

a whirling mass of water forming a vacuum at it's center, into which anything caught in the motion is drawn
from Webster dictionary

impression

an effect produced, as on the mind or sense, by some force or influence
from Webster Dictionary

impression

an effect produced, as on the mind or sense, by some force or influence
from Webster Dictionary

it frightens precisely

But a monster is not just that, it is not just this himerical figure in some way that grafts one animal onto another, one living being onto another. A monster is always alive, let us not forget. Monsters are living beings. The monster is also that which appears for the first time and, consequently, is not yet recognized. A monster is a species for which we do not yet have a name, which does not mean that the species is abnormal, namely, the composition or hybridisation of already known species. Simply, it shows itself [elle se montre] - that is what the word monster means - it shows itself in something that is not yet shown and that therefore looks like a hallucination, it strikes the eye, it frightens precisely because no anticipation had prepared one to identify this figure.
from Derrida - Prepare yourself to experience the future and welcome the monster

it frightens precisely

But a monster is not just that, it is not just this himerical figure in some way that grafts one animal onto another, one living being onto another. A monster is always alive, let us not forget. Monsters are living beings. The monster is also that which appears for the first time and, consequently, is not yet recognized. A monster is a species for which we do not yet have a name, which does not mean that the species is abnormal, namely, the composition or hybridisation of already known species. Simply, it shows itself [elle se montre] - that is what the word monster means - it shows itself in something that is not yet shown and that therefore looks like a hallucination, it strikes the eye, it frightens precisely because no anticipation had prepared one to identify this figure.
from Derrida - Prepare yourself to experience the future and welcome the monster

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

Immersion

A special nonsingular map from one manifold to another such that at every point in the domain of the map, the derivative is an injective linear map.
from MathWorld

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

a common speech

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. ...
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." ...
from Genesis, The Tower of Babel

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'

Japanese "deconstruction"

"... I promised you some schematic and preliminary reflections on the word "deconstruction". What we discussed were prolegomena to a possible translation of this word into Japanese, one which would at least try to avoid, if possible, a negative determination of its significations or connotations."
from Derrida's 'Letter to a Japanese Friend'

Lilliput

"He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors."
from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Lilliput

"He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors."
from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

quantum wavefunction

Wavefunction collapse injects temporal ‘becoming’ into the world.
from Craig Callender
Department of Philosophy, UCSD, USA

quantum wavefunction

Wavefunction collapse injects temporal ‘becoming’ into the world.
from Craig Callender
Department of Philosophy, UCSD, USA

Institution - from Latin "institutio"

a lawful established organization

Institution - from Latin "institutio"

a lawful established organization

synchronicity

That is, a new experience rather than two overlapping experiences would occur, because overlapping experiences cannot retain their individual phenomenal characters. When two experiences are in sync, that is, when they overlap, one sinks into the other and something new surfaces.
from Gallagher ...

synchronicity

That is, a new experience rather than two overlapping experiences would occur, because overlapping experiences cannot retain their individual phenomenal characters. When two experiences are in sync, that is, when they overlap, one sinks into the other and something new surfaces.
from Gallagher ...

if we could purify language

But language is not purified of theoretical constructs (which, of course, were meant to be bracketed by the reduction). Even if we could purify language in the right way, it would still contain nouns (e.g., 'phase', 'retention'), which, in reference to the stream of consciousness, might imply substantive parts rather than transitive parts. Reflection itself may introduce distortions into what we see in phenomenological intuition ...
by Shaun Gallagher

if we could purify language

But language is not purified of theoretical constructs (which, of course, were meant to be bracketed by the reduction). Even if we could purify language in the right way, it would still contain nouns (e.g., 'phase', 'retention'), which, in reference to the stream of consciousness, might imply substantive parts rather than transitive parts. Reflection itself may introduce distortions into what we see in phenomenological intuition ...
by Shaun Gallagher

All alterations take place in conformity with the law of the connection of cause and effect

When I perceive that something happens this representation contains the consciousness that there is something preceding. Only by reference to what preceded does the appearance acquire its time relation.
From Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

All alterations take place in conformity with the law of the connection of cause and effect

When I perceive that something happens this representation contains the consciousness that there is something preceding. Only by reference to what preceded does the appearance acquire its time relation.
From Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

hope

Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
from Dante's Inferno: Canto III

hope

Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
from Dante's Inferno: Canto III

Diffraction

Diffraction wave for a fast ship at Froude 0.58, (Wave length)/(Ship length)=0.5

Diffraction

Diffraction wave for a fast ship at Froude 0.58, (Wave length)/(Ship length)=0.5

Rhythmic Vortex

Rhythmic Vortex

Panther

Design by Gustave Dore, Divine Comedy of Dante

Panther

Design by Gustave Dore, Divine Comedy of Dante

Relaxe

I love the season well,
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming-on of storms.
An April Day by Longfellow

Relaxe

I love the season well,
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
The coming-on of storms.
An April Day by Longfellow

whirling source

Streamlines for a pulsating source and a rhythmic vortex

placed in center.

whirling source

Streamlines for a pulsating source and a rhythmic vortex

placed in center.

all-meaningful

"I suddenly realised that in the language or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every single and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the centre, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. "
-- Herman Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game"

all-meaningful

"I suddenly realised that in the language or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every single and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the centre, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. "
-- Herman Hesse, "The Glass Bead Game"

The stone ascent

The Sage continues: "If you gently separate the earth from the water, the subtle from the hard, the Stone ascends from earth to heaven, and again descends from heaven to earth, and receives its virtue from above and from below. By this process you obtain the glory and brightness of the whole world. With it you can put to flight poverty, disease, and weariness; for it overcomes the subtle mercury, and penetrates all hard and firm bodies."
from an alchemic text

The stone ascent

The Sage continues: "If you gently separate the earth from the water, the subtle from the hard, the Stone ascends from earth to heaven, and again descends from heaven to earth, and receives its virtue from above and from below. By this process you obtain the glory and brightness of the whole world. With it you can put to flight poverty, disease, and weariness; for it overcomes the subtle mercury, and penetrates all hard and firm bodies."
from an alchemic text

An ancient ship hullform

Found a ship from about 1300.
The hullform definition is based on a line drawing published in 1951 by Harald Akerlund.
Length: 11.07 m; Breadth: 4.49 m; Height: 2.06 m.
From Kenn Jensen PhD thesis, 1999, Technical University of Denmark

An ancient ship hullform

Found a ship from about 1300.
The hullform definition is based on a line drawing published in 1951 by Harald Akerlund.
Length: 11.07 m; Breadth: 4.49 m; Height: 2.06 m.
From Kenn Jensen PhD thesis, 1999, Technical University of Denmark

An alchemic stone

So, too, the matter of the Stone shews most beautiful colours in the production of its flowers. The comparison, also, is apt, because a certain matter rises out of the philosophical earth, as if it were a thicket of branches and sprouts: like a sponge growing on the earth. They say, therefore, that the fruit of their tree tends towards heaven. So, then, they put forth that the whole thing hinged upon natural vegetables, though not as to its matter, because their stone contains within itself a body, soul, and spirit, as vegetables do.
from The Aurora of the Philosophers by Theophrastus Paracelsus

An alchemic stone

So, too, the matter of the Stone shews most beautiful colours in the production of its flowers. The comparison, also, is apt, because a certain matter rises out of the philosophical earth, as if it were a thicket of branches and sprouts: like a sponge growing on the earth. They say, therefore, that the fruit of their tree tends towards heaven. So, then, they put forth that the whole thing hinged upon natural vegetables, though not as to its matter, because their stone contains within itself a body, soul, and spirit, as vegetables do.
from The Aurora of the Philosophers by Theophrastus Paracelsus

Country

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
From Shakespeare's Hamlet

Country

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
From Shakespeare's Hamlet

Space, time

"that everything which can be given to our senses (to the external senses in space, to the internal one in time) is intuited by us as it appears to us, not as it is in itself."
from Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Space, time

"that everything which can be given to our senses (to the external senses in space, to the internal one in time) is intuited by us as it appears to us, not as it is in itself."
from Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Sevenfold

27. His illumination is sevenfold, rising in successive stages.
from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Sevenfold

27. His illumination is sevenfold, rising in successive stages.
from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The hidden game

Time logic: the depth of this peaceful crest
Through looking glass is blessed into the Blue,
The drown of the crude crowds
New game will raise in water falls, a pure One.

The echoed harps are gathered by the poet
Into a reverse flight of loose sensations.
The hidden game is stopped,
As always does the sea with her green travel cups.

The hidden game

Time logic: the depth of this peaceful crest
Through looking glass is blessed into the Blue,
The drown of the crude crowds
New game will raise in water falls, a pure One.

The echoed harps are gathered by the poet
Into a reverse flight of loose sensations.
The hidden game is stopped,
As always does the sea with her green travel cups.

Think

Do ye know the terror of him who falleth asleep?

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche

Think

Do ye know the terror of him who falleth asleep?

Thus Spake Zarathustra - Nietzsche

Elements

Based on a diagram from Isidore of Seville, Liber de responsione mundi (Augsburg, 1472). Original in the Huntington Library.

Elements

Based on a diagram from Isidore of Seville, Liber de responsione mundi (Augsburg, 1472). Original in the Huntington Library.

one, two, three

The duality of subject and object and trinity of seer, sight, and seen can exist only if supported by the One. If one turns inward in search of that One Reality they fall away. Those who see this are those who see Wisdom. They are never in doubt.
Forty Verses on Reality By Sri Ramana Maharshi

one, two, three

The duality of subject and object and trinity of seer, sight, and seen can exist only if supported by the One. If one turns inward in search of that One Reality they fall away. Those who see this are those who see Wisdom. They are never in doubt.
Forty Verses on Reality By Sri Ramana Maharshi

Colour

41. When the perturbations of the psychic nature have all been stilled,then the consciousness, like a pure crystal, takes the colour of what it rests on, whether that be the perceiver, perceiving, or the thing perceived.
From Patanjali - Yoga Sutras

Colour

41. When the perturbations of the psychic nature have all been stilled,then the consciousness, like a pure crystal, takes the colour of what it rests on, whether that be the perceiver, perceiving, or the thing perceived.
From Patanjali - Yoga Sutras

Brahman’s knowledge

Svetasvatara Upanishad says, “He grasps without hands, moves without feet, sees without eyes, hears without ears. He knows what can be known, but no one knows Him. They call Him the first, the Great person” (VI-8, III-19).

Brahman’s knowledge

Svetasvatara Upanishad says, “He grasps without hands, moves without feet, sees without eyes, hears without ears. He knows what can be known, but no one knows Him. They call Him the first, the Great person” (VI-8, III-19).