Icy

Rice straw slipper on a sand dune,
Directing towards the green hills of mine;
Me, the icy fellow:
Dis-covering my self from head to toe ...

Ancestors await for the candles heating
To be remembered and kept frozen in Time.

Icy

Rice straw slipper on a sand dune,
Directing towards the green hills of mine;
Me, the icy fellow:
Dis-covering my self from head to toe ...

Ancestors await for the candles heating
To be remembered and kept frozen in Time.

Shiloh

Samuel and Shiloh:
Prophecy and the Holy Bible.

Who comes first in time?
We are sure about that:
The word was first...
... Genesis ...

Shiloh

Samuel and Shiloh:
Prophecy and the Holy Bible.

Who comes first in time?
We are sure about that:
The word was first...
... Genesis ...

Entelechy

To be awake late in the night:
Thinking about your next steps
In the futile future.

Never
Imagining your-self
Complete enough to be more
Than a "pawn" in a chess game.

Nevertheless
You have already a potentiality, the fortune and
A waiting destiny ready
To be changed.

Think twice: not using disguised patterns ...
To liberate the inner in proper acting.

Entelechy

To be awake late in the night:
Thinking about your next steps
In the futile future.

Never
Imagining your-self
Complete enough to be more
Than a "pawn" in a chess game.

Nevertheless
You have already a potentiality, the fortune and
A waiting destiny ready
To be changed.

Think twice: not using disguised patterns ...
To liberate the inner in proper acting.

The Difference

All the clocks in my house are showing the difference,
Just because are not running properly, at all;

I’m moving forward and backward in time,
Simply by walking from one room to another….

But stars don’t lie about timing, they guide us through necessity
And the beauty of their emerald quartz is the witness of the certainty born in the water hourglasses.

The Difference

All the clocks in my house are showing the difference,
Just because are not running properly, at all;

I’m moving forward and backward in time,
Simply by walking from one room to another….

But stars don’t lie about timing, they guide us through necessity
And the beauty of their emerald quartz is the witness of the certainty born in the water hourglasses.

Uni-verse

I live in a bubble universe,
I wanted to, I praise to…

All kind of signs are showing to me
And I’m trying to discern and to understand them:

The dead and the living are no longer apart
In my sacred bubble.

I still not understand the idea of “them” and
“You” is just the skin of my universe sphere.

I cannot touch it just because I feel through it,
Mostly by suffering…

And portions of the “You” skin become
more and more sensitive:

This way, in my universe,
The reality is transformed into evidence.

Uni-verse

I live in a bubble universe,
I wanted to, I praise to…

All kind of signs are showing to me
And I’m trying to discern and to understand them:

The dead and the living are no longer apart
In my sacred bubble.

I still not understand the idea of “them” and
“You” is just the skin of my universe sphere.

I cannot touch it just because I feel through it,
Mostly by suffering…

And portions of the “You” skin become
more and more sensitive:

This way, in my universe,
The reality is transformed into evidence.

Ultimate 3m

1 a: most remote in space or time (from webster dictionary)

Ultimate 3m

1 a: most remote in space or time (from webster dictionary)

3-marine, the ultimate

Trimaran being investigated (at the moment) in steady and un-steady states of the sea
LOA=29.0m, B=6.0m, T=1.4m, Speed15 knots
This is an original hull design, based on the technical specs of METTLE-company, France

3-marine, the ultimate

Trimaran being investigated (at the moment) in steady and un-steady states of the sea
LOA=29.0m, B=6.0m, T=1.4m, Speed15 knots
This is an original hull design, based on the technical specs of METTLE-company, France

Looking glass

"Where the noise came from, she couldn't make out: the air seemed full of it, and it rang through and through her head till she felt quite deafened."

Light Green: C37H37N2O9S3+

The dye is not very durable—it has a tendency to fade

Looking glass

"Where the noise came from, she couldn't make out: the air seemed full of it, and it rang through and through her head till she felt quite deafened."

Light Green: C37H37N2O9S3+

The dye is not very durable—it has a tendency to fade

He also served as scribe

Thoth

He is said to direct the motions of the heavenly bodies. Without his words, the Egyptians believed, the gods would not exist.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Thoth":

from a Japanese dictionary: と (prt,conj) (1) if; when; (2) and; (3) with; (4) particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); (5) (abbr) promoted pawn (shogi);

He also served as scribe

Thoth

He is said to direct the motions of the heavenly bodies. Without his words, the Egyptians believed, the gods would not exist.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Thoth":

from a Japanese dictionary: と (prt,conj) (1) if; when; (2) and; (3) with; (4) particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); (5) (abbr) promoted pawn (shogi);

single exception

Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state. For time cannot be any determination of outward phenomena. It has to do neither with shape nor position; on the contrary, it determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And precisely because this internal intuition presents to us no shape or form, we endeavour to supply this want by analogies, and represent the course of time by a line progressing to infinity, the content of which constitutes a series which is only of one dimension ...

The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

single exception

Time is nothing else than the form of the internal sense, that is, of the intuitions of self and of our internal state. For time cannot be any determination of outward phenomena. It has to do neither with shape nor position; on the contrary, it determines the relation of representations in our internal state. And precisely because this internal intuition presents to us no shape or form, we endeavour to supply this want by analogies, and represent the course of time by a line progressing to infinity, the content of which constitutes a series which is only of one dimension ...

The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

offended consciousness

From the psychological point of view the offended consciousness

will display a great variety of nuances within the more active and the more passive forms.

from Philosophical Fragments
by Sören Kierkegaard

offended consciousness

From the psychological point of view the offended consciousness

will display a great variety of nuances within the more active and the more passive forms.

from Philosophical Fragments
by Sören Kierkegaard

Fairing ancient ship

A Roman ship from about 300 AD.

Based on lines drawings of Kenn Jensen, Technical University of Denmark.

Lpp=14.35 m, Bmax=5.96 m, D=6.41 m, Displacement 53.79 tons

Fairing ancient ship

A Roman ship from about 300 AD.

Based on lines drawings of Kenn Jensen, Technical University of Denmark.

Lpp=14.35 m, Bmax=5.96 m, D=6.41 m, Displacement 53.79 tons

Bulbous bow designed in Rhino

Bulbous bow designed in Rhino

François Villon (XVe siècle) - Ballade du concours de Blois

Je meurs de seuf aupres de la fontaine,
Chault comme feu et tremble dent a dent;
En mon pays suis en terre loingtaine,
Lez ung brasier frissonne tout ardent;
Nu comme ung ver, vestu en president;
Je riz en pleurs et attens sans espoir;
Confort reprens en triste desespoir;
Je m'esjouÿs et n'ay plaisir aucun;
Puissant je suis sans force et sans povoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Riens ne m'est seur que la chose incertaine,
Obscur fors ce qui est tout evident;
Doubte ne fais fors en chose certaine;
Scïence tiens a soudain accident;
Je gaigne tout et demeure perdent;
Au point du jour diz : «Dieu vous doint bon soir ! »;
Gisant envers, j'ay grand paeur de chëoir;
J'ay bien de quoy et si n'en ay pas ung;
Eschoicte actens et d'homme ne suis hoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

De riens n'ay soing, si mectz toute m'atayne
D'acquerir biens et n'y suis pretendent;
Qui mieulx me dit, c'est cil qui plus m'actaine,
Et qui plus vray, lors plus me va bourdent;
Mon ami est qui me faict entendent
D'ung cigne blanc que c'est ung corbeau noir,
Et qui me nuyst, croy qu'i m'ayde a pourvoir;
Bourde, ver(i)té, aujourd'uy m'est tout ung;
Je retiens tout, riens ne sçay concepvoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Prince clement, or vous plaise sçavoir
Que j'entens moult et n'ay sens ne sçavoir;
Parcïal suis, a toutes loys commun.
Que fais je plus ? Quoy ! les gaiges ravoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

François Villon (XVe siècle) - Ballade du concours de Blois

Je meurs de seuf aupres de la fontaine,
Chault comme feu et tremble dent a dent;
En mon pays suis en terre loingtaine,
Lez ung brasier frissonne tout ardent;
Nu comme ung ver, vestu en president;
Je riz en pleurs et attens sans espoir;
Confort reprens en triste desespoir;
Je m'esjouÿs et n'ay plaisir aucun;
Puissant je suis sans force et sans povoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Riens ne m'est seur que la chose incertaine,
Obscur fors ce qui est tout evident;
Doubte ne fais fors en chose certaine;
Scïence tiens a soudain accident;
Je gaigne tout et demeure perdent;
Au point du jour diz : «Dieu vous doint bon soir ! »;
Gisant envers, j'ay grand paeur de chëoir;
J'ay bien de quoy et si n'en ay pas ung;
Eschoicte actens et d'homme ne suis hoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

De riens n'ay soing, si mectz toute m'atayne
D'acquerir biens et n'y suis pretendent;
Qui mieulx me dit, c'est cil qui plus m'actaine,
Et qui plus vray, lors plus me va bourdent;
Mon ami est qui me faict entendent
D'ung cigne blanc que c'est ung corbeau noir,
Et qui me nuyst, croy qu'i m'ayde a pourvoir;
Bourde, ver(i)té, aujourd'uy m'est tout ung;
Je retiens tout, riens ne sçay concepvoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

Prince clement, or vous plaise sçavoir
Que j'entens moult et n'ay sens ne sçavoir;
Parcïal suis, a toutes loys commun.
Que fais je plus ? Quoy ! les gaiges ravoir,
Bien recueully, debouté de chascun.

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).

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
by Carl G. Jung

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
by Carl G. Jung

From Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

"Self -assertion comes from thinking of the Seer and the instrument of vision as forming one self."

From Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

"Self -assertion comes from thinking of the Seer and the instrument of vision as forming one self."