"I contradict myself? Very well, then: I contradict myself.
I am large: I contain multitudes." -Walt Whitman

"The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite
of a great truth is also true." -Neils Bohr

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MARGINS OF REALITY: the role of consciousness in the physical world.
Robert G. Jahn & Brenda J. Dunne
A Hartcourt HBJ Book
ISBN 0-15-657246-X


The same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms
are also responsible for structures of our minds.
-Werner Heisenberg

The energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity
entertained in life. -Alfred North Whitehead

To have order, you must have randomness, because where there is no
randomness order cannot manifest itself. -Alan Watts

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Quantum Healing
Deepak Chopra MD
Bantam New Age Books
0-553-34869-8
(vedic medicine)
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The Medium is the Massage: an inventory of effects.
Marshal McLuhan/Quentin Fiore

Electric circuitry has overthrown the regime of "time" & "space" and
pours upon us instantly and continously the concerns of all other
men. It has reconstituted dialog on a global scale. Its message is
total change, ending psychic, social, economic, and polical parochialism.
The old civic, state and national groupings have become unworkable.
Nothing can be further from the spirit of the new technology than
"a place for everything and everything in its place". You can't go home again.
--
The instantaneous world of electric informational media involves all of us,
all at once. No detachment or frame is possible.
--
Ours is a brand new world of allatonceness. "Time" has ceased, "space"
has vanished. We now live in a global village...
A simultenous happening. We are back in acoustic space, We have begun
again to structure the primordial feeling, the tribal emotions from which
a few centuries of literacy divorced us.
--
We have become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human
environment as a work of art, as a teaching machine designed to
maximize perception and to make everyday learning a process of discovery.
--
Environments are not passive wrappings, but are, rather, active processes
which are invisible. The ground rules, pervasive structure, and over-all
patterns of environments elude easy perception.
--
In the name of "progress" our official culture is striving to
force the new media to do the work of the old.
--
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our preception
tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted," he cannot go along
with currents and trends. A strange bond often exists among antisocial
type in their power to see environments as they really are.
--
"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my
top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception
that I lost long ago."  - J.Robert.Oppenheimer
--
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment.
Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual
and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur
can afford to lose, the professional tends to classify & specialize,
to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment.
The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve
as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware.
The "expert" is the man who stays put.
--
The young today reject goals. They want roles ... That is, total involvement.
They do not want fragmented, specialized goals or jobs.
--
The ear favors no particular "point of view," we are _enveloped_ by sound.
It forms a seaml;ess web around us. We say, "music shall fill the air."
We never say, "Music shall fill a particular segment of the air" ...
Where visual space is an organized continuum of a uniformly connected kind,
the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.
--
"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfullness in
the learner's soul, because they will not use their memories; they
will trust to the external written characters and not remember of
themselves... You give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance
of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned
nothing; they will appear to be omniscient, and generally know nothing."
-Socrates [?]
--
"Precision" is sacrificed for a greater degree of suggestion. Myth
is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complete group of causes
and effects.
--
"The prouts who will invent a writing there ultimately is the poeta, still
more learned, who discovered the raiding there originally. That's the 
point of eschatology or book of kills reaches for now in soandso
many counterpoint words. What can't be coded can be decorded if an
ear aye seize what no eye ere grieved for. Now, the doctrine obtains,
we have occasionally cause causing effects and affects occasionally
becausing altereffects."   -James Joyce/Finnegan's Wake
--
"The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck
the societies in which they occur." -Alfred North Whitehead
--
"Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition
as to the mode in which human intelligence functions."
-Alfred North Whitehead.
--
"The use of clay in molding pitchers comes from the hollow of its
absence; Doors, windows, in a house, are used for their emptyness;
Thus we are helped by what is not to use what is."  -LaoTze
--
Electric circuitry is orientalizing the West. The contained, the
distinct, the separate - our Western legacy - are being replaced
by the flowing, the unified, the fused.
--
Primitive & pre-alphabetic people integrate time and spce as one and live in
an acoustic, horizonless, boundless, olfactory space, rather than in
visual space. Their graphic representation is like an X-ray. They put
in everything they know, rather than only what they see.
... Electric circuitry is recreating in us the multidimensional
space orientation of the "primitive"
--
Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books"
they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own...
Many small texts were transmitted into volumes of miscellaneous content,
very much like the "jottings" in a scrapbook, and in this transmission,
authorship was lost...
Xerography - every man's brain-picker - heralds the times of instant
publishing. Anybody can now become both author and publisher.
Take any books on any subject and custom-make your own book by simply
xeroxing a chapter from this one, a chapter from that one - instant steal!
--
"Whe you consider television's awesome power to educate, aren't you
thankful it doesn't?" - Donald Reilly-New Yorker Magazine (comic caption)
--
"Art is anything you can get away with" -Marshal McLuhan
--
Balinese saying: "We have no art, so we do everything as well as we can."
--
"We are proud of our museums where we display a way of living that we
have made impossible." - A.K.Coomaraswami
--
"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing." - Meister Eckhardt
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous." -Alfred North Whitehead
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