Song, Poetry, and Science

[Charlotte]

Little homesick

[Charlotte]

Fetching den Maibaum and lighting a Beltane Fire

[Charlotte]

Thank God, rain is falling from a heavy sky!

[Charlotte]

I'm drawing a blank, this an interesting slogan because according to quantum theory the Universe is in a relationship with the observer, dependent on the observer, and I simply must repeat the perfect term, "observer attended", for it leaves no doubt as to the premise. So I'm thinking, am I drawing a blank because the Uni is a blank at the moment, or am I thought- and -mindless, therefore the Uni is a blank, but due to it being a relationship, it must be both at the same moment in time, meaning the Uni and the Observer are One and complete at any given in stance, as the Ancients also declared. An almost incomprehensible Thought!

To the rescue, the Grateful Dead are heavily trending at the moment, so nice to see my last entry "American Beauty" for the Dead are a part of the real American Beauty, and this song the wrote for me: a I fix everything person because everything is my fault.

[Charlotte]

Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy;
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortunes to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find;
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive
If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;

Or else of thee I would prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 14

[Charlotte]

I never tire of reading marvelous things, one being: "Newton determined that an objects gravitational field is directly proportional to its mass". It made me think of the Dinosaur extinction, said to have happen at the time of a catastrophic event, which could have changed/weakened the gravitational field and only smaller creatures survived.

Marie B. Hall once told me that in Cosmic Creation everything is large but changing conditions necessitate a recapitulation in our solar system. This thought is simply to huge to think through, though possible, it is unrealizable because of the changing of the mind while thinking.

[Charlotte]

Speaking of Arthur M. Young, a great Teacher, Inventor of the Bell Helicopter.

Excerpts from his book "The Bell Notes", a "Journey from Physics to Metaphysics", of which I have a signed copy with "love" , also have a copy of "The Reflexive Universe", a book making quantum theory accessible to anyone. He also wrote "The Geometry of Meaning", and BTW, he loved the writings and personality of Lord Bacon, Shakespeare, ancient Wisdom and Philosophy, Mysticism, Myths and Legends, comparative Religions, Astrology, Astronomy, mathematics and so on, his favorite subject being the Elohim. To untangle "all the science stuff", he said, He sat under the Bodhi Tree for many years, asking to be given the Secrets of the Universe and was granted his wish. Someone thought he was boastful and self-serving, but he didn't know Mr. Young who chuckled into his beard while making the comment, knowing how that might be taken by some, he couldn't care less.

Having completed the first two books mentioned, Mr. Young "set up the Institute for the Study in Consciousness at Berkeley, whose purpose is to teach the theory and encourage its development and use, both in research and educational reform.

"Meanwhile the path he took had chosen lead steadily away from conventional determinism. Among the many influences of the period covered by the "Bell Notes", for example, are the seventeenth century German shoemaker-mystic Jakob Boehme; Charles Fort, the American critic of science, who gleefully compiled data which confused orthodoxy; H. P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, Indian scientist Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose, best known for his controversial work on the sensitivity of plants; and the anonymous medieval author of The Cloud of Unknowing, which Young thought one of the most profound writings ever to come out of the West.

"But if the message of the mystic was that the way to enlightenment lay through love rather than logic—and it was a teaching he fully accepted—Young continued to assert the uses of reason. "Regardless of the limitations of consciousness and of words," he says, "the are what we have to deal with." In the process of becoming a metaphysician, the inventor did not abandon his practicality. "To be free of the laws we must know what they are. That is the role of consciousness," he asserts confidently. Quantum mechanics and astrology proved equally absorbing, and might perhaps have more to do with each other than their respective adherents grasped. If he studied the Gita, he also read Eddington and Schrödinger. For him myths and logos comprised one seamless web. Any attempt to advance the claims of the one at the expense of the other was as foolish as it was futile. "To find out about a thing is humbly to learn the shape of nature which is also the will of God," he observes."

[Charlotte]

Continued from the Foreword by Peter Dreyer

"It was in quantum physics above all, however, that he found the basis for his new paradigm of reality (described in his books The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning). He came to perceive that the "uncertainty" discovered by Heisenberg, and demonstrated to be fundamental to the behavior of atomic particles, can be equated with freedom, placing a definite limit on determinism as a means of understanding the universe. While physicists evolve ever more complex explanations, Young argues that the unpredictability of nuclear particles is an indication that we have reached the realm of action rather than of things, and that such unpredictability will never be "overcome." In other words, the uncertainty of the electron must be seen as ontological, and not simply as epistemological. The quantum of action (the photon or fundamental unit of light) cannot be comprehended in terms of space and time. In fact, it is from the photon, from light, that mass, energy, and time are born, and it must therefore be recognized as "first cause"—which is precisely the teachings of revealed religion."

[Charlotte]

Regarding degrees of Freedom lost by determinism, Mr. Young writes:

"Why is this important? Because here in science we discover the the evolution of matter itself is a fall." By fall we mean loss of freedom, increase in constraint. This occurs in two steps: first the condensing of the original energy of the photon into mass to form a charged particle, then the joining of opposite charges to constitute a neutral atom, then of atoms to form molecules, and finally the compaction of molecules into inert objects. In this declension the original freedom is lost: the free motion of one particle is canceled by the free motion of another, so that where billions of particles compacted, there results an inert object, which, having no self motion, responds to exact laws.

"It is these inert objects that are the basis for the so-called universal laws. It is these objects and only these objects that do not move unless pushed.

"We must therefore interpret the generation of matter—of the universe itself—as a fall into determinism.

"But this is not the end of the story. There are higher forms of organization. Not all molecules are compacted into inert objects. There are some which are organized into living creatures: plants, animals, human beings. Can we read these higher forms as an ascent—a "return"—to freedom"?

Yes, for it is said that Spirit involution causes matter evolution, and when all matter is spiritualized it is again light or the photon, massless. This reminds me of the Knights Hospitaller said to have cared for those afflicted with leprosy, a flesh eating disease, the Knights themselves suffering from the illness. Projected above, all of Humanity suffers from this affliction during the ascent to return to Freedom, to our original blessed state as touched upon in "The Secrets of the Universe".

Concerning Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle", Mr. Young stresses "that our story has a moral: the world of fundamental particle is quiet different from that of predictable billiard balls. From the point of view of predictability, it is like that of human beings. Its creatures have a life of their own. Predictability here is similar to that of insurance tablets, Gallup polls, and market surveys: it does not apply to individuals. The individual particle does not obey laws."

Particles like People function by attraction and repulsion, some we like as friends, with others we avoid association.

[Charlotte]

The Egyptian version of loss of freedom by determinism.

Mr. Young writes:

"The reader might ask if the increase in determinism which science has discovered in the generation of matter is properly interpreted as a fall of the same kind as described in myth.

"In answer, let us cite the Egyptian myth which begins when Osiris is trapped by Set in a coffin fashioned for the purpose. The coffin then floats down the Nile and comes to rest at the base of a tamarisk tree, which grows up around it, inclosing it. Finally, Osiris is dismembered by set and the pieces strewn in the marsh."

Some write the pieces cast all over creation.

"This myth, with its description of increasing constraint, first by the coffin and then by the enclosing tamarisk tree, presents the fall in terms of loss of freedom. The next stage, the dismemberment of Osiris into pieces, involving total loss of any possible initiative or self-motion, represents a state of complete inertness or determinism.

"The reader may object that the story of Osiris, like the third chapter in Genesis, refers to the fall of man, not to the generation of matter. But I insist that both myths nevertheless describe process and its necessary descent into means to attain an end. The advanced stages of organization which constitute life must have determinate matter to work with: Osiris must be dismembered in order that Horus may be born. This is the universal pattern of process, experience, development."

It is written that Isis was sad and searched all over creation for the pieces of her husband, found all but the penis, reassembles them and gives birth to Horus who conquers Set. Osiris, spirit trapped in chaos. The Tamarisk Tree grows in most inhospitable areas, deserts, and can withstand the most severest of draughts, as can our Spirit or we'd be dead.

[Charlotte]

The Oak

Live thy life,
Young and old,
Like yon oak,
Bright in spring,
Living gold;

Summer - rich
Then; and then
Autumn-changed,
Soberer hued
Gold again.

All his leaves
Fall'n at lenght,
Look, he stands,
Trunk and bough,
Naked strenght.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Charlotte]

Need to get back home to cool cool rain

Journey to Parnassus. 245

With water cool he laved us, and there grew
Over each sense a drowsiness so long
We slept that day and eke another too.

Such is its strenght, such virtues strange belong
To that rare liquor, that in very deed
The rights of death itself are not more strong!

Full many things there be that far exceed
The common faith, which genius stamps as true:
The vulgar pass them by, and do not heed

Waking from that sound sleep there met my view
No hill nor hillock, god nor goddess round,
Nor any poet of the countless crew.

Strange matter truly, passing every bound
I rubbed mine eyes, and seemed transported thence
Into the center of some town renowned;

With some disgust, with wonder most intense,
I turned to look, lest some deluting fear
Had gained the vantage o'er my better sense:

And inly said: "There's no deception here,
'Tis Naples self, that city of great fame,
whose streets I pased for better than a year.

Italia's pride, that sets the world aflame,
For of all famous cities near and far
Not one ossesses such a glorious name!

Soft in the time of peace, and strong in war,
Mother of all abundance and noblesse,
Elysian fields, and sweetest hills that are.

Cervantes

[Charlotte]

Was nice to hear this thoughtful song again.

[Charlotte]

And tho' desire of perfection is Nature's promise
we should not in the field of Reason look to find
less vary and veer than elsewhere in the flux of Life:
We may rather rejoyce in the great abundance,
the indigenous fruitage of our gay Paradise,
that Persia, China and Babylon put forth their bloom,
that India and Egypt wer seedplots of wisdom.
The best part of our lives we are wanderers in Romance:
Our fathers travel'd Eastward to revel in wonders
where pyramid pagoda and picturesque attire
glow in the fading sunset of antiquity;
and now wil the Orientals make hither in return
outlandich pilgrimage: their wiseacres hav seen
the electric light i' the West, and come to worship;
tasting romance in our unsightly novelties
and scientific tricks; for all things in their day
may hav opinion of glory: Glory is opinion,
the vain doxology wherewith man would praise God.



Happy Easter!

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[Charlotte]

In need of Poetry

Utterly familiar with great Individuals, events in time, with grand old poets doth consort, who was Miguel Cervantes?

Journey to Parnassus 51

To name the one, who at the head doth sit
Of this new column, and the other two
Of kindred soul, I hardly think it fit.

Now comes MIGUEL CEJUDO into view

With MIGUEL SANCHEZ, pair without a peer,
A bulwark of the Muses, stout and true;

Who, on the feet of their strong verse and clear,
So full of doctrine rare erudite,
May march to face the combat without fear.

This cavalier, who reads with great delight
And with the grand old poets doth consort,
To reach the sacred mountain by their light,

DON FRANCISCO DE SILVA is in short,
What will he be in full? O age mature,
So green in years, yet full of wise retort!

DON GABRIEL GOMEZ hither comes, who's sure
A gift Apollo with no triumph mean
Over the rabble witless and impure;

To crown his genius and his brow serene
With fitting fame; that so from age to age,
And ever on, his memory may be green.

In VALDES, that great personage and sage,
The hope of such a deed is at its best,
And well may great Apollo's doubts assuage;

In him he'll find a wise and gallant breast
A lofty genius, full of sublety,
Whereon his confidence may safely rest.

[Charlotte]

This Shakespeare's birth and death time, within a few days though differents years. The Bard's birthday is unknown, he was baptized April 26, 1564, and departed to the undiscovered country April 23, 1616.

This Coat of Arms is described as a rough draft of the application to grant his Father the emblem. The spear is stated to be a pun on the name, but notice the bird.

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As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lies wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom nature hath not made for store,
Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish:
Look whom she best endowed, she gave the more;
Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:
She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby,
Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 11


It might be noteworthy that the date of birth of Miguel Cervantes is unknown, his repose given April 22, 1616, their Poetry equally sublime (to my ears), save Cervantes (he who hides himself) lends names to his Handiwork.

[Charlotte]

Found a note from my days on Ma'at, must be well over a decade ago, a poster named 'Burnt Offering' wrote: "Gravity is the result of shadowing of ultra-high velocity ultramundane particles. It is a local effect, not infinate—there is no action at a distance beyond about 2 kiloparsecs or approximately the thickness of the galactic disk." Intriguing then since I made note of it, imagining now a shadowing of ultra-high velocity of ultramundane particles to slow them, providing these particles are 'things', or maybe thoughts. If they are things, what is their substance? Do we cast a shadow on movement by our thoughts? Beyond my comprehenshion.

Checked what's new apropos the Big Bang Theory, I suppose the basic and simple, "theory that the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand", but how did this extremely dense and hot state come about and reach the critical point forcing it to bang and spray 'first matter' into space? All this seems to belong in the study of imagination.

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[Charlotte]

Distract me not with that external thee
That is the garb thy sightless spirit wears,
Not with mine eyes can I thy beauty see,
Though in all forms thy lovely self appears;
Nor in the mind's perspective art thou glassed,
For all the loving labor of my wit,
Save as a transive beam that's come and past,
Ere I be sure I wake, or dream of it.
Work thou within me as the agate fills
The grailed seams of the transjewelled stone,
Or as the summer's hoarded sap distills
In wintry roots when April's trump is blown.
Nor eye nor wit I'll need to seek thee then;
Thou'lt be myself, and I myself again.

Great Nature's Poetry

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[Charlotte]

Journey to Parnassus. 55

Thou hast to be a torch of quenchless light,
To guide the pilgrims who would pay their vow
Upon the sacred hill, nor dread the night.

Most famous, VILLAMEDIANA 1, thou
Of all, amongst the Greeks and Latins, who
Have pressed the happy laurel on their brow;

Thou must patrol the road and sideways too
Which to the mountain lead; that safele all
The simple strangers may their path pursue:

Before the sight of which quadruple wall,
That girds Parnassus, shall the brainless throng
Of these rude striplings totter down and fall.

Whar wondrous stories might I tell, and long,
Of this quartette; what gains they have in store
For great Apollo in the realms of song!

But lo! if ALCANICES join the corps,
Marquess renowned, five Phoenixes will rise,
though in the world there be but one no more!

Each one shall be a colimn of such size
As Phoebus' mansion singly to sustain,
And bear its fabric far above the skies.

The next, although his weighty duties strain
His utmost powers, still bears the palm of fame
Apollo grants for honour and for gain;

Strange gifts in such a science hath the same,
In jurisprudence, too, unique and rare,
FRANCISCO DE LA CUEVA is his name.


Francisco, unique and rare in jurisprudence.

[Charlotte]

Wrong link.

[Charlotte]

Before upgrade, it was simple to just delete a post. This weekend was depressing. Leaving Hungary with shades of Poetry and valued information, I paid some attention to the 'real world'. Sunday, finished with chores, I decided to not do one more thing, I turned on the TV and surfed passed 'American crime stories', 'I love Lucy', 5 or so channels of selling jewelry, mattresses and cars; the housewives of various location and rich kids of Beverly Hills, 'dating naked', 'how to get away with murder', 'zombies' and 'the walking dead','criminal minds', a modern version of Downton Abbey, the Cardashians, fascinated by their lives of luxery and intrigue, frequently interrupted by people dancing so very happy and übersmiling; watching falling stars; walking in beautiful nature and stopping beside a waterfall to take pictures; a man throwing balls to his dog, his son running to his father while his wife watched lovingly from the terrasse and comes down to hug them; father's urging their kids to throw curveballs while the mother's jump and cheer with joy; professionals walking with measured authority in snow-white, strarched coats about a snow-white, sterile invironment; women buying and planting flowers; on et nauseum, all while a friendle, reassuring voice itemizes side effct, inviting all to enjoy life.

I put down the remote and watched 2 hours WW I and WWII, later on "60 Minutes" the story of Mr. Glenn Ford, a black man wrongly convicted, spent 30 years on death row, who, upon his release, was given a $20.00 gift card and a "good luck". So stunned was I by the soullessness of the district attorney, stating he was "in the business of justice, not compassion", and who, being asked by Mr. Whitaker asked if he considers 30 years on death row justice, replied that "it is better than dying there or being executed", and the indifference of the system that I woke up still depressed yesterday. Mr. Ford, being denied any compensation, died shortly after the interview of lung cancer. Sad how we heve degenerated, but there was Mr. Stroud who participated in the trail, who was disgusted with himself, who has a big hole in him through which the north wind blows, because he destroyed 2 lives, Mr. Ford's and his own. He resigned. Him I wish a good life.

This is part of the segment on "60 Minutes" I watched.



About a year ago, there was news that the Higgs Boson had been found, but I didn't pay attention. This time I did, and saw an enthusiastic Mr. Rakness explain that when "subatomic particles called protons ram into each other at nearly the speed of light to simulate conditions that are believed to have existed when the universe began." There is no noise, said Mr. Rakness, "but a flash of light and the particles fly off. And you're taking a look into the-- basically a microscopic view of the Big Bang.

"The data is analyzed by thousands of computers here and around the world. This is what an image of the collision looks like, with particles flying off in every direction." Every time 2 protons collide, says physicist Mr. Rakness, there is a small dot, and points to it in the spray. "By carefully annalyzing the data from the collisions, scientists were able to find the Holy Grail of modern physics, a particle known as the "Higgs boson," or just "the Higgs". The Higgs gives other particles mass. Without it, molecules would not exist, trees, rocks, mountains would not exist. We would not exists."

When this collision was demonstrated, Mr. Higgs present, the presentor pointing to the dot, saying with slight uncertainty. "do we have it", or "we have it", I noticed sort of blank expressions and a slight hesitation before everyone began clapping. I didn't understand it either, maybe I missed something and those present knew exactly what he was saying, it seemed to me however, no one was convinced. I don't agree that the Higgs gives mass to other particles, for how can 2 colliding protons, a heavier particle, which already have mass, give mass to other particles, and sprayed out particles are called the Higgs field. I am a firm believer in the first fiat of Creation: Let there be Light, and that Light endowes particles with mass, confirmed some time ago when I read that "decaying light" becomes matter. This makes much more sense, and if we consider quantum physics, this light equates with consciousnes, we, participating in re-creating the universe continuously, pattern matter.

At the end of the sgement, not shown in the video, physicist Fabiola Gianotty and Laura Jeanty spoke about extra dimensions and black holes.

Ms. Gianotti: "There are theories in part-- theory in particle physics that predicts the existence of additional dimensions. String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and what nature wants to tell us." Ms. Stahle asks if this means that "there are are no extra dimensions or that you just didn't find any?" Miss. Jeantry: "We just didn't find them. They still could be here."

"One of their biggest goals is shining a light on dark matter and dark energy which are among the great remaining mysteries of modern science and reminders of how little we know about the universe."

Lesley Stahl asks: "If we don't know what dark matter is, how do we even know there is such a thing?" Ms. Gianotty answers: "We have some indirect, but very strong experimental evidence of it. For instance, when we look at the gravitational movement of galaxies. These movements, they're observed, cannot be explained with the amount of matter that we see."

Again, would be good if they include quantum physics, in which the universe depends on the minding of the observer, the "matter moving Nous" of Madam Blavatsky.

Ms. Gianotti comments:

When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instruments. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe." By our ignorance, Ms. Gianotti, I thinks, comes close to the Shakespearen "The only Darkness is Ignorance", though perhaps the Lady means that which we cannot see with our eyes or with instruments.

Ms. Jeanti: "We looked for black holes and we didn't see them." Lesley Stahl: "Are you saying there are not black holes?" Ms. Jeanty: "So we were looking for micro black holes that would've been, for example, evidence that there are extra dimensions, but unfortunately it doesn't look like we produced that at these energies." Must be scientist jargon. Unknown extra dimensions to be found in non-existent black holes? Marie once said that the only black holes are in our dumb heads, which can stand for the Large Hadron Collider, because our brain is also an instrument where things collide.

"We have big questions, really big questions", exclaims Mr. Steve Goldfarb.

[Charlotte]

Quantum Physics of the Neoplatonist Ploclus, 412-485 AD

"For all things concur with each other through similitude, and communicate the powers which they possess. And first natures, indeed, impart by illumination the gift of themselves to secondary natures, in unenvying abundance. But effects are established in their causes. An indissoluble connection, likewise, and communion of wholes, and a colligation of agents and patients, are surveyed in the world."

As do the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, joyned to the whole.

Similitude of a cell

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[Charlotte]

The Triangle of Science, Philosophy and Religion

Then we used to post at 'The Hall of Ma"at', Don asked the question: why do things spin? Posters gave their views and I my simple one, viz., the trajectory of the first motion in space was orbital which made sense to me since all round objects spin, or can be made to spin. Moreover, I hold fast and love, and qouted several times from the sublime writings in The Testament of Beauty, "The Ring in its repose is Unity and Being: Causation and Existence are the motions thereof. Thru'out all runneth Duty and the conscience of it is thatt creativ faculty of animal mind that, wakening to self-conscience of all Essences closeth the full circle, when the spirit of man escaping from the bondage of physical Law re-entereth eternity by the vision of God".

Among my notes is an excerpt from a PDF, "deposited by: Hu, Dr. Huping, 12 March 2003"

Subject: Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind

Spin as Primordial Self-Referential Process
Driving Quantum Mechanics, Spacetime Dynamics and Consciousness

Abstract

We have recently theorized that consciousness is intrinsically connected to quantum mechanical spin since said spin is imbedded in the microscopic structure of spacetime and is more fundamental than spacetime itself, that is, spin is the "mind-pixel." Applying these ideas to the particular structure and dynamics of the brain, we have developed a qualitative model of quantum consciousness. In this paper, we express our fundamental view that spin is a primordial self-referential process driving quantum mechanics, spacetime dynamics and consciousness. To justify such a view, we will draw support from existing literatures, discuss from a reductionist perspective the essential properties said spin should possess as mind-pixel and explore further the nature of spin to see whether said properties are present. Our conclusion is that these properties are indeed endowed to spin by Nature. One of the implications from our fundamental view is that the probabilistic structure of quantum mechanics is due to the self-referential collapse of spin state that is contextual, non-local, non-computable and irreversible. Therefore, a complete theory of the self-referential spin process is necessarily semantic, that is, it should be based on internally meaningful information.

Don, do you agree that is why things spin? Or care? I'm in agreement with this view which Dr. Fisher also taught at Mr. Hall's Institution of Learning, i.e. that internal meaningful information produce the 'patterns' we see as reality, as particles have no locality but appear when needed by the thoughts of the observer when he 'measures'. Another good question: what is a partice?

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte I must confess that the original question came from my dear mother who as you know searched in vain for her Grail. She asked me the question so as soon as I entered the internet world I was certain I could get an answer but none really was forthcoming. I like your answer that basically "spin" is part of the makeup of our brain and possibly the way we perceive the universe ... how many times have we partaken of too much spirit only to have the room spin round and round ... however as nice as your solution is you will be hard pressed to explain why some things spin clockwise and other things spin anti-clockwise ...

Cheers and yes "those were [indeed] the days my friend ...

db

[Charlotte]

Blessings on our and all Mother's, mine never searched for the Grail, at least not that I was aware of, but in her hours I'm sure she did.

About the spin, I simply form my own theory from what I read and heard in lectures. When we say "my head is spinning', a quick comment with no further thought about the makeup of our brain, but as the Zen Monk says that it's not the flag that's waving but our mind, the same with the room spinning which happened to me once when I had too much to drink, again, the room wasn't spinning for anyone else, the same when studying particle physics, things spin when the wave function is operative, and when I cannot take it anymore all my thoughts collapse and I'm back where I started, has become a particle again. Thoughts, as airy nothings have to be given a "habitation and a name", says the Poet, because our mind is "form-bound".

I'm not hard pressed to to explain why some things spin clockwise and other things spin counter-clockwise, for 1, in physics evry action has a reaction from the beginning, from when the Ring in its Unity was compelled to move "arousing a space curiosity" and was checked by a counter-movement so as not to spin out of control, same mechanism in our mind, for 2, I bought a clock in Munich which shows time counter clockwise, the inscription being that in Bavaria clocks go differently , and 3, even if things spin anti-clockwise, the word "anti-clockwise" you use alone testifies to: if there is a clockwise spin there has to be an anti-clockwise spin or we couldn't know of a clockwise spin.

Things make the grade, like we do, then go retro-grade. In any case, whether clock- or -counter-clock wise, things spin. This just a light-hearted rant, as you know sometimes I'm so full of it.....

[Charlotte]

Made aware of by Gurdjieff, "The Law of Catching Up".

Gathering more info and compelled to think on Quantum Theory and particle physics sent me to the outer limits of apprehension. Not only did I read a few segments of what scientists in these fields have to say, but also the observations of great minds shadowing the former, and again happened on these words of the Poet regarding the observer and non-observer in philosophical terms:

"That while thou dost persist in cold refusing,
Thou kill'st as much as thou refrain'st from using".

In things pertaining to everyday life we just say, "if you don't use it you loose it".

Gurdjieff gave the example of the 'the law of catching up' in that the comet "Kondoor" collided with the Earth so violently that two fragments flew into space but lost momentum to escape the gravitational pull of the Earth and began to fall back toward the Earth. However, in doing so, they came under "the cosmic law called "Law of Catching Up", and were entirely subject to its influence, and they would therefore now make regular elliptic orbits around their fundamental piece", the Earth. The larger fragment, Gurdjieff writes, "in most recent times has come to be called Moon", that the smaller fragments existence is not even suspected, which in QM could be the Soliton, as Dr. Fischer taught, a soliton is a heavy particle which passes unaffected by any other particle it doesn't have affinity with, suggesting it would stop if it meets another soliton for interplanetary communication as thoughts meet like ships in the night, the saying goes.

For the last week I felt as though one of those fragments knocked off my track like a particle in perpetual wave function, also by watching a video on Ankhor Wat I liked very much, posted by Paul M. Smith on FB, and other things, trying to make sense of what Don writes here, responding to Daz, and managing my daily life.

So the "Law of Catching up" is operative here bringing me back to the Palm of my hand.

[Don Barone]

Hi Charlotte just came across this article which I am sure you will find interesting ... Enjoy !

Delete button of the brain

Cheers
db

[Charlotte]

A ja Don, thanks, love the article, agree with the findings, confirming scientifically the poetic 'that we kill as much as we refrain from using', and also the consensus of many, including mine, that quantum mechanics abuses the nerves in that the brain gets overloaded, that it "builds connections, but they're inefficient, ad hoc connections. Your brain needs to prune a lot of those connections away and build more streamlined, efficient pathways." Good luck with that in learning about Quantum Physics where the ad hoc connections are like trolls.

Mentioned also is that space is created in sleep by the gardener pruning the waste away, or that with which we couldn't deal with or resolve in the waking state. Another subject.

I totally like: "It's the synaptic connections you don't use that get marked for recycling. The ones you do use are the ones that get watered and oxygenated. So be mindful of what you're thinking." So again, Science, Poetry, and Religion have a meeting of Mind, the Poet: "Reality appeareth in forms to man's thought"; the Elder Thaddeus: "Our thoughts determine our lives", and many other such quotes from enlightened Minds.

Affirmed in the article is also the time-honered 'great minds think alike', or 'birds of a feather flock together', in stating: "Neurons that fire together wire together."

I printed the article to read the content in 'peace'. Thanks again, Don, I think I caught up, that is to say I marked all but Angkor Wat for recycling, Angkor Wat for its spiritual and magical significance as amplified in the video.

[Charlotte]

Reading more on the delete botton in our brain, these thoughts crossed my mind. Where do thoughts come from anyway?

Who is the Gardener?

"Imagine your brain is a garden, except instead of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables, you grow synoptic connections etween neurons. These are the connections that neurotransmitters like dopamine, seratonin, and others travel across.

"Glial cells" are the gardeners of your brain - they act to speed up signals between certain neurons. But other glial cells are the waste removers, pulling up weeds, killing pests, raking up dead leafs. Your brain's pruning gardeners are called "microglial cells." They prune your synoptic connections. The question is, how do they know which ones to prune?"

Since the brain is a physical instrument however complex, my question is, what motivates the gardener to prune things we are no longer interested in, brought to our attention by the "inefficient, ad hoc connections", therefore as necessary as the useful connections. Wouldn't there have to be an intelligences discrimination what we need and what is superfluous, since the brain, even though there is electrical actiivity, is yet an instrument.

"Researchers are just starting to unravel this mystery, (of how do the "micgroglial cells" cells know what to prune) but what they do knowis the synaptic connections that get used less get marked by a protein, C1q (as well as others). When the microglial cells detect that mark, they bond to the protein and destroy—or prune—the synopse.

"This is how your brain makes the physical space for you to build new and stronger connections so you can learn more."

So what tips off the microglial cell to detect this mark since the cell itself is part of the brain, an instrument of matter we utilize to leran more. And why do we continually want to learn more?

[Charlotte]

We drive our ships to new lands, stop and rebuild all our ruins
For peace and trust can win the day despite of all our losing.