Blog archives for March, 2009
March 31, 2009
March 29, 2009
Terence Mckenna’s Eschaton/Singularity
Terence Mckenna on Novelty Acceleration
Robert Anton Wilson & Terence McKenna – Preparing for the Singularity
Mckenna on 2012 montage
Download and Post Whole Technocalypse Documentary
Terence McKenna P45 History Ends In Green
Terence McKenna P46 History Ends In Green
Terence McKenna’s Psychedelic Apocalyptarian Shamanizing
Terence Mckenna — In the Light of Nature Series 3 Part 11 – Something is happening!
History is a Trip – Terence Mckenna + distracting music
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http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/teilhard/index.htm
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Teilhard/Teilhard-evolution.htm
http://omegapoint.org/
http://www.singinst.org/
http://brainmeta.com/index.php?p=singularity
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v18n1/v18n1-MAPS_16-20.pdf
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/computerhistory.html
find article about vedas influence on religions
your future in your imagination
prague quote portion near beginning where the guy talks about the unity of the society
Beyond Theology Mysticism Perennial Philosophy Alan W Watts1
2
***Notes***
Video in Sydney, write down large portion
get mp3 cutter? and embed? see if can embed with same player as xspf, write new playlist and edit code? host at fileden?
2012 and the nature of time/rites of spring, end of part 3, most of 4
5:00 – 20:00 Eros and Eschaton
quote, or cut and embed, I Ching Habit and Novelty KUT 10-97 interview round 30:00 Eschaton description
collect inspiring quotes of a final state of humanity
last part of this mckenna clip(godsotherdevil)
***Notes***
link to transhumanist post
link to mckenna end of the world post
link to mckenna view on god post
March 27, 2009
Time Lapse Plant Growth
embed plant videos
Another Sunflower Time-Lapse from danLinfield on Vimeo.
Lilies and Ants Timelapse from danLinfield on Vimeo.
Tulip Wither from danLinfield on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/danlinfield
for more time lapse videos, link to page. Or consolidate both
link to other plant posts
Body Position/Posture effects memory and emotion
google for better science, articles etc
in any way related to effect of ritual magic?
From Health.MSN.com:
Body position affects your memory
Can’t remember your anniversary, hubby? Try getting down on one knee. Memories are highly embodied in our senses. A scent or sound may evoke a distant episode from one’s childhood. The connections can be obvious (a bicycle bell makes you remember your old paper route) or inscrutable. A scientific study helps decipher some of this embodiment. An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition reports that episodes from your past are remembered faster and better while in a body position similar to the pose struck during the event.
Inner and Outer – Things to figure out
link to unity of opposites post
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/#4
•3. Schopenhauer’s Critique of Kant
•4. The World as Will
http://www.shenwu.com/Internal_VS_External.htm
http://www.martialarm.com/martial-articles/FEELING_THE_FORM.html
http://martialartscience.blogspot.com/2007/06/body-unity-problem.html
March 26, 2009
March 23, 2009
Meditation Music with Ancient Egyptian Instruments – Gerald Jay Markoe
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (1 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (2 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (3 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (4 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (5 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (6 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (7 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (8 of 9)
Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt (9 of 9)
March 22, 2009
Marshall McLuhan – Recognizing the Pattern in the Laws of Media
See if I can find the whole documentary..
This is a clip from the 2002 documentary ‘McLuhan’s Wake’ released by the National Film Board of Canada. The film is based upon the book ‘Laws of Media’. After Marshall McLuhans death, his son, Eric McLuhan, completed this remaining work. In it McLuhan lays down four laws as questions regarding new media/technologies:
What does it enhance or intensify?
What does it render obsolete or replace?
What does it retrieve that was previously obsolesced?
What does it produce or become when pushed to an extreme?
Marshall McLuhan called this a tetrad and said it could be applied to any human artifact.
If we think about evolution and systems the tetrad can be applied to anything.
Consider this: you have an ecological system and a new organism evolves. How do you assess the impact? McLuhans tetrad is a perfect template for that analysis in the same way you would assess a human artifact.
We live in societies based on technologies, and Marshall McLuhan is consistently proven correct with his Laws of Media:
every new medium:
1. extends a human property (the car extends the foot);
2. obsolesces the previous medium by turning it into a sport or a form of art (the automobile turns horses and carriages into sports);
3. retrieves a much older medium that was obsolesced before (the automobile brings back the shining armour of the chevalier);
4. flips or reverses its properties into the opposite effect when pushed to its limits (the automobile, when there are too many of them, create traffic jams, that is total paralysis).
Every new technology has these four effects on all of us, including learning technologies. If you dont understand the effects of the technologies that we use, how can you understand their pedagogical implications?
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. (July 21, 1911 December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar — a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communications theorist. McLuhan’s work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions “the medium is the message” and the “global village.”
McLuhan was a fixture in media discourse from the late 1960s to his death and he continues to be an influential and controversial figure. More than ten years after his death he was named the “patron saint” of Wired magazine.