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  • Slow Speed Light

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    2/18/99 – Scientists slow light to a crawl

    BOSTON (AP) – Scientists have managed to slow down light so much that if it were a car on a highway, it could get a ticket for not getting over to the right-hand lane. The speed of light is normally about 186,000 miles per second, or fast enough to go around the world seven times in the wink of eye. Scientists succeeded in slowing it down to 38 mph. They did this by shooting a laser through extremely cold sodium atoms, which worked like “optical molasses” to slow the light down. While slow-speed light now is just a laboratory plaything for top physicists, Lene Vestergaard Hau, the Danish scientist who led the project, said practical applications could be a few years away. She envisions improved communications technology, switches, even night-vision devices.

    As far as I can determine, there has been no further public news on this since the announcement in 1999. Seems a little unusual given the fantastic nature of this feat.

    Slowing down is mentioned often in spiritual, martial arts and other physical disciplines. In a world full of compulsive acting out, adrenaline and stimulus addiction, and ADDHD – slowing down might be just the ticket to a saner brighter world.

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  • Primal Mind

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    It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. – William of Occam

    To the primal mind truth is not inclusive but essential. In folk literature the “truth” is made up of what lies at the bottom of various events of a perpetual now, while to the Western mind the “truth” is everything that makes up a chronological succession of events.

    It is this temporal revelation which lies at the farthest alcome of the Indian visionary’s mind; it is this immediacy which proclaims the preciousness of the instant, the ever-changing, ever modulating Indian moment that is a perpetual Now.

    The primal mind knows space experientially. This affective relationship with space of the primal person, however, does not limit his experience to pragmatic spatial actions, for he sees space as the sacred theatre of his life and the ritual umbilical cord that forever connects him to his divine parent, the Earth. – Primal Mind, by Jamake Highwater

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  • Light Vision

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    If light and vision are associated, .. then all things illuminated by the sun may in some sense be seen by it. The sun in many cultures is called an eye. In Malay, for example, the word for the sun is ‘mata hari’, ‘the eye of the day’. On the great seal of the United States, shown on every dollar bill, there is the Egyptian symbol of the Eye of Horus – the radiant eye – the sun – both a seeing eye and an emitter of light.

    A whole new science has recently sprung up called Helioseismology. It can be observed that the Sun vibrates, rather like a bell. It is presently believed that solar resonances are propagated acoustically from the Sun’s core.

    Image by Peter Sharpe

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  • Divine Light

    divine light cosmic

    …divine light is dark. It is black light, the source of all light, not colorless but pre-color. – A.H. Almaas

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  • Metaphsyical Chess Strategy & Moves

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    Several metaphysicians Crowley, Shallis, Carroll have suggested that chess is really a medieval computer simulacrum, a magical model of the world, or of Time, in which various forces confront one another. The black and white squares are happenings of evil mixed with good. The pieces are fixed stages of mental development. The pawns are ordinary mentalities, with few choices open to them, who can move but forward in hope of eventual enlightenment (embodied in the queen). The knight is the initiate, the bishop ecclesiastical power, the castle or rook temporal power. The king, of course, is the inner self or life-force revealed at death or apotheosis, depending on whether one wins or loses. One’s opponent king is the source of the tyranny of the outside world, the “other” that the self must battle. Originally the game was played with four players, each having four pieces and four pawns – with no queens.

    “One can’t believe impossible things,” said Alice. “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll (1832-98)

    precession (pre-sesh?en) noun 1.The act or state of preceding; precedence.

    “and the gods said, all of thee have only to learn this… the slower you proceed, the more you see and learn… the knowers know… because they are the slowest and therefore see all… Know. Know. Why rush to the treadmill? Know.” by 4hero feat. – Mark Murphy off of Creating Patterns on Talkin’ Loud

    Image by ArtDream Designs

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  • What Am I?

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    “The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” – Erwin Schrodinger

    Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious organism on earth…

    “Every genuine composition makes conscious something of this esoteric realm. This process is endless, and there will be more and more esotericism as knowledge and science become increasingly capable of revealing human beings as perceivers. And transmitters as well. Spiritual or not, we are beings of vibrating sensation, floating in an infinite sea of pulsing waves that roll and resonate between the synapse and the farthest star.” – Erik Davis – Techgnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism In The Age Of Information

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