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seen on the wall of the back entrance to my church yesterday. This is the geometry of astrophysics, or is it metaphysics?
London, UK
June 2016
We experience the physical and metaphysical aspects of time. We often say "time flies", but what has moved?
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Abstract #1
"Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck”
(Immanuel Kant)
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La Terrazza Mascagni is one of the most elegant and evocative of Livorno and is located on the seafront on the sidelines of Italy Avenue , the floor consists of a checkerboard of 8,700 square meters formed by 34,800 tiles white and black.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Gare Montparnasse (1914) is a painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico. Many of de Chirico's works were inspired by the introspective feelings evoked by travel. He was born in Greece to Italian parents. This work was painted during a period when he lived in Paris.
The painting depicts the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris, France. It is a classic example of de Chirico's style, depicting an angular perspective on an outdoor architectural setting in the long shadows and deep colours of early evening. On the horizon is a steam train with a plume of white smoke billowing away from it. The train image appears several times in de Chirico's work. In the foreground is a bunch of bananas, another recurring image in de Chirico's work (cf. Le Rêve Transformé).
In 1916, de Chirico painted another work simply titled The Melancholy of Departure.
LM: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA24/126/129/23
Metaphysics of frequencies
A return to nature as a fluctuating cosmic vision, resonating vibrations where matter is in continuous movement and space does not exist. It is the unifying force of subtle body and energy fields.
from a poem I forgot I'd written: "lightseekers"
and then I saw great waters parting and joyful wavelets clapping in
delight, singing the song of
what is, what was and what is
to be… a metaphysical world, disembodied
holiness: Original
the poem is here ellynpeirson.com/2015/04/lightseekers/
I was watching a documentary, Wildest Amazon, the other night and was entranced by the pitcher plants. So I grabbed my iPhone and took a picture from my SmartTV and manipulated it into this... SmartMe!
I love technology when it's creative!
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
La sospensione del tempo nell'attesa di un accadimento.
Metafisica della presenza / assenza umana.
The suspension of time waiting for an event.
Metaphysics of human presence / absence.
Went out for some more sunrise photos but I couldn't capture the right lighting and fit and then I headed home.
Walking up from the beach I turned around and this reminds me of what every photographer suggests ... when you can't find you want in front of you ... turn around!
This seagull didn't even attempt to communicate with me but concentrated on what was happening far away: farther away than I could see. Strangely I heard a voice in the breeze about something about Hawaii ...
But it didn't matter because I captured the entire scene and now I get to show you what I almost missed if I continued to just look ahead ...
Alternate Story:
Seaguille awoke from the night before with a chainsaw hangover and realized he had to change the pattern of his life. It was simple. Stay where he was or quit the nocturnal flying and learn to live a normal life.
then he looked out across the Salish Sea and realized that the San Juan Islands were just the first step ... he was young, he was proud and Juanita was just down at the next lamp post. They could make a life somewhere, anywhere but here ...
When the sun hit sea, he had made his decision. Yes anywhere was different than here ... but he would always wake up with himself ... so he decided to stay, at least for a day.
Juanita flew closer and gave him the squawk. He smiled. It was settled. They found a perch on the cliffs and raised 17 broods of young seagulls who all longed to look at the sea ... but they all stayed home because home really is where the heart is ...
The Chapel of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic chapel built into the red-rock buttes of Sedona, Arizona. It was commissioned by sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude, who is said to have drawn her inspiration in 1932 from the newly constructed Empire State Building, on which a cross seemed to her to be superimposed.
The Chapel was completed in 1956 at a construction cost of $300,000. In 2007, Arizonans voted the Chapel to be one of the Seven Man-Made Wonders of Arizona. It is also said to be the site of one of the so-called Sedona vortices, where some believe that heightened spiritual and metaphysical energy can be found.
Submitted for Textural Tuesday
HTT!
It's better on black.
For a view of the photostream on black, try flickriver.
Explore January 18, 2009 (highest position #119)
Some people can subconsciously prevent you from becoming your best self.
Everything you do in this life- where you go, what you say, what you do and who you do it with is the result of your thoughts.
A big reason people fight is because people identify with their thoughts. When we were growing up, most of us believed that thoughts come from the inside. We thought that they were innately a part of us and that we *are* our thoughts. We started building our whole identities around our own little internal monologues.
And the bigger the idea, the more of your identity it represents. This is why politics and religion are such hotly debated topics, because they're such big ideas. If I say your political idea is a bad idea, and you base your identity on that idea, then effectively what you're hearing is that I'm calling you a bad person. You think that I'm attacking you, not the idea.
Something that might be even more common is that people just straight up attack the individual as a proxy for attacking that person's idea.
Somewhere along the way, a few people started realizing they had it all wrong.
In practice, a much better way to think about it is that the universe has an infinite number of streams of thoughts, so to speak, that our brains can kind of tap into like different radio stations. With this analogy, we no longer have to view ourselves as a series of thoughts but rather as an empty vessel by which thoughts pass through. Now we're like the DJ of a radio station, not the individual song. The self is merely an observer. It was this distinction that sparked one of the most famous philosophical debates of all time, which is, I think therefore I am versus I *do* therefore I am.
Spolier alert, you should pick the latter.
In this analogy, the self is determined by our ability to pick and choose different ideas from different streams of thoughts and combine them to form new ideas. Sort of like picking ingredients to make a sandwich.
This is different from the first paradigm, in which we would just take everything from the same stream and hope that the sandwich turns out good anyways.
Therapists know that this works, that's why when people come in complaining about depression, they're told to use the term "negative intrusive thoughts".
The idea is actually pretty simple. If you don't take ownership of the idea and instead you assign a label to it, then you can categorize it as something that life just happened to send your way but something that you're also allowed to throw away. You don't have to hold on to it because it's not actually a part of you. It's just a shitty song on the radio station.
So how does this all relate to other people holding you back?
To be continued..
Credited to Austin Ambrozi on TikTok
Merton distinguishes two aspects of wisdom: . . . metaphysical and speculative, an apprehension of the radical structure of human life, an intellectual appreciation of man in his human potentialities and in their fruition. . . . moral, practical, and religious, an awareness of man’s life as a task to be undertaken at great risk, in which tragic failure and creative transcendence are both possible . . . a peculiar understanding of conflict, of the drama of human existence, and especially of the typical causes and signs of moral disaster . . . beyond the conscious and systematic moral principles which may be embodied in an ethical doctrine and which guide our conscious activity. Wisdom also supposes a certain intuitive grasp of unconscious motivations, at least insofar as these are embodied in archetypes and symbolic configurations of the psyche.
-The future of wisdom : toward a rebirth of sapiential Christianity / Bruno Barnhart ; foreword by Cynthia Bourgeault ; afterword by Cyprian Consiglio.