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        <title><![CDATA[Consciousness and the Universe]]></title>
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How do we perceive the link between the Universe in which we all live and Consciousness that we all share?  What exactly binds the two together?]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Instant-Observer]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Instant-Observer is an observer at a specific instant of time . F rom the parts of an atom to the universal landscape, can an instant-observer be anything but human? While there are various states of awareness, receptivity and sensitivity within and... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Heavenly Questions]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:25:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The small-body exploration Tianwen-2 is part of China’s interplanetary missions, called the Tianwen series 天问系列. It was preceded by China’s first Mars exploration mission and will be followed by a Mars sample-return mission and a Jupiter system exploration... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Know whence you came]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:57:29 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Interpreters are divided as to whether Melancholia I was intended to be the first in a series, or whether the I in Melancholia I stands for melancholia imaginative. This notion is derived from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim, a contemporary of... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Return to the Dialogue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Nothingness
The Dialogue between Consciousness and the Universe takes an unexpected turn as it is reframed within the context of a multiverse. Should the Dialogue be grounded in facts or in truth? In truth, this search will never end. It may progress,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Consciousness in the theory of everything]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:04:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunrise on the Potomac
The universe, sprinkled with islands of agency, sentience and consciousness would be a lonely place if the only thing that we could say is how it feels related to ourselves. Consciousness is plural. Yet, because of its many facets,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cosmic Horizon]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:31:06 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[While the dense, compact inner regions of today’s most massive ellipticals have already formed around 600 million years after the Big Bang, given that the Universe looks roughly the same in any direction, if we stood on the other side of the Universe... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Comparative Study]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:42:55 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Shells of cosmic dust created by the interaction of binary stars appear like tree rings around Wolf-Rayet 140. The remarkable regularity of the shells’ spacing indicates that they form like clockwork during the stars’ eight-year orbit cycle, when the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Riddle of Existence]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:56:21 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sagittarius C (NIRCam Image)
While it genuinely wants to lend a helping hand , the little acrobat is deeply fearful of losing its way amidst the landscape of probabilities . It proceeds once more to review the Questioner’s notes on the concepts that have... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Earth Calling]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:48:40 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Earthrise
Along Champlain Canal
The little acrobat scratches its head — it isn’t for the faint of heart. Running back and forth through the Universe helps build its stamina. On the celestial bridge, it listens to the sounds of the Earth and the swishing... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Motion and Communication]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:09:42 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Taking the roads less traveled, the little acrobat goes on reading a book by Ed Yong, The Immense World. Communication alters perception — both its own and that of others. Every uttered thought, written word, and encounter it has shapes the Dialogue between... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Resilience]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:10:24 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Great egret
The Questioner thought that time moves forward, but these days, she eerily feels that time moves backward. From the standpoint of her inner feelings, she struggles to understand why they say time is
Back on Earth, the little acrobat is set... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Transition]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 23:45:11 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunrise on Nantucket


As the tinkering acrobat runs about revising its body parts, it recalls confessing to an interstellar visitor how hard it had tried to escape the pull of abstract thinking, only to fail each time. It feels at home among circles... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Little Acrobat]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:44:42 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Merging Galaxies Arp 273
The little acrobat travels far among stars through colliding galaxies as their ballooning bubbles of wavicles stretch and expand. It turns around and jumps over the Moon to reach its home base where it grows wings and flies high... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Surrealist Mind]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 13:28:26 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[These days and weeks That cannot be found on any calendar, These hours and minutes unknown to the clock, When all those rusting ships of the past, long gone To the bottom of life, guarding the sunken dreams Cast up their sorrows to swell this grief with... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Time Mind]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:31:05 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Night Visitors closely examines moths as aesthetic beings and as carriers of meaning. ------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for watching! Subscribe so you don't miss out on any videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/iffrotterdam/?sub_confirmation=1... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Dialogue]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:13:06 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Questioner]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/11/the-questioner.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 12:53:45 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Questioner thought that time moves forward, but these days, she eerily feels that time moves backward. From the standpoint of her inner feelings, she struggles to understand why they say time is uniform . From D.C. to San Francisco, from the Carina... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Art of the Line]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/10/the-art-of-the-line.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:21:16 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ontology of Absence Ripping intervals disappear in the silent blanket of Nothingness while lines cut through the chaos mounting above the dimly lit surface in a cadential hierarchy of events. The tuning of the Multiverse as it expands and evolves pluridimensionally... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Symbolic Reasoning]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/09/symbolic-reasoning.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:05:40 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Certainly, three kindred spirits have here encountered each other; and although the first two missed each other on earth by eight centuries and the last two by twelve months, still in the heart of ...
I once stumbled upon The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Multiverse]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:58:57 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ah, give me pure mind, pure thought! Let me not be in haste to detect the universal law; let me see more clearly a particular instance of it!
The bee balms of the past are gone. Delicate and unpredictable, they retreated into the shadows. Will they flourish... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[In our own Time and Space]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/04/in-our-own-time-and-space.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 18:40:58 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Along Rotoroa Lake (South Island)
“Midway in the journey of our life,” Dante wrote, “I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard it is to tell what that wood was….” Each step affects the mind and unravels strands of thoughts... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nothingness and the Quantum Universe ]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/03/nothingness-and-the-quantum-universe.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 14:18:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I was a poet once...
I lost the Moon the other night behind a blanket of clouds. She was confused about how exactly the universal organism was planning its every step behind the scene. The togetherness of Nothingness and the Quantum Universe infers the... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Four Notions]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:21:49 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Pointe des Chateaux, Guadeloupe
Past mountains, more mountains: enshrouded in clouds, Deep-seeded with mourning, deep-watered with blood. There, since ancient times, the eagle Mutilates Prometheus, Each new day it claws to tatters Ribs and heart still... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Time told by the Sun]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2023/01/time-told-by-the-sun.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:46:41 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunspots
The day sky is the page on which the sun writes his story. His writing does not cover all the page, but is kept within an even band of closely inscribed text. The margins of his page are very broad and fair and clean. But if we turn to the night... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Into the Woods of the Universe]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.consciousnessanduniverse.com/2022/12/into-the-woods-of-the-universe.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 16:32:36 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A visual trail opens up. It passes through light, sound, and water, goes up skyscrapers, and makes its way through clouds into the Sun. It is the same old path that starts off with concepts and reaches into the physical world. A theory of harmony spans... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Toulsaly]]></dc:creator>
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