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Oumuamua
Portland, Maine What is left of time passing? Ruins of castles, scrambled places in my head, old photos of stairways I climbed to the top of a mountain cutting through the thick haze. Seated on a rock overlooking streams and rivers, I wish to see things...
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Collide
When two great masses come into collision in space, it is certain that a large part of each is melted, but it seems also quite certain that in many cases a large quantity of debris must be shot forth in all directions Crescent-shaped Earth and Moon (NASA/JPL) As...
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The ongoing story of white holes
I gather my thoughts as I write and see more clearly what I have been trying to say that what binds Consciousness to the Universe is how every physical object feels the passing of time in the most personal and private manner. It isn’t a matter of whether...
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Randomness
...probability is not a physical energy. Probability is an operational concept that can be held by a conscious mind, a philosophical category that is distinct from physical energy. Randomnicity is in the eye of the beholder. To gain a better understanding,...
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In our own Time and Space
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...
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The Intuitive Self
I always thought graveyards Were the most despicable things. Per se: The fallen trees do not claim the ground. When their years are counted down. Falling down does not weight their care. The earth with gravity brings back down. What once was one with...
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The Dialogue
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,...
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The Time Mind
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...
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A Comparative Study
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...
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Thought forms and shapes of the Universe
Philosophy is the vernacular form of all objects, physical and conceptual. We find ourselves on a life mission to identify every single one of the shadows surrounding us. Knowledge is perspectival. It colors our expectations of what remains out of reach....
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Farfarout
Cinnamon in the sunlight The hypothesis that the Big Bang came out of a quantum fluctuation from a very specific prior state opens the door to more questions. If timelessness involves an infinite timeline or an endless bouncing process, why does our brain...
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Cosmic Consciousness
A delicate thin rain Surrounds the house where I write Perched on the edge of nothingness. If everything was a dream, A sad lost life founded on vanity, the rain tells me nothing. As if sitting mesmerised in a car ride to an airport of the dead I recite...
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The Transition
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...
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A model of the Universe
The naturalist can never be its concept. Once it has become so, it is most likely an idealist. Sentiment, backward looking, attempting to collect what a constant collision has distributed to history; the natural idealist is what it means to be living-torn-apart. Writing...
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Poetry and Emotion
Michael Heizer, Collapse In bed asleep, while they do dream things true April here in the US is National Poetry Month. It is also in the same month that Shakespeare was born and died. There are writers and artists, poets and philosophers, civil rights...
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The Art of the Line
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...
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The Arrow of Time
What I see is four temporal dimensions: that which is, that which has passed, that which will be, and that which is always in the state of becoming. The first three are subjective. The latter is timelessness. This past October, I mentioned that I would...
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A State of Matter
I have ancient eyes Musing chapters of history And longings once Embraced while Reminiscing more noble Epochs and questions Yet to be answered as I Stalk the shadows of inner Places teasing rationality I am the remnant Paradigm of past futures And the...
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Poetry and solitude
I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. Solitude is sometimes sought after to find peace of mind after becoming disillusioned or to forget our pain. Whether they be Chinese poets Tao Qian 陶潜 and Wang Wei 王维 , Japanese artist-monk...
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Artistic Research
Let’s be clear: creative artistic thinking is neither a creative technique nor about painting pictures or making sculptures. This is a preconception we must get rid of. Creativity is not a prisoner of art. Rather, artistic thinking can take place anywhere,...
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Earthrise
December 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Earthrise, a photograph taken by Astronaut Bill Anders aboard Apollo 8. Earthrise symbolizes the dramatic widening of human consciousness as if we remove the bars of our gravitational prison to breathe in...
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Philosophical Interlude
Eye in the Sky (ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; CC BY 4.0 Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt) The naturalist can never be its concept. Once it has become so, it is most likely an idealist. Sentiment, backward looking, attempting to collect...
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On the Nature of Solar Activity
What one sentence of advice can encapsulate the embrace of breadth and the journey of experimentation that is necessary if you want...to arrive at a place optimized for you alone? A new subject brings along an array of metaphorical expressions like coronal...
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Feelings
Silver linings (Ollie Taylor, ESA) The pursuit of writing begs the question, "why?" I constantly need to better grasp all the ramifications within the framework of my intent. No meaningful voice, I believe, can transpire without facing the question of...
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A phenomenological inquiry
Shooting stars fall to Earth... Essentially phenomenology is a product of the transcendental subject, whereas science in the ordinary sense is a product of the mundane subject. Yet phenomenology necessary “appears” as the product of the mundane subject. Let’s...