The Lord of the Garden
"CAMPBELL: The serpent, who dies and is resurrected, shedding its skin and renewing its life, is the lord of the central tree, where time and etemity come together. He is the primary god, actually, in the Garden of Eden. Yahweh,…
Mad Science of the Multiverse
Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" - Samuel Johnson
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Jean Cocteau
THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL
The"anthropic principle" is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.
It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the content and design of this website:
- Antinomianism - taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the "transgression" of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the "left hand" or "short path" of Tantra and Vamamarga.
- Animism - the…
Anguish & Anxiety
..or conflict and agression. Man, I sure had a week for it. A trip inside the self-reflecting sphere - rubbernecking at blog kerfluffles, pitching my 2 cents even where it was probably about as welcome as a stinkbomb at a…
Consciousness
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." - Max Eastman
"…Lucifer the bringer of light in the shape of the serpent of paradise, and Adam, the symbolic first man, [both] suffer for the sake of consciousness." -…
Monkeys
"Taken in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it." - Carl Jung, Psychological Reflections, p. 243,…
Laughter of God
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh." - The Koran
"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God." - Karl Barth
"I have never made but one prayer to God , a very short one: "O Lord,…
Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." - Sri Chimnoy
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." - Laurie Anderson
"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' :…
Recycling
"… the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World… the Serpent that announces, 'The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning'…" - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, p. 412
"EDIBLE, adj.…
Science
"There is reality behind the world as it appears to us, possibly a many-layered reality, of which the appearances are the outermost layers. What the great scientist does is boldly to guess, daringly to conjecture, what these inner realities are…
