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email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:47:22 -0500

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Words might be a virus, but they allow communication between otherwise isolated consciousnesses, and so in many ways are more real than the objects they describe. This is why fictional descriptions of thoughts and consciousness tend to be easier to read than stream of consciousness style writing: They are accepted to be lies, and once that lie is accepted, incredible effects are achieved... similar to hypnosis.
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Words might be a virus, but they allow communication between otherwise isolated consciousnesses, and so in many ways are more real than the objects they describe. This is why fictional descriptions of thoughts and consciousness tend to be easier to read than stream of consciousness style writing: They are accepted to be lies, and once that lie is accepted, incredible effects are achieved... similar to hypnosis.
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Response to the fourth podcast:
Ideas return, are circular, and synchronistic. When an idea's time has come, often many people come up with it seemingly independently.
the text of the cloud of unknowing is truely an aleph-null, because it washes your mind of preconception about the self, ego, etc.
Truth is ineffable, meaning it can be experienced, but not described. But processes which can allow one to get there can be encoded, via metaphor and allegory (language) but dont lose sight of the forest for the trees.

Josef Schok edited Aleph-Null

email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:03:53 -0500

3) Words: morphological constructs for encoding and compressing information into pieces interpretable by other conscious minds with the same encoding algorithms, allowing subjective experiences to be shared, and information density to increase exponentially. Just look at Moore's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Law. Things are getting weirder and weirder, more and more novel, faster and faster, as the system becomes more and more interconnected, self-referential, and networked. Omega Point here We come~!
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Words might be a virus, but they allow communication between otherwise isolated consciousnesses, and so in many ways are more real than the objects they describe. This is why fictional descriptions of thoughts and consciousness tend to be easier to read than stream of consciousness style writing: They are accepted to be lies, and once that lie is accepted, incredible effects are achieved... similar to hypnosis.

1234 edited FrontPage

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email@hidden (carrow) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:33:36 -0500

edited Composing The Sacred

email@hidden () — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:12:22 -0500

In The Cloud - Week 2
Perennially Pink: From the Cloud of Unknowing to the Dark Side of the Moon - Week 3
Declaration of a Quest:Who Knows?!
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

Josef Schok edited Aleph-Null

email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:59:58 -0500

P300:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(Neuroscience)Mu Rhythm:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_rhythmBrain Fingerprinting:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprintingElectroencephalophone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElectroencephalophoneEmotiv Epoch wifi EEG headset:http://www.emotiv.com/Neurophone:http://www.neurophone.comAudeo Collar:http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=xyN4ViZ21N0
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this ~~journal,~~ jpost, I decided to test my hypnotizability/absorption score on three different occasions, using a modified Tellegen absorption scale test, of my own creation, in order to get an objective assessment of qualia, by comparing them to other qualia samples taken of myself at other points in time. (as objectiveness is an illusion, self-referential systems are necessary to impart meaning to datum)
Here is a link to the test I created: http://www.sendspace.com/file/32izg4
I answered all questions relative to the current moment, not the past, as the instructions state.
in ~~emailing~~ editing them to me.
trypnotist@gmail.com in.
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1/28/10, 4:12 pm.
Enhanced Awareness: 91.5%
In my personal interpretation, this is how hypnotizable I am under ideal sober conditions (IE, willing, relaxed, quiet environment, someone I trust)
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Two interpretations of time:
"Death needs time for the things it kills to grow in" -William S. Burroughs
Okay, the mind of god is infinite. Therefore, each piece of that mind is also infinite, but also requires definition to be different from all the other points. However, a portion of infinity is just as infinite as the whole, so this definition is virtual. I interpret this virtual definition as the amount of time required for a given universe to become self-aware of its own nature. So, any given universe will eventually realize its own true nature as god. There are three main ways this realization can be achieved, relative to its novelty/time value. In high novelty universes, the laws of electrodynamics and dimensional structure would be as such that within several seconds of the big bang, the cloud of matter and energy becomes self-aware due to "randomness" (quantum weirdness). The middle option is the one we are hopefully living in, in which matter begets life, which begets sentient life, which begets interconnected social structures, which begets the noosphere, and more and more information density, until the omega point is reached. The third option is the universe reaches a state of maxium entropy. This super-cold gas cloud is perfect to interact with the quantum weirdness which inherently leads to consciousness, meaning we have a similar scenario to the first. The important thing to remember is that time is virtual, so it is technically moot which one we live in. -Me
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Like the story of the rope mistaken for a snake, the mystery has now been explained to me. Like the many bracelets, which I mistakenly thought were gold; now, I do not say what I said then.
Huxley's three categories of truth can also be interpreted through this framework, one of the evolution and multiplication of finite into the infinite via feedback loops.
1) What is: We start with what seems to be concrete, objective matter, stable, the building blocks of reality.
2) Direct conscious experience of that matter by itself in the form of sentient life, fraying the edges of that finiteness slightly.
3) Words: morphological constructs for encoding and compressing information into pieces interpretable by other conscious minds with the same encoding algorithms, allowing subjective experiences to be shared, and information density to increase exponentially. Just look at Moore's Law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_Law. Things are getting weirder and weirder, more and more novel, faster and faster, as the system becomes more and more interconnected, self-referential, and networked. Omega Point here We come~!

Josef Schok edited Aleph-Null

email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:50:34 -0500

Let's play a game. I have some technological pieces here, I'm curious to see what sort of combination applications you folks come up for them. After a few posts, I'll reveal what I intend to use them for with a dramatic flourish.
P300:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(Neuroscience)Mu Rhythm:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_rhythmBrain Fingerprinting:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprintingElectroencephalophone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElectroencephalophoneEmotiv Epoch wifi EEG headset:http://www.emotiv.com/Neurophone:http://www.neurophone.comAudeo Collar:http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=xyN4ViZ21N0
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What is it like being me right now? And just how conscious am I? For this journal, I decided to test my hypnotizability/absorption score on three different occasions, using a modified Tellegen absorption scale test, of my own creation, in order to get an objective assessment of qualia, by comparing them to other qualia samples taken of myself at other points in time. (as objectiveness is an illusion, self-referential systems are necessary to impart meaning to datum)
Here is a link to the test I created: http://www.sendspace.com/file/32izg4
I answered all questions relative to the current moment, not the past, as the instructions state.
Id be interested in seeing you folks scores, if youre interested in emailing them to me.
trypnotist@gmail.com
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1/28/10, 4:12 pm.
State summary: Just got out of class, tired, but energized, as I just ate a roast beef sandwich (I love spicy mustard). Considering this baseline, as I usually feel most alert/aware and functional at this time of day.
63% hypnotizability rating (Mean score is 58%, with Q1 at 40%, and Q3 at 76%)
Consciousness: -Narrowing: 68%*
-Expansion: 55%
Focus -External: 63%
-Internal: 63%
Factors:
-Responsiveness to engaging stimuli: 81%
-Synesthesia: 43%
-Enhanced Cognition: 52%
-Dissociative: 83%*
-Vivid Reminiscence: 22%
-Enhanced Awareness: 83%*
Primary Sensory Operating Modality:
-Auditory: (I like the sound of the ocean best)
-Visual: (the contrasting colors of the sand and sea)
-Olfactory: (the smell of the ocean)
-Kinesthetic: (cool breezes/hot sand)
Wow, this sums me up to a T.
My normal Meyers Briggs type is ENTP
1/30/10 5:42pm.
In order to test the study results that nitrous oxide is the best narcohypnotic agent, I re-took the test while inhaling nitrous oxide after answering every question.
Score: 84%, meaning I am in the top quartile in hypnotizability at this point.
Consciousness: -Narrowing: 90% *
-Expansion: 76%
Focus: -External: 80%
-Internal: 96% *
Factors:
-Responiveness to engaging stimuli: 95%
-Synesthesia: 76%
-Enhanced Cognition: 57%
-Dissociation: 100%*
-Vivid Reminiscence: 89%
-Enhanced Awareness: 100%*
Sensory Modality Primacy remained the same.
Meyer Briggs type at this time: INTP
Obviously, consuming a dissociative anesthetic drug will increase ones dissociation score, narrow consciousness, and increase internal focus. and apparently, at least in my case, it also makes memories seem more vivid. Also, my Meyers Briggs Fascinating.
I have an interesting theory that because the study of narcohypnotic agents I am using
(http://www.hypnosisandsuggestion.org/modification_of_suggestibility.html) was published in 1979, before the advent of MDMA. I think mirror neuron activation is crucial in hypnosis, just as it is learning something by watching someone else do it. (Autistic people are good examples of deficient mirror neuron activation)
By averaging my two scores, I have my third entry, which I believe is a fairly accurate measurement of how conscious, absorbed, and hypnotizable I am throughout the day.
Consciousness: Narrowing: 79%
Expansion: 71%
Focus: External: 71.5%
Internal: 79.5%
Factors: Responsiveness to Engaging Stimuli: 88
Synesthesia: 59.5%
Enhanced Cognition: 54.5
Dissociative: 91.5%
Vivid Reminscence: 55.5%
Enhanced Awareness: 91.5%
In my personal interpretation, this is how hypnotizable I am under ideal sober conditions (IE, willing, relaxed, quiet environment, someone I trust)

blueshenlung edited AllYourBaseBelongToUS

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:37:04 -0500

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Ygg edited Yggdrasil

email@hidden (Ygg) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:41:43 -0500

Modern psychology had to abandon Freud's metapsychology (the sociological & political import of his late work) because, at base, it constituted a critique of Enlightenment values. Psychology could not develop itself into a "proper science" while it continued this Freud's final line of inquiry regarding the nature of civilization. Instead, psychology reduced itself (its scope and approach) to a functional or medical apparatus: diagnose & cure. This transition was impossible while the field still recognized Freud's metapsychological thesis: that civilization itself requires a repression of individual instincts before it can proceed. If we are all sick and necessarily so, psychology cannot justify its paradigm of illness & remedy. And so it exorcized its demons and designated these problems the work of philosophy, refashioning itself as a "real" science with a desperate obsessiveness that reveals its base insecurities with every insistance at its legitimacy. And in the process, psychology sold out: it dropped the serious (and difficult) work it could have done in exchange for an academic and societal status that is always necessarily in danger of disintegrating.
This process, in a beautifully ironic turn, requires the field to repress the memory of Freud, at once paying brief lip-service ("Of course Freud was the father of psychology") and simultaneously attempting to aggressively humiliate him with a parade of his worst ideas. We are right to be critical of Freud, but the consistency, tone, and attitude with which he is attacked in modern academic departments might be driven by more interesting motives: an embarrassment that where the father sought and may have failed, the children fear to go. All this, of course, assumes that he is still read and not simply rejected through a hereditary line of graduate seminar Powerpoint slides.
And so now, the only responsible psychology (that which risks itself), when it occurs, takes place in philosophy departments, where the pursuit of scientific respectability doesn't restrict which lines of inquiry are allowed to proceed.
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edited Composing The Sacred

email@hidden () — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:44:11 -0500

"Let the SeekingBecome Strong" - Week 1
In The Cloud - Week 2
the ~~Moon~~ Moon - Week 3
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

edited Composing The Sacred

email@hidden () — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:32:19 -0500

"Let the SeekingBecome Strong" - Week 1
In The Cloud - Week 2
Perennially Pink: From the Cloud of Unknowing to the Dark Side of the Moon
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

Josef Schok edited Aleph-Null

email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:37:48 -0500

Also, I discovered, through several intense conversation on the nature of reality, consciousness, etc, that nearly all of my good ideas were not produced by the vacuum of my own self, but by discussion and bouncing ideas off of others, and their providing of new angles of approach and thought.
So my new writing process refined by this experiment is to come up with an outline of what I want to say, discussing it with several peers, and taking their suggestions as being correct, and creating several versions of this outline, expounding on the points they like best then selecting from these breakfast options the ones which most resonate with me.
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For this post, I will analyze the hypnotic and advertising techniques used in a paragraph of the Cloud of Unknowing.
And what more? 1 Yit it semeth that He wolde not leve thee thus lightly,
for love of His herte, the whiche He hath evermore had unto thee
sith thou were oughtes.2 Bot what did He?3 Seest thou nought how lystly and how graciously He hath pulled thee to the thrid degr and maner of leving, the whiche hight Singuleer?4 In the whiche solitari forme and maner of levyng thou maist lerne to lift up the fote of thi love and step towardes that state and degr of levyng that is Parfite, and the laste state of alle.5
1 And now, this!: a common advertising technique, using attention shifting and shock to heighten effect.
2- a combination of rapport building (trust building) and regression to an earlier state, the state in which one is aught, or nothing. This makes one more susceptible to suggestions.
3- A hypnotic storytelling question, used in conversational hypnosis: ask someone a question that can only be answered by further listening.
4- Rhyming is another often-used hypnotic device, in this case aught and nought. Also numerical anchoring of dissociated states of consciouness produced by the reading of the text, three into one. One can think of this passage, and the entire text as an guided integration meditation, rather than conventional hypnosis, which leads to diminished consciousness, but produces more guaranteed effects,
5- Physical suggestion of movement lift up your foot converted into imaginary mental potential. A more liberal perspective could also interpret this sentence as progression, a technique used to power positive change by having the subject visualize the results of personal improvement.
Brainstorming time:
Let's play a game. I have some technological pieces here, I'm curious to see what sort of combination applications you folks come up for them. After a few posts, I'll reveal what I intend to use them for with a dramatic flourish.
P300:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(Neuroscience)Mu Rhythm:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_rhythmBrain Fingerprinting:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fingerprintingElectroencephalophone:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElectroencephalophoneEmotiv Epoch wifi EEG headset:http://www.emotiv.com/Neurophone:http://www.neurophone.comAudeo Collar:http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=xyN4ViZ21N0

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email@hidden () — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:52:06 -0500

Penn State University
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plant ~~signalling~~ signaling and behavior regarding "plant intelligence" provides a useful heuristic framework for comprehending and actualizing the healing potentials of visionary plants.

edited Healing With Plant Intelligence

email@hidden () — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:49:07 -0500

Intelligence: ~~An Nth Person~~ A Report from ~~Ayahuasca, with special reference to LSD-25~~ Ayahuasca
An Abstract for the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, March 17-21, UC Berkeley
Professor Richard Doyle
Penn State University
mobius@psu.edu
Numerous and diverse reports indicate the efficacy of shamanic plant adjuncts ( e.g. ~~Iboga, Ayahuasca,~~ iboga, ayahuasca, psilocybin) for the care and treatment of addiction, PTSD, cancer, cluster headaches and depression. This paper reports on a ~~case of~~ healing of life long asthma and atopic dermatitis in the shamanic context of the contemporary Peruvian ~~Amazonian.~~ Amazon. The paper will suggest that emerging language, concepts and data drawn from the sciences of plant signalling and behavior regarding "plant intelligence" provides a useful framework for comprehending and actualizing the healing potentials of visionary plants.

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Healing With Plant Intelligence: An Nth Person Report from Ayahuasca, with special reference to LSD-25

Numerous and diverse reports indicate the efficacy of shamanic plant adjuncts ( e.g. Iboga, Ayahuasca, psilocybin) for the care and treatment of addiction, PTSD, cancer, and depression. This paper reports on a case of healing of life long asthma and atopic dermatitis in the shamanic context of the Peruvian Amazonian.

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email@hidden (Answer Blip) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:31:50 -0500

WhatWikiIs - history and explanation
WikiStyle - find out how to edit wikis ruleta
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email@hidden (Answer Blip) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:31:26 -0500

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email@hidden (Answer Blip) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:27:38 -0500

Introduction to Wiki
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email@hidden () — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:53:25 -0500

Expanding Mind - "Schrodinger's metaphysics, plant intelligence, and bicycling into thenoosphere" With Erik Davis and Majah D'Aoust
Feet to the Noosphere, or "The Noosphere Is!" March 22, 2009
the ~~Times. /http://www.hosradyo.com~~ Times.
"TwoHoursofNothin'" As is His Want, mobius talks about Nothing for Two Hours, featured on FeettotheFire, Alternative Talk Radio for the Times.
"RadioFreeConsciousness" mobius talk radio on consciousness & psychedelics

Josh Alles edited DoyleBio

email@hidden (Josh Alles) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:37:43 -0500

Expanding Mind - "Schrodinger's metaphysics, plant intelligence, and bicycling into thenoosphere" With Erik Davis and Majah D'Aoust
Feet to the Noosphere, or "The Noosphere Is!" March 22, 2009
the ~~Times.~~ Times. /http://www.hosradyo.com
"TwoHoursofNothin'" As is His Want, mobius talks about Nothing for Two Hours, featured on FeettotheFire, Alternative Talk Radio for the Times.
"RadioFreeConsciousness" mobius talk radio on consciousness & psychedelics

blueshenlung edited Editing-the-Sacred

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:07:46 -0500

c : to alter, adapt, or refine especially to bring about conformity to a standard or to suit a particular purpose<carefully edited the speech> <edit a data file>
1/21/10
equivalent (roughly 4 or 5 minutes) due this Feb. This project was spawned when listening to a record I picked up in the dollar section of the Amoeba Music store. Iwas drawn to the cover art, like most of my awesome finds and the symbols therein. The first side of the record was one track.It was a mix of drum beats and reverbed vocal tracks repeating and not particularly spectacular, but one line caught my attention as it related to MyCurrentPath. The vocal track was a low male voice repeating, "You're learning the ways of the world kid, you're learning the ways of the world."
Recently I looked up the word "modernity" in the dictionary. I have to admit, Ihad heard the word many times in context, but did not connect the spelling and the pronounciation. When spoken, Ithought the word pointed to "maternity" rather than "modernity", even when used in the proper context. Somewhere, there existed in my consciousness a place where modernism and maternity carried the same meaning, or place, perhaps this can point to that.
This is a sample of the audio piece that I am building. This is just the beginning with only a few tracks before any refined editing. If anyone would like to provide wav or mp3 files, Iwill attempt to work them into the piece. Iwill post revisions and additions as part of my wiki practice.

blueshenlung edited Editing-the-Sacred

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:05:47 -0500

Ithought that Imight mix together an audio piece for my 5 page equivalent due this Feb. This project was spawned when listening to a record I picked up in the dollar section of the Amoeba Music store. Iwas drawn to the cover art, like most of my awesome finds and the symbols therein. The first side of the record was one track.It was a mix of drum beats and reverbed vocal tracks repeating and not particularly spectacular, but one line caught my attention as it related to MyCurrentPath. The vocal track was a low male voice repeating, "You're learning the ways of the world kid, you're learning the ways of the world."
Recently I looked up the word "modernity" in the dictionary. I have to admit, Ihad heard the word many times in context, but did not connect the spelling and the pronounciation. When spoken, Ithought the word pointed to "maternity" rather than "modernity", even when used in the proper context. Somewhere, there existed in my consciousness a place where modernism and maternity carried the same meaning, or place, perhaps this can point to that.
the ~~piece.~~ piece. Iwill post revisions and additions as part of my wiki practice.
Excerpts from
The Green Zeppelin

blueshenlung edited Editing-the-Sacred

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:59:36 -0500

1/21/10
Ithought that Imight mix together an audio piece for my 5 page equivalent due this Feb. This project was spawned when listening to a record I picked up in the dollar section of the Amoeba Music store. Iwas drawn to the cover art, like most of my awesome finds and the symbols therein. The first side of the record was one track.It was a mix of drum beats and reverbed vocal tracks repeating and not particularly spectacular, but one line caught my attention as it related to MyCurrentPath. The vocal track was a low male voice repeating, "You're learning the ways of the world kid, you're learning the ways of the world."
meaning, or place, perhaps this can point to that.
This is a sample of the audio piece that I am building. This is just the beginning with only a few tracks before any refined editing. If anyone would like to provide wav or mp3 files, Iwill attempt to work them into the piece.
Excerpts from

commented on Composing The Sacred

email@hidden () — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:34:36 -0500

Hola blueshenlung,Please post your wiki here:http://mycompwiki.com/index.php?title=Composing_The_Sacred

edited Composing The Sacred

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Podcasts
"Let the SeekingBecome Strong" - Week 1
The ~~Cloud~~ Cloud - Week 2
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

edited Composing The Sacred

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Podcasts
"Let the SeekingBecome Strong" - Week 1
In The Cloud
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

blueshenlung edited Editing-the-Sacred

email@hidden (blueshenlung) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:48:54 -0500

b : to assemble (as a moving picture or tape recording) by cutting and rearranging
c : to alter, adapt, or refine especially to bring about conformity to a standard or to suit a particular purpose<carefully edited the speech> <edit a data file>
1/21/10
Ithought that Imight mix together an audio piece for my 5 page equivalent due this Feb. This project was spawned when listening to a record I picked up in the dollar section of the Amoeba Music store. Iwas drawn to the cover art, like most of my awesome finds and the symbols therein. The first side of the record was one track.It was a mix of drum beats and reverbed vocal tracks repeating and not particularly spectacular, but one line caught my attention as it related to MyCurrentPath. The vocal track was a low male voice repeating, "You're learning the ways of the world kid, you're learning the ways of the world."
Recently I looked up the word "modernity" in the dictionary. I have to admit, Ihad heard the word many times in context, but did not connect the spelling and the pronounciation. When spoken, Ithought the word pointed to "maternity" rather than "modernity", even when used in the proper context. Somewhere, there existed in my consciousness a place where modernism and maternity carried the same meaning, perhaps this can point to that.
This is a sample of the audio piece that I am building. This is just the beginning with only a few tracks before any refined editing. If anyone would like to provide wav or mp3 files, Iwill attempt to work them into the piece.
Excerpts from
The Green Zeppelin

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The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things, demands that We Dance - free online
The Bhagavad Gita Translation by Easwaran- free online
Composing the Sacred Folder - I will add Journal articles and other files here
Special Guest Text: The Red Book by Carl Jung Will Periodically Drop in
Podcasts

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Josef Schok added Aleph-Null

email@hidden (Josef Schok) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:56:21 -0500

"This sentence is lying."

For this post, I decided to play devils advocate, and see how hard it would be to do no writing or textual composition at all. Language use implies inherent contradictions, both based on differing subjective interpretations of meaning. This is why the idea and practice of a wiki is so interesting to me, because it implies the collapse of a quantum superposition of multiple viewpoints into one unified, yet continually evolving consensus meaning.

Julian Jaynes proposed that with the creation of a written language, human consciousness evolved into what it is now, with one dominant hemisphere of the brain..

So I shunted my creative skills into speaking, namely, hypnosis.

I tried several new conversational hypnosis techniques, with great success.

Hypnosis is fascinating because it relies on feedback loops: both inducing them in others, and adapting to the subjects responses.

So my new writing process refined by this experiment is to come up with an outline of what I want to say, discussing it with several peers, and taking their suggestions as being correct, and creating several versions of this outline, expounding on the points they like best then selecting from these breakfast options the ones which most resonate with me.

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I'm confused on where we are supposed to create/post our blogs with MyCompWiki. I've posted my blog on Biotelemetrica until further notice.

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Chapter 6 - First Draft
Witan waved at Lily and said, "I look forward to your return," and closed the basket door. All Lily could see now was his red hat poking up from the basket. She heard the crank release the clip and watched the basket descend to the forest below. The sounds of Witan's headpiece slowly faded way.

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Immediately Lily fell to her knees in the becoming light.
Chapter 6 - First Round Edits
village ~~dance~~ danced within their own circular enclosures. The rest of the valley was in darkness now, but for a blue moonlit glow which rippled like waves across the breathing canopy.
The stone pathway continued from the stairs and led into an intense blue light eclipsed by plant life. Light danced between the brush as if a mysterious alien contact lay through the shadow. A sharp spike of anxiety shot through the center of Lily's chest, she was cautious in her curiosity. With Prokhor as her guide, they approached and broke through together to the other side.
"The Tree of Creation," Prokhor symphonically growled. Lily fell to her knees immediately in the becoming light.

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Pronunciation: \e-dt\

Function: transitive verb

Etymology: back-formation from editor

Date: 1791

1 a : to prepare (as literary material) for publication or public presentation

b : to assemble (as a moving picture or tape recording) by cutting and rearranging

c : to alter, adapt, or refine especially to bring about conformity to a standard or to suit a particular purpose<carefully edited the speech> <edit a data file>

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Chapter 6 - First Draft

Witan waved at Lily and said, "I look forward to your return," and closed the basket door. All Lily could see now was his red hat poking up from the basket. She heard the crank release the clip and watched the basket descend to the forest below. The sounds of Witan's headpiece slowly faded way.

It was night once Lily and Prokhor reached the top of the steps. The small fires in the village below danced within their own circular enclosures. The rest of the valley was nearly pitch black except for a blue moonlight glow which rippled like waves across the breathing canopy.

Rays of blue light danced from the stone pathway, which now continued from the stairs, and mixed with the shadow of the brush ahead. Lily could only see blue light through the brush. A sharp spike of anxiety shot through the center of her chest. She wanted to run and break through the brush, while at the same time knowing that she did not know what lay beyond it, she was cautious.

With Prokhor as her guide, they approached the brush and broke through together to the other side. "The Tree of Creation," Prokhor thought to Lily. His aura was no longer visible due to the intense glow of the tree.

Immediately Lily fell to her knees in the becoming light.

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Witan waved to Lily and closed the basket door. All she could see now was his red hat poking up from the basket. Witan's beeping headpiece slowly faded away as the basket smoothly descended to the forest below. Small fires in the village dance within their own circular enclosures. The rest of the valley was in darkness now, but for a blue moonlit glow which rippled like waves across the breathing canopy.

The stone pathway continued from the stairs and led into an intense blue light eclipsed by plant life. Light danced between the brush as if a mysterious alien contact lay through the shadow. A sharp spike of anxiety shot through the center of Lily's chest, she was cautious in her curiosity. With Prokhor as her guide, they approached and broke through together to the other side.

"The Tree of Creation," Prokhor symphonically growled. Lily fell to her knees immediately in the becoming light.

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A Free online Course
Awakening with Wiki: Composing the Transpersonal Self
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This course offers students intensive practice in multimedia composition as they investigate their transpersonalself. Weekly audio talks by mobius will focus on practices for becoming aware of and exploring the different scales and layers of the "I". Textual composition on a wiki will be taught, and taught again, as a scripting tool for composing in every combination of media in response to this phenomenologically infinite space for student response: the sacred. Students will study, practice collective exegesis and remix texts from the contemplative tradition of the ineffable, the encounter with that which exceeds words. Rather than an element in religious discourse or dogma, the sacred (and its frequent resistance to languaging) will be taught as a rhetorical practice in response to what FriedrichNietzsche called the "untimely", that which bursts, exceeds or just plain ignores "ordinary" chronological or historical temporality. Zen koans, mantra ("Be Here Now!") and other practices of daily rhetorical practice will be suggested as effective ways to investigate your transpersonal aspects. While no multimedia/multimodal experience is necessary, students should come to this wiki'd class ready to experiment with digital images (The Gimp), sound (audacity, cheap synthesizers, strings) video (kino, imovie) and text as they compose thrice weekly in response to the archive of discourse and images that fathom their everyday sacred epic.
This course will be taught primarily by weekly podcast, classroom sessions and wiki interaction beginning January 2010. The course is free and open to everyone who maintains a committment to inquiry, open mind and mutual respect. For live and/or video teleconferences with mobius and course credit, please enroll via Penn State.

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A Free online Course
Awakening with Wiki: Composing the Transpersonal Self
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This course offers students intensive practice in multimedia composition as they investigate their transpersonalself. Weekly audio talks by mobius will focus on practices for becoming aware of and exploring the different scales and layers of the "I". Textual composition on a wiki will be taught, and taught again, as a scripting tool for composing in every combination of media in response to this phenomenologically infinite space for student response: the sacred. Students will study, practice collective exegesis and remix texts from the contemplative tradition of the ineffable, the encounter with that which exceeds words. Rather than an element in religious discourse or dogma, the sacred (and its frequent resistance to languaging) will be taught as a rhetorical practice in response to what FriedrichNietzsche called the "untimely", that which bursts, exceeds or just plain ignores "ordinary" chronological or historical temporality. Zen koans, mantra ("Be Here Now!") and other practices of daily rhetorical practice will be suggested as effective ways to investigate your transpersonal aspects. While no multimedia/multimodal experience is necessary, students should come to this wiki'd class ready to experiment with digital images (The Gimp), sound (audacity, cheap synthesizers, strings) video (kino, imovie) and text as they compose thrice weekly in response to the archive of discourse and images that fathom their everyday sacred epic.
This course will be taught primarily by weekly podcast, classroom sessions and wiki interaction beginning January 2010. The course is free and open to everyone who maintains a committment to inquiry, open mind and mutual respect. For live and/or video teleconferences with mobius and course credit, please enroll via Penn State.

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Professor Richard Doyle
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Office Hours: Monday 10-11:30 am; Friday 10-11:30 am
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The Bhagavad Gita Translation by Easwaran- free online
Special Guest Text: The Red Book by Carl Jung Will Periodically Drop in
Podcasts
"Let the SeekingBecome Strong" - Week 1
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition posted to Class Wiki Page - Click to create your class blog

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Special Guest Text: The Red Book by Carl Jung Will Periodically Drop in
Projects:
composition ~~- The Rule of Three: A~~ posted to Class Wiki Page ~~of Writing Rhythm~~ - Click to create your class blog
1 short remix composition and exegesis/performance ( around five "pages"). Due February 18.
15 page "paper" or its equivalent final project: Due last day of class

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A Rulebook for Argument ( Anthony Weston) - Buy this one and keep it close!
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, & Ipredict you will keep it!
Free ~~online~~ online (Also FREE for Kindle, epub, and PDF readers)
The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things, demands that We Dance - free online
The Bhagavad Gita Translation by Easwaran- free online

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A Rulebook for Argument ( Anthony Weston) - Buy this one and keep it close!
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, & Ipredict you will keep it!
Anonymous! - Free online
The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things, demands that We Dance - free online
The Bhagavad Gita Translation by Easwaran- free online
Special Guest ~~Star:~~ Text: The Red Book by Carl Jung Will Periodically Drop in
Projects:
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The Cloud of Unknowing by mobius's favorite author, Anonymous!
The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things, demands that We Dance
Special Guest Star: The Red Book by Carl Jung Will Periodically Drop in
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition - The Rule of Three: A Page of Writing Rhythm

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MD's Sacred Space
Now that the semester is over, I feel as sense of relief; I am temporarily free from working on assignments against my will and now have the time to indulge in whatever interests me. I hope to get some reading done over the break.
but if if we brush aside the trendiness of it all I think we can see a genuine hunger in youth culture for a sacred experience. This continues to the present day, especially in music. The psychedelic spirit is present in the various genres of electronic music, particularly in ambient house and techno. In fact, the large, darkened rooms and light shows, combined with the blaring music, remind me of what supposedly went on in the Greek mystery cults. The sacred is alive and well in contemporary culture; it is our job to recognize it and continue it into the future.
thoughts 12/20/07
let me start off my saying that I enjoyed this class more than I thought I would. The first couple of class meetings left me confused and unsure as to whether or not it would be useful or interesting. I'd say by the middle of the semester I realized what Mobius was doing with the course and really started to appreciate it. I'm glad I started keeping this blog, as it is a good way for me to sort out thoughts and ideas which are always crammed together in my mind. I hope to continue using this blog for a little while longer (if I can) rather than start a new one. Besides, this is much cooler than myspace or livejournal. About my final project, its still in production. I hope to have a substantial version of it finished by tomorrow, though I don't know if it will be "finished" by then. I would say that anyone could grade it, but I'm not sure if many of you would be interested in the topic. In any case, it doesn't matter to me who grades it, though I hope you'll be kind. I'm not quite sure what is expected from this project, and therefore I'm just slogging my way through it, composing what I find to be interesting and significant about memory as it relates to the sacred and my personal life. And Ceridwen, I'm determined to finally listen to that CD, and post on your blog when I can. Before I forget, let me just say that I enjoyed being in class with all of you. Though I didn't contribute much to class discussions (I'm always somewhat quiet in class) I enjoyed the discussions and feel that I've benefited from them. Have a great holiday break and good luck to all of you.
Psychoanalysis and the Sacred
For a while now I've been interested in psychoanalysis, both classical and contemporary. One of the main reasons I'm drawn to it, aside from its therapeutic capability, is its emphasis on everyday experience. I don't necessarily mean Freud's work on slips and jokes, which I kind of disagree with, but rather the role of desire and projection in our experience. I'm reading an interesting book now by a contemporary psychoanalyst named Christopher Bollas, called BeingaCharacter , where Freud's concept of dream-work is applied to our everyday waking experience. Freud thought that in dreams wishes and desires that have been forced into the unconscious temporarily asserted themselves, often through abstract and confusing images. Integral to his dream theory was his concept of the "dream day" where the events of the previous day triggered unconscious desires and lead to the particular dream. What is important here is that the particular objects that set the chain of associations in motion are unknown to us. Bollas claims that we in fact unconsciously charge ordinary objects all around us with significance, and as a result, ordinary objects elicit powerful yet elusive feelings from us. He posits that our concept of "self" or our character is developed through a dialectic of what he calls our "idiom," which is similar to Freud's concept of Id (in fact, looking at the two words, Bollas's term is a clever extension of the word) and the ordinary objects that we interact with. Our idiom, says Bollas, is something that we're born with, a kind of creative energy that seeks engagement with objects.
music, ~~certain~~ certain images, certain ideas, have taken hold of me. Certainly, some of this has to do with memories of childhood; when I view something that was a part of my childhood I experience feelings of nostalgia. But I think it's more than that. Why do certain sights, sounds, and objects of my childhood elicit strong responses, but not others? There are many things that were a part of my childhood that I still interact with, but which generate no intense feelings. The same intense emotion can be generated by objects which are relatively new and unfamiliar to me.
Bollas speaks of a certain undefinable aspect of our interaction with the outside world, a feeling that approaches the surface of consciousness, but which is ultimately beyond our reach. While this may be frustrating to the individual, such a feature of ordinary life is a welcome contribution to the beautiful mystery that is human existence.
Morning thoughts
Now on the other hand, at this point I'm sick of my other English classes, that are very tightly structured and planned out. I find that not a lot of learning takes place in this kind of classes, unless you happen to have an instructor who is really good. Most of the time, particularly when you have grad students teaching the class, they really are a waste of time. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh here, but I do feel as if I actually learn more just reading on my own and reading criticism that I find useful. I'm really just tired of the English major in general. I still believe that the study of literature is profoundly important, and I'll continue to read a lot, but as a profession I just don't know what to think. My interest has shifted to psychology, so if I were to continue my education after this and go to a professional school, it would be that field rather than English. Just the idea of having to write long research essays on 19th century poetry just makes me shudder. I'm hoping at this point that I can get through this semester, so that I can at least try to pursue what I really think is worthwhile.
Reflections on sacred memory
concrete ~~happenings~~ happenings in the past, I think that it's easier to integrate past experience into ~~the~~ the way you live your life today. Maybe this is what could possibly make memory something "sacred" as opposed to just a normal cognitive process. There is less of a separation--less of a distinction--between your life now and your life as it was. What actually happened in the past, at least from a Zen perspective, doesn't really matter. What matters is the present moment. The past, at least for me, augments my life as I live it today. I don't reflect on my childhood when I'm in a whimsical mood and lament what is forever lost, but rather I can remember what I felt when I was at my happiest, as well as what caused me to feel this way. I can regain my former way of looking at the world, which for a while was indeed lost.
Unreal City!
For a long time I've found the image of Tokyo to be intensely moving. It appears to exist in a future time. There is something about the neon lights and the sleek architecture that keeps my attention. It may also be the Japanese youth culture which I associate with the city, and the incredible popularity of anime and videogames. It seems as if the real and the imaginary are blended together in such a culture. Of course this "postmodern" way of living exists in America and the rest of the Western world, but For whatever reason Tokyo seems to be front runner.
Creative Writing Exercise- I'm starting to get ideas for my final project/paper, and as an exercise I want to try just writing some things in a semi-automatic style to see what I come up with. What I suppose I am trying to do here is in a sense relive my memories of the past. This may be incomprehensible to everyone but me, but maybe with enough practice I'll come up with something interesting.
proteus!
mediocrity ~~all~~ all about us, we can gather and with apparent ease relate our experiences with these distant, lacunaed, and often cryptic texts, to to each ~~other?~~ other? It is paradoxical but apparent: 2gether, we focus our attention on our own minds, and the result is unfailingly interesting. Once we realize that our own minds are galactic in magnitude, capable of harboring, sheltering, inventing & & proliferating fleeting images of purple and green, darkness and light, we start to get serious in our exploration. These are no longer mere figments, but close and attentive observations of of ourselves, feeling , thinking dreaming presenting, calculating, the void somehow pulling it all together. Nothing persists! - mobius
P.S. I wanted to make sure you saw my comments on our Swann's Way project, so I replicate them here. And for more on Sophia, you should read Pk Dick's Divine Invasion from the Valis triology of four books.
Swann, my my own path features someverydeliberateteadrinking. Do not underestimate the radically idiosyncratic and yet thoroughly parallel nature of each and every one of our inquiries. Perhaps you might say along with mobius that "We all live in our own world - together." Your affirmation of the "idiosyncratic" nature of your project shows excellent sense and I really look forward to watching it develop out of Augustine, Wordsworth, and any other help you find. I will share all shareable papers from the tank project to the wiki. Finally, you might like thisessaybyJohnLilly, inventor of the tank, as it seems to resonate with your "mundane sacred" experiences. Awed, again, by the patternsinthesky - ~~mobius~~ mobius
11/13/07
God's Grandeur
--G.M. Hopkins
"There lives the dearest freshness deep down things"
today! I I liked your connections from Gnostic traditions to the present. ~~I've~~ I've had this on my computer for awhile but didn't know the significance of it until today...it's by Alex Grey, called "Sophia - God's Bride"
-Ceridwen
mobius, I may need your help in framing my final project. I have an idea of what I want to explore and express, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I would want to write something akin to what I'm reading right now (Swann's Way, The Prelude) that explores spontaneous memory and the sacred in the mundane. I would like to do this because it's something that draws my attention away from what I'm supposed to be doing. I think about it everyday, but never grant myself the time to fully explore it. Though I may never be able to (or would want to) fully purge this nagging curiosity from my system, I think that it would be useful for me to try and get down just what it is exactly that occupies much of my thinking. Plus it may just turn out to be interesting for others to read. who cares? everyone. not about my particular experiences, but memory is important to everyone, as is the sacred, even if they don't notice it or care. Given the opportunity, who wouldn't want to enrich their day-to-day experience, considering that the age we live isn't as overtly spiritual as those of the past? This is something that everyone can learn to do themselves, given the right examples. What it is not? Well, it's not a chronological biography, there would only be a limited biographical aspect of it--and even then it would be less of a specific account than it would be describing a certain feeling or mood or sacred response.
11/5/07
So I guess the claim the sacred can't authentically be put into words won't excuse me from my writing duties, huh? It's hard to talk about my encounters with "the sacred" because most of the time, when I do have them, I'm not really aware. I don't sit myself down to meditate (though I probably should), but just go about my business each day, reading (a lot) and doing whatever else I want to do or needs to be done. I think that my encounters with the sacred are very mundane, like for example if I happen to look up at the sky as the sun is going down, and for a split second I'm awed by the patterns in the sky, or when I'm listening to a particular piece of music that for some reason engulfs me and makes me lose all sense of self--which is the point, I'm aware, of sacred experiences--to take to you out of your normal, everyday routine and induce a sense of wonder. I think that I'm particular prone to these kinds of moments; for some reason I'm very receptive to the strangeness of the ordinary. I've noticed that certain sights and smells act as triggers to past memories--not specific, but just general feelings of youth or adolescence--which combine with what I currently know about the concept of the sacred and philosophy to create a kind of sacred vision. That might sound kind of weird; I'm not sure if I can explain it as well as I'd like. I know this theme is present in a lot of literature. I know that In Search of Lost Time begins with a kind of random memory that's caused by the narrator drinking tea and eating a cookie. (I have yet to read Swann's Way, hopefully soon I will). I hope to incorporate these kinds of random memories and everyday visions of the sacred into my final project. I'm trying to find some other models for it, other than the Autobiography of a Yogi. I'm currently reading Wordsworth's Prelude, which is a kind of spiritual autobiography, as well as selections from St. Augustine's Confessions. Hopefully these will guide my project, though I would still want the overall design to be somewhat idiosyncratic.
so? It It would give you something to write about...You would probably be interested in some of the papers associated with REST therapy, as well some some studies of Wilderness response seeking to quantify this feeling of the "strangeness of the ordinary", where nature itself is of course the must mundane and awe inspiring "thing" most of us get to access legally and reliably. Writing about and with and through these experiences - as you did above, beautifully - helps continue the reflection process so that we are able to learn more and more from and about these experiences that are themselves often difficult to have deliberately. I am excited about how you are phrasing your inquiry, and encourage you to immediately begin reading Swann'sWay and perhaps the work of HenriBergson ( the nobel prize winning philosopher cousin of Proust!) for focusing a bit more on the nexus of "memory" and "the sacred". ~~Funny~~ Funny how along with AliceinWonderland as well as Swann, my my own path features someverydeliberateteadrinking. Do not underestimate the radically idiosyncratic and yet thoroughly parallel nature of each and every one of our inquiries. Perhaps you might say along with mobius that "We all live in our own world - together." Your affirmation of the "idiosyncratic" nature of your project shows excellent sense and I really look forward to watching it develop out of Augustine, Wordsworth, and any other help you find. I will share all shareable papers from the tank project to the wiki. Finally, you might like thisessaybyJohnLilly, inventor of the tank, as it seems to resonate with your "mundane sacred" experiences. Awed, again, by the patternsinthesky - ~~mobius~~ mobius
10/25/07
I apologize for not writing often. I really need to force it; it doesn't usually come easily. Maybe it's what Mobius was talking about towards the beginning of the semester about the dread of looking at a blank screen. I shouldn't have to force it. It should come naturally. The near infinite thoughts that are perpetually swarming around inside my head should easily be transferred into long, stream-of consciousness posts. It doesn't happen though. I have the same problem with speaking too. There is a gap between unarticulated, incomplete thought and emotion and the actual words I speak that I can't bridge sometimes. Of course, there is something kind of artificial about language anyway. I think Nietzsche has a quote where he says something to the effect of whatever we can articulate is already dead in our hearts. I get the feeling that there is truth to that.
10/13/07 Autobiography of a Yogi - reflections
I chose to read chapter 14, which deals with the author's first experience of cosmic consciousness. This is obviously a significant part of the autobiography, as all moments of epiphany are. I found it interesting how his interactions with his master just prior to having the experience (the showing of unconditional love of the student from the master) prepares him for his epiphany. His expectations of cosmic consciousness and divine love have been so built up that they overpower his mind. He cannot simply sit and reflect on them with any productivity. His master realizes this, and (somewhat comically, in a zen-like manner) proceeds to physically knock the wind out of him.
to ~~his~~ his experience of cosmic consciousness. For a yogi, this experience is what is desired more than anything. It is what makes the arduous training worthwhile. Afterwards, however, one still has to face ordinary, mundane existence in the world. It is very tempting, it seems, to not ever want to return to such a life. If the object of this life is to reunite with God, why not choose to stay with Him once you have found Him? One has a duty, however, to instruct others on how to achieve the same transcendence.
10/7/07 - further reflections on the sacred
I'm wondering how far we can take the notion of the sacred. We seem to define "the sacred" in contrast to "the profane" or the ordinary. We select certain moments out of the chronos, or linear time, and give them a special meaning, thus making them sacred. This is easy enough to follow, as seen in religious rituals which are observed and repeated. But can everything mundane and ordinary be sacred? Joyce, in his Ulysses, showed that the most banal and repulsive aspects of daily life can be incorporated into an epic. It also seems that imagination, with the help of memory, can turn the ordinary events in one's past into a spiritual narrative. Human memory is naturally selective, and we seem to always form our own conception of the past into a narrative. Is it possible though to retroactively "spiritualize" your own past and make it sacred? I definately think of my own childhood as in some sense holy, and yet I am aware that as I reflect on it I imaginatively alter it. This is, however, the only way the profane is made sacred. We project meaning into events, just as we project divinations into parables. So does everything profane and ordinary have the capability of being made holy?
9/24/07
I have always been interested in Jesus's use of parables in the Gospels because of the implications. In fact, I have been trying to get a hold of a book on the subject by the literary critic Frank Kermode, called TheGenesisofSecrecy. Jesus speaks to his apostles directly, and to other listeners in parables because "they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Applied to modern Bible readers, this leads to the potential disaster of mistaking parable, or metaphor, for literal truth. Their distinction, I find, is not so clear in the text. One question that immediately comes to mind is why those that Jesus picked to be his disciples are better able to understand his message than others. There isn't any difference in class or education. They're fisherman and farmers like everyone else. It seems apparent that Jesus also talked to them in parables, because for me (and I could be wrong) the only way to speak about the sacred is through metaphor and symbol. I mean, there is no way to directly convey a feeling of religious transcendence through ordinary language. To say that one group of people is better able to understand the kingdom of heaven than others is unsatisfactory. The Gnostics, of course, had another understanding of the problem, claiming that Jesus shared with his disciples secret "gnosis" (knowledge) that outsiders simply were not ready for. This makes more sense, but it still raises the question of why his disciples were better able to understand the message. Maybe Jesus was more interested in getting a moral message across before an understanding of metaphysics. But still, why would Jesus draw a distinction between parable and truth? If Jesus admits to speaking in parables, then what stops us from reading the entire New Testament as a parable? Also, think about who wrote the New Testament. Not the actual disciples, but writers a generation after (the earliest Gospel, Mark is dated around 70 AD). Was all of their inherited knowledge based on teachings that were intended to be parables? Obviously I don't have the answer, which is why my thoughts are so scattered (protean?), but I do think they are worth thinking about, even as they drag one down into a labyrinth.
lot. It It can really be worked on. ~~Also~~ Also in John 1.1, the Word seems to preceed God almost. ~~Check~~ Check out my latest ~~http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Realityor">post~~ http://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Realityor">post - Realityor
9/12/07
just a quick note on John 1:1. When it says that in the beginning there was the Logos, I was reminded of something I heard about Philip K. Dick, that for him God was really just information. The text of John would seem to support this interpretation because it identifies the Word (Logos) first, and then claims that it is God, as opposed to Genesis 1:1 which identifies God as a being first, and then attributes creation to divine speech.

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Script for a Podcast, "Let the Seeking Become Strong: From desire to Desire"

Intro - Writing as practice of self transformation. "We Interrupt this Beercast-"

Paradox: Writing Practice requires will to choose - language choice

Writing and the discovery of freedom - caitanymatma

Discovery of linguistic freedom requires, by definition, breaking of habit structure. New scripts for new selves - the feedback loop

Breaking of habit structure reveals enormous differentiation of space of possible experience: The transpersonal self; freedom, vertigo and creativity

Becoming the Director - system administrator privileges on your experience

The practices

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Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition - The Rule of Three: A Page of Writing Rhythm
five ~~"pages")~~ "pages"). Due February 18.
15 page "paper" or its equivalent final ~~project~~ project: Due last day of class
Digital Attendance:
Continuous and aware participation in the class is key to the sometimes variable and volatile journey to discover your transpersonal aspects. This includes live "wetware" meetups with other class members when possible, meditation lab of several hours per week, and the aforementioned thrice weekly wikidelic practice. Listen to each week's podcast and respond with text and image as the epic ( and sometimes difficult!) quest to investigate your transpersonal self unfolds.
wikipost of each week will be your weekly "Summary of My ~~Path"~~ Path".

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edited Composing The Sacred

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Awakening with Wiki: Composing the Transpersonal Self
This course offers students intensive practice in multimedia composition as they investigate their transpersonalself. Weekly audio talks by mobius will focus on practices for becoming aware of and exploring the different scales and layers of the "I". Textual composition on a wiki will be taught, and taught again, as a scripting tool for composing in every combination of media in response to this phenomenologically infinite space for student response: the sacred. Students will study, practice collective exegesis and remix texts from the contemplative tradition of the ineffable, the encounter with that which exceeds words. Rather than an element in religious discourse or dogma, the sacred (and its frequent resistance to languaging) will be taught as a rhetorical practice in response to what FriedrichNietzsche called the "untimely", that which bursts, exceeds or just plain ignores "ordinary" chronological or historical temporality. Zen koans, mantra ("Be Here Now!") and other practices of daily rhetorical practice will be suggested as effective ways to investigate your transpersonal aspects. While no multimedia/multimodal experience is necessary, students should come to this wiki'd class ready to experiment with digital images (The Gimp), sound (audacity, cheap synthesizers, strings) video (kino, imovie) and text as they compose thrice weekly in response to the archive of discourse and images that fathom their everyday sacred epic.
weekly ~~podcast~~ podcast, classroom sessions and ~~daily~~ wiki interaction beginning January 2010. The course is free and open to everyone who maintains a committment to inquiry, open mind and mutual respect. For live and/or video ~~Darshan~~ teleconferences with mobius and course credit, please enroll ~~at the appropriate level below.~~ via Penn State.
Professor Richard Doyle
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15 page "paper" or its equivalent final project
Digital Attendance:
each ~~weeks~~ week's podcast and respond with text and image as the epic ( and sometimes difficult!) quest to investigate your transpersonal self unfolds.
Deadlines:Each Thursday night by Midnight Eastern Standard Time, there will be a new podcast uploaded. Students should post their responses on the following Monday and respond to a class member's post by Wednesday. Your third wikipost will be your weekly "Summary of My Path"

TheEditor edited My Meandering Thoughts

email@hidden (TheEditor) — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:20:04 -0500

3/17/07
So I ran away from Wiki for quite some time due to too many stressors--other homework, a job, etc. All of that B.S. stunted my creativity. Spring break has rejuvenated me a bit, so now I think I can provide you with more of my drivel...errr....I mean, meaningful thoughts. Although I have not posted my thoughts in this particular medium, I have certainly considered many, which I will describe to compensate for my sabbatical. I plan to discuss my thoughts on Ubik and Cosmic Trigger, in addition to other "meandering thoughts."
a ~~$#^&,"~~ $#^&," last night. This unknown individual (aka piece of sh#$ variable X) most likely gained access to my password when I walked away from the computer one time in the computer lab. An interesting wake-up call, indeed! From now on, I will always lock my computer when I step away for even a second. I guess one can't be too careful these days. Anyway, "piece of sh#$ variable X" will not be able to gain access unless he finds another means of controlling my social network, since I changed my password. Sorry, hacker! Try again
2/22/07
First of all, I want to inform all of you that today is my half-birthday. And what is the significance of this statement? you ask. Well, it means that I am exactly six months away from my 21st birthday. Soon, the society of control will allow me to enter establishments where people imbibe liquids apparently unsuitable for people under the age of 21 due to their psychoactive effects, which induce such happenings as car accidents, acts of violence, injuries, unwanted children, and bad decision-making--all of which occur due to a reduced BAC.

edited Composing The Sacred

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A Free online Course
Awakening with Wiki: Composing the Transpersonal Self
course ~~will offer~~ offers students intensive practice in multimedia composition as they investigate their transpersonalself. Weekly audio ~~dharma~~ talks by mobius will focus on practices for becoming aware of ~~transpersonal aspects~~ and exploring the different scales and layers of ~~self.~~ the "I". Textual composition on a wiki will be taught, and taught again, as a scripting tool for composing in every combination of media in response to a this phenomenologically infinite space for student response: the sacred. Students will study, practice collective exegesis and remix texts from the ~~mystical~~ contemplative tradition of the ineffable, the encounter with that which exceeds words. Rather than an element in religious discourse or dogma, the sacred (and its frequent resistance to languaging) will be taught as a rhetorical practice in response to what FriedrichNietzsche called the "untimely", that which bursts, exceeds or just plain ignores "ordinary" chronological or historical temporality. Zen ~~koan,~~ koans, mantra ("Be Here Now!") and other practices of daily rhetorical practice will be ~~suggested.~~ suggested as effective ways to investigate your transpersonal aspects. While no multimedia/multimodal experience is necessary, students should come to this wiki'd class ready to experiment with digital images (The Gimp), sound (audacity, cheap synthesizers, strings) video (kino, imovie) and text as they compose thrice weekly in response to the archive of discourse and images that fathom their everyday sacred epic.
This course will be taught primarily by weekly podcast and daily wiki interaction beginning January 2010. The course is free and open to everyone who maintains a committment to inquiry, open mind and mutual respect. For video Darshan teleconferences with mobius and course credit, please enroll at the appropriate level below.
Professor Richard Doyle

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Blogbymobius Makin' links and sequences in a wiki way most every day.
Podcasts
Expanding Mind - "Schrodinger's metaphysics, plant intelligence, and bicycling into thenoosphere" With Erik Davis and Majah D'Aoust
Feet to the Noosphere, or "The Noosphere Is!" March 22, 2009
RadioFreeNoosphere - bootstrapping collective consciousness through micromedia, featured on FeettotheFire, Alternative Talk Radio for the Times.

Andrew commented on Composing The Sacred

email@hidden (Andrew) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:46:57 -0500

Hello,I am wanting and wiling to take this course. I have opened an account here. I am intrigued by the course name, the reading list and the meditation lab. Do I check back here early January to participate?Thanks!

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Track of the Day
mobius: Only 12 Wiki Daze Until Solsticing!
of ~~diagramming.~~ diagramming. Just say "Verb to the Noun-o-sphere!"
Scientists Agree: Consciousness is Nowhere to be Found and Nothing in Particular
"Rather, all of these measures may provide distinct glimpses into the same distributed state of long-distance reverberation."

added That is why they call them "persons"

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Subhuti, what do you think? When the Tathagata was with Dipankara Buddha was there any formula for the attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment?

No, World-honored One, as I understand Buddha's meaning, there was no formula by which the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment.

Buddha said: You are right, Subhuti! Verily there was no formula by which the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment. Subhuti, had there been any such formula, Dipankara Buddha would not have predicted concerning me: "In the ages of the future you will come to be a Buddha called Shakyamuni"; but Dipankara Buddha made that prediction concerning me because there is actually no formula for the attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment. The reason herein is that Tathagata is a signification implying all formulas. In case anyone says that the Tathagata attained the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment, I tell you truly, Subhuti, that there is no formula by which the Buddha attained it. Subhuti, the basis of Tathagata's attainment of the Consummation of Incomparable Enlightenment is wholly beyond; it is neither real nor unreal. Hence I say that the whole realm of formulations is not really such, therefore it is called "Realm of formulations."

Subhuti, a comparison may be made with %5Bthe idea of%5D a gigantic human frame.

Then Subhuti said: The World-honored One has declared that such is not a great body; "a great body" is just the name given to it.

http://community.palouse.net/lotus/diamond16-20.htm

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Track of the Day
mobius: Only 12 Wiki Daze Until Solsticing!
"thangs"! ~~Only~~ All mobius beholds as he insides outsides is One, suffused with an incessant dynamism, a continuous discontinuous becoming. Yes there are even more than two paths you can go by: Call it what you like: "plane of consistency", "Shiva", "Substance", "All That Is", "Lord of the Meeting Rivers", "Noosphere", but call it and, in calling it, notice that you are carrying out an action, a deliberate choice of creative ~~foundation,~~ production, destruction, dissolution, preservation, or, even, grace, praise Zarathustra. Yes, mobius is with Howard Odum, who wanted us all to learn to speak alittle "energese", and Brian Rotman, who points us all in the direction of diagramming.
Scientists Agree: Consciousness is Nowhere to be Found and Nothing in Particular
"Rather, all of these measures may provide distinct glimpses into the same distributed state of long-distance reverberation."

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Transmissions to Mobius - stow your requests for Darshan, messages to be relayed, satsang here, pleazee
Track of the Day
mobius: Only 12 Wiki Daze Until Solsticing!
Yes friends, why noun when we can verb? No matter where Ilook, mobius just doesn't see any persons, places or thangs. That is why they call them "persons", "places" and "thangs"! Only beholds as he insides outsides is One, suffused with an incessant dynamism, a continuous discontinuous becoming. Yes there are even more than two paths you can go by: Call it what you like: "plane of consistency", "Shiva", "Substance", "All That Is", "Lord of the Meeting Rivers", "Noosphere", but call it and, in calling it, notice that you are carrying out an action, a deliberate choice of creative foundation, praise Zarathustra. Yes, mobius is with Howard Odum, who wanted us all to learn to speak alittle "energese", and Brian Rotman, who points us all in the direction of diagramming.
Scientists Agree: Consciousness is Nowhere to be Found and Nothing in Particular
"Rather, all of these measures may provide distinct glimpses into the same distributed state of long-distance reverberation."

edited Composing The Sacred

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The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, & Ipredict you will keep it!
The Cloud of Unknowing by mobius's favorite author, Anonymous!
All ~~Things~~ Things, demands that We Dance
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition - The Rule of Three: A Page of Writing Rhythm

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Texts:
SacredTexts.com - We will browse alot of texts here for free
keep ~~it!~~ it close!
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, an & Ipredict you will keep it!
The Cloud of Unknowing by mobius's favorite author, Anonymous!
The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things

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A Rulebook for Argument ( Anthony Weston) - Buy this one and keep it!
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, an Ipredict you will keep it!
The Cloud of Unknowing by mobius's favorite author, Anonymous!
The Discourses of Rumi Great Persian Poet Reveals Nature of Vermicelli and All Things
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition - The Rule of Three: A Page of Writing Rhythm

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aka
Texts:
SacredTexts.com - We will browse alot of texts here for free
A Rulebook for Argument ( Anthony ~~Weston)~~ Weston) - Buy this one and keep it!
The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley) - Buy this one, an Ipredict you will keep it!
Projects:
Thrice weekly wiki composition - The Rule of Three: A Page of Writing Rhythm
15 page "paper" or its equivalent final project
Digital Attendance:
possible, ~~flotation and/or~~ meditation lab of several hours per week, and the aforementioned thrice weekly wikidelic practice. Listen to each weeks podcast and respond with text and image as the epic ( and sometimes difficult!) quest to investigate your transpersonal self unfolds.
Deadlines:Each Thursday night by Midnight Eastern Standard Time, there will be a new podcast uploaded. Students should post their responses on the following Monday and respond to a class member's post by Wednesday. Your third wikipost will be your weekly "Summary of My Path"

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And if your labrinyth recurs, cycles back eternally, will Eris in her terror
whisper in your ear? Speak six? Lead you down spiral steps, the sound
way ~~down.~~ down?
My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope.
I wanted only to try to live in accord with

Ygg edited Yggdrasil

email@hidden (Ygg) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:44:30 -0500

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite,
perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Self-organize ! O beehive,
o basalt, o benard cell ! Do yr pious service to six ! All things flow according
to the whims of the Great Magnet
( speaking of which, you ought try : resonate ! align yr spin ! look inside! )
My Existence Is Rather Unlikely, thinks Claude Shannon browsing
hexagonal stacks, thumbing volumes, contemplating the variation
of the 23 letters. We ... want ... information!Hidden as statistical unlikelyhoods
throughout the universe (Library) : maybe chock full of honey,
or some devil's tower, or a pan of oil. We all live in a little Village.
Stairs up, stairs down.
And if your labrinyth recurs, cycles back eternally, will Eris in her terror
whisper in your ear? Speak six? Lead you down spiral steps, the sound
of your shoes echoing back again, return of the same, books all the way down.
My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope.
I wanted only to try to live in accord with
the promptings which came from my true self.

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Biotelemetricon: Measures in The Society of Control
For ~~Minnesota University Press~~ Palgrave
First Measure: Context for an Epic
"Biotelemetrics" names a diverse set of practices, technologies and disciplines oriented toward the non-invasive determination of human identity at a distance. Facial recognition, iris scans, rfid chip implants, gait signatures, and residual DNA analysis all compete with dozens of other technologies to render the holy grail of contemporary security science: a reliable and stealthy apprehension of human identity. Long a fascination of the Cold War Security State and science fiction, biotelemetrics is now a fundamental strategy in the Wars on "Terror" and "Drugs". Already, global standards organizations - the International Electrotechnical Commission, the International Standards Organization, and the International Telecommunications Union - are developing protocols governing the safety of biotelemetric technologies in contact with the diverse set of human populations likely to be surveyed by them. Civil liberties groups around the world have begun to have their own apprehensions or visions of the near future - a control society in which privacy is nonexistent and human freedom atrophies, shrivels and disappears.

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Wherein a starship grade sequencer of nucleic acids is tuned by a Maestra.
Intro: Measurements and Paradigms
biology ~~and~~ and fractal geometry to map out the problem of measurement posed to biometrics and other control technologies. 40 pages plus video, diagrams of instrumentation, ITU database.
Chapter 1: Fechner's Dream:
technology, ~~visits~~ visits with the founder of 19th Century psychophysics through his textual spectre and discusses a science of measurement that would be worthy of living systems - psychophysics. Fechner's extensive writings on plant intelligence are queried, treated as an affirmation of the networked nature of all psychophysical systems.
Chapter 2: Fechner's Future - A Sustainable Information Planet?
and ~~systems~~ systems of tensegrity
Chapter3: AmongtheTechDruids: Standardization and Open Source Security with William S. Burroughs, Life Scientist
The commons always needs constraints. Our protagonist works with global scribes and anthropologists to develop open source standards and the encourage the proliferation of internal freedom. Cognitive Liberty and its dependence on a culture of hotels, conferences and the Tangerine Dream.

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First Measure: Context for an Epic
"Biotelemetrics" names a diverse set of practices, technologies and disciplines oriented toward the non-invasive determination of human identity at a distance. Facial recognition, iris scans, rfid chip implants, gait signatures, and residual DNA analysis all compete with dozens of other technologies to render the holy grail of contemporary security science: a reliable and stealthy apprehension of human identity. Long a fascination of the Cold War Security State and science fiction, biotelemetrics is now a fundamental strategy in the Wars on "Terror" and "Drugs". Already, global standards organizations - the International Electrotechnical Commission, the International Standards Organization, and the International Telecommunications Union - are developing protocols governing the safety of biotelemetric technologies in contact with the diverse set of human populations likely to be surveyed by them. Civil liberties groups around the world have begun to have their own apprehensions or visions of the near future - a control society in which privacy is nonexistent and human freedom atrophies, shrivels and disappears.
but who an what we are. Biometricon will chronicle and reflect on these epic transformations in human life and globalization through every rhetorical means necessary.
Second Measure: Operative Background
Union, ~~all~~ three of the four standards organizations working in biometrics. In 2003, I published my second book, "Wetwares: Experiments in PostVitalLiving" (Minnesota, Theory Out of Bounds, 2003). Wetwares analyzes the effects of the "informatic vision" of the life sciences on human subjectivity and embodiement. The book argues that our increasingly informational ecology renders fantasies of human autonomy obsolete as they become spectactularly impossible on a rapidly interconnecting planet. Such news is perhaps just cause for despair for humanist visions of human capacities and health, but "Wetwares" argues that new forms of human embodiement and subjectivity are already emerging from digital culture, as human beings begin to yet again co-evolve with the technologies wielded by them. "Wetwares" counsels experimentation rather than despair even while it provides tools for deconstructing the often stunningly apocalyptic visions and claims associated with new technologies of life (biotechnology) and information.
Third Measure: Lord Kelvin Calling Mobius
"Whether clearly stated or not, that is what comes through in the explorers' chronicles and the work of researchers alike: society is inconceivable without the State; the State is the destiny of every society." Pierre Clastres, SocietyAgainsttheState
In August 2004, I was contacted by the International Electrotechnical Commission, a global standards organization that establishes protocols for electrical and informational technologies. Founded by Lord Kelvin in 1906, the IEC seeks to create stable and replicable protocols for the safedeploymentoftechnologiesaroundtheplanet. After reading Wetwares as well as my first book about the informatic vision, On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences, IEC Technical Committee 25/ Working Group 5 sought my expertise in helping them develop "wetware protocols" to regulate the safe deployment of biotelemetric technologies. I responded that there was no such safe deployment, since the technologies themselves present a very real danger to civil liberties. I told them that I would not, in either sense of the term, collaborate with their scheme as I considered it agatewaytothecontrolsociety.
did seem to suggest that any biotelemetric system would operate best as a highly distributed system maintained by "the commons" rather than subject to the control of a state. It also suggested that such a commons required a protocol if it were to come into being.
Measure Four: Growing the Security Commons?
Informational security analyst BruceSchneier articulated the conditions necessary to a robust biotelemetrics system back in 1999:
A worthwhile biotelemetrics system, then, requires both unique information and spatial and temporal "watermarks", numerous clues to the location and time of the biotelemetric signature. In "reputation"systems such those evolved by online marketplace Ebay, such watermarks are composed through the feedback of a community of buyers and sellers, rather than any centralized authority. While Ebay does periodically intervene in the system, the vast majority of transactions involve no central authority whatsoever. Gnucleus, an open source software for peer to peer networks, also acts as a mapping agent, and provides us with a nice snapshot of a highly distributed network devoid of a center and hence difficult to attack:
(click here for a larger image)
but ~~from~~ froman anonymous thedigitalcrowd. At first blush, then, workable biotelemetric technologies would seem to undermine centralized state power rather than amplifying it. Perhaps in biotelemetrics we will see a recapitulation and confirmation of anthropologist Pierre Clastres' notion that society is continually in flight from the state. Rather than the highly evolved destiny of any organized gathering of human beings, the state, in this view, "piggy-backs" on the commons or ~~"society".~~ "society", a thorughly ecosystem scale of human culture constantly only the prowl for ways of increasing entropic production, a transformation of our "accursed share" solar energy in a cosmos trying to cool.
Measure Five: From Reputation to Participation
information - and strong in encryption- does not suggest that its effects could be any less malevolent than the centralized gaze of a Big Brother state. The most active participants of the Technical Committee, I learned, came from former Warsaw Pact countries more than alert to the dangers of living under "totality", the Czech delegate's apt translation for a statist control society whose corporate/state analog I and many other civil libertarians contest. I read through different versions of the IEC and ITU technical documents and the correspondence linked to them. After consulting with friends working for organizations devoted to civil and cognitiveliberties, I decided in favor of an ethics of community formation and participation. Recalling my experiences with early genomics (1991-1994) I decided that it was only by understanding both the scientific and cultural contexts affecting technological change that one could be truly response-able to the political and technical potentials of ubiquitous biotelemetrics.
My work at first consisted almost entirely of practice in technical communication. With internet telephony and file sharing programs, I ~~helped~~ tried to help delegates work through and organize technical documents that simultaneously address the quantitative aspects of standards and the wide range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives of the experts working on the protocols. To be honest, my presence was welcomed as (1) a participating member from the US, whose "Buy-in" is sought by IEC committees and (2) an expert in written English and a native speaker of Californian... After debugging a particularly complex diagram representing the colelctive inputs and outputs of the human sensorium, the Convenor of the Technical Committee suggested that I should become the new US Delegate to the IEC. Astonished, I again decided in favor of an ethics of participation.
Measure Six: Jacket Copy
databases, an evolving bibliography and tutorials in biometrics. Theoretically framed by discussions of psychophysics, open source software and control culture from Gustav Fechner, Linus Torvalds, Kathleen Harrison, William S. Burroughs, Phillip Zimmerman, Gilles Deluze, Avital Ronell, Bruce Schneier and Pierre Clastres, Biotelemetricon will seek to gather materials and answer questions fundamental to scholarship and freedom of inquiry: How ought we respond to shifting concepts and practices of security driven by emerging and "disruptive" technologies such as peertopeernetworks devoid of centralized ~~control?~~ control linked to highly senstive sensors enabled by emerging nanotechnological research. What role can standards organizations play in a context seemingly dominated by corporate capital (telecommunications, information technologies) and the desires of intelligence services and nation-states for Total Information Awareness, the always potent fantasy of a society of control?
Research for the book is continually develops, but has now ~~complete.Since~~ crossed a threshold of composition _ i can now begin to write it. Since 2005, Ihave interviewed scientists, psychologists and telecommunication engineers about the technical aspects of biotelemetrics and the sometimes surreal contexts in which these protocols and technologies are emerging. My fieldwork has included my role as a US Delegate to the IEC and ISO as a participant in the standards making process and provides a unique location from which to survey, record, analyze and evaluate technological transformations already undermining traditional state- based models of security and human identity. My experience with wiki and open source software development provide me with frameworks growing the discussion about control technologies, and have been awarded an NSF grant for Open Source ethics of nanotechnology, a key technological vector in ~~biotelemetrics.~~ biotelemetrics and the nanosensors likely to be meshed with it. Open Source, wiki and standards-driven paradigms suggest that highly distributed global organizations linked to protocols ( such as the Internet or P2Pnetworks ) offer more robust ecologies for security than the centralized models of sovereign power still relentlessly pursued by nation-states and telecommunication corporations. My analysis is the first to articulate a scheme for the operation of "peer to peer" biotelemetric networks, but it is linked to diverse efforts in computer science focused on peer to peer privacy, a rich source of research scholarship and innovation fundamental to my narrative and argument.My research will seek to both flesh out and diagram any such scheme while thinking through the likely political and cultural effects of a radically decentralized ecology of security. Should I become convinced that this p2p model is less conducive to the freedom of inquiry, travel and democratic deliberation than even the currently repressive climate of the Wars on Terror and Drugs, I will work to contest its implementation in and through this book. I believe this peer to peer model to be "in the air" (potentiated by the political and technological zeitgeist), so I am under no illusions that I will be the only analyst to stumble upon it.
With the Creative Commons licensed online as well as database and video access, Biometricon will address and engage readers and browsers across the planet working to create, recombine, contest, enact and use new technologies of telecommunication, security and control. Working with the discourses of standardization, the technical esperanto that often drives change in technology markets, Biometricon's Creative Commons content will help bend global attention toward these emerging technologies and ways of life. As with open source softwares such as GNU/Linux, open source is a discourse with much more than code, and Biometricon will seek to bring the creativity, productivity and community of open source to bear on emerging technologies of identity.
Measure Seven: A TableofContents for Biotelemetricon

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It is important to note the influence of musclememory on this state of syncing. Though it could be seen as it's own form of syncing and trance state through training the muscles to react specifically at specific times during gameplay, muscle memory is crucial to the syncing process when reading the matrix. At the most basic level, the player must be familiar with the controls and button combinations, but at the most extreme level the player's muscles fall into a specific sequence of button presses timed exactly with the environment and obstacles in the game. This effect seems to have spawned from the early days of arcade and NES play. More players in the early days of videogaming have experienced this effect with the first Super Mario Brothers game. Players could fly through the side scrolling levels by merely pressing the right buttons at the right time. On repeated play the player's muscles grow so accustom to the button sequence that they can react to the level without even thinking of what to do next.
Could the combination of muscle memory and the video game framerate imply that "reading the matrix" is really the player reaching a state of brain frequency called the MuRhythm!? Direct action due to cells called mirrorneurons. Could this also open the player up to the state of OnePointedness discussed in the Bhagavad Gita?
The Avatar
The avatar is a digital representation of the player. The avatar usually exemplifies the player's inner persona as an outward projection. The player is usually presented with several options to mix and match. Most commonly the options are clothing, hair styles, eye wear, weapons, jewelry, and footwear. Sometimes spirit or personality traits are options.
The avatar is generally created to represent the player either in-game or in the general gaming community. When the avatar is used in-game, the avatar's attributes are influenced by the game environment. When the avatar is used for the general gaming community, it becomes more of a meme, encouraging users to purchase clothing for the avatar for the purpose of social expression rather than adding directly to the gameplay experience.
The avatar that exists outside of the game world, like the player, becomes the character in the game via the transitive property. A third world is also created where the player can move from reality to the game world more easily with relation to identity. The avatar that exists in this third world, therefore exists in reality and the game world.
Companies are beginning to explore new ways to market to their audience and are discovering that the avatar can be a profitable approach. Xbox 360 users can purchase shirts with logos or costumes for their avatar.Microsoft's 1vs100 spin off for the 360 allowed users to play trivia with their avatars live in-game, displaying the avatar designs and outfits. This cross over of the avatar into the game world has provided the opportunity for marketing to avatar's profitable and extremely viable.
Gaming Community and the Collective
Blogs, Forums, and Gaming Websites

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One is two

Is three

I split to look at myself

And the other looks on from within

I see all others as myself

And myself as the other

This is why I can not see

Myself

Unless I look from within

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3. The important issue is process, because it may not be necessary or possible to pre-load people with technological knowledge. This is a good thing since there is too much to learn. Rather, to teach a process that is democratic and inquiry-based so that in any given situation people can, and will know how to, get informed. Open source and collective intelligence are exciting prospects here. Open access and open source have been engines for technological and scientific literacy already - our goal is to translate that new literacy into new designs, particularly in the realm of nanotechnology.
4. Shifting the focus to the democratization of (nano)technology rather than adaptive processes to ameliorate a hopelessly huge knowledge gap yields 1) we move from a negative perspective to a positive one, 2) we can tackle a doable task rather than a hopeless task, and 3) we have a chance to make a bigger impact and attract more interest in the movement and to emerging possibilities for nanotechnology.
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As the target population is the general public as well as leading policy makers and educators, technological literacy emerges in the rich hinterland between political science and engineering science. This implies a need to reach out to a wide variety of theorists and interdisciplinary researchers. This paper is a collaboration between a theorist and a designer. They teach about nanotechnology to students with technical and non-technical backgrounds. The paper will open with a literature review and a development of this new approach to technological literacy.
The authors are interested in what makes society democratic in a world influenced by any sophisticated body of knowledge and the technical infrastructures and realities yielded by that knowledge. Feedback loops between technology and living systems are well established in the evolution of cognition. We suggest amplifying such feedback loops and evolving collective open source design. Open source solar technology as well as software ( e.g. Linux) are proof of concept for the value of an open source approach to technological literacy. We will describe the use of a nanotechnology wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology)in the nanotechnology class that provides us with a schematic for growing an open source process for technological literacy and open source design.
The important issue is process, because it may not be necessary or possible to pre-load people with technological knowledge. This is a good thing since there is too much to learn. Rather, it is important to teach a process that is democratic and inquiry-based so that in any given situation people can, and will know how to, get informed and make good decisions. Open source and collective intelligence are exciting prospects here, as are the Danish consensus meetings. Open access and open source have been engines for technological and scientific literacy already and our goal is to translate that new literacy into new designs, particularly in the realm of nanotechnology. The main theoretical arguments of the paper will be developed around this theme with many concrete examples used for empirical validation.
We will conclude by noting the advantages of this approach for the technology literacy movement. Shifting the focus to the democratization of (nano)technology rather than adaptive processes to ameliorate a hopelessly huge knowledge gap means, 1) we move from a negative perspective to a positive one, 2) we can tackle a doable task rather than a hopeless task, and 3) we have a chance to make a bigger impact and attract more interest in the movement and the way that it can improve the advancement of (nano)technology.

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the ~~Process~~ Process and the Case of Nanotechnological Design
Richard Doyle and Richard Devon
Penn State University
literacy ~~lies~~ emerges in the rich hinterland between political science and engineering science. This implies a need to reach out to a wide variety of theorists and interdisciplinary researchers. This abstract is itself the outcome of a collaboration beween a theorist and a designer.
2. The ~~authors' interest is~~ authors are interested in what makes society democratic ~~not just in an age of technology but~~ in a society influenced by any sophisticated body of knowledge and the technical infrastructures and realities yielded by that knowledge. Feedback loops between technology and living systems are well established in the evolution of cognition. We suggest amplifying such feedback loops and evolving collective open source design. Open source solar technology as well as software ( e.g. Linux) are proof of concept for an open source approach to technological literacy. The example of the nanotechnology wikibook ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nanotechnology) provides us with a schematic for growing an open source process for technological literacy and open source design.
3. The important issue is process, because it may not be necessary or possible to pre-load people with technological knowledge. This is a good thing since there is too much to learn. Rather, to teach a process that is democratic and inquiry-based so that in any given situation people can, and will know how to, get informed. Open source and collective intelligence are exciting prospects here.
~~4. The upshot~~ Open access and open source have been engines for technological and scientific literacy already - our goal is to translate that new literacy into new designs, particularly in the realm of ~~shifting~~ nanotechnology.
4. Shifting the focus to the democratization of ~~technology~~ (nano)technology rather than adaptive processes to ameliorate a hopelessly huge knowledge gap ~~are~~ yields 1) we move from a negative perspective to a positive one, 2) we can tackle a doable task rather than a hopeless task, and 3) we have a chance to make a bigger impact and attract more interest in the ~~movement.~~ movement and to emerging possibilities for nanotechnology.

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Rethinking Technological Literacy: Open Sourcing the Process

Richard Doyle and Richard Devon

Penn State University

1. As the target population is the general public as well as leading policy makers and educators, technological literacy lies in the rich hinterland between political science and engineering science. This implies a need to reach out to a wide variety of theorists and interdisciplinary researchers. This abstract is itself the outcome of a collaboration beween a theorist and a designer.

2. The authors' interest is in what makes society democratic not just in an age of technology but in a society influenced by any sophisticated body of knowledge. Feedback loops between technology and living systems are well established in the evolution of cognition. We suggest amplifying such feedback loops and evolving collective open source design. Open source solar technology as well as software ( e.g. Linux) are proof of concept for an open source approach to technological literacy.

4. The upshot of shifting the focus to the democratization of technology rather than adaptive processes to ameliorate a hopelessly huge knowledge gap are 1) we move from a negative perspective to a positive one, 2) we can tackle a doable task rather than a hopeless task, and 3) we have a chance to make a bigger impact and attract more interest in the movement.

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New technology often possesses new directives for social activity which through their new found use reveal new social conflicts. See O'Day et al's (1998)notion of a "sociotechnical design circle"
Abstract Intro:"Where Computer systems developed for groups of people often have built-in social imperatives, either explicitly or implicitly brought to bear during technology design and use. Even when users are active, ongoing participants in design, conflicts can arise between the social assumptions inscribed in technical mechanisms and those in existing or proposed social practices, resulting in changes to both."

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the ~~image of the physical world is not so much~~ image of the physical world is not so much adanceofgesturesasawoventexture. Light, sound, touch, taste, and smell become a continuous warp, with the feeling that the whole dimension of sensation is a single continuum or field. Crossing the warp is a woof representing the dimension of meaningmoral and aesthetic sound, touch, taste, and smell become a continuous warp, with the feeling that the whole dimension of sensation is a single continuum or field. Crossing the warp is a woof representing the dimension of meaningmoral and aesthetic values, ~~personal or individual uniqueness, logical significance, and~~ personal or individual uniqueness, logical significance, and expressive ~~formand the two dimensions interpenetrate so as to make distinguishable shapes seem like ripples in the water of~~ formand the two dimensions interpenetrate so as to make distinguishable shapes seem like ripples in the water of sensation. ~~The warp and the woof stream together, for the weaving is neither flat nor static but a many-directioned~~ The warp and the woof stream together, for the weaving is neither flat nor static but a many-directioned cross-flow ~~of impulses filling the whole volume of space.~~ of impulses filling the whole volume of space. Ifeelthattheworldisonsomething ~~in somewhat the same way that a color photograph is on a film, underlying and connecting the patches~~ in somewhat the same way that a color photograph is on a film, underlying and connecting the patches of color, though the film here is a dense rain of ~~color, though the film here is a dense rain of energy.~~ energy. Iseethatwhatitisonismybrain"that ~~enchanted loom," as Sherrington~~ enchanted loom," as Sherrington called it. Brain and world, warp of sense and woof of meaning, seem to interpenetrate inseparably. They %5Bhold it. Brain and world, warp of sense and woof of meaning, seem to interpenetrate inseparably. They %5Bhold their boundaries or limits in common%5D in such a way as to define one another and to be impossible without each other. in such a way as to define one another and to be impossible without each other.
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Ereignis: An Online Journal Devoted to Heidegger Studies
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Books about Heidegger and Technology
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The Question Concerning Technology
What are the important concepts in this essay? How does Heidegger define them? What relevance do they have for information science? Do these concepts manifest in theoretical frameworks used in information science research (i.e., structuration theory, activity theory)? What are the differences between what Heidegger put forth and the related elements of these theoretical frameworks?
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The 56 page Power Leveling Guide explains with many screenshots illustrate how the easiest and fastest way to Level 60 comes. If they are the steps as described in the Guide will make it within a few days of high character gebastelt have.
It is a 1 MB PDF file, which we sent to you within 24 hours after receipt of payment to your e-mail sent.
* You never have to be afraid of 1 months at the same level of Ten linger * With this guide, they will very quickly reach Level 60 * For Horde and Alliance * With all the characters fully playable
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Quite simply not everyone has as much pleasure or leisure time in a computer to connect. Therefore, we have a Power Leveling Guide is written to them step by step all the movements said. Thus, they may be on the path toward 60 Back lean and beautiful things to enjoy this game.
A small sample should now fully convince (available from the author):
For these levels, I have a special spot Grind found. Here you can without any problems at the 40,000 points XP make. One must also not be extrapolated from Tanaris wegreisen. Because of Farmspot is somewhat hidden in the south of Tanaris. Here are some easy quests and the mobs are all individually from the group draw. You must therefore never be against more opponents simultaneously fight. The mobs hot Dunemaul Oger, which incredible amounts of Xp and Mageweave hergeben. This can be either for gold in the auction house sold or the first aid skills in associations transformed. It should not be level 47-48 before leaving the spot. From Level 47, there are 2 more possibilities. Either you are on Itemsuche and makes Zul'Farak, this is one instance, the first of a lot of XP with it, and secondly, many good items can eject. Furthermore, there are about 7 quests, which we all can do without any problems. A run with all the quest is worth at least one level. If you already have good items, and also in this instance are not interested. Should the way to Azshara to take on the ghosts and farms begin. Man gets here about 250 Xp per mob, and just as the ogre can not be with the Mageweave Drops rags and finally Respawnrate is very high. That means they must never be suspended, because there is no opponent. I have already partially Level 55 + characters seen what these firemen spot.
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WoW Level GuideThe 56 page Power Leveling Guide explains with many screenshots illustrate how the easiest and fastest way to Level 60 comes. If they are the steps as described in the Guide will make it within a few days of high character gebastelt have.It is a 1 MB PDF file, which we sent to you within 24 hours after receipt of payment to your e-mail sent. * You never have to be afraid of 1 months at the same level of Ten linger * With this guide, they will very quickly reach Level 60 * For Horde and Alliance * With all the characters fully playable%5Bhttp://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wSW9biBC944 wow Leveling Guide%5DWhy do I need so long on the way to 60?Quite simply not everyone has as much pleasure or leisure time in a computer to connect. Therefore, we have a Power Leveling Guide is written to them step by step all the movements said. Thus, they may be on the path toward 60 Back lean and beautiful things to enjoy this game.How long does it to Level 60?This is probably the most important issue in the game! Whether novice or professional they will not last long on the road after 60 spend, but as soon as possible the major Raidinstanzen can take part. If they play for the first time they will explore 7-12 (ingame) days as the need has advanced a lot less.A small sample should now fully convince (available from the author):For these levels, I have a special spot Grind found. Here you can without any problems at the 40,000 points XP make. One must also not be extrapolated from Tanaris wegreisen. Because of Farmspot is somewhat hidden in the south of Tanaris. Here are some easy quests and the mobs are all individually from the group draw. You must therefore never be against more opponents simultaneously fight. The mobs hot Dunemaul Oger, which incredible amounts of Xp and Mageweave hergeben. This can be either for gold in the auction house sold or the first aid skills in associations transformed. It should not be level 47-48 before leaving the spot. From Level 47, there are 2 more possibilities. Either you are on Itemsuche and makes Zul\'Farak, this is one instance, the first of a lot of XP with it, and secondly, many good items can eject. Furthermore, there are about 7 quests, which we all can do without any problems. A run with all the quest is worth at least one level. If you already have good items, and also in this instance are not interested. Should the way to Azshara to take on the ghosts and farms begin. Man gets here about 250 Xp per mob, and just as the ogre can not be with the Mageweave Drops rags and finally Respawnrate is very high. That means they must never be suspended, because there is no opponent. I have already partially Level 55 + characters seen what these firemen spot.Here is the screenshot for the World of Warcraft %5Bhttp://de.youtube.com/watch?v=wSW9biBC944 wow Leveling Guide%5D card statement 1 ... Gadgetzan2 ... Steamwheedle3 ... Pirate Bay, %5B45%5D Piratenhte Ahoy, %5B45%5D cheating and blackmail in Sdmeer4 ... Waste mobs walking, water bag bounty, Waste migrant justice5 ... Dunemaul ogres, %5B49%5D The Dunemaul camp6 ... Zul\'Farak (instance)

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zero and proceed to One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
wiki, ~~equals~~ achieves resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition - their approach to the now wiki'd other. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Gregory Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26).
As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Tidings from a small corridor of the Mind-at-Large. This here is the new representation of an old entity, a scattered firing of the conglomarate of neurons and squishy matter formerly known as chronictronic. Changes of character are necessary to sustain and evolve the narrative of what would only appear to be a differentiated ego. Not that this is a radical reinvention of this self. The self continues to evolve, the handle has merely become sleeker, sexier, more sustainable to reflect that progress. Which is to say, chronictronic has gone and graduated. This new student is learning about what it means to survive outside of certain familiar structures. I'm learning what learning is. An appearance will be made soon to your space-time locale, but in the mean between then and now I offer my services as gnome to this digital community. Links will be dropped, ideas exchanged, and recent changes watched. Til then.
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The Performance
I am thinking that each act will begin with a reading of each section by a different member of the audience, with the music beginning about halfway through the text and going on for some set period of time - perhaps ten minutes. No doubt another way of weaving the words and the jamming together will emerge as well. Let's do this and create yet another negentropic vortex in Happy Valley and across Gaia! Visuals, of course, must be dropped into the mix.
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The Performance
I am thinking that each act will begin with a reading of each section by a different member of the audience, with the music beginning about halfway through the text and going on for some set period of time - perhaps ten minutes. No doubt another way of weaving the words and the jamming together will emerge as well. Let's do this and create yet another negentropic vortex in Happy Valley and across Gaia! Visuals, of course, must be dropped into the mix.
- ~~SlipandTouchtheFaceofGod~~ Grasshopper Club Zrich">SlipandTouchtheFaceofGod
Holomovementone - ValisPhoneCall
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I don't know if constricting the Center's message to a single medium would reach more Penn State students than a multiplicity of channels; however, it seems that the classroom-instructor complex is most useful for actually bringing people out to the site or to the website. Beyond the classroom, I think web-based media, such as podcasts and emails and other news-feeds do a good job of exposure. At some point though, we want the Center for Sustainability to transcend the category of "News" and enter the category of "Place I want to go" or "Thing I want to do"
4) If given the chance to improve one aspect of the Center, what might you choose?
say HumorShqip "the volume of the Center's image" as an aspect to be improved, but everyone on the CfS team is working on that and I think it's well on its way. If you mean, what physical Humor Shqip structure or system would I change, I think I would choose the water systems. Rainwater is collected at several locations on-site, but the extent and effectiveness of it could be greatly improved, so that grid-tied water would not be a necessity.
5) What are two practical but pivotal actions students can take that wouldn't scare an average student away?
The first action I would recommend is to buy local and/or organic foods and products. People like to buy stuff, so modifying their Humor Shqip purchasing power is an easy way to send a strong message to the commercial sphere about what is valuable to us. Second, beyond recycling and throwing away your trash, composting is really the next-most necessary individual behavior that needs to become popular. And it's really easy...shamefully easy, actually.

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Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).
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Due Humor Shqip to a variety of factors, including the continued lack of financial support from the Center itself or outside avenues, as well as the impending transformation of the Center's grounds, it HumorShqip has become an impossible situation for me to manage the entire farm alone.
Instead, I will return to my previous role of primary gardening volunteer. I will keep up the gardens of the farm, and manage the rented garden plots. Thank you to everyone who visited, volunteered, chatted, or otherwise contributed to the Center for Sustainability. I have learned a great deal from everyone and am very grateful for the experience.
focus Humor Shqip on energy. I think we have several podcasts ready in that case. I will unveil them soon and post them here as well as elsewhere!
Hey Jamie:
project! ~~Here~~ Humor Shqip Here are the signs that I have made that need additional information:
-Aerating Windmill
-Fire Pit
-Rain H2O Catchment
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can Humor Shqip email me the information at lmj143@psu.edu if you like. Let me HumorShqip know if this is feasible for you! I don't want this to take up all your study time.
Thanks! Lisa ArizonaCitrus
being Humor Shqip on the show, it was a cool experience, and Mobius and both complemented you on being a natural spokesperson for all things sustainable. I would love to have you on again before the end of the semester ( and this time record it!). Yea, I'm a dumbass for not, but what are you going to ~~do. Anyways,~~ do Humor Shqip. Anyways, I look forward to having you on again if you'll willingly put up with the childish remarks from some of our listeners. I think the key to getting your and my message out is persistence. See you tomorow, thanks again.
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Hey man, it's the Old Man, Brendan. I just wanted to ask you a few questions about the Center for the paper I'm writing in English 421.
your HumorShqip proposal went alright without my responses to your questions, and I hope they're still useful to you.
1) When did the Center start, and or when was it officially sustainable?
grass Humor Shqip and clay at the time. Thus, it has always been on the verge - read:precipice - of not being sustained. To be "officially sustainable", I'm assuming you mean self-sustaining a human resident. It is still only a movement toward that goal, but my ecological footprint measurements will determine the answer to that question. The average American requires over 20 Humor Shqip acres of land a year (his/her Ecological Footprint), while the previous resident DaveLettero managed an average footprint of under 10 acres. Ideally, we would all have a footprint under 5 acres. So! That's the plan Old Man: I strive to achieve an ecological footprint under 5 acres and thus demonstrate the Center's sustainability.
2) How much money does the university allocate to the Center per year?
thousands Humor Shqip more funnel into the SolarDecathlonproject from a variety of University and commercial+industrial+private sources. Exact figures are hard for me to come by.
3) If given the chance to advertise on a large scale what medium do you think would reach Penn State students the most?
I don't know if constricting the Center's message to a single medium would reach more Penn State students than a multiplicity of channels; however, it seems that the classroom-instructor complex is most useful for actually bringing people out to the site or to the website. Beyond the classroom, I think web-based media, such as podcasts and emails and other news-feeds do a good job of exposure. At some point though, we want the Center for Sustainability to transcend the category of "News" and enter the category of "Place I want to go" or "Thing I want to do"
4) If given the chance to improve one aspect of the Center, what might you choose?
physical Humor Shqip structure or system would I change, I think I would choose the water systems. Rainwater is collected at several locations on-site, but the extent and effectiveness of it could be greatly improved, so that grid-tied water would not be a necessity.
5) What are two practical but pivotal actions students can take that wouldn't scare an average student away?
their Humor Shqip purchasing power is an easy way to send a strong message to the commercial sphere about what is valuable to us. Second, beyond recycling and throwing away your trash, composting is really the next-most necessary individual behavior that needs to become popular. And it's really easy...shamefully easy, actually.
Hope that helps Brendan!

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That we are endowed with such intuitive and intellectual capabilities as that of discovering the genes and the R.N.A. and D.N.A. and other fundamental principles governing the fundamental design controls of life systems as well as of nuclear energy and chemical structuring is part of the extraordinary design of the Spaceship Earth, its equipment, passengers, and internal support systems. It is therefore paradoxical but strategically explicable, as we shall see, that up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship. Buckminster Fuller, OperatingManualforSpaceshipEarth
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The Spirit of Sanctuary: Pinch Pots and Other Hollows (Temple/House/Church/Mosque)
My work with with clay begins from the experience that emptiness and space are not voids, but entities unto themselves. Vessels of "non-being" such as pinch pots, in both their fabrication and their observation, suggest that far from enslaved to an all-knowing mind, our sensory organs are themselves autonomously conscious entities capable of apprehending and manipulating aspects of reality that, strictly speaking, aren't there. My fingertips, contacting clay, become charged with the "non-being" we can host, together. "Non-being", then, is simply a label for an aspect of "mute", "empty" space that is in fact vital and uncannily absent from much of contemporary life. Working with clay, my hands/eyes/muscles/bones/chin/skin divine a sacred feature of reality, a material spirit of sanctuary.
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At Lochner, or when working with the public, Herschel would never raise his voice, never interrupt (even at times when normally patient people would be exasperated). He never dominated a conversation and never outwardly showed any impatience or disrespect, even when dealing with the most belligerent and angry members of the public. When other colleagues puffery rendered them inconsequential, Herschels quiet integrity made a lasting impression.
And over the years that integrity has had a profound effect on me. When I started working for Herschel, while still in graduate school, I felt I knew a lot about the world. Looking back, I cringe when I recall how foolish I often behaved. But Herschel was always patient, suffering through my foolishness, my haughtiness, my insolence with just a simple, knowing smile. He understood the futility of criticism; his approach was far more effective: he simply set a consistent example. And by his example, I slowly came to realize the wisdom of his calmer, more peaceful, more humble way of maneuvering through business and life.
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Herschel Conner: Our Colleague and Friend
By Jeff Schlotter
It is with a deep sense of loss that I prepare this reflection on our friend and
colleague, Herschel C. Conner, Jr., who died on May 23 from a rare form of liver
cancer. Herschel was 61. Having joined Lochner in 1976, Herschel spent his career in our St. Petersburg and then Clearwater office. He was an urban planner and philosopher by
education, and at Lochner was a Senior Vice President, Project Manager, and environmental specialist.
But he was far more than that.
I first met Herschel when I interviewed for my job at Lochner, in 1986, and he became my boss for the next 20 years. Over that time I came to respect him as a professional of the highest intelligence and integrity. I also came to love him as a friend, mentor, role model and wise and patient counselor. Time and time again I witnessed the respect that our clients and colleagues reserved for Herschel, and over the years I came to realize it was because he always showed his respect for them. He would always actively listen to what was being said, whether in a one-on-one conversation, in a formal client meeting, or at a public meeting. And then, having listened well, he would, in his quiet and calm way, provide responses that shed uncanny clarity on whatever was being discussed.
Herschel had boundless curiosity about the technical sciences, about history, about the social sciences, about our transportation industry and our society. He also had the ability to recall dates, facts, meetings, project details, technical procedures, and other information with remarkable accuracy. Whether directing a project or conducting internal Lochner work, he would routinely amaze me with his ability to cut through the fog and set the record straight.
At Lochner, or when working with the public, Herschel would never raise his voice, never interrupt (even at times when normally patient people would be exasperated). He never dominated a conversation and never outwardly showed any impatience or disrespect, even when dealing with the most belligerent and angry members of the public. When other colleagues puffery rendered them inconsequential, Herschels quiet integrity made a lasting impression.
And over the years that integrity has had a profound effect on me. When I started working for Herschel, while still in graduate school, I felt I knew a lot about the world. Looking back, I cringe when I recall how foolish I often behaved. But Herschel was always patient, suffering through my foolishness, my haughtiness, my insolence with just a simple, knowing smile. He understood the futility of criticism; his approach was far more effective: he simply set a consistent example. And by his example, I slowly came to realize the wisdom of his calmer, more peaceful, more humble way of maneuvering through business and life.
I miss Herschel Conner very much, and Lochner has suffered a great loss with his passing. He was a gracious, caring person, whose faith guided him throughout his life a life that some might say was unfairly shortened by his disease. But he would never use the word unfair; his faith never wavered. Im told he was serene, unafraid, and very much at peace to the very end, which didnt surprise me. I can remember him reminding me that
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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
with ~~zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One,~~ zero and proceed to One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association of the Sanskrit syllable "Om"("Aum") with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric point from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite that elude, like a mobius band, these rhetorics of "penetration" and affirms fenestration and even defenestration. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Neologistas forever! Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.

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Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
passwyrd is "wyrd"
special edition wyrdzine
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
special edition wyrdzine
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.

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"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.
our ~~now paper text~~ (now paper) text, thefirst'zineeditionofwyrd2thewiki, in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.

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Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
yoga. ~~So, the~~ The world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om of the Sanskrit syllable "Om"("Aum") with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric ~~bindu~~ point from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the ~~infinite.~~ infinite that elude, like a mobius band, these rhetorics of "penetration" and affirms fenestration and even defenestration. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Neologistas forever! Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to ~~say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.~~ repeat\"inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of ~~presupposition.~~ presupposition - their approach to the now wiki'd other. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Gregory Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As
As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext.
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
rhetorics. ~~Gaian syllabi~~ Gaiansyllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra. We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.

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Methodological Header: Growing Wyrd2thewiki by Planting it in a Clay Pot
Trey Conner, University of South Florida, aka ShareRiff
Richard Doyle, Penn State University, aka mobius
"With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; likelightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche
We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.

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Our method? We took screenshots of our active wiki devoted to the nature of wikis, wyrdtothewiki, and cut them up. Because wikis seem to encourage an understanding of writing as weaving, on one dark and stormy night we then wove together the cut-ups, took images of them, and wove them back into the digital realm of the wiki. In this way we wove our experience of manifesting wiki to paper back into the wiki and out again. This feels like the right way to communicate the joy and dissarray we often feel when interacting with wiki: the cut-ups are intended to form gutters (cf. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics) or "lacunae" that will solicit further interaction with wyrdt2thewiki, our ongoing investigation of wiki ontologies. Withthehelpofoneourchildren - because wiki is about interconnecting at every level - we then fabricated a clay pot within which we stowed our now paper text in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
information. ~~"At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them"~~ \"AtthesametimeIamcaughtupinexperiencingcertainpatternsofwyrd,Iamcreatingthem" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these ~~energy~~ differential gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. ~~Suddenly,~~
Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the ~~navigatation~~ navigation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with ~~zeroandproceedtoOne,~~ zeroandproceedto%5Bhttp://biotelemetrica.pbwiki.com/Zero2One?SearchFor=Zero&sp=4One, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
~~Mantras,~~ We call this after the Lion King and the Lion's Roar, "Lacuna Mutata."
Mantram, for example, have for millenia ~~been~~ provided rhetors with a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing ~~attention, as well.~~ attention. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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! **Things I need to do**Trey: had sara guest speak in classcreated opening for a student to post about her capacities as yoga instructor me: yoga!union with god Trey: yes aye Sent at 11:40 PM on Sunday Trey: still amazed and laughing, with gratitude, at the precision in mobius\' \"celebrayyyy-celebrate\" transmission to shareriff yeterday morn\' Sent at 12:25 AM on Monday Trey: \"Had my hand on the dollar billAnd the dollar bill blew awayBut the sun is shining down on meAnd it\'s here to stayThat\'s why I\'m telling youI just want to celebrate, yeah, yeah \" Sent at 12:26 AM on Monday Trey\'s new status message - Silence is unceasing Eloquence......It is the best Language\" -Ramana Maharshi 12:30 AM me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgT_mJXbvCQ Trey: Rich Mon! me: brb Trey: shive is <# Sent at 8:52 AM on Monday me: bodhi svaha! Sent at 8:54 AM on Monday Trey: colonel chaos visiting my abode this morn, me: morning routine :) Trey: but all is happening whilst \"I\" witness me: ah yes Trey: true dat: plumber, licensing inspector, fax and file complaint form move to mediation and/or judgement eye on recovery fund, wash the dishes go to camp bring Odessa to class with me, bodhi svaha! me: bodhi svaha! Trey: there will be other mornings for citing sources and putting things in APA etc me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJPXSoZ7b0&feature=PlayList&p=594AF88BAD045833&index=34yes other morningstoday mobius search for software to take footnotes and render bibliographywatch as it no workeee Trey: please keep me posted on that! me: forget about it for a few daysthen return to prob :) Trey: sweeet Marginal Man ! me: I think I saw this showused to see them in basement of church \"wilson center\" Trey: I will watch this mosh pit and think \"mobius could be amongst \'em\" me: somebody gets thrown off stagewasn\'t mobius :)waiting to grab mike... Sent at 9:01 AM on Monday Trey: back in bizz, kitchen sink drainin\' me: woohoo! Trey: waxin and way-nin me: schllllup!hittin the cowbell Trey: kling klanga klinga me: flappity flapwe should start planning the vision quests for Jackson and Aden and Odessa and Violet when they gets to be 12 or 13talking to this guy this afternoonhttp://www.wildernessdrum.com/index.html Sent at 9:27 AM on Monday Trey: yes, i agree! often when you hear about youth nature quests it\'s all to do with rehabbing troubled teens..... me: instead of the toggle transisition Trey: why not get proactive and tune to the earthduring the flux times me: yuphow to make your life what it is!guidance in becoming who you are!2day mobius write up fellowship proposalor smile trying :)jai guru deva!OM!Nothing\'s gonna change my world!Nothing\'s gonna change my world! Trey: yesa theme song around herethe 1101students inthe spring, loved that tune, it was onamerican idolcompelled me to relearn it on guitar me: OM! Trey: perfectly crafted blisss nuggetjai guru deva (repeat, fade)now that\'s a coda me: jai guru devajai gur devajai guru deva! Sent at 9:34 AM on Monday Trey: it would be amazing if we could \"scrape\" wikis and then move all that content onto another....would love to run side by side on biotelemtrica; at the same time, the summer wiki is perfectly primed for the fall plan which is to run 1101 and 1102 on the same wiki Sent at 9:36 AM on Monday me: lester doodis!instead of rssgiant wiki scrapewith weekly updates? to introduce rhythm?if yins wanted to teach peeps how to jam right out of the box, you would overwhelm them with riffs and make them figger some possible response? Add absolute collective affirmation, and...pop goes the noosphere?!project \"pop goes the noosphere\" is code name for wiki scrape. Put them all into biotelemetrica?many question marks make for good emptyness ecologty?!diamond mind wiki grovewe see your Karl Roveand drop one shiningwiki grove :)full of them wish fulfillingknish fillingcheesey full kitsch fulfillingmarshmallow dream creamsicle drillingwishfulfilling tree wikiwith special reference to yggdrasil Trey: amazing me: ,mobymake laby Trey: trey on delay cuz the kitchen sink says \"hey! clean these pots and pans, man!\" me: rinthrinse andrepeatgroup zero makingtiny circles with feetpedal that cursor! Trey: me like code name for wiki scrape...is their a technique? me: let\'s make a cursor that you have to pedal from one part of wiki to other to naviagte wikitechnique for wiki scrape is:cutpastewasterepeatcut Trey: wyrd me: wastepasterepeatcut waste pasterepeat cut waste pastepasting... Click |\"Edit page\"| to edit this list.* -Upload schedule to wiki-* -Let Us know about recent changes to program-* Ask Trey for input on reviewing document* Send completed draft to designer Gina for TotalDespairModule* Crash Course Wiki for instant vacation gratification and corporate downsize cubicle cutting expedition. * Begin Growing Vegetables FNORD FNORD FNORD

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Anotherway of understanding wyrd is through a weaving analogy. In the Anglo-Saxon Riming Poem, the narrator says of his life circumstances Metwyrdgewf, 'Wyrdwovethisforme'. In the Icelandic Njal's Saga,valkyriesweaveoutthecourseofabattleonaloommadeofweapons and threaded with humanentrails, so to speak, human lives. Imagine a patterned piece of cloth being woven onaloom. The horizontal threads (thewoof) are woven in in layers along the vertical threads (thewarp). The horizontalthreads represent layers of past actions. The vertical threads represent atime line. The colour of each horizontal thread as itiswoven in will add to the pattern that is alreadyestablished and influence the patternthatemerges." (What is Wyrd?, By Arlea elwyrd Hunt-Anschtz)
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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, ranging from the grosser skhanda to subtlest mesh of rhythmizomena, the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
these ~~"tagging" communities,~~ "taggingcommunities", rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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WikiGnome to who will help grow and actualize a vibrant wiki community. Each WikiGnome will be paid by Longman for "culturing" each WikiNode. Time for %5BWikiGnomes will be billable at a rate that results in at least a $3500 per annum payment.
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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
of and dissipating back into "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that would not only transduce information up and ~~down~~ down, but in all directions on this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
bodies, ~~including~~ ranging from the grosser skhanda ~~and~~ to subtlest mesh of ~~media (cue Aristoxenus'~~ rhythmizomena, ~~here).~~ the emergent noosphere. Following Boethius, and taking into account his degrees of order rising out of "Fate's mobility," we seek rhetorics that transduce information up and down this stigmergic scale.
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
resonance. Our compressed way of grounding, organizing, rebooting, dissolving, and illuminating a multimedia pedagogy that allows the resonance to do the composing is to connect this understanding to a short refrain or mantric formula. For example, we like to say inthebeginningwasthewyrd,andthewyrdwaswiki.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We also offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
on ~~the world wide web~~ theworldwideweb is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
the world wide web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords--a resonance technology for facilitating the rhetorical performance of a remix. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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(1) Point a tabbedbrowser here
(2) Read over the abstract of Kauffman's 1969 paper on random boolean nets.
(3) Choose genes to randomly turn on and off, or create interference patterns by opening each gene in a new tab. (to layer - usually right click, then open in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click on the gene)
(4) Use the blue "play buttons" to turn genes on and off; or use tabbed browser to hear them together, as you like.
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(4) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any "genes" with each other - music. The Resonance (between the Genes) is the Composer!
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(5) Click edit, swap out "genes" from sites such as freesound
Back to BooleanGeneticMusicalNetworks

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(2) Read over the abstract of Kauffman's 1969 paper on random boolean nets.
(3) Choose genes to randomly turn on and off, or create interference patterns by opening each gene in a new tab. (to layer - usually right click, then open in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click on the gene)
(4) ~~Turn~~ Use the blue "play buttons" to turn genes on ~~an off,~~ and off; or use tabbed browser to hear them together, as you like.
(5) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any "genes" with each other - music. The Resonance (between the Genes) is the Composer!
(6) Click edit, swap out "genes" from sites such as freesound

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Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
in ~~alternating currents:~~ alternatingcurrents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks intowords. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Govinda's ~~code book, or,~~ study of the universal mantra is, in the sense of manual or guide, a rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, and it is ~~but~~ only one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks into wyrds. We offer Thewikiisthemediumisthemessage as a McLuhan-inspired mantra for this capacitor-like capacity of wiki.

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Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's code book, or, in the sense of manual or guide, rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, is but one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
force. ~~Semantic~~ That semantic and asignifying registers interleave on the web is aptly illustrated by emergent spaces composed of metadata by means of social bookmarking. In these "tagging" communities, rhetors find new combinations and transformations in ~~wiki or~~ the spaces between repetitious tags, presenting writers with ample and ongoing opportunity to articulate and tune statements of presupposition. When applied to these attention economies, cybernetic formulations of perception and difference echo Aristotle's classic definition of rhetoric, as when Bateson explains how "...perception operates only upon difference. All receipt of information is necessarily the receipt of news of difference, and all perception of difference is limited by a threshold...knowledge at any ~~woven space.~~ given moment will be a function of the thresholds of our available means of perception" ( Mind and Nature 26). As rhetorical practice expands in the digital commons to include tagging practices, the rhetorical canon of memory must expand to include practices of attention management, such as mantra. For Boethius, wiki would certainly appeal as an "enchanted loom" for converting the stimuli and tempi of tagging networks into wyrds.

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The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki. The transitive verb "to transduce" describes processes that "alter the physical nature or medium of (a signal)" and "convert variations in (a medium) into corresponding variations in another medium" (OED). When pressure or brightness is converted to voltage or position, you have transduction (OED) The Federal Telecommunications Standard 1037CA describes a transducer as a "device for converting energy from one form to another for the purpose of measurement of a physical quantity or for information transfer" With daily wiki practice, we become attuned to this dynamic nature of information. "At the same time I am caught up in experiencing certain patterns of wyrd, I am creating them" (What is Wyrd?) In this way, transduction becomes the translational mode for weaving wyrds in wiki. Merging with these energy gradients of information transfer, wiki welcomes technologies of writingwithsound,image,andtext. Suddenly, technological metaphors and analogies for the act of wyrding--antennae, phonographs, tapeheads, and cathode ray tubes--actualize as multimedia practice with sound, image, and text. These are repetition-based practices of rhythm, and the lightning computations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in a "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. In multimedia composition, writing and learning proceed by transduction, rhetorics for commons-formation.
Because wiki "windows" "bear the mark of the infinite" (Govinda 24), learning to pay attention to how we wyrd in wiki cues wikidelicpedagogy. As teachers, we can begin with a performance. A how-to: how to become a search engine for rhetorics. Gaian syllabi abound, everywhere: rhythmic traditions of the sacred provide clues as to how we might entrain everyday rhythms. These rhythmic recipes, these sacred scripts, at once both specific and timeless, open our writing to asignification, and enable the navigatation of many degrees of asignificatory dynamics. They start with zeroandproceedtoOne, via repetition. Repeatedly transitioning, reduplicating, chorusing, accelerating; but also decelerating, juxtaposing, jump-cutting, splitting, and also, perhaps most importantly, stopping and abiding in the lacunae of timelessness that perforate the dynamic mesh that wyrds weave when we affirm their irrational penumbra.
Mantras, for example, have for millenia been a means for cultivating this capacity for abiding in alternating currents: for opening up consciousness, and for precisely tuning and stabilizing attention, as well. Boethius, forever dancing discursive around the infinite, steering between Providence and Fate, renders his vertigo vertical, into orderly strata. "All that is under Fate is also subject to Providence. But some things which are under Providence are above the course of Fate. Fortheyarethosethingswhich,beingstablyfixedinvirtueoftheirnearnesstothefirstdivinity,exceedtheorderofFate'smobility\" (cited in Huxley 186). In order to narrate these degrees of difference, Boethius opens a space for us to suggest that sacred technologies for attending to timelessness and infinity differ only by incremental degrees, not in kind, from the repetitious hacking and ordering we perform in the service of time. This principle of repetition does in fact occur throughout our history of using words to rhythmize and entrain different found orders of vibration which "exceed the order of Fate's mobility," and manifests across all technologies for "yoking" body, consciousness, and spirit: yoga. So, the world's sacred 'scripts, prescribed explicitly for stepping out of time, nevertheless crystalize models for transducing energy and information across different orders of vibration, different bodies, including the grosser skhanda and subtlest mesh of media (cue Aristoxenus' rhythmizomena, here).
Lama Govinda's Foundations of Mysticism, organized according to the syllables of the om mani padme hum mantra, elaborates one such model, and in doing so appears as a rhetoric for becoming a transducer. While the book attunes specifically to Buddhist mantric practices (towards the cultivation of prajna by means of bodhisattva practice), the opening chapter, "The Magic of Words and the Power of Speech" necessarily connects numerous (but does not enumerate all) traditions according to the common element of their diverse practices of repetition: the vocalization of variations on the sacred word, and the association Om with the infinite. According to this argument, Om is the mantric bindu from which diverse traditions, each "expressing the experience of infinity," unfold: both Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, Vaishnavism and Shaivaism, Jainism, Vedantism, Amen. And texts: The Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gospel of John, and Brahmanas. "This," Govinda states, "does not exhaust the different possibilities of expression, nor does it include their combination and mutual penetration" (p. 24). Wiki windows present themselves as an experience of the infinite. Learning from tradition (sampling from archaic and sacred technologies, and creating and recreating words, as Govinda says, "ever anew") and from experience (testing, translating, and remixing these rhetorics through empirical investigation), we can, in our teaching, facilitate fruitful itineraries in several directions by returning again and again to the creative commons of the Creative Word. Govinda's code book, or, in the sense of manual or guide, rhetoric for the visualization, actualization, and navigation of interconnectivity, is but one such rhetoric that, in the context of wiki, equals resonance.
Mantras have been understood both as words imbued with deep meaning and as utterly "meaningless" or nonsemantic fields of force. Semantic and asignifying registers interleave in wiki or any woven space.

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Anotherway of understanding wyrd is through a weaving analogy. In the Anglo-Saxon Riming Poem, the narrator says of his life circumstances Metwyrdgewf, 'Wyrdwovethisforme'. In the Icelandic Njal's Saga,valkyriesweaveoutthecourseofabattleonaloommadeofweapons and threaded with humanentrails, so to speak, human lives. Imagine a patterned piece of cloth being woven onaloom. The horizontal threads (thewoof) are woven in in layers along the vertical threads (thewarp). The horizontalthreads represent layers of past actions. The vertical threads represent atime line. The colour of each horizontal thread as itiswoven in will add to the pattern that is alreadyestablished and influence the patternthatemerges." (What is Wyrd?, By Arlea elwyrd Hunt-Anschtz)
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tags tanas raga Tala
tone, ~~that "which~~ "that which charms" and the regulation of dynamic flows

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- with great links to research and where to float in Europe
RestStress - a updated compendium of R.E.S.T. links and research.
FloatDreams and their listing of Float Centers in the U.S.
and their only listing in Pennsylvania, High-Tech Floatation, in Penndel, PA

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FloatFinder

- For finding Floatation research and spa centers across the country - they even have a google map with "thumb-tacks" indicating centers around the country and world! Nearest center seems to be in NJ, NYC, and D.C.

Koan-Float Technologies

- with great links to research and where to float in Europe

RestStress - a updated compendium of R.E.S.T. links and research.

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This space is devoted to growing a new space for the tank. It's time for the tank to get mobile, spread its wings, and float towards its new environment. Place photos, diagrams, numbers, spreadsheets, designs and poetry devoted to actualizing a new space for the tank here!
Great Links to Information Regarding Therapeutic Floatation Facilities
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%5Bhttp://www.crystalinks.com/yeatsgyre.jpg%5DHow to play the \"internal second coming recursive geometries\" game (1) Read Yeat\'s poem(2) Choose %5Bhttp://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/gysin_brion/Gysin-Brion_I-Am.mp3 sound **gyres**%5D to randomly **turn** on and off by **opening** each, or layer \'em up by opening each in a new tab ( usually right click, then **open** in a new tab. On Mac OS X, control-click. (3) **Turn** sounds on an off, or together, as you like.(4) Behold and play any patterns that emerge through the connections of any \"**gyre-ation**\" with each other - music. The Resonance (between each cycle) is the Composer!(5) Click edit, swap out **gyre-ations**, and **cut-up** Yeat\'s poem to create another...The Second Coming by W.B. YeatsTurning and turning in the widening %5Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyre gyre%5DThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all around itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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Frog\'s Boutique!\"the Baroque is not only projected in its own style of dress. It radiates everywhere, at all times, in the thousand %5Bhttp://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/t03.html folds%5D of garments that tend to become one with their respective wearers...and to make their heads look like those of swimmers bobbing in the waves\" (\'\'The Fold\'\' 121)-Frog\'s rugs-upcoming installation, Gainesville-transduction discussion

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passwyrd is "wyrd!"
CommonsIcaro - a first go at a remix of \"YageCameras\" by Apollo Nove for the Creative Commons. Sample, Shred, Share.
An "icaro" provides sonic programming and healing for the ecodelic experiences enabled by yage and other plant adjuncts. "Yage" ( "ayahuasca", "hoasca\", "Gaiahuasca", "mamahuasca", "Mama") is one name for a plant admixture ("remix") prepared for millenia by scientists of the Upper Amazon. Icaros provide sonic handholds for navigating the domains of ayahuasca, and they do so by calling on the yage drinker's attention and participation. In my own investigations, The "Yage Camera" focuses our attention on the cosmic commons, our interconnection with all living systems composing our evolutionary matrix, the entirety of all that is whose unfolding we have begun, fitfully, to behold as webecomedimlyawareofthesoundofoneicesheetcracking. I offer this "Commons Icaro" for the commons itself, so that we might all begin to participate in the commons and learn from what the ayahuasca has helped teach manyofus with its \"YageCamera\" re sponding in joy to our planetary obligations. DJ TallyEssence, Aka Valis System A SprinkleaLittleDazzle, a tight remix by J Slipp. Sample, Shred, Share. TranshumanBannisters Gettin' "shreddy," found my way into an "eddy" in the yage flux. Then, "I" was hailed/healed by our commonicaro, even as it was differing from itself, and this sonic hand-hold instructed me to distribute sonic smoke to gently cloak the bright dazzle. We know what to do: cue, play, press pause, grab transhuman bannister (shred and thread, cloak and dazzle), and share here on our emerging trellis of icaros. Also recommended: in your (tabbed) browser, make an aural laminate (play 2 or more remixes together). ShareRiff Commonspreacher

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We are two teachers of rhetoric who have been working with wikis for three and seven years respectively, and we wanted to share the complex admixture of interconnection, solicitation and diaspora we had witnessed in our teaching. We knew, for example, that for teaching contemporary multimedia composition, wikis are fantastic tools for inducing student composition and sharing. Our classes formed communities as never before, they shared and collaborated and improved drastically. Yet narrating this phenomenon, or even just sharing a website is, we have found, insufficient to transmitting the intensely affective charge associated with wikidelic pedagogy, and the narrative tends to flatten out the very between-ness that wiki fosters. In short, for all of our enthusiasm, only those who had intensely wiki'd seemed to understand. A new tactic was in order if we were to bring the experience of wikidelia to the printed page: So, drawing on the history of avant garde composition, which seeks to interrupt readerly attention to ordinary consciousness and heighten the gaps and lacuane of texts (as in Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs method of thecut-up), we began to "cut-up" a wiki in process.
Our method? We took screenshots of our active wiki devoted to the nature of wikis, wyrdtothewiki, and cut them up. Because wikis seem to encourage an understanding of writing as weaving, on one dark and stormy night we then wove together the cut-ups, took images of them, and wove them back into the digital realm of the wiki. In this way we wove our experience of manifesting wiki to paper back into the wiki and out again. This feels like the right way to communicate the joy and dissarray we often feel when interacting with wiki: the cut-ups are intended to form gutters (cf. Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics) or "lacunae" that will solicit further interaction with wyrdt2thewiki, our ongoing investigation of wiki ontologies. Withthehelpofoneourchildren - because wiki is about interconnecting at every level - we then fabricated a clay pot within which we stowed our now paper text in order to make it rhetorically resonate with the lacunaed papyrus texts discovered in clay pots at NagHammadi, sacred texts that enthrall as much through theirgaps as their remarkable content. We then carefully boxed and mailed this "Nag Hammadi Fortune Cookie" off to our fearless editors, presenting them with a text which, in order to be read, must be broken. We hope you feel the joy, hear the call, and jump right in. Wyrd!
The Great Transduction
Our next step was to transduce our printed screen shots with a video camera. In this process, we also navigated wyrd and took more "cuts"--this time, with a video camera--from the wiki. Then, we embedded this moving cut-up on the wiki.

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not ~~ask,~~ ask who is giving; like lightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Title: Wyrd2daWiki
Description: "With the smallest residue of superstition within oneself, one would indeed hardly escape the idea of being merely the incarnation, the mouth-piece, the medium of super-human powers. The idea of revelation, in the sense that suddenly with incredible certainty and subtlety, something becomes visible and audible, shaking us and overpowering us in our deepest being: all this is merely a description of facts. One listens, one does not search; one accepts, one does not ask, who is giving; like lightning a thought flashes up, with necessity, without hesitation with regard to its form--I never had a choice" - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let's pipe the whole wiki into a speech to text generator and see if the Tonal aspect of language comes through! This would make for an interesting comparison to actual speech. Perhaps it would be better, though, to have people read it aloud?

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Local Spas

State College Spa and Fitness Center

127 Sowers Street, State College, PA 16804

814 571 4400

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Central PA School of Massage

336 S Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801

888 649 3337

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Dragonfly Day Spa

1212 N Atherton St, State College PA 16803

814.237.5220

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St Joseph's Institute

Port Matilda

814 692 4954

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Kinda Christian, but seems to have a large enough facility (unlike some spas around here)

Other Possible Tank Adoption Centers

BBH Stress and Health Lab

Dr Jennifer Graham (Director)

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Psych Dept??? Couldn't find many direct matches

Dept of Kinesiology

Research labs

Could be some serious interest, especially due to the tank's use in physical therapy

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The "Tasks" I recorded above (without having to edit page) were lost after I edited page and tried to expand the size of the google gadget. Blast! Here they are, more or less:
Task 1. Catalog local spa facilities within a 15 mile radius
2. Contact appropriate facilities to float the idea of installing the tank there.
3. Discuss company/funding models: lease the tank, or establish a separate proprietorship module functioning within their spa facility (like doctors in a hospital)
4. Pursue way to display certification or authorization (ironically) for our operation of this therapeutic process.
A. Would a letter of good faith from the pioneers of R.E.S.T. with whom we've already spoken, suffice?
B. Do we need to offer such signals of authority? It is somewhat inappropriate to be an authority on the absence of incoming stimuli, or conversely on the value or experience of said absence...But if it's not inappropriate to make claims of authority, in the eyes of potential clients?

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BlogoSphere Core Sample: James D Rounds
5/5/2008, Monday, 5am
My wife and son are away for the weekend, visiting a relative in Florida...First time we've been apart for so long! My schedule is so affected now - I fall asleep without making dinner (I almost always make dinner!), and wake up before dawn the next morning.
Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).

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OriginalIdeasprouts... Leavesandshoots...
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Nietzsche was anti-DOCTRine; which foreshadows his antagonism towards the medical establishment.
Just a strange thought such as those you might get when you fall asleep at 7pm on a weekend night! (And wake up before 5am on a Monday).
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That we are endowed with such intuitive and intellectual capabilities as that of discovering the genes and the R.N.A. and D.N.A. and other fundamental principles governing the fundamental design controls of life systems as well as of nuclear energy and chemical structuring is part of the extraordinary design of the Spaceship Earth, its equipment, passengers, and internal support systems. It is therefore paradoxical but strategically explicable, as we shall see, that up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship. Buckminster Fuller, OperatingManualforSpaceshipEarth
of Sustainability** Sustainability
What is sustainability? As practices devoted to the mindful tuning of human habitats to the freedoms and constraints of ecosystems, sustainability begins with the deployment of rhetorical practices for visualizing, mapping, narrating and arguing for visions of any given ecosystem. This course will review global definitions, concepts and discourses of sustainability, remixing them toward practices inhabitable by 21stcenturyeconauts. Students will work with the CenterforSustainability composing multimedia rhetorical tools - such as user friendly technical writing, video, sound and seo web design - to help remix and propagate practices of sustainability in Central Pennsylvania and across the increasingly informatic biosphere.
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That we are endowed with such intuitive and intellectual capabilities as that of discovering the genes and the R.N.A. and D.N.A. and other fundamental principles governing the fundamental design controls of life systems as well as of nuclear energy and chemical structuring is part of the extraordinary design of the Spaceship Earth, its equipment, passengers, and internal support systems. It is therefore paradoxical but strategically explicable, as we shall see, that up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship. Buckminster Fuller, OperatingManualforSpaceshipEarth
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What is sustainability? As practices devoted to the mindful tuning of human habitats to the freedoms and constraints of ecosystems, sustainability begins with the deployment of rhetorical practices for visualizing, mapping, narrating and arguing for visions of any given ecosystem. This course will review global definitions, concepts and discourses of sustainability, remixing them toward practices inhabitable by 21stcenturyeconauts. Students will work with the CenterforSustainability composing multimedia rhetorical tools - such as user friendly technical writing, video, sound and seo web design - to help remix and propagate practices of sustainability in Central Pennsylvania and across the increasingly informatic biosphere.
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April 14th, 2008
After nearly 1 year of work on the green podcasts for health care, SustainableCompositions has accomplished a great deal, including state-wide and nation-wide exposure to health care organizations, an advertising/sponsorship donation, and the distribution of a half-dozen podcasts!
Current efforts include posting another half-dozen podcasts over the next several months, getting paid subscriptions from health care organizations in Pennsylvania, and launching a companion podcast service that goes beyond Pennsylvania and addresses the nation and the world. - UrthBound
UrthBound is having his minidisc recordings converted to .wav format right now, at which point there should be the content online ready to be mixed and remixed into a pilot ecopodcast! An ex-roommate is responsible for the conversion, and ex-roommates are notoriously slow at doing what there asked to do. Yet, they are notoriously reliable at eventually completing such tasks...
this ~~awesome,humorousenvironmentale-mag~~ excellent,humorousenvironmentale-mag called The Grist: they just released a Podcast! Let us listen to it and evaluate the cross-over value to our podcast efforts (which shall continue unto the future)!
We were denied the grant, and these were the issues raised by the review committee. We are encouraged to resubmit the grant!
James, The committee found your proposal innovative regarding the use of technology. The following items were mentioned by the review committee: Would like more info about the demographics of the target audience who would use the podcasts? Would these busy people really take the time to listen/view the podcasts if they are already pressed for time as you state in the proposal? How would the podcasts be marketed to assure they would accessed/used? How many potential users do you anticipate for the two pilot episodes? Should it be connected someway into the University effort on itunes U www.itunes.psu.edu The committee suggests that you address these items and consider resubmitting a proposal for the 2nd round RFP which we expect to issue around Feb 1 2007. I hope this feedback is helpful. If you have any questions, give me a call. Regards, Jack

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eat ~~or sleep~~ that night.
God that seems so long ago. I wonder what Amy is doing now? What was it, fifteen years ago? No, it was fifty years ago. God, fifty years. Amy could be dead by now.
Probably not. Who knows, maybe she Waited, too.
Soon, he reached what seemed to be an exit. Were he not so transformed or maddened by hunger, he might have lingered longer or even pondered turning around. But he could not wait any longer.
Thrusting open the door, Gene walked out into a muggy, cloudy day in the future.
gut's ~~screams but~~ screams, not to mention his lingering distrust of public spaces.
Pacing down the sidewalk, he finally noticed a little empty room that could've been a laundromat. Only this little shop contained nothing but vending machines, filled with a cornucopia of strange treats and foods. Gene recognized a few shapes and without another thought, threw the door open and ran inside. Through the ~~midst~~ mist of euphoria his brain kicked in, and realized he would need some cash.
Looking around frantically, he saw a gleam in the corner, and rejoiced when he realized it was probably a coin. It was large and surprisingly light, featuring the Newmerica logo, which brought him some strange comfort. When he put the coin into a vending machine's coin slot, the box of delights sprung to life, with rotating lights and rapid-fire rearrangement of the items inside. The new arrangement seemed to display only those snacks that his coin could afford, and Gene appreciated this celebration of his limited funds.
Looking through his options more closely, and more frenetically, Gene was confused and angry.

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2050:
Due to recent improvements in scaling-up cryogenic preservation methods, cryo-service providers (CSPs) have succeeded in nearly satisfying popular demand. Accordingly, the price of Waiting has dropped significantly. Waiting has now become an extremely popular alternative to suicide among the young and old alike.
services had indicated that the longer a client wished to Wait, the more expensive the service must be. In fact, choosing to Wait for more than fifty, or even one hundred years, was prohibitively expensive to most individuals who showed interest.
As it turned out, Gene Rush was only able to afford to Wait for 35 years. To be honest, he did not really want to Wait for hundreds of ~~years,~~ years like everyone else seemed to. His fantasy did not involve waking up in some unfathomable society, driven by invisible technology explained with incomprehensible languages.
After spending much of his savings on a new wardrobe, Gene did not ~~even~~ have the luxury of Waiting that ~~long.~~ long anyway.
I'm sorry sir, we just don't carry your size anymore, the salesman apologized. You'll have to try Mr. Plus in Bandhal. I think they have 127s there.
Gene cursed the fact that Newmerica had converted to the metric system. Actually, he thought, he was cursed to be born in 2013, so that his waist size seemingly ballooned from 42 inches to 107 centimeters on his 15th birthday. When did his Waiting begin? He couldn't remember. Not soon enough. He could hardly wait to Wait, he thought sarcastically. He just hoped 35 years would be enough. Something was wrong

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Cal-trollThe CaloTrollsThe Calor-TrollsCalontrolCaloTron2050:Due to recent improvements in scaling-up cryogenic preservation methods, cryo-service providers (CSPs) have succeeded in nearly satisfying popular demand. Accordingly, the price of Waiting has dropped significantly. Waiting has now become an extremely popular alternative to suicide among the young and old alike. Early economic analyses of the costs of offering such services indicated that the longer a client wished to Wait, the more expensive the service must be. In fact, choosing to Wait for more than fifty, or even one hundred years, was prohibitively expensive to most individuals who showed interest. As it turned out, Gene Rush was only able to afford to Wait for 35 years. To be honest, he did not really want to Wait for hundreds of years, like everyone else seemed to. His fantasy did not involve waking up in some unfathomable society, driven by invisible technology explained with incomprehensible languages.After spending much of his savings on a new wardrobe, Gene did not even have the luxury of Waiting that long.I\'m sorry sir, we just don\'t carry your size anymore, the salesman apologized. You\'ll have to try Mr. Plus in Bandhal. I think they have 127s there. Gene cursed the fact that Newmerica had converted to the metric system. Actually, he thought, he was cursed to be born in 2013, so that his waist size seemingly ballooned from 42 inches to 107 centimeters on his 15th birthday. When did his Waiting begin? He couldn\'t remember. Not soon enough. He could hardly wait to Wait, he thought sarcastically. He just hoped 35 years would be enough. Something was wrong%5B\'\'Notes: Cryogenic companies and government in cahoots, reduce population. They promise that cryogenics reduces weight, and so hundreds of thousands of people opt to Wait, instead of enduring this life of overweightness on an overpopulated planet. Propaganda promote Waiting, and chastise the overweight.Special chemicals or minerals required for cryogenics..thus some raw materials companies in on the scheme?Government in future treats calories like a Controlled Substance.%5D\'\'2085:Gene was famished. Or at least, that\'s how he felt. He had never actually been famished. He\'d never gone more than a few waking hours without eating. Well, there was that one night when Amy led him away from the camp cabins into the woods after all their counselors had fallen asleep. He didn\'t eat or sleep that night. God that seems so long ago. I wonder what Amy is doing now? What was it, fifteen years ago? No, it was fifty years ago. God, fifty years. Amy could be dead by now.Probably not. Who knows, maybe she Waited, too.Gene climbed out of his ship. It was hard to leave. Not because he was sore or uncomfortable, he realized, but because it was safe. Safe in his little pod. There was no one watching him, no one asking if he needed any help. No one to think about. He felt surprisingly limbre, however. Climbing out of the small compartment was not physically difficult. It did amplify the chorus of hunger pangs from his gut into his brain. He would have to go exploring.He looked out into the dim hallway that his room opened into, and did not see a whisper of life. Many doors, but no movement. Wasn\'t there supposed to be an attendant? A team of doctors? Somebody to greet him? No, that\'s right, he didn\'t need anyone. He remembered, this is one of the many reasons he chose to Wait. The process was so streamlined, no one needed to tend to the ships. Fully automated cocoons, they kept their cargo safe, asleep, and alive, slowly conditioning them into fit, wakeful states by the end of the alotted time. He could wake up and move about as he pleased in the new world he\'d awoken into. His new future. Of course, some people paid good money for a guarantee that attendants would be present at their awakening. Servants explaining the world to them once they awoke. How their favorite football team was doing, who was president, a brief history of the world while they had been Waiting.But Gene wanted to cherish his anonymity, his ignorance. He Waited to escape, and god damnit that\'s what he aimed to do. But now as the hunger clawed at the scratching post of his stomach, he knew he was doomed to engage his new world...if for nothing else than to mine for raw materials.Gene passed a glass window in a door that must have lead down another hallway of Waiting Rooms. Shocked, he looked behind him to see who was following him. No one there. Gene stared at his reflection in the glass. It really worked. By god, it worked!Gene was elated to see his deflated body. A body he could stand to stare at. This feeling didn\'t last long, as the hunger cat shred it to pieces. Gene began to long for disembowelment.Soon, he reached what seemed to be an exit. Were he not so transformed or maddened by hunger, he might have lingered longer or even pondered turning around. But he could not wait any longer.Thrusting open the door, Gene walked out into a muggy, cloudy day in the future.Gene immediately noticed the people. There were none! This part of Newladelphia had been a bustling metropolis in the days before he began to Wait. Gene noticed a few distant individuals walking down a few distant streets. There were no vehicles parked in the streets, but dozens of Parking signs littered the tall, monolithic buildings that Gene noticed next. Besides these skyscrapers, the only other buildings that Gene saw were restaurants. Dozens and dozens of restaurants. They all advertised themselves as Tasty!, Flavorful!, which megaphoned his gut\'s screams but not his lingering distrust of public spaces. Pacing down the sidewalk, he finally noticed a little empty room that could\'ve been a laundromat. Only this little shop contained nothing but vending machines, filled with a cornucopia of strange treats and foods. Gene recognized a few shapes and without another thought, threw the door open and ran inside. Through the midst of euphoria his brain kicked in, and realized he would need some cash. Looking around frantically, he saw a gleam in the corner, and rejoiced when he realized it was probably a coin. It was large and surprisingly light, featuring the Newmerica logo, which brought him some strange comfort. When he put the coin into a vending machine\'s coin slot, the box of delights sprung to life, with rotating lights and rapid-fire rearrangement of the items inside. The new arrangement seemed to display only those snacks that his coin could afford, and Gene appreciated this celebration of his limited funds.Looking through his options more closely, and more frenetically, Gene was confused and angry. What the hell is a Diet Hot Dog? he muttered to himself. Or so he thought. A diet hot dog is a delicious lattice of flavor molecules and odor materials, the machine replied in a pleasant female voice, scientifically designed to immerse you in the experience of a delicious, beefy, hot dog.\'\'%5BSelf-sustenance outlawed...Lactation outlawed...Any un-monitored, un-supervised generation or consumption of calories Outlawed...%5D\'\'

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Blogosphere Core Sample: James D Rounds :: UrthBoundHome
3-18-08, Tuesday
Wow, 18 months, since the last blog-post. 18 months post-post. I am one year married as of yesterday. And my son is 6 months into this world on Friday! Here, as promised, is a Story about a future in which the gradient of control has grown so steep, the government may even control the very way you feed... Calontrol
9-28-06
It's late, and yet I wonder: What are the noosphere's feelings about "zego"? As a typo, I recommend that "zego" be upgraded to transcendental portmanteau of 'zed' & 'ego', more like a new-age energy drink with alcohol than its synonym "nego" (of 'neg' and 'ego', or a contraction of neg-ego).Mix zego with this joke, for a good time: How do magicians punctuate their hockey games?

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BlogoSphere Core Sample: James D Rounds
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02/12/2007
I am somewhat saddened to report that I am leaving the residency at the Center for Sustainability. Due to a variety of factors, including the continued lack of financial support from the Center itself or outside avenues, as well as the impending transformation of the Center's grounds, it has become an impossible situation for me to manage the entire farm alone.
Instead, I will return to my previous role of primary gardening volunteer. I will keep up the gardens of the farm, and manage the rented garden plots. Thank you to everyone who visited, volunteered, chatted, or otherwise contributed to the Center for Sustainability. I have learned a great deal from everyone and am very grateful for the experience.

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
preference. ~~Anyone~~ Anyone interested in floating should email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. ~~You~~ You will be asked to attend an introductory meeting, give a blood sample, and fill out a few surveys prior to floating.
Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
Consent Form (#3).doc - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience
- Extras
~~Collegian~~ ~~Article~~CollegianArticle - a short report on PSU's REST Lab in The Daily Collegian
Note: the article misquoted our study coordinator in regards to the flotation tank in the REST Lab as being "the only of its kind in North America." What was meant is that we are the only operating research lab studying flotation-REST in North America (according to a personal communication from ~~Dr.~~ ~~Peter~~ ~~Suedfeld,~~ Dr.PeterSuedfeld, a prolific figure in REST and extreme environments research). There are actually hundreds of flotation tanks scattered across the country in homes and commerical float centers. A listing of commerical float centers can be found here.
FloatGlossary - Receive, Decode, Deconstruct, Create, Transmit
Lab Staff Reports and Materials - Reports from explorers and associates, research materials, a space to learn and play

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Hail the Floaters
Penn ~~State's~~ State University's
Restricted Environmental Stimuli Technique (R.E.S.T.) Flotation Laboratory
A center for the study of the genetics of stress, stimuli response, altered states of consciousness, and health.
What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
~~*UPDATE*~~
~~Our~~Our current protocol ~~has~~ ~~begun.~~ It allows participants to float from 1 to 10 times during the semester, depending on their preference. ~~Please~~ ~~check~~ ~~the~~ ~~Google~~ ~~Calender~~ ~~below~~ to ~~sign~~ up ~~for~~ ~~floating.~~ ~~Please~~ ~~note~~ ~~that~~ ~~male~~ ~~hours~~ ~~will~~ be ~~more~~ ~~abundant~~ ~~than~~ ~~female~~ ~~hours.~~
~~FloatPlans~~ - ~~Click~~ ~~here~~ to ~~view~~ ~~available~~ ~~appointments~~ on ~~our~~ ~~Google~~ ~~calendar.~~ ~~Email~~ Anyone interested in floating should email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. ~~Penn~~ You will be asked to attend an introductory meeting, give a blood sample, and fill out a few surveys prior to floating.
Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents

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~~The~~Float Pictures
The (R.E.S.T.) Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy tank. Shown here is the entrance to the tank, the front of the ~~tank.~~ ~~For~~ ~~reference,~~ ~~the~~ ~~door~~ ~~opens~~ ~~via~~ ~~hinges~~ ~~mounted~~ on ~~the~~ ~~opposite~~ ~~side~~ of ~~the~~ ~~door~~ ~~from~~ ~~that~~ ~~which~~ ~~this~~ ~~photo~~ ~~was~~ ~~taken.~~ tank.
Trey Connor and Dr. Richard Doyle standing by the rear end of the R.E.S.T. tank. This end is where the tank's specialized water filtration system is located.
This is the back of the tank. The top two PVC pipes are for ventilation; the bottom pipes are part of the filtration system.
The lab. A curtain ensures privacy for floaters as they enter and exit the tank.

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MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents
Form (#3).doc - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
*PLEASE NOTE**UPDATE*
Our ~~study~~ is ~~currently~~ ~~awaiting~~ ~~IRB~~ ~~approval~~ ~~for~~ ~~our~~ ~~new~~ ~~protocol.~~ ~~Persons~~ ~~interested~~ in ~~floating~~ ~~may~~ ~~still~~ ~~email~~ us current protocol has begun. It allows participants to be ~~put~~ float from 1 to 10 times during the semester, depending on a ~~list;~~ ~~however,~~ their preference. Please check the ~~tank~~ is ~~not~~ ~~currently~~ ~~available~~ Google Calender below to sign up for floating. ~~Once~~ ~~the~~ ~~tank~~ is ~~ready~~ ~~for~~ ~~new~~ ~~participants,~~ ~~this~~ ~~site~~ Please note that male hours will be ~~updated~~ ~~and~~ ~~the~~ ~~Google~~ ~~calender~~ ~~below~~ as ~~well.~~ ~~Sorry!~~ more abundant than female hours.
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours

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What Is Flotation-REST?
- Logistics
*PLEASE NOTE*
Our study is currently awaiting IRB approval for our new protocol. Persons interested in floating may still email us to be put on a list; however, the tank is not currently available for floating. Once the tank is ready for new participants, this site will be updated and the Google calender below as well. Sorry!
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours

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Flotation-R.E.S.T. is one, and often described as the most potent method, for achieving this zero-point of sensory stimulation. As a technology of studying the mind in isolation it was first explored by Dr.JohnLilly. Lilly, a famous and pioneering neuropsychologist, cyberneticist, interspecies communicator, and researcher into the nature of conciousness, invented several versions of flotation-R.E.S.T. before settling on what has become the standard version. In our laboratory, Flotation-R.E.S.T. consists of a darkened, sound-attentuated chamber - an enclosed fiberglass tub measuring 99" long, 56" wide and 45" high on the outside. The inside dimensions are 90" by 48" by 41". This chamber is filled with 10 inches of a dense epsom salt solution with a specific gravity of 1.30 and maintained at 94 Farhenheit. The specific gravity of 1.30 means that the solution is 30% denser than water which enables even the skinniest of people to float comfortably on the surface lending a unique sense of weightlessness almost unheard of in any other context. The temperature is kept as close to average skin temperature as possible which further reduces tactile stimulation. Subjects wear aquatic ear plugs to further reduce sound and to keep the salt water out of the ear canal. Typical sessions last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.
Why is it called R.E.S.T.?
isolation. ~~The~~
The term R.E.S.T. was coined in the late 1970's to make a clear seperation between sensationalized negative reports of forced isolation and the R.E.S.T. condition, which does not "deprive" the subject of his senses or alternatively overload the subject with one particular sensory input. Rather, R.E.S.T. is a study of normal human subjects in an altered environmental condition which approximates as closely as possible a sort of zero point of sensory input. The key factor in REST research, as opposed to classic "sensory deprivation" studies, is that it is the environment which is modulated and restricted; the subject is left as unfettered as possible by experimental conditions. The goal then is to explore the make up of mind-body interactions when seperated from usual visual, audio, and tactile frames of reference. (For more on the history of "Sensory Deprivation" as opposed to REST, please refer to RestrictedEnvironmentalStimulation:ResearchandClinicalApplications, Suedfeld, P. 1980)
What does it do?
Strictly speaking, Flotation-R.E.S.T. does nothing except allow the subject an ideal place to do absolutely nothing. However, several beneficial effects have been described in research literature as a result of all this "nothing-doing." A recent meta-analysis focused on many of the physiological benefits attributed to flotation-R.E.S.T. including lowered blood-pressure, lowered cortisol measures, and lowered adrenal levels; reported psychological effects include reports of positive mood change, reports of altered states of conciousness, and subjective feelings of relaxation; additionally R.E.S.T. has been implicated as performance enhancing on such wide ranging measure as archery, basketball, and performance on a signal detection task. For a more complete listing of prior research, please refer to our bibliography.
Is it safe?
In more than forty years of flotation-R.E.S.T. research there has never been a recorded incidence of physical harm. However, to completely insure the safety of all participants and lab staff we do have a few medical exclusions. Additionally, if you are claustrophobic or are normally apprhensive when spending time in isolation, then flotation-R.E.S.T. may not be for you. Occasionally, the high salt content of the water may cause irritation in sensitive body areas, especially if it happens to get in the eye. This irritation is perfectly normal and often subsides in a few minutes. Aquatic earplugs are provided to prevent any rare but possible complications from water entering the ear canal.
to ~~exit.Flotation-REST~~ exit.
Flotation-REST is a remarkably clean environment. Due to the high salt content of the water virtually no microorganisms can survive in it. The water is filtered after every session and daily additions of Hydrogen Peroxide and natural enzymes help to breakdown body oils which may accumulate over time. Even so, we ask that any participants shower soon before floating to keep body oils in the tank to a minimum.
By following all prescribed guidelines we can insure that flotation-R.E.S.T. continues to be a safe and suitable environment for the study of mind/body interactions.
Why are we studying Flotation-R.E.S.T.?

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Hail the Floaters
State's ~~Restricted~~
Restricted Environmental Stimuli Technique (R.E.S.T.) Flotation Laboratory - a
A center for the study of the genetics of stress, stimuli response, altered states of consciousness, and health.
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- Basics
What Is Flotation-REST?
~~Collegian~~ ~~Article~~ - a ~~short~~ ~~report~~ on ~~PSU's~~ ~~REST~~ ~~Lab~~ in ~~The~~ ~~Daily~~ ~~Collegian~~
~~Note:~~ ~~the~~ ~~article~~ ~~misquoted~~ ~~our~~ ~~study~~ ~~coordinator~~ in ~~regards~~ to ~~the~~ ~~flotation~~ ~~tank~~ in ~~the~~ ~~REST~~ ~~Lab~~ as ~~being~~ ~~"the~~ ~~only~~ of ~~its~~ ~~kind~~ in ~~North~~ ~~America."~~ ~~What~~ ~~was~~ ~~meant~~ is ~~that~~ we ~~are~~ ~~the~~ ~~only~~ ~~operating~~ ~~research~~ ~~lab~~ ~~studying~~ ~~flotation-REST~~ in ~~North~~ ~~America~~ ~~(according~~ to a ~~personal~~ ~~communication~~ ~~from~~ ~~Dr.~~ ~~Peter~~ ~~Suedfeld,~~ a ~~prolific~~ ~~figure~~ in ~~REST~~ ~~and~~ ~~extreme~~ ~~environments~~ ~~research).~~ ~~There~~ ~~are~~ ~~actually~~ ~~hundreds~~ of ~~flotation~~ ~~tanks~~ ~~scattered~~ ~~across~~ ~~the~~ ~~country~~ in ~~homes~~ ~~and~~ ~~commerical~~ ~~float~~ ~~centers.~~ A ~~listing~~ of ~~commerical~~ ~~float~~ ~~centers~~ ~~can~~ be ~~found~~ ~~here.~~- Logistics
FloatPlans - Click here to view available appointments on our Google calendar. Email psu.tank.lab@gmail.com with your request. Penn State Students: If you don't recieve a reply within a few days, check your junk mail folder as occasionally messages from Gmail are diverted there.
MedicalExclusions - for your protection and ours
- Documents
Consent Form - A copy of the current informed consent form for our ongoing study. Participants, save a copy for your records.
Information Sheet - a list of instructions on what to expect when you come to the REST Lab
WritingQuestions - a brief writing prompt to help participants organize their thoughts on their flotation experience
~~MedicalExclusions~~- Extras
Collegian Article - ~~for~~ ~~your~~ ~~protection~~ a short report on PSU's REST Lab in The Daily Collegian
Note: the article misquoted our study coordinator in regards to the flotation tank in the REST Lab as being "the only of its kind in North America." What was meant is that we are the only operating research lab studying flotation-REST in North America (according to a personal communication from Dr. Peter Suedfeld, a prolific figure in REST and ~~ours~~ extreme environments research). There are actually hundreds of flotation tanks scattered across the country in homes and commerical float centers. A listing of commerical float centers can be found here.
FloatGlossary - Receive, Decode, Deconstruct, Create, Transmit
Lab Staff Reports and Materials - Reports from explorers and associates, research materials, a space to learn and play

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In terms of clock-time and in relation to the clock-time I dedicate to sitting meditation daily (30 minutes) the 45 minute float seemed a little bit shorter than 30 minutes. After emerging from the tank on Monday, I could feel that the float had effected a calm detachment on identity and a connection to All that is, and was accompanied by a paradoxically languid vitality and slow alertness of Mind, Body, and Spirit.
Much gratitude!
December 18 2007
Recently, 2 colleagues asked me if I'd like to join them on a panel they were assembling for a conference called Pop Culture, which will take place in San Francisco this year. Jill McCracken saw interesting connections between her research on sex work and Morgan Gresham's research on anorexia. When Morgan asked me if I had any projects that might fit into this mix, a metonymy came to mind between the REST research and the sexuality study. Here's a our proposal:
Sex, Anorexia, and Sensory Deprivation: Subverting Embodied Rhetorics
Examining the rhetoric of the quotidian, or the public and personal meanings that affect everyday, even minute-to-minute decisions (Brummett 41) provides crucial insights into representations of marginalized populations and issues. The irreducibly participatory nature of research involving the sexualized body offers ways to articulate an embodied rhetoric of sexuality. Offering a participatory and performative presentation that combines analyses of sex work, anorexia, and research in sensory deprivation, this panel asks the audience to help them answer the questions they are considering related to how sexualized bodies embody rhetorics, and how centering marginalized populations can subvert and resist dominant constructions of identity. Those questions include:
* How are sexual identity and bodies related? * How do we negotiate the mind/body split in relation to sexuality? * How can technology be used to subvert and resist dominant inscriptions of identity, and sexual identity in particular?
The panel will address each of these questions, and others, through the lenses of identity, choice, and participation.
Speaker 1: Trey Conner "Wiki-ing Transpersonal Experience"
This report explores the intermezzo made available by an autoethnographic experience in REST (Restricted Environmental Stimuli Therapy) research and a follow-up sexuality survey. Qualitative response to the REST experience, on wiki, renders introspective and even "disembodied" experience in language, and this information can be correlated with genetic information provided by participants. By soliciting voluntary participation in sexuality surveys from the pool of participants who donated DNA in the REST research, REST researchers enlist genetics to inquire into the sexualized body. Understood as an Althusserian interpellation, voluntary participation in genetics research can itself be understood as a site for research, and transformation.
Speaker 2: Morgan Gresham "Preferring Not To: Choosing Identities and Body Boundaries"
Popular understandings of anorexia often focus on power and control--that is, anorexia is seen as a disease of young women who don't want to grow up and thereby attempt to wrest control of the chaos of maturity by starving. At its most basic interpretation, anorexia is a separation of mind and meat. I examine these constructs in light of issues of choice, subversion, and resistance. Positing that anorexia is a construct, created in language, we can deconstruct the popular notions of anorexia by focusing on the language anoretics use to describe themselves on pro-anorexia websites.
Speaker 3: Jill McCracken "Street Sex Work: Centering a Marginalized Population"
Based on an ethnographic study, Speaker 3 presents analyses of street sex worker representations (people who provide commercial sexual services on or near the street). Examining this language reveals a powerful rhetorical situation. Street sex workers live out a range of contradictory experiences about the nature and implications of these activities. Examining these rhetorical constructions and their related effects on policy elucidates the discursive complexity that exists in meaning-making systems and illustrates why sex work is so difficult to address locally, nationally, and globally. My analysis also offers alternative constructions that are generated by the marginalized populations themselves.

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TagPile:Negentropic Vortex, complicity, fire, FramptonMotionBlur, lattices, quasi-consciousness
VALIS (acronym of Vast Active Living Intel- ligence System, from an American film): A perturbation in the reality field in which a spontaneous self-monitoringnegentropicvortex is formed, tending progressively to subsume and incorporate its environment into arrange- ments of information. Characterized by quasi- consciousness, purpose, intelligence, growth and an armillary coherence. -Great Soviet Dictionary Sixth Edition, 1992
Solomon ~~where~~ it is ~~sung~~ whereitissung ..."Behold He standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices...GiordanoBruno''
Letterman's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phonecall from Michelle asking if he had the paperwork. He asked her why she wanted it and she said that she intended to prepare a pyre for herself fit for Giordano Bruno, the great scientist and heretic burned at the stake for daring to claim that the universe was conscious, alive, and divine. She was calling everyone she knew searching for bureaucratic material with which she would, as she put it, "fortify my fire". By now she had 30 bright orange recycling containers spilling over with tax forms, liens, applications for application and receipts of receipts. "I need more, much more, if I am to burn brightly enough to awaken this world." There was a slightly stoned giggle on the other end of the phone.
At once Letterman leaped to the conclusion that this was her way of asking for help. He was immediately in love. Letterman knew that he could help her. It had been Letterman's fantasy for years that he could help people. His psychiatrist once told him that to get well he would have to do two things: stop drinking coffee (which he hadn't done) and to stop trying to help people (he still tried to help people). As a matter of fact, he had no paperwork. He had no papers of any sort. He never did. He did his part tending the negentropicvortex at The Center for Sustainability, and considered it to be the job of the police to keep his papers in order. So giving Michelle papers by which she could roast herself in a melodramatic act of enlightened ecstatic heresy was beyond his power. Anyhow, he wouldn't have done it if he could, because Letterman hates paperwork: It makes him sneeze. "I have ten parental consent meta-forms." he said, pinching his nose to stave off a suggested sneeze. Because if he told her the truth she would hang up. The nose pinching made him sound like a (possibly mechanical) duck. We give them to parents to see if they will agree to release the information in their consent forms." Fat could feel his face stiffen and his jaw tighten. "Then they sign the consent forms and their kids visit the windmill, where they fill out the surveys about sustainability and compete for pre-sweetened prizes. I've got three boxes of those too. The reports, not the prizes." "Then I'll bike over to the Center," Michelle said in a rational, calm voice, the same tone in which she had requested the fuel for her own pyre. "And can I use the fire pit or has it been filled in?" He realized then that she was not asking for help. She was completely crazy. If she were sane she would realize that it was necessary to veil her purpose, because this way she made him guilty of complicity, and there was no way he could sign the forms for that.

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The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down."
-Wallace Stevens "Of Mere Being"
Andthenpeacefeatherbeginstoplay....

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Hagia Sophia spoke in the argot of the seismograph: She said, In current times, I am well equipped to track my own earth delivered orgasmic temblorings, wired as I am with meters and devices designed by boys who once studied with JPL scientists, then crawled through my crevices and ceilings, de=lighted, except for that spelunker's helmet.
There're a lot of them in that category, I said to myself. Sorry, Letterman; your answer is too vague.
had ~~dreams.~~ dreams. Was I awakening? Or was it too late, now, for insight?
"I should go over to World-Wide Travel," Letterman said, half to himself, "and talk to the lady there some more. About India. I have a feeling India is the place."
"Place for what?"
"Yes," I said, in the same theatrically harsh tones, "I agree with Doug."
"Zebra wouldn't have lied to me. The light beings and the yurt."
~~"There~~"Yikes! There is no 'Zebra,' " I said. ~~"It's~~ " It's yourself. Don't you recognize your own ~~self?"~~ self from another point of view?"
Now everything began to slow down for Letterman, with him.
"You don't think I should look for her?"
story; ~~everything~~ ~~fit.~~ Everything Fits. Focus on that and stop searching, you have already found her...
And then we searched onward, for in searching not for what we searched for, we found the ~~way~~ ~~the~~ Way. The waves came across the Pacific, across the solar system, coming in, breaking, returning back whence, in various forms, waves generative, proliferative, replicative, reverentially referential. And so we go, our desires driving past themselves into the break, because already heading back into what will be.
KingFelix

edited Intro

email@hidden () — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:00:39 -0500

Flotation-R.E.S.T. is one, and often described as the most potent method, for achieving this zero-point of sensory stimulation. As a technology of studying the mind in isolation it was first explored by Dr.JohnLilly. Lilly, a famous and pioneering neuropsychologist, cyberneticist, interspecies communicator, and researcher into the nature of conciousness, invented several versions of flotation-R.E.S.T. before settling on what has become the standard version. In our laboratory, Flotation-R.E.S.T. consists of a darkened, sound-attentuated chamber - an enclosed fiberglass tub measuring 99" long, 56" wide and 45" high on the outside. The inside dimensions are 90" by 48" by 41". This chamber is filled with 10 inches of a dense epsom salt solution with a specific gravity of 1.30 and maintained at 94 Farhenheit. The specific gravity of 1.30 means that the solution is 30% denser than water which enables even the skinniest of people to float comfortably on the surface lending a unique sense of weightlessness almost unheard of in any other context. The temperature is kept as close to average skin temperature as possible which further reduces tactile stimulation. Subjects wear aquatic ear plugs to further reduce sound and to keep the salt water out of the ear canal. Typical sessions last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour.
Why is it called R.E.S.T.?
to ~~Restricted~~ ~~Environmental~~ ~~Stimulation:~~ ~~Research~~ ~~and~~ ~~Clinical~~ ~~Applications,~~ RestrictedEnvironmentalStimulation:ResearchandClinicalApplications, Suedfeld, P. 1980)
What does it do?
Strictly speaking, Flotation-R.E.S.T. does nothing except allow the subject an ideal place to do absolutely nothing. However, several beneficial effects have been described in research literature as a result of all this "nothing-doing." A recent meta-analysis focused on many of the physiological benefits attributed to flotation-R.E.S.T. including lowered blood-pressure, lowered cortisol measures, and lowered adrenal levels; reported psychological effects include reports of positive mood change, reports of altered states of conciousness, and subjective feelings of relaxation; additionally R.E.S.T. has been implicated as performance enhancing on such wide ranging measure as archery, basketball, and performance on a signal detection task. For a more complete listing of prior research, please refer to our bibliography.
Is it safe?
In more than forty years of flotation-R.E.S.T. research there has never been a recorded incidence of physical harm. However, to completely insure the safety of all participants and lab staff we do have a few medical exclusions. Additionally, if you are claustrophobic or are normally apprhensive when spending time in isolation, then flotation-R.E.S.T. may not be for you. Occasionally, the high salt content of the water may cause irritation in sensitive body areas, especially if it happens to get in the eye. This irritation is perfectly normal and often subsides in a few minutes. Aquatic earplugs are provided to prevent any rare but possible complications from water entering the ear canal.
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~~Flotation-REST~~ exit.Flotation-REST is a remarkably clean environment. Due to the high salt content of the water virtually no microorganisms can survive in it. The water is filtered after every session and daily additions of Hydrogen Peroxide and natural enzymes help to breakdown body oils which may accumulate over time. Even so, we ask that any participants shower soon before floating to keep body oils in the tank to a minimum.
By following all prescribed guidelines we can insure that flotation-R.E.S.T. continues to be a safe and suitable environment for the study of mind/body interactions.
Why are we studying Flotation-R.E.S.T.?
As a unique collaboration between faculty in Anthropology, English, Education, and the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State's Flotation-R.E.S.T. Laboratory is a part of an emerging discourse on the use and efficacy of mind/body technologies. Flotation-R.E.S.T. has been indicated in the treatment of stress and muscletensionpain as well as rheumatoidarthritis,chronicpain,PMSandahostofotherailments. There is also research detailing flotation-R.E.S.T. as a means of enhancing performance in athletics and concentration and as a means of inducing an introspective and relaxing altered state of conciousness.
individuals ~~described~~ experience and describe visual and auditory anomalies and strong altered states of consciousness, whereas other may not? Are there perhaps genetic influences which translate into different ways of beholding the world - inhibiting or expanding access to different modes of mind/body interaction? Additionally, recentresearch into the science of the self has once more engaged the popular imagination into the question that originally motivated John Lilly: How much of "us," or our sense of selfhood, is a product of stimuli and how much is a product of internal processes?
Flotation-R.E.S.T. presents a particular kind of control case of the individual isolated from external stimuli. What can this particular environment reveal to us about cognitive differences among human beings?
There is much left to be explored in the realm of R.E.S.T. research. Questions such as: What are the mechanisms of the relaxation response induced by flotation-R.E.S.T.? Does flotation-R.E.S.T. offer lasting benefits? Is there a training effect, an expectancy effect, a setting effect?

edited ClayR

email@hidden () — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:22:13 -0500

My work with with clay begins from the experience that emptiness and space are not voids, but entities unto themselves. Vessels of "non-being" such as pinch pots, in both their fabrication and their observation, suggest that far from enslaved to an all-knowing mind, our sensory organs are themselves autonomously conscious entities capable of apprehending and manipulating aspects of reality that, strictly speaking, aren't there. My fingertips, contacting clay, become charged with the "non-being" we can host, together. "Non-being", then, is simply a label for an aspect of "mute", "empty" space that is in fact vital and uncannily absent from much of contemporary life. Working with clay, my hands/eyes/muscles/bones/chin/skin divine a sacred feature of reality, a material spirit of sanctuary.
wow! i have run off in a completely different direction.. more to come, someday, on the lovely Clay.
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