INTANGIBLE MATERIALITY COLLECTION - WRITTEN BY BRUCE DUENSING - Part 3
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This particular blog you are in right now began on June 2 of this year and one of my regrets were that most all of Bruce Duensing's greatest articles were written prior to that date. For that reason I have gathered up all of them since the inception of Bruce's Intangible Materiality making my collection in this blog complete with this addition of 57 articles. Due to the numbers of articles, it probably would behoove you to put this particular page in your bookmarks or favorites since there is no way you could read it all in one visit.
If you discover something that suits your fancy, simply click on the picture within that article and it will take you directly to the complete article at Intangible Materiality.
In these stories, you will find UFOs mincing with numerous topics and their subjects within the realm of Intangible Materiality. For more information about Bruce Duensing, see 'About the Author' at the bottom of the page.
To The Reader from Bruce Duensing.....
The enigmatic shadow, the patterns of light and the talisman of meaning we overlay upon images reflect upon a mirror of process which cannot be ascribed to any specific location nor any fleeting phantasm we create as our permanent address and a point of reference.
We swim upstream toward a destination veiled by the peeling paint, the lace curtains stained by dust which billow through the cracked windows, the discarded implements which rust in the weeds which reside within a persistent dream unraveled within us like the flickering projections in an abandoned theater, they have assumed a sentient presence that is pressed onto the raw ground of dawn, when we arise to dream.
Dying On The Vine
Dedicated to my lost companion, John
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The woman sat on the edge of the sidewalk and next to her was a battered cardboard box full of small puppets. She was out of place, a refugee from somewhere else. Her eyes were not seeing although they were open, gazing in withdrawal. In one hand she waved one puppet up and down as if it were a talisman and sitting next to her was a child that was used to this ritual. I was a passerby, a fellow refugee by choice. When I was eighteen I placed myself in exile from an existential resignation for one year. I walked out of my parent’s home with fifty dollars and a sleeping bag.
I was walking through Omaha on a empty boulevard in under the blue green haze of streetlights when I saw him. He was a solitary figu re sitting alone smoking his cigarette on a bench in the few hours before dawn. It was just he and I on the hard surface and right angles of this scene. We began to exchange our stories. I told him I was taking an extended walk. He told me he was a night cook at some diner whose name I have long since forgotten. He was the same age as I am now, approaching sixty. He was stockily built and spoke with a thick Slavic accent. As he crushed his cigarette out by twisting his foot over it, he asked me if I was hungry.
The Allegorical Reality of A Vampire
Dedicated to HP Lovecraft and Werner Herzog
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Is Evil Supernatural?
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond."
William George Armstrong
This series from time to time,examines monsters as extensions of the human condition in order to extend the range of their respective definitions. Why do they persist? What niche do they occupy and why have we20placed them there? Perhaps they are metaphors made flesh, truth being stranger than fiction
In other words, they may be a description, a reference, rather than what appears on the surface. If this is so, are monsters among us? Take for example...the Psychic Vampire.
As far as the sacrifice of life toward the vampire, in this case as well as in others, it is a matter of the historical record. To this writer, when we compare Adolph Hitler to this mythological creature, some eerie semblance of the two are merged together in an icon comparable to Nosferatu, a Vampir. Then there is the matter of blood as substance of great value to such a Vampire as this.
The Extraterrestrial Follies
Dedicated To My Friends John Lennon and Joseph Capp
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
The visible world is built upon language. A language is a formulation of cliche, a semi malleable stereotype and is referential in that it is only a description of the world, not the world itself. Each observer of the world is a referential entity in as being self referential i n composition.
I am one of a comparatively small group of individuals who are labeled essentially as a genetic deviance from the what comprises the larger society of the species I belong to. Of course in this there is a recognition that the majority write the rules of what essentially is a game of consensus. If an extraterrestrial should communicate, as some imagine that this could occur, they would likely be met with misunderstanding, bias, gossip, political maneuvering and distrust.
In this situation through the course of most of my life,I have been an alien among my own species in that I have a form of autism. Albert Einstein has created the most accurate description of being on the autistic spectrum; "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."
The title and subtitle of this blog is perhaps an autobiographical pun. I am communicating to you in the best way I know how. This makes for some miscommunication and an odd quality perhaps to you that is an over kill of exposition.
As a young man, I felt an intuitive kinship toward the extraterrestrials of my projected and strangely dispassion ate view of the strange creatures who comprised my own kind, who, in fact, were not my own kind.
Part One: Behind The UFO Is A Visible Quantum Language
Dedicated To Dr Ervin Laszlo
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The Medium Is In The Message
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations of the structure of space" -Erwin Schrodinger.
"The existence of the saucer was deduced from testimonies. But you cannot base science on testimonies. Therefore the scientific proof [of the existence of the saucer] was nonexistant. Since a "real evidence" of their existence was a prerequisite (apparently legitimate), the flying saucer file will probably never receive any answer." -Amie Michel
"If we are ever going to find an element in nature that explains time and space, we surely have to find something deeper than space or time-something that has no location in space and time." -John Wheeler
Part Two: Behind The UFO Is A Visible Quantum Language
Dedicated To My Spiritual Uncle, Monsieur Bon Bon
The Reinvention of Reality
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Within The Layers of This Onion
This post is a brief survey of the context of this phenomenon. It is significant that the UFO has positioned itself at a critical juncture in a manifest evolutionary process of humankind, akin to an interval, a period wherein as former myths fall by the wayside, and the consequent revision of reality has yet to arrive. The term UFO is a misdirection and an abstraction. It is a quantum message wherein the medium is the message of a quantum shift in consciousness. The same physics that produced nuclear weapons has now arrived at the threshold of a territory that was formerly and exclusively the province of metaphysics. Our models of reality in this interval are being revised. The arrival of the UFO is not accidental. However nearly every theory toward them only recognizes the face value of the image and not the fact that it challenges the conceptual basis of reality purposefully, that the universe is a machine. It is this fact that it represents a machine...a model of it's construction that confounds us very pointedly. It is spelling out by the demonstration, by modality, here...the universe is organically sentient. This is the most profound evolutionary discovery that is virally seeping into us, that everything is interconnected. Quanta and the things which are quanta such as ourselves as living organisms are intrinsically connected non locally. If you look at the current state of the world, we see the results of our former view, that the world is made like a machine of discrete parts. As a result in our delusion, as it were, we have inadvertently engineered the demise of our own basis of existence. Entropy has set in within this interval and this long epoch is literally running out of fuel. This context is critical to understanding the import of what we observe. If you can read this message in the language in which it is presented, it is addressed to us, as it as much an invitation. This is not about imagined phantoms or psychological disturbances, or political positioning. It prompts us to reinvent our terms of reality and of the state and station of consciousness...it is reorienting us to a new model of our place within a larger universe.
Part One: The Fall Of A Fundamentalism As Reality
Dedicated To Rene Daumal and Edgar Mitchell
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Scaling Mount Analog In Search Of The Phoenix
"It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion."
-Rene Daumal
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition." -Marshall McLuhan
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest." -G. I. Gurdjieff
Fundamentalism, in religion, refers to a belief in the infallibility, and literal interpretation, of a doctrine or holy book. Such beliefs are often the basis for a movement that sees itself opposed to Modernism. Until 1950 there was no entry for "fundamentalism" in the Oxford English Dictionary;the derivative fundamentalist was added only on its second 1989 edition.
Is a literal interpretation regarding the UFO phenomenon a misdirection or is a metaphysical approach too fuzzy for what has been observed? Perhaps it is both literal and metaphysical in a quantum frame of reference. Between the exoteric and the esoteric, there lies this territory of this phenomenon. Dualism positioned between the intangible and material has been a bane to the study of the UFO. Is there a quantum channel we are receiving and are unable to recognize? If so, is this channel capable of functioning as a transceiver? According to quantum theory this is possible.
Part Two: The Fall Of A Fundamentalism
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"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow." - Werner Heisenberg
"You are standing on a sea shore and waves wash up an old hat, an old box, a shoe, a dead fish and they lie on the shore. You say; 'Chance; nonsense!" The Chinese mind asks "What does it mean that these things come together?" -Carl Jung
A Phantasm Full of Secrets: Which One?
Dedicated To Antonin Artaud
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The Haunting Of Stephenville
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood20there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." -Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe brilliantly utilized the metaphor of a decaying house manifested as the haunted inner landscape of mental illness inhabited by his tortured protagonist, Roderick Usher, who was obsessed with the demons of his own thoughts which ultimately lead to the destruction of it's habitation. The locality of this play was neither interior nor exterior but rather where the two conjoin through the eyes of an individual who, in a play on the amphibious nature of a man, much like you and I, who has been stationed between the two.
The Quantum and Metaphysical Context of A Crop Circle
Dedicated To Gregory Bateson
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A Synchronization of Patterns
"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."
- Gregory Bateson
This post draws upon the respective theories of Islamic metaphysics and quantum physics, as well as Christian metaphor, geometry and music theory in relation to current events to examine the po tential interrelated aspects of what we term "crop circles." This being a exercise in a math where all sums equal one.
Part One: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new. -PD Ouspensky
"What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is, whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be. Adam must have experienced such a moment."
-George Kelly
Part Two: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
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The Trickster Of An Evolutionary Metamorphosis
Imagination: "is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to spontaneously generate images within one's own mind. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process."
If we explore the locus of imagination, it describes an intermediate state of cognition and conceptual formulation very similar to that of a potential state as described in quantum "mechanics."
The products of this state are intangible at their source from a empirical point of view and yet one can transcribe them into materiality by the classical "arts" of creative processes such as painting, writing, etc.
This is an axis of discernment inasmuch as most induction experiences as well as UFO sightings have been relegated to "imagination", which is a form of reductionism when it comes to fully exploring this facet of consciousness in relation to the intermediate states in which these phenomenon manifest themselves.
An Unconventional Amphibious Aircraft
Dedicated In Memory of Paul Hill
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A Technolo gical Civilization Based Upon Magnesium
The classic shape of the UFO is lenticular and if we follow this image as a empirical piece of evidence toward an aeronautical vehicle where does this lead?
This writer, although strongly trending toward a quantum explanation for the UFO phenomenon, always keeps several theories competing with one another as a counterpoint to the conceptual models that I favor. With this is mind, this post examines some nuts and bolts I have up on my workshop table.
This concept of the saucer as applied to a potential hypersonic aircraft was seriously investigated and evaluated as a lenticular lifting body whose lower half acted as a heat shield and by re-entering at a high angle of attack, the top of the vehicle would be shielded from the atmospheric resistance that is generated by heat. This craft was predicted to be about 0.7 and subsonic glide ratio as high as 6. This concept proceeded as far as low speed wind-tunnel tests which demonstrated that it could land successfully. The interesting outcome of these tests was that it was aerodynamically viable. The only reason it was not further engineered was the problem in applying current technology in relation to it's overall volume, in other words it could not carry enough payload and fuel internally to be useful.
The Sociological Environment of A Phenomenon
Dedicated To Thomas Robert Malthus
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A MALTHUSIAN CORRELATION?
I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve {the human condition} than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general mistrust. -Albert Einstein
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
-Charles Dickens
From time to time, I thought it was a very worthwhile effort to take into consideration, those individuals who have paid for the pursuit of truth, by their time and energy, on the behalf of others, in the field of the UFO phenomenon, which is a personal journey beyond one's previous boundaries in a very public manner.
Part One: Ashkaic Ghosts and Genetic Forms
Dedicated To Itzhak Bentov
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ENERGY AS COHERENT INFORMATION
Information as a coherent form of energy is arranged in the genetics of an alphabetic equation and throughout our lives, we are continually producing it from the lower energy sources we consume in the form of minerals, cellular life, crystals,vertebrate, air, water,chemical compounds and invertebrate matter.
Perhaps an interactive exercise we can undertake as an experimentation is to sit down with a watch which has a second hand, and then proceed to intentionally will your internal babbling dialog of continual associations to cease and desist..for how long can you do this? Does consciousness precede thought?
In other words, can you have self awareness without language as it may be possible that self awareness may be axiomatic if is defined by relationships which arise from an observer although they may have no expression. If this is so we should then reasonable consider that consciousness is more universal as a principle, than we currently recognize.
Part Two: Quantum Subjectivity and The Holographic Model.
Dedicated To RD Laing
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The Relationship of Objectivity and Observers
"Eternity is the infinite existence of every moment of time. ... Eternity has one dimension more than time. ... If the space of time is four-dimensional, then the space of eternity is five-dimensional. (and) The sixth dimension is the line of the actualization of all possibilities."
-PD Ouspensky
So, again, if we assume a coherent unity to these various aspects of consciousness, we then ask ourselves fine,but what is the proverbial carrier wave that allows a field of interaction? Further perhaps as a sublimation, we may or may not infer as this line of reasoning may be traced to it's root in a question, does matter in of itself in it's reciprocal relationships exhibit a form of sentience within a hierarchy of nested organizational complexities ? Is the information field such a carrier wave which provides for nested individuated form beyond death? If such a locus of a holographic model of information exists and is coherent, is this similar then to also an earlier model akin to the universal mind,which is the content of such an entity, an Akashic record?
Daylight and Dreams
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"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." -Jean Paul Sarte
Exteriorized Manifestations Of A Global DoubleBind
Is there an emotional and instinctual component to the anomalous events percolating as if it were a water vapor released from a boiling pot? If so, could this potential field of energy condense to fill in a template that we provide both collectively and subconsciously? If there is a subconscious, psychological aspect of anomalous phenomenon that propels such events as psycho-kinesis, poltergeist phenomenon or alleged demonic possessions in relation to the classic double bind wherein one is faced with two equally unworkable options in a dance between fight or flight, which produces a release of emotional kinetic energy made manifest, then I ask is there a corresponding hierarchy of both origin and manifestation within our species as a whole, that produces the spectrum of either dream like or nightmarish intermediary realities whose source is our collective anxieties? Is this a quantum principle tied to the illogic and deep-seated instinctual subconscious within our species that is caught in a double bind? The Extraterrestrial archetypes, the strange creatures of an unknown nature that haunt a vanishing and at peril ecology, are these manifestations of a collective nature within propagations of our own species inadvertent creation?
When The Other Shoe Drops.
The Subjected Observer As An Illusionist of Facts
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Tragicomedy of Objective Relativism
"I think therefore I am. This was the infamous statement Descartes made when seeking to prove the validity of his reality that is applicable to all sentient beings. After this, Descartes appears to have become a little bit stuck in discovering a similar truth to apply to all things that are not Descartes. Is objectivity a useful tool toward the unknown or is objectivity a result of relativism that is dependent on critical assumptions that may be founded upon an arbitrary position rooted in self interest? Is objectivity a reactive and defensive psychology of assumptions toward a reality, that in of itself that is non judgmental or ambivalent toward one's position in a situation? Is the avoidance of enfoldment within subjectivity, by using objectivity an illusion? Is this the lesson of the paranormal that is being continually reformulated?
The Water Clock
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"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you see the mountain. We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."
-Loren Eisisley
It was a long since vanished summer afternoon, whilst riding my tricycle up and down the city sidewalk under my mothers watchful eyes as she sat on the stoop,when in a jarring bolt of recognition, I realized I had returned here. I made an oath to myself that I would never forget, and I will inscribe this memory of riding this tricycle as a way to remind a future me as to not forget this get this glimpse of reoccurance. That was fifty three years ago.
The Paranormal and The Autistic
Holographic Consciousness: The Continuum of Self and Non Self Sentience
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"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." -Jean Paul Sarte
Autism and Non Consensus Reality
If some of you have read my earlier posts, you know I am on the autistic spectrum as having Asperger's Syndrome as well as having many lifelong strange psychic and paranormal phenomenon that I have accommodated as my shadow, while not relinquishing my own skepticism toward either the experiences themselves or their causation because as an autistic I digest the world by systematizing it. Lately, through correspondence with a autistic friend,Dr Coral Hull, with similar and yet distinct experiences, I have have begun to examine something that should have been apparent all along to someone who is not autistic...is there a link between my autism and these experiences? More importantly, is there a linkage between perception of alternate or non consensus realities and the characteristics of my state?
Meta Programming Reality
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A Holographic Continuum of Information
Some years ago, Franklin Merill Wolff wrote a fascinating book entitled "Pathways to Space",as well as The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object." In his chapter "Aphorisms on Consciousness Without An Object" Merrell-Wolff conveys a conceptual model the would predate insertion into a field faceted by multi-dimensionality which is simply non distinguishable space. Dr Lilly's commentary observes;"The introceptive spaces, the universe originates on a ground, a substrate of Consciousness-Without-an-Object: the basic fabric of the universe beyond space, beyond time, beyond topology, beyond matter, beyond energy, is Consciousness. Consciousness without any form, without any reification, without any realization." Merill Wolf terms this space, a state of consciousness exhibiting "high indifference." Much like the teachings of Buddha, language seems not be to a prerequisite for consciousness.
The Metaphysics Of Quantum Paranormality
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The Exploration of A Future Scientific Pantheism
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy
But He beholds the light and whence it flows.
He sees it in his joy;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."
-William Wordsworth
This is a post that examines the holographic model of consciousness from both a traditional metaphysical view which is then compared to quantum theory wherein both may be seen as two methodologies that arrive at the same destination, which affirms both in a similar reciprocal relationship of the observer and the observed. Is this the essence of paranormality? In the experiential locus of a holographic reality, does the interaction of a self and non-self consciousness create a intermediary reality where precognition, ufology, near death experiences,ghosts and electronic voice phenomenon all intertwine from the same platform?
Is there an inevitable convergence between esoteric teaching and science which would create a new scientific pantheism? I suggest to you that we prearranged our bias toward components rather than the coherence of the entire organism, this may be the "why" the paradigm of consciousness is experiencing a shift in relation to a growing holistic and enfolded awareness of interconnectivity in many apparently separate hierarchies, which are actually nested within one another.
The Far Country
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We have left behind us, those who have chosen to stay, in order to explore a legendary continent in an obscure realm that is inter-positioned within the dream of realities vouchsafed in seals by the interpretative skills of a self referential consensus, and walk beyond the circular labyrinth they inhabit toward a beacon placed upon our path whose origin is as mystical as our own, toward the far country.
In our examinations in the far country of our cognition, we search for the nexus of the transmutation, as if we stand on the shore of a horizon without end, where waveforms of energy collapse into semi solidity in the minds eye of the observer. In this, the color of arrangement or, if you will, the nature of the container, formulates a epiphenomenon, an image, a thought, a feeling from a phenomenon as colorless and tasteless as water.
The Relativity of Experiential Objectivity and The Paranormal
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A Biography of The Trickster
"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty." - Lao Tzu
Quintessence was synonymous with aether as a distinction termed as the fifth element after earth, fire, water and air as well as being a hypothetical and invisble form of dark energy; postulated by the science of physics, in one of many such attempts to explain the acceleration of the visible universe. This ontological relativity in terms is an apt example of our reality maps, as the preeminent theorist of logic, WV Quine pointed out,our theories of what exists are not sufficiently determined by the experiences that give rise to them, quite different accounts of what there is, each with its own interpretation of the evidence, may be equally in accord with that evidence.
Biology Versus Reality: Through A Lense Darkly
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The Alchemical Self
Even if you have not awakened,
if you realize that your perceptions and activities
are all like dreams and you view them with detachment,
not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination,
then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
Muso Kokushi ( 1275-1351)
Japanese Zen Master, Calligrapher, Poet
"There are arguments to suggest that information also plays an active role. Vision is a case in point. As signals move from the retina along the optic nerve they meet a flood of information coming down from the visual cortex. This downward flow arises out of the various strategies employed in seeing and has the effect of actively screening, coding and comparing incoming signals. In this sense our vision is not a passive gathering of information but prehensile, a purposeful activity of information throughout the entire visual system from the muscles around the eyes to the cortex itself.The immune system could also be considered as an activity of information, one that constantly scans the environment. As an active pattern recognition system it is perhaps as complex as the brain itself." -F David Peat, Theoretical Physicist
Part One: A Survey of Mount Merub
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Are Random Phenomenon An Illusion?
"If, after seeing a room in chaos, it is subsequently found in good order, the sensible inference is not that time is running backwards, but that some intelligent person has been in to tidy it up. If you find the letters of the alphabet ordered on a piece of paper to form a beautiful s onnet, you do not deduce that teams of monkeys have been kept for millions of years strumming on typewriters, but rather that Shakespeare has passed this way." -Matthews, The Nuclear Apple.
What is the principle operating behind the scrim of randomness that provides Mr Jones with a involuntarily observation, a close encounter with a UFO and Mr Smith does not, while Mr Smith encounters a ghostly phantasm lurking in the hallway of his home and Mr Jones has not nor probably never will? At the same time, we consider coherence in relation to chaos, or for that matter, entropy versus exponential growth...what is shuffling this deck, that in effect, provides for the distribution of both as if one were the subject of an agency whose criteria tipped the odds either in favor of the house or the hand that you play? What are the statistical probabilities that experiences should arise in the face of the greater odds that they should not? Is there a similarity between the improbabilities of the physical universe in relation to those we experience directly in our observation of it? Gary Schwartz aptly summed the situation up neatly.
About The Author
My origin and home is located on the plains of the Midwest, where the emptiness and expanse of the open fields of prairie grasses make this location appear to be both the center of space itself as well as being far beyond the circumference of it. As a young boy and as an adult I experience this world through the spectrum of autism, albeit at the more functional set point of it's range.
The point of observation I inhabit is both strange and familiar. This site is a means to explore both the paranormality of life itself as well as the same qualities operating beyond the boundaries of sensate cognition.
- Bruce Duensing
Source: Intangible Materiality
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This particular blog you are in right now began on June 2 of this year and one of my regrets were that most all of Bruce Duensing's greatest articles were written prior to that date. For that reason I have gathered up all of them since the inception of Bruce's Intangible Materiality making my collection in this blog complete with this addition of 57 articles. Due to the numbers of articles, it probably would behoove you to put this particular page in your bookmarks or favorites since there is no way you could read it all in one visit.
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In these stories, you will find UFOs mincing with numerous topics and their subjects within the realm of Intangible Materiality. For more information about Bruce Duensing, see 'About the Author' at the bottom of the page.
To The Reader from Bruce Duensing.....
The enigmatic shadow, the patterns of light and the talisman of meaning we overlay upon images reflect upon a mirror of process which cannot be ascribed to any specific location nor any fleeting phantasm we create as our permanent address and a point of reference.
We swim upstream toward a destination veiled by the peeling paint, the lace curtains stained by dust which billow through the cracked windows, the discarded implements which rust in the weeds which reside within a persistent dream unraveled within us like the flickering projections in an abandoned theater, they have assumed a sentient presence that is pressed onto the raw ground of dawn, when we arise to dream.
Dying On The Vine
Dedicated to my lost companion, John
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The woman sat on the edge of the sidewalk and next to her was a battered cardboard box full of small puppets. She was out of place, a refugee from somewhere else. Her eyes were not seeing although they were open, gazing in withdrawal. In one hand she waved one puppet up and down as if it were a talisman and sitting next to her was a child that was used to this ritual. I was a passerby, a fellow refugee by choice. When I was eighteen I placed myself in exile from an existential resignation for one year. I walked out of my parent’s home with fifty dollars and a sleeping bag.
I was walking through Omaha on a empty boulevard in under the blue green haze of streetlights when I saw him. He was a solitary figu re sitting alone smoking his cigarette on a bench in the few hours before dawn. It was just he and I on the hard surface and right angles of this scene. We began to exchange our stories. I told him I was taking an extended walk. He told me he was a night cook at some diner whose name I have long since forgotten. He was the same age as I am now, approaching sixty. He was stockily built and spoke with a thick Slavic accent. As he crushed his cigarette out by twisting his foot over it, he asked me if I was hungry.
The Allegorical Reality of A Vampire
Dedicated to HP Lovecraft and Werner Herzog
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Is Evil Supernatural?
"Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
"However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond."
William George Armstrong
This series from time to time,examines monsters as extensions of the human condition in order to extend the range of their respective definitions. Why do they persist? What niche do they occupy and why have we20placed them there? Perhaps they are metaphors made flesh, truth being stranger than fiction
In other words, they may be a description, a reference, rather than what appears on the surface. If this is so, are monsters among us? Take for example...the Psychic Vampire.
As far as the sacrifice of life toward the vampire, in this case as well as in others, it is a matter of the historical record. To this writer, when we compare Adolph Hitler to this mythological creature, some eerie semblance of the two are merged together in an icon comparable to Nosferatu, a Vampir. Then there is the matter of blood as substance of great value to such a Vampire as this.
The Extraterrestrial Follies
Dedicated To My Friends John Lennon and Joseph Capp
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain
The visible world is built upon language. A language is a formulation of cliche, a semi malleable stereotype and is referential in that it is only a description of the world, not the world itself. Each observer of the world is a referential entity in as being self referential i n composition.
I am one of a comparatively small group of individuals who are labeled essentially as a genetic deviance from the what comprises the larger society of the species I belong to. Of course in this there is a recognition that the majority write the rules of what essentially is a game of consensus. If an extraterrestrial should communicate, as some imagine that this could occur, they would likely be met with misunderstanding, bias, gossip, political maneuvering and distrust.
In this situation through the course of most of my life,I have been an alien among my own species in that I have a form of autism. Albert Einstein has created the most accurate description of being on the autistic spectrum; "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."
The title and subtitle of this blog is perhaps an autobiographical pun. I am communicating to you in the best way I know how. This makes for some miscommunication and an odd quality perhaps to you that is an over kill of exposition.
As a young man, I felt an intuitive kinship toward the extraterrestrials of my projected and strangely dispassion ate view of the strange creatures who comprised my own kind, who, in fact, were not my own kind.
Part One: Behind The UFO Is A Visible Quantum Language
Dedicated To Dr Ervin Laszlo
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The Medium Is In The Message
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations of the structure of space" -Erwin Schrodinger.
"The existence of the saucer was deduced from testimonies. But you cannot base science on testimonies. Therefore the scientific proof [of the existence of the saucer] was nonexistant. Since a "real evidence" of their existence was a prerequisite (apparently legitimate), the flying saucer file will probably never receive any answer." -Amie Michel
"If we are ever going to find an element in nature that explains time and space, we surely have to find something deeper than space or time-something that has no location in space and time." -John Wheeler
Part Two: Behind The UFO Is A Visible Quantum Language
Dedicated To My Spiritual Uncle, Monsieur Bon Bon
The Reinvention of Reality
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Within The Layers of This Onion
This post is a brief survey of the context of this phenomenon. It is significant that the UFO has positioned itself at a critical juncture in a manifest evolutionary process of humankind, akin to an interval, a period wherein as former myths fall by the wayside, and the consequent revision of reality has yet to arrive. The term UFO is a misdirection and an abstraction. It is a quantum message wherein the medium is the message of a quantum shift in consciousness. The same physics that produced nuclear weapons has now arrived at the threshold of a territory that was formerly and exclusively the province of metaphysics. Our models of reality in this interval are being revised. The arrival of the UFO is not accidental. However nearly every theory toward them only recognizes the face value of the image and not the fact that it challenges the conceptual basis of reality purposefully, that the universe is a machine. It is this fact that it represents a machine...a model of it's construction that confounds us very pointedly. It is spelling out by the demonstration, by modality, here...the universe is organically sentient. This is the most profound evolutionary discovery that is virally seeping into us, that everything is interconnected. Quanta and the things which are quanta such as ourselves as living organisms are intrinsically connected non locally. If you look at the current state of the world, we see the results of our former view, that the world is made like a machine of discrete parts. As a result in our delusion, as it were, we have inadvertently engineered the demise of our own basis of existence. Entropy has set in within this interval and this long epoch is literally running out of fuel. This context is critical to understanding the import of what we observe. If you can read this message in the language in which it is presented, it is addressed to us, as it as much an invitation. This is not about imagined phantoms or psychological disturbances, or political positioning. It prompts us to reinvent our terms of reality and of the state and station of consciousness...it is reorienting us to a new model of our place within a larger universe.
Part One: The Fall Of A Fundamentalism As Reality
Dedicated To Rene Daumal and Edgar Mitchell
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Scaling Mount Analog In Search Of The Phoenix
"It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion."
-Rene Daumal
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition." -Marshall McLuhan
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest." -G. I. Gurdjieff
Fundamentalism, in religion, refers to a belief in the infallibility, and literal interpretation, of a doctrine or holy book. Such beliefs are often the basis for a movement that sees itself opposed to Modernism. Until 1950 there was no entry for "fundamentalism" in the Oxford English Dictionary;the derivative fundamentalist was added only on its second 1989 edition.
Is a literal interpretation regarding the UFO phenomenon a misdirection or is a metaphysical approach too fuzzy for what has been observed? Perhaps it is both literal and metaphysical in a quantum frame of reference. Between the exoteric and the esoteric, there lies this territory of this phenomenon. Dualism positioned between the intangible and material has been a bane to the study of the UFO. Is there a quantum channel we are receiving and are unable to recognize? If so, is this channel capable of functioning as a transceiver? According to quantum theory this is possible.
Part Two: The Fall Of A Fundamentalism
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"It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of human nature, in different times or different cultural environments or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet, that is, if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow." - Werner Heisenberg
"You are standing on a sea shore and waves wash up an old hat, an old box, a shoe, a dead fish and they lie on the shore. You say; 'Chance; nonsense!" The Chinese mind asks "What does it mean that these things come together?" -Carl Jung
A Phantasm Full of Secrets: Which One?
Dedicated To Antonin Artaud
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The Haunting Of Stephenville
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood20there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." -Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe brilliantly utilized the metaphor of a decaying house manifested as the haunted inner landscape of mental illness inhabited by his tortured protagonist, Roderick Usher, who was obsessed with the demons of his own thoughts which ultimately lead to the destruction of it's habitation. The locality of this play was neither interior nor exterior but rather where the two conjoin through the eyes of an individual who, in a play on the amphibious nature of a man, much like you and I, who has been stationed between the two.
The Quantum and Metaphysical Context of A Crop Circle
Dedicated To Gregory Bateson
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A Synchronization of Patterns
"If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time."
- Gregory Bateson
This post draws upon the respective theories of Islamic metaphysics and quantum physics, as well as Christian metaphor, geometry and music theory in relation to current events to examine the po tential interrelated aspects of what we term "crop circles." This being a exercise in a math where all sums equal one.
Part One: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
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I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new. -PD Ouspensky
"What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is, whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be. Adam must have experienced such a moment."
-George Kelly
Part Two: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?
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The Trickster Of An Evolutionary Metamorphosis
Imagination: "is the ability to form mental images, or the ability to spontaneously generate images within one's own mind. It helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process."
If we explore the locus of imagination, it describes an intermediate state of cognition and conceptual formulation very similar to that of a potential state as described in quantum "mechanics."
The products of this state are intangible at their source from a empirical point of view and yet one can transcribe them into materiality by the classical "arts" of creative processes such as painting, writing, etc.
This is an axis of discernment inasmuch as most induction experiences as well as UFO sightings have been relegated to "imagination", which is a form of reductionism when it comes to fully exploring this facet of consciousness in relation to the intermediate states in which these phenomenon manifest themselves.
An Unconventional Amphibious Aircraft
Dedicated In Memory of Paul Hill
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A Technolo gical Civilization Based Upon Magnesium
The classic shape of the UFO is lenticular and if we follow this image as a empirical piece of evidence toward an aeronautical vehicle where does this lead?
This writer, although strongly trending toward a quantum explanation for the UFO phenomenon, always keeps several theories competing with one another as a counterpoint to the conceptual models that I favor. With this is mind, this post examines some nuts and bolts I have up on my workshop table.
This concept of the saucer as applied to a potential hypersonic aircraft was seriously investigated and evaluated as a lenticular lifting body whose lower half acted as a heat shield and by re-entering at a high angle of attack, the top of the vehicle would be shielded from the atmospheric resistance that is generated by heat. This craft was predicted to be about 0.7 and subsonic glide ratio as high as 6. This concept proceeded as far as low speed wind-tunnel tests which demonstrated that it could land successfully. The interesting outcome of these tests was that it was aerodynamically viable. The only reason it was not further engineered was the problem in applying current technology in relation to it's overall volume, in other words it could not carry enough payload and fuel internally to be useful.
The Sociological Environment of A Phenomenon
Dedicated To Thomas Robert Malthus
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A MALTHUSIAN CORRELATION?
I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve {the human condition} than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general mistrust. -Albert Einstein
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair"
-Charles Dickens
From time to time, I thought it was a very worthwhile effort to take into consideration, those individuals who have paid for the pursuit of truth, by their time and energy, on the behalf of others, in the field of the UFO phenomenon, which is a personal journey beyond one's previous boundaries in a very public manner.
Part One: Ashkaic Ghosts and Genetic Forms
Dedicated To Itzhak Bentov
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ENERGY AS COHERENT INFORMATION
Information as a coherent form of energy is arranged in the genetics of an alphabetic equation and throughout our lives, we are continually producing it from the lower energy sources we consume in the form of minerals, cellular life, crystals,vertebrate, air, water,chemical compounds and invertebrate matter.
Perhaps an interactive exercise we can undertake as an experimentation is to sit down with a watch which has a second hand, and then proceed to intentionally will your internal babbling dialog of continual associations to cease and desist..for how long can you do this? Does consciousness precede thought?
In other words, can you have self awareness without language as it may be possible that self awareness may be axiomatic if is defined by relationships which arise from an observer although they may have no expression. If this is so we should then reasonable consider that consciousness is more universal as a principle, than we currently recognize.
Part Two: Quantum Subjectivity and The Holographic Model.
Dedicated To RD Laing
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The Relationship of Objectivity and Observers
"Eternity is the infinite existence of every moment of time. ... Eternity has one dimension more than time. ... If the space of time is four-dimensional, then the space of eternity is five-dimensional. (and) The sixth dimension is the line of the actualization of all possibilities."
-PD Ouspensky
So, again, if we assume a coherent unity to these various aspects of consciousness, we then ask ourselves fine,but what is the proverbial carrier wave that allows a field of interaction? Further perhaps as a sublimation, we may or may not infer as this line of reasoning may be traced to it's root in a question, does matter in of itself in it's reciprocal relationships exhibit a form of sentience within a hierarchy of nested organizational complexities ? Is the information field such a carrier wave which provides for nested individuated form beyond death? If such a locus of a holographic model of information exists and is coherent, is this similar then to also an earlier model akin to the universal mind,which is the content of such an entity, an Akashic record?
Daylight and Dreams
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"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." -Jean Paul Sarte
Exteriorized Manifestations Of A Global DoubleBind
Is there an emotional and instinctual component to the anomalous events percolating as if it were a water vapor released from a boiling pot? If so, could this potential field of energy condense to fill in a template that we provide both collectively and subconsciously? If there is a subconscious, psychological aspect of anomalous phenomenon that propels such events as psycho-kinesis, poltergeist phenomenon or alleged demonic possessions in relation to the classic double bind wherein one is faced with two equally unworkable options in a dance between fight or flight, which produces a release of emotional kinetic energy made manifest, then I ask is there a corresponding hierarchy of both origin and manifestation within our species as a whole, that produces the spectrum of either dream like or nightmarish intermediary realities whose source is our collective anxieties? Is this a quantum principle tied to the illogic and deep-seated instinctual subconscious within our species that is caught in a double bind? The Extraterrestrial archetypes, the strange creatures of an unknown nature that haunt a vanishing and at peril ecology, are these manifestations of a collective nature within propagations of our own species inadvertent creation?
When The Other Shoe Drops.
The Subjected Observer As An Illusionist of Facts
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Tragicomedy of Objective Relativism
"I think therefore I am. This was the infamous statement Descartes made when seeking to prove the validity of his reality that is applicable to all sentient beings. After this, Descartes appears to have become a little bit stuck in discovering a similar truth to apply to all things that are not Descartes. Is objectivity a useful tool toward the unknown or is objectivity a result of relativism that is dependent on critical assumptions that may be founded upon an arbitrary position rooted in self interest? Is objectivity a reactive and defensive psychology of assumptions toward a reality, that in of itself that is non judgmental or ambivalent toward one's position in a situation? Is the avoidance of enfoldment within subjectivity, by using objectivity an illusion? Is this the lesson of the paranormal that is being continually reformulated?
The Water Clock
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"Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you see the mountain. We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. "
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war."
-Loren Eisisley
It was a long since vanished summer afternoon, whilst riding my tricycle up and down the city sidewalk under my mothers watchful eyes as she sat on the stoop,when in a jarring bolt of recognition, I realized I had returned here. I made an oath to myself that I would never forget, and I will inscribe this memory of riding this tricycle as a way to remind a future me as to not forget this get this glimpse of reoccurance. That was fifty three years ago.
The Paranormal and The Autistic
Holographic Consciousness: The Continuum of Self and Non Self Sentience
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"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth." -Jean Paul Sarte
Autism and Non Consensus Reality
If some of you have read my earlier posts, you know I am on the autistic spectrum as having Asperger's Syndrome as well as having many lifelong strange psychic and paranormal phenomenon that I have accommodated as my shadow, while not relinquishing my own skepticism toward either the experiences themselves or their causation because as an autistic I digest the world by systematizing it. Lately, through correspondence with a autistic friend,Dr Coral Hull, with similar and yet distinct experiences, I have have begun to examine something that should have been apparent all along to someone who is not autistic...is there a link between my autism and these experiences? More importantly, is there a linkage between perception of alternate or non consensus realities and the characteristics of my state?
Meta Programming Reality
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A Holographic Continuum of Information
Some years ago, Franklin Merill Wolff wrote a fascinating book entitled "Pathways to Space",as well as The Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object." In his chapter "Aphorisms on Consciousness Without An Object" Merrell-Wolff conveys a conceptual model the would predate insertion into a field faceted by multi-dimensionality which is simply non distinguishable space. Dr Lilly's commentary observes;"The introceptive spaces, the universe originates on a ground, a substrate of Consciousness-Without-an-Object: the basic fabric of the universe beyond space, beyond time, beyond topology, beyond matter, beyond energy, is Consciousness. Consciousness without any form, without any reification, without any realization." Merill Wolf terms this space, a state of consciousness exhibiting "high indifference." Much like the teachings of Buddha, language seems not be to a prerequisite for consciousness.
The Metaphysics Of Quantum Paranormality
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The Exploration of A Future Scientific Pantheism
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing Boy
But He beholds the light and whence it flows.
He sees it in his joy;
At length the Man perceives it die away,
And fade into the light of common day."
-William Wordsworth
This is a post that examines the holographic model of consciousness from both a traditional metaphysical view which is then compared to quantum theory wherein both may be seen as two methodologies that arrive at the same destination, which affirms both in a similar reciprocal relationship of the observer and the observed. Is this the essence of paranormality? In the experiential locus of a holographic reality, does the interaction of a self and non-self consciousness create a intermediary reality where precognition, ufology, near death experiences,ghosts and electronic voice phenomenon all intertwine from the same platform?
Is there an inevitable convergence between esoteric teaching and science which would create a new scientific pantheism? I suggest to you that we prearranged our bias toward components rather than the coherence of the entire organism, this may be the "why" the paradigm of consciousness is experiencing a shift in relation to a growing holistic and enfolded awareness of interconnectivity in many apparently separate hierarchies, which are actually nested within one another.
The Far Country
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We have left behind us, those who have chosen to stay, in order to explore a legendary continent in an obscure realm that is inter-positioned within the dream of realities vouchsafed in seals by the interpretative skills of a self referential consensus, and walk beyond the circular labyrinth they inhabit toward a beacon placed upon our path whose origin is as mystical as our own, toward the far country.
In our examinations in the far country of our cognition, we search for the nexus of the transmutation, as if we stand on the shore of a horizon without end, where waveforms of energy collapse into semi solidity in the minds eye of the observer. In this, the color of arrangement or, if you will, the nature of the container, formulates a epiphenomenon, an image, a thought, a feeling from a phenomenon as colorless and tasteless as water.
The Relativity of Experiential Objectivity and The Paranormal
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A Biography of The Trickster
"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty." - Lao Tzu
Quintessence was synonymous with aether as a distinction termed as the fifth element after earth, fire, water and air as well as being a hypothetical and invisble form of dark energy; postulated by the science of physics, in one of many such attempts to explain the acceleration of the visible universe. This ontological relativity in terms is an apt example of our reality maps, as the preeminent theorist of logic, WV Quine pointed out,our theories of what exists are not sufficiently determined by the experiences that give rise to them, quite different accounts of what there is, each with its own interpretation of the evidence, may be equally in accord with that evidence.
Biology Versus Reality: Through A Lense Darkly
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The Alchemical Self
Even if you have not awakened,
if you realize that your perceptions and activities
are all like dreams and you view them with detachment,
not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination,
then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
Muso Kokushi ( 1275-1351)
Japanese Zen Master, Calligrapher, Poet
"There are arguments to suggest that information also plays an active role. Vision is a case in point. As signals move from the retina along the optic nerve they meet a flood of information coming down from the visual cortex. This downward flow arises out of the various strategies employed in seeing and has the effect of actively screening, coding and comparing incoming signals. In this sense our vision is not a passive gathering of information but prehensile, a purposeful activity of information throughout the entire visual system from the muscles around the eyes to the cortex itself.The immune system could also be considered as an activity of information, one that constantly scans the environment. As an active pattern recognition system it is perhaps as complex as the brain itself." -F David Peat, Theoretical Physicist
Part One: A Survey of Mount Merub
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Are Random Phenomenon An Illusion?
"If, after seeing a room in chaos, it is subsequently found in good order, the sensible inference is not that time is running backwards, but that some intelligent person has been in to tidy it up. If you find the letters of the alphabet ordered on a piece of paper to form a beautiful s onnet, you do not deduce that teams of monkeys have been kept for millions of years strumming on typewriters, but rather that Shakespeare has passed this way." -Matthews, The Nuclear Apple.
What is the principle operating behind the scrim of randomness that provides Mr Jones with a involuntarily observation, a close encounter with a UFO and Mr Smith does not, while Mr Smith encounters a ghostly phantasm lurking in the hallway of his home and Mr Jones has not nor probably never will? At the same time, we consider coherence in relation to chaos, or for that matter, entropy versus exponential growth...what is shuffling this deck, that in effect, provides for the distribution of both as if one were the subject of an agency whose criteria tipped the odds either in favor of the house or the hand that you play? What are the statistical probabilities that experiences should arise in the face of the greater odds that they should not? Is there a similarity between the improbabilities of the physical universe in relation to those we experience directly in our observation of it? Gary Schwartz aptly summed the situation up neatly.
About The Author
My origin and home is located on the plains of the Midwest, where the emptiness and expanse of the open fields of prairie grasses make this location appear to be both the center of space itself as well as being far beyond the circumference of it. As a young boy and as an adult I experience this world through the spectrum of autism, albeit at the more functional set point of it's range.
The point of observation I inhabit is both strange and familiar. This site is a means to explore both the paranormality of life itself as well as the same qualities operating beyond the boundaries of sensate cognition.
- Bruce Duensing
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