INTANGIBLE MATERIALITY
BRUCE DUENSING

Mr. Petri's Project
 

Dedicated to Dr Coral Hull, who encouraged me to share my experiences despite my own unspoken reluctance to do so. Also, to my sister Lynn in her respect for Native Culture as well as my daughter Kara, whose love of the natural world knows no bounds.

Ghosts often become short tempered with the compulsive pursuits and intrusions of the living inasmuch as they know much more than the living in regard to the essential value of life. "Get out!" and value by taking care of what you have in front of your eyes, your own life. Life is fragile, contingent and beyond any value we can assign to it as a gift. The allegedly dead know this. If you respect life then you will, as a consequence of valuation, will respect the dead.

This is a point of contention, as well as a viewpoint we may arrive at ourselves, as we see the living as squandering a comparatively brief moment of an extraordinary gift. Ibn Al Arabi once more specifically identified this sense of regret, which the observers of life may have. It is not the good works one regrets, its not the destructive works, it is when one undertook neither one. The allegedly dead are much the same as the living with one important distinction. They are in a unique position to pass judgment on their experiences with the living. Much like the living, some are in denial in regard to this position, some cling, some pretend, some comfort themselves by lying to themselves, some remain envious, disturbed, and some see themselves as a role within an activity.
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Abductions And The Transliteration Of Objectifying Thought
The Examination Of A Rosetta Stone

For My Mysterious Friend, Emily
 

Could it be that consciousness itself can be borrowed?

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
-Dr John Lilly

"As a metaphor - and I stress that it is intended as a metaphor - the concept of an invariant that arises out of mutually or cyclically balancing changes may help us to approach the concept of self. In cybernetics this metaphor is implemented in the ‘closed loop’, the circular arrangement of feedback mechanisms that maintain a given value within certain limits. They work toward an invariant, but the invariant is achieved not by a steady resistance, the way a rock stands unmoved in the wind, but by compensation over time. Whenever we happen to look in a feedback loop, we find the present act pitted against the immediate past, but already on the way to being compensated itself by the immediate future. The invariant the system achieves can, therefore, never be found or frozen in a single element because, by its very nature, it consists in one or more relationships - and relationships are not in things but between them. If the self, as I suggest, is a relational entity, it cannot have a locus in the world of experiential objects. It does not reside in the heart, as Aristotle thought, nor in the brain, as we tend to think today. It resides in no place at all, but merely manifests itself in the continuity of our acts of differentiating and relating and in the intuitive certainty we have that our experience is truly ours."

-Ernst von Glasersfeld - p.p.186-7: ‘Cybernetics, Experience and the Concept of Self.’ [1970]
Continue reading: Part One: Abductions And The Transliteration Of Objectifying Thought


Part Two: The Collectors of Borrowed Dreams
An Alienating Abduction of Process
 


"If a person tries to observe what he is thinking..he introduces unpredictable and uncontrollable changes in the way is thoughts proceed thereafter...If we compare the instantaneous state of a thought with the position of a particle and the general direction of change of that thought with the particles momentum, we have a strong analogy." -Dr David Bohm

"He said, How did you find the situation in unveiling and divine effusion? Is it what rational consideration gives us?' I replied, 'Yes and no. Between the yes and the no spirits fly from their matter and heads from their bodies." -Ibn Al Arabi

A Quantum Interface of Transliteration

In retrospect, it is not surprising that daylight "alien" abductions are counter intuitive to the nature of the phenomenon itself. In Part One, we examined what may be a transliteration of this experiential consciousness within a dream state, which in turn, creates semiotic parallelisms of the abduction phenomenon, due to the fact that the inner penetration of this state by a non human equivalence has no pre-existing correlation in our waking state.

In classical limits, time has a one-way trajectory from past to future. However in quantum level time is symmetric and retrocausal traveling from future to past is also a feature. In the second Feynman's diagram of Compton scattering (photon and electron collision process), the particles scatter from each other before the colliding. Odd, is it not?...rather..anomalous.
Continue reading: Part Two: The Collectors of Borrowed Dreams


The Semiotics of The UFO Phenomenon and Syntropy
Evolution Beyond A Binary Reality
 


"Thus, the brain is trained and has stored within it sequences of simulations that we refer to as meanings of signals. In our social consensus reality we are taught these long sequences in our childhood and we build up simulations upon which we agree. When we speak to one another, we compute meaning, change it into signals, receive signals, and recompute meaning from the received signals. Thus, we build up shared simulations that are flexible means of computation of maps, feelings, thoughts, ideas." -Dr John C Lilly

This post considers the potential implications of the UFO phenomenon in terms of the dynamics of evolution in relation to cognition. This is not a subject that has been discussed to any great extent as most observers of this field seem to be attracted to the more axiomatic aspects on the surface of this phenomenon.

Inserted into the field of evolutionary forces,which seemingly are oscillating between syntropy and entropy, the UFO has a asymetric force all of it's own in relation to our cognition as it highlights the fallibility of our inductive logic. Deconstruction and decoherence seem to be holding hands in this regard. Whether it is the prophetic delusions of an October 14th mass sighting or the denials of the scientific community in their reluctance to grasp the unusual and novel manner this phenomenon presents, this writer often feels as though the continuance of this blog is like throwing snowballs at The Great Wall of China.
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An Alien History of The Moon
The X Factor: Coevolutionary Processes and Anomalies

Dedicated To John Anthony West



"As my conclusions have lately been much misrepresented, and it has been stated that I attribute the modification of species exclusively to natural selection, I may be permitted to remark that in the first edition of this work, and subsequently, I placed in a most conspicuous position—namely at the close of the Introduction—the following words: "I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification." This has been of no avail. Great is the power of steady misrepresentation." -Charles Darwin 1872) edition of The Origin of Species

Coevolution

In the last post we examined the evolution of cognition in relation to anomalous phenomenon, perhaps within the field of evolutionary forces,there are parallelisms of these forces which have remained largely unexamined. This post could be considered the material corollary of the previous post.

An Anomalous Extinction

Sixty five million years ago, during the End-Cretaceous (K-T) extinction eighty-five percent of all species disappeared, which is the second largest mass extinction event in geological history. An essential distinction arising from this event was the comparatively simultaneous demise of the dinosaurs. Although dinosaurs are the most commonly known victims to perish in the K-T extinction, several other terrestrial and marine biotic groups were also severely affected or eliminated in the crisis. Among those that perished were the pterosaurs, belemnoids, many species of plants (except amongst the ferns and seed-producing plants), ammonoids, marine reptiles, and rudist bivalves. Organisms which were severly affected included planktic foraminifera, calcareous nannoplankton, diatoms, dinoflagellates, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoids, and fish.

Remarkably, most mammals, birds, turtles, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and amphibians were primarily unaffected by the End-Cretaceous mass extinction. In terms of a planetary extinction event, it was remarkably selective and it's potential causes remain both controversial,unsettled and unknown. The same applies to the term of these extinction events. Simply put, they are unknown, or shall we say..anomalous?

The Unusual Suspects
Continue reading: An Alien History of The Moon


A Consideration of Lucid Simulations



"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell."
-Buddhist Saying
 
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." -Kurt Vonnegut

Retrocausation and Precognition

We are a rather motley crowd, ill at ease, ear to the wall in order to ascertain some whisper that may only be the wind whistling through a crack in the windowsill.

None the less, having been volunteered by some random spin or some abstraction of purpose, we are here, those of us who have had the cursed blessing of being between two worlds, one in which we pass brusquely past the crowds whose own obscurities only magnify our own, as well as the one in which we are pulled like fish floundering upon some alien surface that constitutes the paranormality of the boundaries some of us have crossed. Some in secret, some in fear, some with baggage, some with boundless expectations in hand, we lurk in the shadows of our passage on the platform of a station others call home. The experience is termed transpersonal in the fields of the anomalous, we myopically seek causation in the threading the eye of a needle you can neither taste smell, or touch. This much I know is true. The oscillation of our states between waking and dreaming may be a singularity as well as a parallelism to the material and intangible qualities divided equally between the distinctions we make between self and non self. Perhaps the term "lucid dream" is a representation of ourselves as a potentiality rather than any objectification we can apply to the persona. Consequently the non self and the self are perhaps also a differentiation of this same singularity in relation to the interior and exterior of a holographic sphere wherein one on the exterior surface contains the potentiality of the historic world in relation to the observer on the interior as a mirrored objectification of these two forces that are, in reality, two sides of the same coin. If so, can we dream the potentialities of the world we inhabit within a lucid dream?
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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 its 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.
Source: Bruce Duensing's Intangible Materiality

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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