Ways to explore the other world Dept.
Many spiritual teachings consider reason as an obstacle towards enlightment. I tend to think otherwise as I need to look first to be able to see. To me my reason creates a surface tension between two worlds which taps into both circuits 3 and 7 (*). Only by walking this event horizon is it possible to transcend my thinking in symbols to get a close encounter with the door between the circuits. Without the reason as a tool for approach I'd never get so close. Which does not imply this is the only path of course. * See the eight circuits of consciousness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciousness -- Agnostic militia Dept. I could never quite understand how atheists do not realize the contradiction in their predicament. It appears things exist without us knowing (or even caring) about. It seems equally absurd to me then, to claim to know what some of these unknown things are about, as it is to claim they do not exist. -- Got a light Dept. Many have pointed at Lynch's and Kubricks mutual admiration. Some have seen some formal influences between The Shining and Twin Peaks. I'm probably not the first to notice the resonance between the word Redrum and a certain scarlet space from where agent Cooper finally escaped. -- E-prime and its predecessors Dept. (Or, what to do on a Sunday morning with a hangover) The transliteration proposal offered by E-prime ("A version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be, including all conjugations, contractions and archaic forms") was developed by David Bourland Jr. in his 1965 essay "A Linguistic Note: Writing in E-Prime". This concept of communication may have been announced in Jorge Luis Borges' metamythical "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (1940). Since for the Tlönians, nothing exists outside of perception, their language contains no nouns. In the Northern hemisphere they communicate using the qualities of the perceptions: adjectives and in the Southern hemisphere the temporary experience is used: verbs. OuTranPo, a recent branch of OuXPo, of which OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Literature Potentielle) was the first expression, deals with new structures of translation. One of their proposals is called tlönslation, where a text is translated from one language to another using the Northern or the Southern Tlön constraint. According to this page (*), apparently Borges was inspired by Berkeleyan subjective idealism and the later writings of Fritz Mauthner. * See http://www.drunkenboat.com/db24/outranspo/tlönslation At first it seems dissimilar, E-prime proposing a different reality-tunnel by offering a framework to practice General Semantics. But then again, so does communication eliminating the abstraction of things by replacing nouns with their qualities or with their effect. -- Random chance Dept. If serendipity is the word we use to express an unplanned, fortunate discovery, what words could be used for a planned, fortunate discovery, an unplanned, infortunate discovery and a planned, infortunate discovery? Maybe we could find inspiration in Horace Walpole's other tales.
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