7 August
TPH403 Elaine Pagel
TPH404 "Double Mystery"
TPH405 assimilation/imagination
TPH406 "Our Past" outline
TPH407 kidneys
1995.08.07
Symmetrical Confinement
2006.08.07
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TPH404 "Double Mystery"
1995.08.07
There is an article, "Double Mystery" by Lawrence Wright (in the August 7, 1995 issue of The New Yorker) that sheds some interesting light on duality and early fetal development. What is most interesting is the last paragraph (and the conclusion in general) because it relates specifically to the point concerning duality and a certain sense of inevitability that duality and the Timepiece bring to the fore.
TPH406 "Our Past" outline
1995.08.07
1. What constitutes the past?
2. The significance of the qualifying article "Our"
a. past relative to the present - 2000 A.D.
b. last circle/square juncture at 1543 A.D.
3. Last circle/square juncture manifested a shift in humanity's perception and realization of reality--this is according to history
4. According to the Timepiece, 1543 corresponds to the navel
a. lack of peripheral skeleton
b. only one major organ--the intestine
5. Lack of outer skeletal structure
a. recent phenomenon
b. hip bones end at 1492 A.D.
i. a major end and a major beginning
ii. discovery of the New World is a major beginning
iii. what ended in a major way? did the discovery of the New World end something major as well?
iv. limits were extended, ergo old limits were brought to an end
v. the beginning/ending phenomenon is evident in history and geography -Fall of Constantinople
6. Parallel development and comparative analysis of Portuguese the Turks
a. search for new (Far) East--end of old East (Constantinople)
b. Ottoman Empire as last empire of nomads--end of legs
7. End of duality leads to a rebirth--the Renaissance
a. the merger of ancient Latin and ancient Greek knowledge in Italy
b. the single point of concentration -- the Renaissance and the navel
8. The Renaissance is a time when old limits have been eliminated.
9. What the Renaissance really is is a time when the operation of assimilation is paramount because it is the operation of the only organ in the navel cross section
a. assimilation of ancient knowledge
b. assimilation of other world cultures--age of discovery
c. assimilation of global and cosmic (i.e., scientific) data
d. assimilation is part of the digestive system
10. Concentration at the navel end, but uninfringed, unrestrained expansion and assimilation continues until the arrival of the kidneys within the corporal cross section
a. comparative analysis of navel, intestine, and kidneys
i. navel is singular and concentrated
ii. intestines are asymmetrical, meandering, and capable of expansion
iii. kidneys are dualistic and symmetrical
11. The kidney -- a new force within the intestines and within assimilation
a. a new duality in morphology--an inner balance
b. a new duality in physiology--metabolism (creation and destruction)
c. a new duality in philosophy--mind vs. matter
d. the kidneys have a function of excretion, ergo purging
e. the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution
12. The stages (and shifts) in human imagination
a. Renaissance is assimilation based
b. Enlightenment is assimilation combined with metabolism
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