Archive for March, 2008
Identify the Highest, Name the Best
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged genius on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Move Me, Change Me, Give Me Great Bliss
Posted in Books, tagged Books, Poetry on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Emily Dickinson’s definition of poetry: “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Here’s one person’s list of 15 poetry books that fit that description:
Identify the Unexpected Beauty, Name the Soul Twists of Artistry
Posted in Web Sites, tagged artistry, beauty on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Escaping The Matrix
Posted in Books, tagged life, sam smith on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Music To Change By
Posted in Music, tagged change, david wilcox, Music on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Perfect Storm” by David Wilcox from the album Airstream
Mocking People Who Mock People
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged paparazzi, pranks, punk'd on March 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rising Up Lessons
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged bruce lipton, evolution, humanity, phoenix on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re Just At The Beginning
Posted in Books, tagged cells, lewis thomas on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion . . . Or perhaps we are only at the beginning of learning to use the system, with almost all our evolution as a species still ahead of us. Maybe the thoughts we generate today and flick around from mind to mind are the primitive precursors of more complicated, polymerized structures that will come later, analogous to the prokaryotic cells that drifted through shallow pools in the early days of biological evolution. Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought . . . The mechanism is there [in the human brain], and there is no doubt that it is already capable of functioning.
Pronoiac Poetics 1
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, artist, pessimism on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The Poet’s Dilemma” by Daniel Pinchbeck
Dear Daniel: I too feel that poets and artists need to move into a new real realm beyond alienation and pessimism . . . [but] what is an artist supposed to do? You can only write the visions that come to you. You can’t consciously ‘steer’ the material into positive attitudes unless you want your poem or novel to be some sort of propaganda piece, or some sort of fake smile on the face of a suffering man.
Pronoiac Poetics 2
Posted in Books, Poetry, Web Sites, tagged diane frank, poems, Poetry on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blackberries in the Dream House by Diane Frank
What would happen to us if we were to undertake the discipline of turning our life entirely and self-consciously, into a poem?
Rich Pronoiacs
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged billionaire, wealth on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
