Meets the Kernel in the Nutshell.
This post was suggested by the title of Natalie Wolchover’s
article in Quanta Magazine today,
“A Fight for the Soul of Science.”
The post continues a meditation on the number 6
as the kernel in the nutshell of 15.
For an illustration of the 6 in the 15,
see nocciolo in this journal.
For an illustration of the jewel in the lotus,
see that phrase in this journal.
In memory of physicist David Ritz Finkelstein,
who reportedly died yesterday —
"His sense of irony and precision was appreciated" ….
Precision
Irony
An illustration of the song "Stuck in the Middle with You"
(from the Tarantino film "Reservoir Dogs") was posted by
an academic at Christmas 2015 —
See also, in this journal,
The Jewel in the Lotus Meets the Kernel in the Nutshell
(December 16, 2015).
Readings that may or may not* be relevant —
Graham Priest, "The Stone" and The Jewel in the Lotus.
* See Priest in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Fall 1997 and see Block That Metaphor.
To the leftist philosophers of Villanova
From "Make a Différance"
(Women's History Month, 2005)—
“He pointed at the football
on his desk. ‘There it is.’”
– Glory Road
Quodlibet*
Compare and contrast
the diamond in the football
with the jewel in the lotus.
* "A scholastic argumentation upon a subject chosen at will, but almost always theological. These are generally the most elaborate and subtle of the works of the scholastic doctors." —Century Dictionary
This journal on Aug. 17, 2008:
That post linked to an earlier post illustrating
the triangle formed by Harvard, by the
Mystic River at Somerville, and
by Bunker Hill Community College–
That post also linked to the Wikipedia article
Triangulation, which now states that
“Some members of the U.S. Democratic
Party, in particular the left, insist that
triangulation is ‘dead.'”
Perhaps. Click the image below
for some background.
For a view of Somerville from Harvard for Zinn,
see May 31, 2006. For a view of Summertime
for Auchincloss, see the NY Times obituary
of a political figure who died on Sunday.
On that day, this journal pictured a different
metaphor from Robert Stone’s Father Egan—
the jewel in the lotus–
Euclid’s classic construction
of the equilateral triangle
offers a different view of
the jewel in Venn’s lotus–
For a more poetic approach to
this metaphor, see Log24 on
another Sunday– July 1, 2007.
Happy birthday, Rick Warren.
Part II
“Raiders of the Lost…”
(Feb. 17, 2006)
Part III
The Further
Adventures of
Tony Rome
(March 7, 2008)
Parts I and II above
may be summarized by
the famous phrase
“jewel in the lotus”–
which, some say, has
a sexual meaning–
and by the diagram
For discussions
of this structure
in Western thought,
see
the ovato tondo
and
Last to the Lost.
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"Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis,
— Wallace Stevens, |
Yesterday's meditation ("Simon's Shema") on the interpenetration of opposites continues:
"The fundamental conception of Tantric Buddhist metaphysics, namely, yuganaddha, signifies the coincidence of opposites. It is symbolized by the conjugal embrace (maithuna or kama-kala) of a god and goddess or a Buddha and his consort (signifying karuna and sunyata or upaya and prajna, respectively), also commonly depicted in Tantric Buddhist iconography as the union of vajra (diamond sceptre) and padme (lotus flower). Thus, yuganaddha essentially means the interpenetration of opposites or dipolar fusion, and is a fundamental restatement of Hua-yen theoretic structures."
— p. 148 in "Part II: A Whiteheadian Process Critique of Hua-yen Buddhism," in Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration vs. Interpenetration (SUNY Series in Systematic Philosophy), by Steve Odin, State University of New York Press, 1982
And on p. 163 of Odin, op. cit., in "Part III: Theology of the Deep Unconscious: A Reconstruction of Process Theology," in the section titled "Whitehead's Dipolar God as the Collective Unconscious"–
"An effort is made to transpose Whitehead's theory of the dipolar God into the terms of the collective unconscious, so that now the dipolar God is to be comprehended not as a transcendent deity, but the deepest dimension and highest potentiality of one's own psyche."
Odin obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1980. (See curriculum vitae (pdf).)
For an academic review of Odin's book, see David Applebaum, Philosophy East and West, Vol. 34 (1984), pp. 107-108.
It is perhaps worth noting, in light of the final footnote of Mark D. Brimblecombe's Ph.D. thesis "Dipolarity and God" quoted yesterday, that "tantra" is said to mean "loom." For some less-academic background on the Tantric iconography Odin describes, see the webpage "Love and Passion in Tantric Buddhist Art." For a fiction combining love and passion with the word "loom" in a religious context, see Clive Barker's Weaveworld. This fiction– which is, if not "supreme" in the Wallace Stevens sense, at least entertaining– may correspond to some aspects of the deep Jungian psychological reality discussed by Odin.
Click on image for details.
Today is the day that
Stanley found Livingstone.
Click on picture for details.
"Stone 588,
I presume?"
Related material:
This afternoon's entry
on color symmetry
and
Click on picture for details.
See, too, the following from
a Log24 entry of last Monday–
— in this context:
Yesterday evening’s entry, “Grail,” continued:
“To von Eschenbach, the Grail was never really a material cup, but a jewel like the jewel in the lotus, a symbol of enlightenment, of something intangible and always beyond reach.
I must confess that the reason I know this is because I’m a bit of an opera fan. The work of von Eschenbach was a source for Wagner….”
— From the weblog Arcadian Functor, Nov. 6, 2006
West Coast Story:
A musical adaptation of
Romeo and Juliet
Featuring
“A Girl Named Maria”
and
“Bring Us Together”
(Official inaugural ball
theme of Richard M. Nixon)
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