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Friday, October 2, 2015

Source Code

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

See a search for Bogus Source in this journal.

That search yields a quotation from poet Wallace Stevens,
whose birthday is today —

"The poet finds that as between these two sources:
the imagination and reality, the imagination is false,
whatever else may be said of it, and reality is true;
and being concerned that poetry should be a thing
of vital and virile importance, he commits himself to
reality, which then becomes his inescapable and
ever-present difficulty and innamorata."

Monday, December 29, 2014

The Source

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:55 pm

Bogus religion from a bogus "research lab" —

Journal of Scientific Exploration,
Vol. 18, No. 4 (2004), pp. 547-570
"Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality"
Robert G. Jahn and Brenda J. Dunne

Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research
Princeton University 
D-334 Engineering Quadrangle
School of Engineering/Applied Science

"… Consequently, the inferred models of reality are limited to those substances, processes, and sources of information that constitute conventional contemporary science.

In this paper we ally ourselves with the sharply contrary position that there exists a much deeper and more extensive source of reality, which is largely insulated from direct human experience, representation, or even comprehension. It is a domain that has long been posited and contemplated by metaphysicians and theologians, Jungian and Jamesian psychologists, philosophers of science, and a few contemporary progressive theoretical physicists, all struggling to grasp and to represent its essence and its function. A variety of provincial labels have been applied, such as 'Tao,' 'Qi,' 'prana,' 'void,' 'Akashic record,' 'Unus Mundi,' 'unknowable substratum,' 'terra incognita,' 'archetypal field,' 'hidden order,' 'aboriginal sensible muchness,' 'implicate order,' 'zero-point vacuum,' 'ontic (or ontological) level,' 'undivided timeless primordial reality,' among many others, none of which fully captures the sublimely elusive nature of this domain. In earlier papers we called it the 'subliminal seed regime,' (2,3) but for our present purposes we shall henceforth refer to it simply as the 'Source.' "*

References:

2. Jahn, R. G., & Dunne, B. J. (2001). A modular model of mind/matter manifestations (M5). Journal of Scientific Exploration , 15(3), 299–329.
3. Jahn, R. G. (2002). M*: Vector representation of the subliminal seed regime of M5. Journal of Scientific Exploration , 16(3), 341–357.

Note:

* This assortment of contexts, labels, or models should not be regarded as mutually exclusive or hierarchical; nor are they isomorphic to one another. Rather, they represent different perspectives on the same basic search, and hence should be respected as collectively complementary. Where they reinforce one another, or display common features, this may indicate some degree of basic insight. Where they disagree on details, testable hypotheses may present themselves.

This was quoted approvingly in a recent book by
Joseph JaworskiSource  (Berrett-Koehler Publishers
1st ed. Jan. 11, 2012, pp. 2-3).

A book unrelated, despite its title, to Michener's novel 'The Source'

Jaworski, a lawyer-turned-guru,
in 1980 founded a cult for executives
called the American Leadership Forum.

A synchronicity cult I prefer —
the Roman Catholic Church:

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Resisting the Bogus

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

From remarks by Wallace Stevens featured in recent Log24 posts:

"The poet finds that as between these two sources: the imagination and reality, the imagination is false, whatever else may be said of it, and reality is true; and being concerned that poetry should be a thing of vital and virile importance, he commits himself to reality, which then becomes his inescapable and ever-present difficulty and innamorata. In any event, he has lost nothing; for the imagination, while it might have led him to purities beyond definition, never yet progressed except by particulars. Having gained the world, the imaginative remains available to him in respect to all the particulars of the world. Instead of having lost anything, he has gained a sense of direction and a certainty of understanding. He has strengthened himself to resist the bogus."

— Bard College speech of 1951

Related material:

With Autonomy , H-P Bought An Old-Fashioned
Accounting Scandal. Here's How It Worked.

(Forbes , Nov. 20, 2012)

Hewlett-Packard is losing a star in Mike Lynch
(The Guardian , May 25, 2012)

The Quest for Meaning: The world's smartest search engine
took 250 years to build. Autonomy  is here.
 
(Wired , Feb. 2000)

Friday, November 20, 2015

The Wrench and the Circle*

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:48 am

Two Log24 posts from October 2, 2015 —

Source Code

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 PM 

See a search for Bogus Source in this journal.

That search yields a quotation from poet 
Wallace Stevens, whose birthday is today —

"The poet finds that as between these two sources:
the imagination and reality, the imagination is false,
whatever else may be said of it, and reality is true;
and being concerned that poetry should be a thing
of vital and virile importance, he commits himself to
reality, which then becomes his inescapable and
ever-present difficulty and innamorata."

The Return

Filed under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:29 PM 

The late Brian Friel on Derry —

"… every going away was a wrench 
and every return a fulfilment."

Related material —

Wrench in this journal
and Circle Unbroken.

See as well Hymn (August 30, 2013).

* The title is a reference to Quality Report (Aug. 24, 2015).

Friday, October 2, 2015

Letters

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 9:28 pm

"The close of trading today will spell a new era for Google
as the search giant becomes a part of new holding company 
Alphabet Inc." — ABC News, 1:53 PM ET today

From an Aug. 10, 2015, letter by Larry Page announcing the change:

Other business philosophy:

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from
Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

by David B. Yoffie, Michael A. Cusumano

On Sale: 04/14/2015

A not-so-timeless lesson: a synchronicity check
(of this journal, not of the oeuvre  of Joseph Jaworski) —

04/14/2015 — Sacramental Geometry.

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