EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022
"Carl Jung was the first modern psychological researcher to see clearly the great dragon of grandiose energies lurking within us,
never sleeping but waiting for the light of our awareness to grow dim before striking at the heart of humanity and civilization.
Traditional mythologies used the mythic image of the dragon to indicate an intuition of these great and dangerous forces
that lurk within the human soul and turn satanic when left unconscious or treated with disrespect."
as the tension mounts towards november,
we might actually take pity
on the poor MAGA cult,
never experiencing the joy of cultivating universal loving kindness
and the peace that accompanies accepting the Other as another self.
they have denied themselves the best lived experiences of dasein,
their lives filled with negativity, suffering the pangs of envy and hatred,
filled with fear of the Other, who is eventually everyone around them.
a madness not to be wished upon even such.
gollums.
is my body a thing?
an idea?
or the measurant of the things?
we may recognize
an ideality that is not alien to the flesh
but gives it
its axes, its depth
its dimensions.
pure ideality is itself not without
flesh
nor freed from
horizon structures:
it lives of them
though they be
another flesh
and other horizons.
Plato's metaphor for the body as a screen between us and true reality, the mind.
but ,
there is no vision without the screen.
ideas like Proust's "little phrase"
or those of sunsets, or pets,
could not be given
to us
except in carnal experience.
not exhausted by their manifestations,
they owe their authority, their power to the fact that they are in the heart of the sensible.
assuring us that they've been acquired
through commerce with the visible
to which they remain attached.
Lived.
sunday sitting
lunch:
slowly chewing
feeling textures
tasting deeply
as life sacrifices,
consumes,
life
to continue living
carrot, apple, cheese, rye crisp,
brought from distances unknown,
touched and travelled
many times over many unknown miles.
here in my garden
an autumn breeze
sun warmed
plays with
my hair
as surrounding trees dance.
Bold, Molly's kit, has begun waiting for me in the Japanese lilac tree in the morning.
she or he is winter fluffed and beautiful.
This is a picture taken using a scanning electron microscope of a 12 day old opossum embryo.
shows the temporary claws that the embryos grow while in the uterus!
They use these claws to climb their way into their mom's pouch.
Thanks to sensory hairs that form in their inner ear 24 hours after birth, they're able to sense the direction of gravity.
They always crawl in the direction opposite of gravity, which leads them towards the pouch.
some grackles at the back of the yard eating millet with other birds. there's about 2 dozen, maybe more
trying to take over all the feeders. a group of grackles is called a plague for a reason 🤣🤣🤣
the sounds are very Hitchcock around here 🤭👻☠️🎃
more unexpected consequences of human behaviour.
this is not sustainable.
"the communities of microbes hosted by plastic debris, which form the ‘plastisphere’.
Initial studies suggest that this human-made habitat serves as a widespread, mobile reservoir of various microbial hazards such as pathogens."
what bowerbirds know🤔
"Like architects behind the world’s great opera houses, male great bowerbirds build twiggy concert venues
that amplify their raucous songs and make sure each note is pitch perfect to woo discerning females.".
https://www.science.org/content/article/male-bowerbirds-build-acoustics-their-love-shrines
from the opossum harbour in CA,
night vision.
3 lovelies
peacefully eating
together
in their urban refuge
from the human storm.
.
hey, what could be better than a trump presidential blanket?
really 🙄🫨
🤣🤣🤣
the most difficult point:
the bond between the flesh
and the idea,
between the visible and the invisible
an idea is not
the contrary of
the sensible
it is its lining
and its depth.
these ideas [of music, literature, the passions]
have their logic, their coherence,
their concordances, but
cannot be detached from the sensible appearances
and erected into a second positivity, unlike
those of science.
body and distances participate in the same corporeity which reigns between them."
what a talent😘😋
This fish’s legs are made for walking — and tasting the sea floor
The northern sea robin has taste buds on its feet that can sense buried prey.
EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022