As Within, So Without
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From Within - A Million Miles to Earth
Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin
Fax +49-69/450464, 1994
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withinfinite mind
merging musical masters
reunited one
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.: a tree in finit tea :.
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music © them
words (cc) me
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As Within, So Without
As Within, So Without
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From Within - A Million Miles to Earth
Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin
Fax +49-69/450464, 1994
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withinfinite mind
merging musical masters
reunited one
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.: a tree in finit tea :.
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music © them
words (cc) me
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Serendipitous Reprise - 1 of 2
... Serendipity?
April 16, 1943 - Whilst quite a large part of the world was tearing itself into smaller pieces - once again, for the sake of power, by the rule of greed - a fungus of certain infamy, felt her offspring had been shunned long enough after being born, five years earlier, in 1938. She sent her child back to communicate with the doctor, who had been there in the delivery room, at Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland, when and where her baby first saw light on Earth.
Their initial contact, then and there in the lab, left the doctor feeling confused to such a degree, that he could not focus on or continue with his work. He returned to his home and, after regaining a relaxed state of mind, became moderately hypnotized by the visual aspects of the lingering transmission, which mesmerized him for a couple of hours.
When his ego resumed consciousness control behind the dashboard of his mind, the doctor, who had in fact a background in chemical sciences, thought he had actually enjoyed quite a pleasant experience, due to a certain unsolicited intoxication. He gathered he must have unknowingly ingested a minute amount of the substance he was reinvestigating that day.
From the human perspective of a materialist individual, this particular substance, the offspring of said infamous fungus, would soon become a renowned tool -the most powerful of its kind to date- to explore the inner realms of the Terran psyche. Some consider it to be a spiritual antiseptic, others may even refer to it as an evolutionary counterweight to balance the creation of the device of destruction, which was born in the same era, on the warfaring side of the globe. The Universe seems to have peculiar ways to equilibrate itself, indeed.
The doctor was Albert Hofmann.
The fungus' name is Ergot,
or rather Mother of Rye.
Her child is called LSD.
- Satyr Barbarossa © 2014, April 16, Earth
.: from sorgenkind to wunderkind :.
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2015
War No More - IV
Enola Gay
You should have stayed
at home yesterday
WAR NO MORE - IV: OMD!
OMG? No. OMD! Or rather, in my common present, short for one of my favorite curses: O My Dog!* Originally, it abbreviates for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the British synthpop band. Their 1980 anti-war song Enola Gay, embedded above, refers to the winged superfortress that carried the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used in recorded history of human warfare.
Summing up that fateful day, the 6ixth of August in 1945: 64 kilos of 89% enriched Uranium-235, attaining critical mass whilst in free-fall, produced a little less than 800 grams of fissile material, of which, ultimately, less than one gram converted into approximately 60 terajoule of energy, equal to 15 kilotons of TNT, according to the well-known mass-energy-equivalence equation E = mc², thereby flattening the city of Hiroshima, killing a multitude and wrapping the Earth in one of the darkest man-made shadows to date.
Gautama blinked and Albert wept.
Whether we adhere to official stories or not, may we learn lessons from our common past to never repeat certain acts or actions, here and now, then and there.
link out to OMD
link up to War No More - V
link down to War No More - III
link down to War No More - II
link down to War No More - I
More War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle.
* To me O My Dog! serves to curse without offending any of my religious brothers and sisters, to curse without treading on the feet of the light that shines within. As for our beloved furry best friends, I laud them for settling most of their territorial disputes the old-fashioned way: by means of exquisite bladder control and dropping less-atomic bombs here and there. O My Dog - feel free to use that.
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.: peace or perish :.
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all text, apart from the quoted:
Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2015
Nephology
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Air Liquide - If There Was No Gravity
cradles babies in the sky
cloud machine turned up to high
bouncy fleecy cotton beds
this is where the angels tread
castles mountains sugar spun
now your flight has just begun
floating easy giant steps
pictures that you won't forget
how you'd love to live up there
kiss the sun and walk on air
if there was no gravity
you'd in nephology
you could look down on the world
peeking through the blueish swirls
you could watch the rain fall down
on the people on the ground
surf on snow flakes, all those things
you could touch an airplanes wings
just a wish
a wish
a dream
nephology
nephology
music: Air Liquide
words: MS Applegate
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Nephology - study of clouds
Air Liquide - clouds of acid
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.: no cloud beyond nine :.
click here for a previous goosebumper
War No More - III
WAR NO MORE - III: A Global Consciousness
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say:
Look at that, you son of a bitch!"
- terran sight, enlightened lunar insight,
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
seeing Earth from the Moon
a cartoon titled "A Global Consciousness",
a visual interpretation of Ed's revelation,
made by Zen Pencils' Gavin Aung Than
- click the image to see it in full
Our global village* of wondering wanderers,
a rocky, shallow shoreline of the cosmos*,
where we ask and bask in the solar surf
as we ride and bide the tides of time.
Overpopulated as some regions may seem,
this terran beach does welcome all of us.
Unevenly distributed as food may seem,
Earth provides nutrition for all.
We cannot continue to create diversion
upon division on an indefinite scale.
Some mistakes serve to instruct,
others serve as lifelong life lessons.
One day we may truly agree to disagree
and nevertheless shake hands in peace
without yet another relapse to war.
* thanks Marshall, thanks Carl
link out to ZenPencils.com
link up to War No More - V
link up to War No More - IV
link down to War No More - II
link down to War No More - I
more War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle
.: celebrate the difference - embrace similarity :.
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all text, apart from the top quote:
Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2015
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