ZOOTROPO from Pablo Kondratas on Vimeo.
Pine cones. Thistles. Acorns. Things that in my part of the world and quite possibly in yours are easy enough to ignore. But brought to life - well, a different kind of life - here. Of course there was a reason Whitman called his landmark collection Leaves of Grass as well.
Pine cones. Thistles. Acorns. Things that in my part of the world and quite possibly in yours are easy enough to ignore. But brought to life - well, a different kind of life - here. Of course there was a reason Whitman called his landmark collection Leaves of Grass as well.
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Having read Robert Lanza's Biocentrism a few years ago I bought his follow-up called Beyond Biocentrism. Okay, not too imaginative but he is a scientist. Anyway, what he postulates is that consciousness is a first cause of life as we know it. Mystics have been saying such things for millennia but they don't offer scientific evidence and he does.
A quote: “Name the colors, blind the eye” is an old Zen saying, illustrating that the intellect’s habitual ways of branding and labeling creates a terrible experiential loss by displacing the vibrant, living reality with a steady stream of labels.”
This video you found seems to say much the same thing in a different format. As does Walt Whitman's magnificent poem.
These are good things to know. The world (as Shakespeare famously noted with his phrase, "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.") is more of a marvel than our intellects alone can know.
Lanza's ideas about the origins of life seem to be pretty heady. In a sense this is an area where science has to be matched with some philosophy. One of my favorite philosophers, Henri Bergson, seems like he would have been very interested in this theory.
I remember that book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and how one of the exercises therein was drawing objects - your hand, a cup - purely by sight. The idea was to get away from how you "know" they look and towards how you actually experience them. The Zen saying seems to be saying much the same thing.
I did a book swap with a few friends recently and wound up with a used copy of Whitman's collection. It was on my mind when I wrote this. Shakespeare could have been. And the abstract yet human movements of the plants in the film tickled me.
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