From Trollflöjten (The Magic Flute) (1975), a Swedish-language film directed by Ingmar Bergman
The Magic Flute is the last opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder... and is presently the fourth most frequently performed opera world wide.

"Tamino approaches the left-hand entrance and is denied access by voices from within. The same happens when he goes to the entrance on the right. But from the entrance in the middle, an old priest appears and lets Tamino in... He tells Tamino that Sarastro is benevolent, not evil... He promises that Tamino's confusion will be lifted when Tamino approaches the temple as a friend."
WIKIPEDIA

"Det märkliga är att det blivande barnet uppfattas som en inkräktare,

och måste skydda sig mot sin egen mors immunförsvar.

Blastocysten utsöndrar ett enzym, som här syns som blåa kristaller,

en signal till modern att den inte är någon inkräktare.

Den är tvärtom någon som behöver näring och omvårdnad."

Från filmen
Livets mirakel
https://vimeo.com/12057190
Avsnitt 1 av 3: Evolutionen
Sändes 1 januari 1996
Allt levande på jorden har ett gemensamt förflutet långt bak i tiden.
Evolutionen har gjort oss till dem vi är.
I första delen av Livets mirakel får vi följa evolutionens spår i ett embryos utveckling.
Filmen sändes i "Vetenskapens värld", och presenteras av Bo G Erikson.
Manus, regi och redigering: Mikael Agaton
Producent: Lars Rengfelt
Medicinsk fotograf: Lennart Nilsson

" In this work, premium is placed on extraordinarily precise yet robust instrumentation,
tight environmental and quality control,
multiply redundant on-line data collection and processing,
rapid accumulation of large data bases,
and sensitive analytical measures
to facilitate extraction of small systematic trends from high levels of background noise,
while rejecting spurious artifacts."
http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/jahn.html

SOMETHING RESEMBLING THIS

"A Sarashi or a Hara Obi (Sarashi means bleached cloth (and is also used as cheesecloth) and Hara Obi means "stomach belt/sash) is a long cotton cloth about 10'' wide and several feet long that you repeatedly wrap around your belly. In pregnancy you wrap it in a way that is looser at top and tighter at the bottom which holds the belly up without a binding effect. It helps alleviate back pain and prevent stretch marks. In the post pregnancy months you wrap it tight equally from top to bottom which will help with healing.  In Japan they have been used for thousands of years.

Från A till Ö

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRcbqPQfAA

Photograph by 이상훈

The Helena Morpho (Morpho helena) is a Neotropical butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morpho_helena 

Sulfur dioxide (also sulphur dioxide) is the chemical compound with the formula SO
2. At standard atmosphere, it is a toxic gas with a pungent, irritating, and rotten smell. The triple point is 197.69 K and 1.67 kPa. It is released naturally by volcanic activity.
Sulfur dioxide was used by the Romans in winemaking when they discovered that burning sulfur candles inside empty wine vessels kept them fresh and free from vinegar smell.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide 
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/the-role-of-sulfites-in-wine.html 

Scheduling in pulp mills
The pulp process involves many production stages, usually coupled with intermediate storage tanks. As each stage has a different reliability and bottlenecks may vary from day to day, scheduling a pulp mill needs to take into account these bottlenecks and the probability of a disturbance or breakdown. Each stage also may have different decision variables, such as steam / water / chemical input, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_mill 

Sulfide mine in Norway
http://www.gruvtroll.se/?p=23

In Swedish the meaning of the name Lovisa is: Renowned battle maid.
http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/lovisa 
In Swedish the meaning of the name Helena is: Light.
In English the meaning of the name Helena is: In mythology the abduction of Zeus's mortal daughter Helen sparked the Trojan War. 
http://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/helena

I was baptised Lena Maria but for various reasons changed Lena to Lovisa.

"I became obsessed with the Valentine’s letter, trying to figure out how to fold it. Finally, after hours of folding, I did. Here are some pictures I had taken after the experiments. What I didn’t know was that the letters were called Victorian puzzle purses. If it is too hard to figure out how to fold via the images above, here is some further explanation from the origami resource center,"
http://annekata.com/2010/05/bright-star-and-the-victorian-puzzle-purse/

I'll Write Whenever I Can

http://peterbeard.com/

"Religion from O.Fr. religion "religious community," from L. religionem (nom. religio)

"respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods,"
"obligation, the bond between man and the gods"

is derived from the Latin religiō, the ultimate origins of which are obscure.
One possibility is an interpretation traced to Cicero,
connecting lego "read", i.e. re (again) + lego in the sense of

"choose", "go over again" or "consider carefully".

Modern scholars such as Tom Harpur and Joseph Campbell favor the derivation from ligare
"bind, connect", probably from a prefixed re-ligare, i.e. re (again) + ligare or

"to reconnect,""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

 

Image by DrNanite:
"[Paul] Portier        said “All beings, apart from bacteria, are double being formed by the association of two different kinds of creatures”. He was in fact referring to mitochondria. Portier's theory was that mitochondria where a type of bacteria that live inside the cell, produce energy for the cell and are passed down genetically during conception of a human being."

Beach sand ingredients differ around the earth.
Glass is made out of sand.

"Aluminium (or aluminum; see spelling differences) is a chemical element in the boron group with symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery-white, soft, nonmagnetic, ductile metal. Aluminium is the third most abundant element (after oxygen and silicon), and the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust. It makes up about 8% by weight of the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below. Aluminium metal is so chemically reactive that native specimens are rare and limited to extreme reducing environments. Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals. The chief ore of aluminium is bauxite.
Aluminium is remarkable for the metal's low density and for its ability to resist corrosion due to the phenomenon of passivation. Structural components made from aluminium and its alloys are vital to the aerospace industry and are important in other areas of transportation and structural materials. The most useful compounds of aluminium, at least on a weight basis, are the oxides and sulfates.
Despite its prevalence in the environment, no known form of life uses aluminium salts metabolically. In keeping with its pervasiveness, aluminium is well tolerated by plants and animals. Owing to their prevalence, potential beneficial (or otherwise) biological roles of aluminium compounds are of continuing interest." Wikipedia

The Holy Graal ("The Holy Grail is a dish, plate, stone, or cup that is part of an important theme of Arthurian literature. According to legend, it has special powers, and is designed to provide happiness, eternal youth and food in infinite abundance.") can be metaphored as

an aluminium cup filled with sand.

"Orthodox Marilogical thought dates as far back as Saint John Damascene who in the 8th century wrote on the mediative role of Mary and on the Dormition of the Theotokos.^[12][13] In the 14th century, Orthodox Mariology began to flourish among Byzantine theologians who held a cosmic view of Mariology, placing Jesus and Mary together at the center of the cosmos and saw them as the goal of world history.^[10] More recently Orthodox Mariology achieved a renewal among 20th century theologians in Russia, for whom Mary is the heart of the Church and the center of creation.^[10] However, unlike the Catholic approach, Orthodox Mariology does not support the Immaculate Conception of Mary.^[10] Prior to the 20th century, Orthodox Mariology was almost entirely liturgical, and had no systematic presentation similar to Roman Catholic Mariology. However, 20th century theologians such as Sergei Bulgakov began the development of a detailed systematic Orthodox Mariology.^[14][15][16] Bulgakov's Mariological formulation emphasizes the close link between Mary and the Holy Spirit in the mystery of the Incarnation.^[11]"

"During the Middle Ages, devotion to the Virgin Mary as the "new Eve" lent much to the status of women. Women who had been looked down upon as daughters of Eve, came to be looked upon as objects of veneration and inspiration. The medieval development of chivalry, with the concept of the honor of a lady and the ensuing knightly devotion to it, not only derived from the thinking about the Virgin Mary, but also contributed to it.^[27] The medieval veneration of the Virgin Mary was contrasted by the fact that ordinary women, especially those outside aristocratic circles were looked down upon. Although women were at times viewed as the source of evil, it was Mary who as mediator to God was a source of refuge for man. The development of medieval Mariology and the changing attitudes towards women paralleled each other and can best be understood in a common context.<sup>[28]"
Wikipedia


http://www.katoliknu.se/html/rel_islam-chr.htm


African - The creator-god and sky-god of the Mende. He moved up to a house in the sky to be free of the never-ending requests of mankind. Sometimes called Ngewo, Ngewowa, Ngewowa, Leve or Leve.
http://www.mythologydictionary.com/ngewo-mythology.html 
Ngewo is the supreme being, the creator of the universe. He created man, the animals and fishes, as well as the trees and plants. The more common of the two names of God is Ngewo; the other name, Leve, seems to be more ancient. In ancient times, the Mende may have conceived of Leve as the female deity consort of Ngewo, forming the feminine half of a cosmic creator couple. Ngewo or Leve, chief and father protector, is transcendent, living away from the everyday activities of this world.
http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100233258</sup>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Trastevere

My symbols of the Sun & the Moon

The Russian Peter I doll

The island of Peter I
Copied from a lexicon in OPS (Ofoten Psychiatric Center)

Sunday, August 19, 2012

I start again.
Yesterday I dreamed that Daniel awoke from the dead. He was as usual.
My awful insight was that we had not changed.

Tro på allt – Believe in everything (Unnoticed? text added here 29 April 2012)
Detta är allt - This is all
Detta är solen två år Detta är solen två år - This is the sun two years This is the sun two years
På papperet - On the paper

The gears in the Strasbourg Cathedral Astronomical Clock 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_astronomical_clock

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By Nichola Moffat on January 14, 2014

Spiral Perm

"Spiral perms are created using long perm rods. The end result is extremely tight, cascading curls or ringlets. They look like tightly wound spirals or corkscrews. Of course, how tight the curls are depends on the size of the perm rod and the various chemicals used. These factors will mostly vary from salon to salon so be sure to ask – some salons will be able to provide pictures of their work as examples."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kore_%28sculpture%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_%28mythology%29

"In 1905, American astronomer Percival Lowell suggested the existence of Pluto, despite never having seen it. Lowell was studying some unusual nuances in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus and theorized that only the gravity of an unknown planet would be causing them.

In 1930, after Lowell's death, American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh observed Pluto. By tradition, the discovering astronomer of a new space object gets naming rights. But it was an 11-year-old British girl's idea to name the planet Pluto. Venetia Burney told her grandfather that the name fit the new planet because it stayed hidden for so long, and the Roman god Pluto could disappear at will. Venetia's grandfather wrote to Tombaugh and offered the suggestion..."
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/sciences/how-did-the-planet-pluto-get-its-name-i-know-it-s-named-after-the-mythical-god-of-the-underworld-but-why

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_polytope

                                                                                                               SPHERICAL. Go Figure.

Honeycomb

∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ 

Icosahedral

"From Vedic times, the bindi was created as a means to worship one's intellect. Therefore, it was used by both men and women. The worship of intellect was in order to use it to ensure our thoughts, speech, actions, habits and ultimately our character becomes pure. A strong intellect can help one to make noble decisions in life, be able to stand up to challenges in life with courage, and recognise and welcome good thoughts in life. The belief was that on this a strong individual, a strong family and strong society can be formed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindi_%28decoration%29 

"In Buddhist art and culture, the Urna (more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa (Pāli uṇṇa), and known as byakugō (白毫) in Japan) is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark. It symbolizes a third eye, which in turn symbolizes vision into the divine world;
a sort of ability to see past our mundane universe of suffering."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urna 

"The most typical psychological term for functions carried out by the prefrontal cortex area is executive function. Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed, could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).

Frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning. More anterior regions along the rostro-caudal axis of frontal cortex support rule learning at higher levels of abstraction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_cortex 

 

 

"But if the brain confusing reality and literalness with metaphor and symbol can have adverse consequences, the opposite can occur as well. At one juncture just before the birth of a free South Africa, Nelson Mandela entered secret negotiations with an Afrikaans general with death squad blood all over his hands, a man critical to the peace process because he led a large, well-armed Afrikaans resistance group. They met in Mandela’s house, the general anticipating tense negotiations across a conference table. Instead, Mandela led him to the warm, homey living room, sat beside him on a comfy couch, and spoke to him in Afrikaans. And the resistance melted away.

This neural confusion about the literal versus the metaphorical gives symbols enormous power, including the power to make peace. The political scientist and game theorist Robert Axelrod of the University of Michigan has emphasized this point in thinking about conflict resolution. For example, in a world of sheer rationality where the brain didn’t confuse reality with symbols, bringing peace to Israel and Palestine would revolve around things like water rights, placement of borders, and the extent of militarization allowed to Palestinian police. Instead, argues Axelrod, “mutual symbolic concessions” of no material benefit will ultimately make all the difference. He quotes a Hamas leader who says that for the process of peace to go forward, Israel must apologize for the forced Palestinians exile in 1948. And he quotes a senior Israeli official saying that for progress to be made, Palestinians need to first acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and to get their anti-Semitic garbage out of their textbooks.

Hope for true peace in the Middle East didn’t come with the news of a trade agreement being signed. It was when President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan attended the funeral of the murdered Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. That same hope came to the Northern Irish, not when ex-Unionist demagogues and ex-I.R.A. gunmen served in a government together, but when those officials publicly commiserated about each other’s family misfortunes, or exchanged anniversary gifts. And famously, for South Africans, it came not with successful negotiations about land reapportionment, but when black South Africa embraced rugby and Afrikaans rugby jocks sang the A.N.C. national anthem.

Nelson Mandela was wrong when he advised, “Don’t talk to their minds; talk to their hearts.” He meant talk to their insulas and cingulate cortices and all those other confused brain regions, because that confusion could help make for a better world."

Robert Sapolsky

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-on-metaphors/?_r=1

"... On the contrary: he was convinced that what he had encountered could not be real. At best it must be a hallucination: a trick of the eye or the ear, or his own mind working against him...
... Though the reverential legends about him are often magnificent, they work as perhaps all legends do: they obscure more than they reveal, and he becomes more a symbol than a human being."
http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/episode/2013/10/31/muhammad-from-orphan-to-prophet/

So some instances call for for closeness to reality and others for furthering symbolics or a combination of both to help bring about the optimal well in evolving our interactions.

SUN
reflexes