http://www.stmichaelscathedral.com/restoration-videos/

 http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/world-cultures/bishop-white-gallery-chinese-temple-art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#mediaviewer/File:Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif 

Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It is often used in conjunction with convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution, which in some cases is a "correct" solution. Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are drawn. After the process of divergent thinking has been completed, ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking.

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

Sensory gating describes neurological processes of filtering out redundant or unnecessary stimuli in the brain from all possible environmental stimuli. Also referred to as gating or filtering, sensory gating prevents an overload of irrelevant information in the higher cortical centers of the brain. The pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus play a major role in attention, and filter out unnecessary information. Although sensory gating is largely automatic, it also occurs within the context of attentional processes. Though the term sensory gating has been used interchangeably with sensorimotor gating, the two are distinct constructs.

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

James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed contains a story:

Someone apparently went up to the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said "What a lot of morons back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked, every morning, at the dawn and to have thought what they were seeing was the Sun going around the Earth," when every school kid knows that the Earth goes around the Sun, to which Wittgenstein replied "Yeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been going around the Earth?" Burke's point is that it "would have looked exactly the same: you see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing."

... arguing that the meaning of words is best understood as their use within a given language-game [The rules of language are analogous to the rules of games; thus saying something in a language is analogous to making a move in a game. The analogy between a language and a game demonstrates that words have meaning depending on the uses made of them in the various and multiform activities of human life. (The concept is not meant to suggest that there is anything trivial about language, or that language is 'just a game', quite the contrary.)]

At last, Wittgenstein writes, "Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbuechlein, ‘To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be benefited thereby.’ That is what I would have liked to say about my work.” 

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

Hermelinens död

noveller Willy Kyrklund

"The analyses consume considerable computing cycles and require the use of Stampede's large memory nodes, but they allow the group to reconstruct the 'wiring diagrams' of cells by learning how all of the proteins encoded by a genome are associated into functional pathways, systems, and networks."

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=131857&org=NSF 

 Saṃsara... meaning "continuous flow")... According to the view of these religions, a person's current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning to this cycle but that it can be ended through perceiving reality. The goal of these religions is to realize this truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha or liberation. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra 

"[A] true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship" 

Meanwhile, they dismiss the navigator as a useless stargazer, though he is the only one with adequate knowledge to direct the ship's course.

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

sublimation (uncountable)

1. The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase.
2. The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive.

sublime

From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to", "upwards”) + uncertain, often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold", "entrance", "lintel”)

beauty

"There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes." [also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism]

"The classical Greek noun for "beauty" was κάλλος, kallos, and the adjective for "beautiful" was καλός, kalos. The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios, an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning "hour". In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of one's hour""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
"... Schmidhuber's theory explicitly distinguishes between what's beautiful and what's interesting, stating that interestingness corresponds to the first derivative of subjectively perceived beauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity. Whenever the observer's learning process (which may be a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics) leads to improved data compression such that the observation sequence can be described by fewer bits than before, the temporary interestingness of the data corresponds to the number of saved bits. This compression progress is proportional to the observer's internal reward, also called curiosity reward. A reinforcement learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause additional interesting input data with yet unknown but learnable predictability or regularity."
"The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency, which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth."
"There have also been relatively successful attempts with regard to chess and music.
A relation between Max Bense's mathematical formulation of aesthetics in terms of "redundancy" and "complexity" and theories of musical anticipation was offered using the notion of Information Rate."

(Balancing the Crazy – Quitting Time!)

(Blackness Castle)

stills from Duo Moon 2012 by Martin Thomas

I am not obsessed. I am compelled.

  ... Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.

—And we include in our discussions Kammerer’s recognition of seriality as a form of meaningful coincidence, which, while not considered by Jung, is encountered in such events as the significant repetition of songs, numbers, and phrases...

To understand how synchronicity manifests itself, we’ll look at the three patterns in which it appears in our lives: single synchronicities; strings of synchronicities that drive home a point; and meaning-packed, multilayered synchronicity clusters...

http://www.flowpower.com/understanding_synchronicity.htm 

http://www.paratheatrical.com/synchronicity.html

Carl Jung drew upon Kammerer's work in his essay Synchronicity. Koestler reported that, when researching for his biography about Kammerer, he himself was subjected to "a meteor shower" of coincidences - as if Kammerer's ghost were grinning down at him saying, "I told you so!"

 ... advocated the Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.

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

 Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence.

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

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

 

true – false

real – unreal

good – bad

right – wrong

affirmable – deniable

The compound of ideas I have in mind is
true (as in comprehensible)
a mixture of real and unreal

mostly good and sometimes bad (unpleasant in some of its manifestations)

mostly right and partly wrong (as in unsuitable).

Im affirming it and rarely deny it.

Last Judgment detail
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html

Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate

philamuseum

“The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny,” 1899, by Claude Monet

 http://instagram.com/p/ruUV4ZK2o4/

"Nu pendlar jag mellan ytterligare två saker som har med det ni sade om världar att göra. Dels talar ni om ett accepterande och ett fungerande inom en given världs, inom logos grundvalar och yttersta gränser, utan att ifrågasätta dem eller försöka omstörta dem… Skulle jag då kunna kalla denna aktivitet kosmografisk?...
Och dels talar ni om en aktivitet som öppnar vägen till det som jag vill kalla kosmogoniskt… Verksamheten som har som sitt mål en kvalitativt grundlig förändring av världen och tillträdet i ett rum som ligger bortom logos övermakt...
Varenda en av era termer måste finnas i hjärtat av de andra..."

http://chromatachromata.com/blanchot-promenerar/

Can information lie dormant for ages awaiting suitable circumstances to awaken?
Like Lambsquarters and Lotus seeds remain viable for thousands of years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_seed_bank#cite_note-3

Lotus Nelumbo nucifera

Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.) Photo by Leo Michels

VELAZQUEZ

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/Infante-Felipe-Pr%C3%B3spero-c.-1660-large.html

 

 

 

 

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/St--Anthony-Abbot-And-St--Paul-The-Hermit-large.html

http://www.diegovelazquez.org/The-White-Horse-large.html

Not Quite Everything?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint#The_blueprint_processes

Inside Snowflake

En vilande gleshet med djupa nyanser

och en långsam rörelse framåt

förde oss från Linnéparken

till den katolska kyrkans norra sida i Kalmar.

I den korta pausen i Emmaboda

var det vi och allting som räknade med en obestämd konfrontation

på gräsplanen mellan de gamla kyrkorna,

under en undanskymd förväntan på det tidsfärgade caféet

och i den sprida doften av världslighet

som fick oss lyfta några centimeter från den fuktiga marken.

Ibland efter en tanke, ibland framför den,

fram och tillbaka,

katedraler av närvaro,

av det som tätnar.  

Vasilis Papageorgiou

https://publisher.qbrick.com/Embed.aspx?mid=100DAD6D

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_Maria_kyrka,_Ystad

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornvakt
Tornvakten hade till uppgift att från ett av stadens torn, vanligtvis kyrktornen, hålla uppsikt över staden dag och natt efter eventuell brand eller annan fara som hotade...Vakten skulle också meddela klockslagen under dygnets mörka timmar, följt av en besvärjelse. Han kunde till exempel ropa: Klockan är nio slagen – Gud bevare staden för eld och brand och fiendehand. Många kyrktorn i Sverige har än idag bevarade utrymmen för tornvakten.
Ett gammalt tornväktarrop från Västerås domkyrka sjunget lyder: Klockan är 12 slagen. Guds härliga, milda och mäktiga hand bevare vår stad för eld och brand. Klockan är 12 slagen.
I Sankta Maria kyrkas torn i Ystad tjänstgör fortfarande en tornvakt, som regelbundet använder ett horn för att meddela att saker och ting är i sin ordning... Också i Centraleuropa fanns tornvakter och de finns exempelvis fortfarande kvar i tjänst i Krakow i Polen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Basilica,_Krak%C3%B3w
Church of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Trumpet_Call
Hejnał Mariacki (Polish; pronounced "Hey-now Mahr-yahts-kee", derived from a Hungarian expression meaning "Saint Mary's dawn"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper 

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm 

Conquest
The First Horseman
of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

As depicted in the Bamberg Apocalypse (1000-1020).

The first "living creature" (with halo) is seen in the upper right.

There is such a feeling in me 
And since a few days
It is not really complicated
I have to say you

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I've been waiting on
until we see each other in the eye,
Please pass on to you.

All the hours you were there for me,
I owe you much,
much too rare that they say what,
from you I feel understood.

Yes, when we see each other again soon,
I am looking forward
until we take into our arms,
Please pass on to you.

Da ist so ein Gefühl in mir
Und schon seit ein paar Tagen
Es ist eigentlich nicht kompliziert
Ich muss es Dir nur sagen

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich warte schon darauf,
bis wir uns in die Augen sehn,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

All die Stunden warst Du für mich da,
ich hab Dir Vieles zu verdanken,
viel zu selten, dass man so was sagt,
von Dir fühl ich mich verstanden.

Ja, wenn wir uns bald wieder sehn,
ich freue mich darauf,
bis wir uns in die Arme nehmen,
pass bitte auf Dich auf.

Enno Bunger 

Pass Auf Dich Auf

 

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

http://mcnyblog.org/2012/08/07/a-fine-line-the-art-of-the-clothesline/ 

 

 http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg21/id/9652/rec/1