Dennis Gabor: Father of Holography

Dennis Gabor (Gábor Dénes) ,FRS, (June 5, 1900, Budapest – February 9, 1979, London) was a Hungarian physicist and inventor, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Holography is a lens-less type of photography in which a wave field of light scattered by an object is recorded as an interference pattern on a plate. In holography the total of all the information has to be used; not only the amplitude, as in usual optical imaging, but also the phase. In this manner a complete holo-spatial picture is obtained.

An electromagnetic energy hologram is defined as the whole (or entire) 3-D message contained in a beam of light, compared with the partial message obtained in an ordinary two-dimensional (2-D) photograph.

When Gabor first invented holography he did not produce actual holograms which had to wait until the invention (in 1962) of the laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) as no coherent light source existed at the time.

"The best way to predict the future is to create it", Dennis Gabor

Other practical uses include:

Holographic data storage: a technique that can store information at high density inside crystals or photopolymers. As current storage techniques such as Blu-ray reach the denser limit of possible data density (due to the diffraction-limited size of the writing beams), holographic storage has the potential to become the next generation of popular storage media.

Holograms can be made using sound waves and other waves in the electro-magnetic spectrum. Holograms made with X-rays or ultraviolet light can record images of particles smaller than visible light, such as atoms or molecules. Microwave holography detects images deep in space by recording the radio waves they emit. Acoustical holography uses sound waves to "see through" solid objects.

Higher order holographic image events that involve dynamic movement or energetic activities which produce changes in material or nonmaterial space through time are reconstructed from energetic holograms having at least four dimensions (4-D).

NASA, Bell Labs and SONY are some of the companies at the cutting edge of holographic implementation. Its uses and applications are too numerous to enlist...


"The three-dimensional reality interested artists from the age of Velasquez; presently analytical cubism of Picasso has tried to take possession of Velasquez's 3-D reality. Now, due to the genius of Gabor, holography has made possible art renaissance, and the doors of a new area of creativity have opened ahead of me", Salavdor Dali.

Informational universe theoreticians have hypothesized that a sufficiently advanced civilization could record the entirety of its history and experience, both qualitative and quantitative in a single holographic plate no bigger than a grain of sand. Of course it has also been sustained by mystics of all the ages that this is exactly what the universe does at all times and that one can access the recordings of time past and time future just by looking into a molecule of pure air (akasia oracle).

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Gabors discovery elegantly transcends the field of applied science, in the way of old-school harmonics it reflects beautifully a cosmic pattern of organizing information. His work has been continued by the likes of David Bohm and Karl Pribram, who have added a quantum dimension where mind and space are seen as a holonomimicaly transforming entity in which subatomic particles and memory (as bits or memes) are at all times a reflection of the totality, in themselves containing and interconnecting the totality of all information and consciousness as basic energy unfolding from the unfathomable ocean of implicate unity.

Gabor should certainly feel good (aetherial sunny smile) for networking the tools that give imagination its conceptual grounds and avail the formation of an image unparalleled in the history of mankind. The realization of the heartfelt intuition that inspired William Blake when he said:

To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
to hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

http://universal-hologram.com/

river on friend: Stephen La Berge

Master of dreamscience.

He has taught lessons on altered states and psychobiology in Stanford University, the same school were he previously got a Ph.D. in Psychophysiology.

In 1987, he founded The Lucidity Institute which promotes research on topics related to lucid dreaming.

“Lucid Dreaming: The Power of being aware and awake in your dreams ”

“Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” with Howard Rheingold.

"Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain"

LaBerge designed a device that facilitates the access to lucid dream states. It consists on a special kind of mask, that every time it detects that the user is entering into an REM cycle, sends flashlights directly to his eyes. The idea is that our brain, although asleep, receives a luminous signal that lets us know whenever we start a dream phase. This way you can consciously recognize your dreaming state and control your activities during it. The device is known as DreamLight.

Through the profound and rigorous study of oneirology, LaBerge has come to conclusions that go beyond the traditional perspective of science. He is recognized for being the first scientist to prove the phenomena of lucid dreaming, following an empirical method and being properly demonstrated.

“The basic idea of proving lucid dreaming was a simple one. It was based on earlier studies that showed that, if a person in their dream happened to be watching a ping-pong game and they’re looking from left to right, the eyes of their sleeping body would show a corresponding pattern of eye-movement activity. So I had thought that, since in a lucid dream I can volitionally do whatever I want, why not make a signal that we could agree upon in advance; a pattern of eye-movement signals that could then be used to prove that I had a lucid dream and that I knew I was dreaming while I was in the dream? We could also use that to establish what stage of sleep lucid dreaming occurred. I thought it would be REM sleep just because that was when most dreaming occurs.”

His work invites us to take a conscious responsibility for our dreams, transforming ourselves in a rational reflection of Chuang Tzu´s butterfly.

“The most important kind of sleep-learning that you can do is not having a tape-recording and trying to pipe more factual information into you. Sleep time is not a very good time for taking in information, but lucid dreams are an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, for finding out about the wisdom of life. Having an encounter with a dragon, for example, which you won’t ever have the opportunity for in the waking state. You have to have the courage to resist the fear that you’ll actually feel, to say this dragon is a mental image - a mental image can’t hurt me, and then to act on that. I would advise having a conversation, making friends with the dragon. The point is, is that what you can learn from your experiences in the lucid dream state are things that can apply to your waking state.”

The Lucidity Institute --- http://www.lucidity.com/

Awake the mirror:

enjoy the parade --- invoke lucid highways for all our dreams…

Cary Grant: Liquid.Silver.Delightful.

Cary Grant, a holographic projection created by Archibald Leach. Born in Bristol, England, in 1904; died in 1986 in Davenport, Iowa.

Cary Grant, actor of popular motion pictures such as The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest, Catch a Thief, Notorious, Bringing up Baby, Monkey Business

Grant was a favorite of such directors as Howard Hawks and Albert Hitchcok.

He acted alongside helluva-soft-filmlight-stars as the swedesilver Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Mae West, Marylin Monroe, Katherine Hepburn, Sophia Loren etc.

A bonafide Hollywood icon, perhaps unmatched in charm and elegance. The Rolls-Royce of leading men, always nonchalant and sophisticated, the dreamchevalier of the starsystem.

An executive for luxury firms such as Faberge, Grant traveled the world for the company of the jeweled cosmic eggs.

One of the first sponsors of L.S.D (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide), Grant took acid in the late 50's for therapeutic reasons under Dr. Oscar Janiger. This experiences changed his life helping him overcome his ego (fledging from babe-magnet into mandala-personality) and his fears of insecurity and lovelessness.

I underwent a series of controlled experiments with Lysergic Acid, a hallucinogenic chemical or drug known as LSD 25
(over 60 of them, it seems Grant basked on the candy magic)

The action of the chemical releases the subconscious so that it becomes apparent to yourself. So that you can see what transpires in the depth of you mind — and what goes on there you wouldn’t believe, ladies and gentlemen — and learn which misconceptions, guilts and fears, with their resultant repressions, inhibitions and insecurities, have formed the pattern for your past behavior. A successively recurring pattern since childhood.


Curiously Grant seems to have been responsible for luring Timothy Leary into drugs (and also Jack Nicholson), the (subtle) energy of attraction Grant-Leach possessed was enthralling.


The joke of all this is that, in a sense, Cary Grant got me into psychedelic experiences .* I was a psychologist, from Harvard, when I heard about Cary Grant getting into [LSD]. That struck 
 me very much; that attracted my attention. I had been very much against the use of drugs 
before that; Cary Changed my Views. He converted me. 
*It was generally claimed that the reverse was true. (DR.TIMOTHY LEARY)


He was always charming, professional, courteous, open and helpful. I 
 remember he said, referring to his Universal cottage, "What do you think of this bungalow? 
 Would it be a good place to have LSD?" I replied, "Well, I always like to have a fireplace 
 [during the experience]." He said, "Well, I'm going to call the studio right now and have them 
 put a fireplace in." That was typical of him. (Timothy Leary)

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A strange liquid mirror looks at us from time past -those bizarre sessions in the "cottage", those dreamscapes into wild Mexico, those joint ventures and oceanic orgies in which Leary, Huxley, Cary Grant, Anais Nin, and others took the pill of communion and tranced into the mystery, that and the toast and the tea, the refinements, the small talk, the modulations of the moments that breach open the history of unequaled mystic haughtiness.

riveron friend: Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson one of the mavericksofthemind in cultural stream chaos now, author of many books and reality tunnels, a main exponent of shining-hiena disappearing-art, firefox deamon etc. is suffering from post-polyo syndrome in addition to economical mishaps. Not that RAW doesn´t know his way around, but we still make audible our support through spiral kiwaves and energy logo(lotus)flux. As of now the reports state that RAW is reaping his own reefers to fight-off the pain and drifting with the idea of a complete abolition of such a contractive turn-off.

RAW is author of such great mind-enhancement, belief-system-breaking books as "The Cosmic Trigger" or "The Iluminati Trilogy"etc.

Bob is also chairman of the Discordian Society, an autonomous organization created in disorder to serve goddess Eris and to surf and stray the chaos angel engine.

Steal candy from steel-chalice-people (77)

RAW holds the post of American director of the Committee for Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal (CSICON)

RAW considers himself a mystic agnostic.

"Father of Conspiracy Theory".

Here is a random collezione of Robert Anton Wilson's quotes. Later we will enter a full profile of one of the most influential trickster thinkers of our time. Notice lasergyc humor all-through. (What strikes brightest in Anton Wilson is how laughter cracks the walls of the mean-machine, leaks a door maybe (like piss is thunderlight in the sky), in white hole hope: the crannie-flower, where the flashing teeth in the old dragon's s.m.i.l.e. ( space migration, intelligence increase, life extension) space the loopholes needed for passage (guardian dazed)
into the garden gem:

Reality is what you can get away with.

Information is the source of all wealth.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

A perfect master is ideal, but only if you want to be a perfect slave.

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. "Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance!" just doesn't cut it….

All I can say about my years at Playboy is that those were the happiest years of my corporate existence.

Most people just take themselves too damn seriously, which is why they act like damn fools.
Since gene-pools last much, much longer than biological units, or persons, I assume gene-pools have higher intelligence than the isolated units. Since species last longer than their sub-divided gene-pools, I assume that a species has a higher intelligence than any gene-pool within it. And since Gaia or the Big Computer or whatever you want to call the total Terran Geo-bio-mass has lasted billions of years --despite floods and earthquakes and meteors and massive extinctions and Ice Ages -- I assume it has more smarts than any sub-sets like kingdoms, families, genera, gene-pools, etc.

The Great Pirates in modern times make up a group the abbreviates "MMAO": Machiavelli, Mafia, atoms, and oil. It's the international banks, the Mafia, and the atomic and oil cartels. He doesn't claim they work together, but they more or less make a singular force. But he also says that they're so engaged in conflicts with one another that they're steering Spaceship Earth in 50 different directions, which is why we're going around and we're not getting anywhere. I tend to find that fairly credible.

My hunch is that consciousness is a non-local function of the universe as a whole, and our brains are only local transceivers. As a matter of fact, it's a very strong hunch, but I'm not going to dogmatize about it.

rawilson.com

river on friend: Terence Mckenna

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"Pay attention. And keep breathing". Terence Mckenna on the possibility of having a bad trip.

Terence Mckenna(1946-2000), psychedelic superstar (star of the underground, like the blazing fractal rhizomatic corals doormant in the archaic mind) “the real Tim Leary”, (Terence doesn't smell like candy C.I.A.) a postmodern technoshaman and cultural bricoleur who delivered a message full of heart and epiphanic iridiscence.

Terence inherited a scientific, naturalistic mind, approaching reality as one that explores his housegarden, and later the nearby forest and later the Amazon or the Himalayan mountain reef, and way through into his neurocortex-weaved-with-the-galaxy and all the books and memes and crystals -a holofloral internet, reavelling an informatrix of Logoflowing spirit speaking softly like the voice in the digital wildreness.

“I have always been extraordinarily obsessive about a certain kind of iridescence, a certain quality that can haunt matter, or people, or a painting. My first obsession was minerals. I went from minerals to butterflys, and from butterflys to science fiction, which I definitely consider a psychedelic drug because it empowers the imagination”.

After graduating from Ecology and Conservation, at U.C Berkely, Terence travelled to Asia smuggling dope and collecting butterflys for biological supply companies. He once was wanted by the Interpol.

His first expererience with psychedelic plants was his ingestion of commercial morning-glory seeds, the virgin-climber-flower, the epitomy of the Gaian-Xochipilli devoted plant.

Mckenna developed a theory for evolutionary polypharmonics, where psychedelic plants are central in the unraveling of a Green Consciousness, Veriditas, the plant-plan for the planet, in this way sweetly entering the Gaian Mind or Noosphere and forming a symbiotic synergical synesthetical realtionship with Earth and Eschaton. Like riding the timewaves in a vegetable philosophical stoneboard.

Terence studied and experimented profoundly with the nature of psychedelics, specially with tryptamine molecules, such as the ones in psylocibn mushrooms, ayahuasca, d.m.t. and the brain itself. And what he found was awe-inspiring and skybreaking. This plants, this spirits, shared a powerful morphic field of resonance that enabled access to archetypical transdimensional information. Blurring frontiers between mind and matter and man and stars and starbeings.


“The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind”.

Wholly intriguing is his intuition of this metahistorical relationship between plants and humans. Mckenna played with the idea that our evolutionary path is thorougly linked with the physical technology that plants embed on us. “On the Mushroom-dotted plains of Africa where the Great Horned Goddess...”, monkeys wading from trees might have eaten psylocibe mushrooms, triggering their language skills:

“The psilocybin -- which in small doses provides an increased visual acuity, in slightly larger doses a physical sexual arousal and in still larger doses full-on ecstatic hallucinations and glossolalia -- gave evolutionary advantages including the rearing of off-spring to reproductive age amongst those tribes who partook of it. The changes caused by the introduction of this drug to the primate diet were many—McKenna theorizes, for instance, that synesthesia (the blurring of boundaries between the senses) caused by psilocybin led to the development of spoken language: the ability to form pictures in another person's mind through the use of vocal sounds”.

Terenece, who among many things, was a voratious reader and herme-naut of Joyce’s Wake, in his entheogenic trances repeteadly had the vision of the Word incarnating into material form ("from heard to beheld") a glittering glossolallic hyperobject that trascends ordinary communication into the visible seal of truth, in his multisampled d.m.t voyage:

”And so like jewelled self dribbling basketballs these (machine self-transforming elves) things come running forward and what they are doing with this visible language that they create is they are making gifts! They are making gifts for you and they will say amuwi takwiti wati fatiunaabyumonya phama woaniaum …”

For, like the Kabbalist:

"The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words. And that if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. " 
or “the if the world is code, then we can hack it”.

And even more, Terence believed that the man-plant relationship was the key for a safe passage into hyperspace, in this trialing times of ecocide and cultural bestrangement. Enabling us to recapture the q-bits of the broken fractal map, and propulsing us with a vegtable star-ship (greendream bardo-thodol gimmicks) into evolutionary final exam.

"What is happening to our world is ingression of novelty toward what Whitehead called "concrescence," a tightening gyre. Everything is flowing together. The "autopoetic lapis," the alchemical stone at the end of time, coalesces when everything flows together. When the laws of physics are obviated, the universe disappears, and what is left is the tightly bound plenum, the monad, able to express itself for itself, rather than only able to cast a shadow into physis as its reflection. I come very close here to classical millenarian and apocalyptic thought in my view of the rate at which change is accelerating. From the way the gyre is tightening, I predict that concrescence will occur soon - around 2012 A.D. It will be the entry of our species into hyperspace, but it will appear to be the end of physical laws accompanied by the release of the mind into the imagination".

2012 is the endate of the Mayan Calendar Cosmogenesis , but this date was independently attained by Mckenna since the early seventies, through trance pattern-analysis, whatever that might mean.

Terence made a living from writing and giving conferences. He entered the “black hole” in Hawaii, by his ethnobotanical reservoir, in the year 2000, just short of seeing the end of the world as we know it. He was a master of channeling the waves of words and sharing them with a crowd eager to explore the mystery and the mystics of building a spacecraft through the concrescence of ideas and experiences harvesting in the body. Terence even accomodated a strange spore from outer space

The mushroom speaks:

“I am old, fifty times older than thought in your species, and I came from the stars… I seek intercourse with your species”.

Terence made it again intelligent and exciting to reach into plants and nature and take their teachings back into our technoscapes, bright priceless connections that one can never forget.

"We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space. The body can become an internalized holographic object embedded in a solid-state, hyperdimensional matrix that is eternal, so that we each wander through a true Elysium".

"I speak of the technology of building a starship, I imagine it will be done with voltages far below the voltage of a common flashlight battery. This is, after all, where the most interesting phenomena go on in nature. Thought is that kind of phenomenon; metabolism is that kind of phenomenon".

"My vision of the final human future is an effort to exteriorize the soul and internalize the body, so that the exterior soul will exist as a superconducting lens of translinguistic matter generated out of the body of each of us at a critical juncture at our psychedelic bar mitzvah".

"History is the dash over ten to fifteen thousand years from nomadism to flying saucer, hopefully without ripping the envelope of the planet so badly that the birth is aborted and fails, and we remain brutish prisoners of matter".

"It may instead be what I've recently come to suspect - that the human soul is so alienated from us in our present culture that we treat it as an extraterrestrial. To us the most alien thing in the cosmos is the human soul.

" It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure it is telling the truth, because the demons are of many kinds: "Some are made of ions, some of mind; the ones of ketamine, you'll find, stutter often and are blind.

"The Hubble Telescope is inside us".

"The three evils are: Monotony, Monogamy and Hegemony".

"Consciousness expansion in human beings is going to become an absolute necessity because we are summoning out of the woodwork of cybernetic technology machines that are going to require super-intelligent humans to direct and have discourse with them"

"Its just me, my mind, and Mother Nature".

"Hipparchus, in the second century BC, was asked what he feared most about death, and he said, Not being able to follow the latest discoveries in astronomy. Well, that's precisely my position".

"The best answer I've gotten yet out of this is from Don Delillo's Underworld, where the nun discovers that when you die you become your website".

Terence's prescrptions are crazy enough that they might work...

Among his most significant works are:

"The Magic Mushroom Growers Guide"
"The Invisible Landscape"
"Timewave Zero"
"The Food of the Gods"
"True Hallucinations"
"Trialogues": Terence Mckenna, Ralph Abraham and Rupert Sheldrake
"The Archaic Revival"

His words have been put to music by such performers as:

Spacetime Continuum
The Future Sound of London
Zuvuya
Eat Static
Shpongle, and many more psychedelic trance bands.

For showing a new path in digital allchemy, a path of quantum organic revival -forwardback into the vibrant origi-, and keeping alive the ethereal flaming equation between Logos and surf, for being a warrior of the nightfence, for having fun at the most intense moment of disembodiment and becoming a pure wave of silver information. Terence Mckenna is a psychedelic river friend.

riveron friend: David Bohm

David Bohm american born theoretical physicist (December 20, 1917 Wilkes-Barre, PA–October 27, 1992 London, Uk) author (or discoverer) of an extremely elegant model of the universe that tunes-in with the deepest intuition of undivided wholeness. He is undoubtedly the foremost figure in what is known as the holographic paradigm, a shift from a ratio-mechanical worldview into an all-inclusive perspective of the world as an interconnected whole where, as in a hologram, every part contains the in-formation of the entire photograph or universe.

" a hologram reveals how total content--in principle extending over the whole of space and time--is enfolded in the movement of waves (electromagnetic and other kinds) in any given region."

“All the worlds whirl in a grain of sand”.

"light is the means by which the entire universe unfolds into itself.

Bohm is like the priest of the future, that weds back science with religion and art, that looks more like the past, riding the spirit of present times, weaving together rigorous episteme with resonating fractal intuition.

David Bohm wears Indra's jeweled net on his neck.

As a child Bohm experienced the call of the secret in the woods and developed an unquenchable drive to seek for the hidden cause of things. (He later developed the hidden variables theory).

Like Blake and Einstein, Bohm pre-emphasized imagination as a way to attain knowledge. In this way empathizing with the deep order lying within -the creative and dynamic process of consciousness unfolding into manifest reality.

Bohm faced persecution for alleged communist beliefs which led him to exile. Later he faced collegiate dissaproval and tagbearing which deemed him as more of a mystic than a methodistic scientist. However Bohm remained true to himself. Working the out-of-bounds akash with dandy math.

Some of Bohm’s friends and associates where: Albert Einstein, Oppenheimer (Bohm refused to particpate in the Manhattan Project), J. Krishnamurti, Stan Grof, Karl Pribram, The Dalai Lama (Bohm was his personal physics teacher).
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Bohm is widely regarded as a good guy, always humble and willing, he is ,like the taomaster an "oldboy", who dug the void for impersonal surfgold.

Early in his career Bohm confronted the ghost in the machine, adressing the primordial task in modern physics, the evident contradiction between quantum mechanics and relativistic theory. In a way an older dilemma, the dualistic paradox: that of fluid motion and stillness, that of the One and the Many, cause and chance, mind and matter.

For this he came up with his theory of an Implicate Order that unfolds into an Explicate Order through an all-pervasive holomovement or:

“the unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders”


“In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather they are different aspects…”

perhaps like dreams and reality…

The indeterministic and “spooky action at a distance” of quantum physics resolved into a non-local, causal and panpsychic universe where randomness is but the contextual expression of a deeper order.

For Bohm the world we perceive is but the ripple on the surface of an implicate order that underlies as an ocean of energy, where, if we delve into the vacuum or zeropoint-energy, we find that “ a single cubic centimetre of empty space contains more energy than all of the matter in the known universe “.

From this unfathomable depth spring subatomic particles:

“fundamentally, the particle is only an abstraction that is manifest to our senses. What is, is always a totality of ensembles, all present together, in an orderly series of stages of enfoldment and unfoldment, which intermingle and inter-penetrate each other in principle throughout the whole of space".

In that sense all the billions of billions of electrons distributed throughout space are but one same electron which unfolds from an ocean of quantum potential, in truth inseparable from its source like a wave is inseparable from the sea, and as it reaches reality’s bay it carries the whole of the sea at a particular place of time- this is the collapse of the wavefunction, the break of tide, deeply unbroken.


The electron cannot forget the unity that conforms his being…

The electron has complete and instant acess to cosmic internet…

The electron confirms this by acting like a highly evolved multidimensional miniastronaut.

This could explain such strange phenomena as quantum entanglement or quantum superimposition, where (faster than light) instantaneous communication takes place or a same particle is at more than one place at the same time, when all particles are part of a great and subtle body that extends its edges into apparent and ilusory oblivion.

Can we imagine all things already connected, without the necessity of wires or emissions, without traveling an angstrom,
knowing and experiencing everything the other knows and experiences?

This is where thought cannot go. This is where suffering comes from.

It is also the point of the cosmic play, the mystery:


"Of the mystery? I think you could see it like this: that if you look into the field of thought and reason and so on, you finally see it has no clear foundation. Therefore, you see that "what is" must be beyond that. 'What is' is the mystery. (Bohm and Krishnamurti).


David Bohm saw the connection where the implicate order knits with the explicate order as a kind of pier inviting us to dive beyond into the depths of a mysterious holocean..

... and if we knew how to access, "tear the veil" of this superquantum interlocking aleph of holographic projection we could find "Andromedas galaxy in our fingerprint", see the past and future in the crystalball of a molecule of air, the rise and fall of worlds boiling in a puddle...

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U are already part of the waves of light that make up the hologram, but the hologram has been systematically fragmented so u can only see a blurry image, making it difficult to recognize your face forming everywhere...

Bohm believed that fragmentation was the main cause of cultural discontent, reality being considered objective ( sacred) and separate from consciousness. Being in truth the otherway around: consciousness creating reality, for mind cannot but unfold reality being part of the same flowing whole and sharing unyieldingly the creative backdrop of the implicate order.

Bohm pointed out that both science and thought limit us in our approach to the immeasurable whole, sharing the vice of forming a world of their own in which they are everything, reifing and imagining that there is nothing but what they think about themselves and what they think about. A self-contained narcissus-narcosis.

“Through freeform dialogue it is possible to reestablish a genuine and creative collective consciousness”.

"Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it."

For wiring deep into the mirror who’s name is Unity

For setting in motion the river that flows without division.

For giving being to meaning -the metaphor of our times: the hologram.

David Bohm is a river-on friend.

river on friend: Roberto Baggio

Born (feb. 18, 1967) in Caldogno, near Vicenza, north of Italy.

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Fore some people, he is considered the finest player in soccer history.

Awarded, in 1993, with the FIFA’s World Player of the Year and also the Ballon D’Or.

He began his carrier with Vicenza, in the italian serie C1, 1981. He played there until Fiorentina took him to the Serie A of the calcio. During his five years with this team, Baggio became a divine figure among Fiorentina’s fans. In 1990 he was transferred to the Juventus in a world record transfer: 19 million USD. With this squad, Baggio reached his best moments as a soccer player. After wining a scudetto with the Viecca Signora he went to play with Milan, Internatzionale, Bologna and finally Brescia, where he retired in 2004 having scored 205 goal in the Serie A. This made him the fifth highest scorer in the Italian league’s history.

Baggio published an autobiography titled “Una porta nel cielo”.

His spiritual life has been devoted to the Soka gakkai Budhism. This has been a crucial element in the development of his luminous professional carrier. It seems that Baggio clearly understands the relation of magic and soccer, the potential spiritual conjunction between time, space, rhythm, clarity and intention.

With winged feet and ludic elegance “Ill Divino Baggio” plays with the mirror, here we consider him as a teammate: as a riveron friend.

river on friend: Nicola Tesla

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"Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through past centuries might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared”.
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Western master - alchemical electricist.

1856-1943
Serbian born electrical engineer, he saw his first light at midnight, during an electric storm in Smilijan, a mountainous village that is now part of Croatia.

He arrived to the US with 4 cents in his pocket, some of his poems and a series of ilustrations about flying machines designs.

Considered as one of the most important contributors to the scientific development in electricity and magnetism, and the greatest electrical engineer. He’s also famous for designing a system that lead to the creation of worldwide communication with artifacts such as radio, fax and radar.


Among his most important inventions we can find:

X-rays
Vacuum tube amplifier
Fluorescent bulb
Neon lights
Speedometer
Automobile ignition system
Electron microscope
Microwave oven


"The chief cause of war is the vast extent of this planet. The gradual annihilation of distance will put human beings in closer contact and harmonize their views and aspirations."


Tesla
Pop-metal band formed in Sacramento, California, in 1985.


Nikola Tesla (1977)
Tv series by Eduard Galic, Yugoslavia.


- Cinema

Tesla ’76 (1977)
Yugoslavian short film (documentary) by Nicola Stankovic.

Tesla: Tripping the light electric (2000)
By Lance Acord, USA.

The Visionary (2005)
By Joel Shapiro, USA.

Tajina Nicole Tesle (1980)
By Krsto Papic, Yugoslavia.


The legacy of his geniality is printed in today’s daily use on many electrical devices. His work eventually represented fundamental contribution in deferent fields such as robotics, computer science, nuclear physics and electro-domestics.

It is said that Tesla worked with time-travel technology. Some of his studies have been used in different space projects over the last decades.

Free electric energy for everyone was Tesla’s most profound desire. He even created a special panel that’s serves as a homemade receptor of energy. It’s built with very cheap materials and with not necessary knowledge in electricity matters.


"My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether..."


For his epic electrical rivering, Nicola Tesla is a luminous riveron friend.
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river on friend: Rupert Sheldrake

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- Born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England

British biologist, author and philosopher, who proposed the theory of “formative causation” and the concepts of “morphic fields” and “morphogenetic resonance”.

After getting his degree in natural science at Cambridge University he went to Harvard to study philosophy. Later he returned to Cambridge to take a Ph.D. in biochemistry.

A particular moment marked his work and carrier: one day, while he was at Cambridge’s Department of Biochemistry, he saw a chart with a list of the different chemical reactions of the human body, and at the top of it, someone had written with a marker the phrase: KNOW THYSELF. This pushed Sheldrake towards a universe of reflections around the intersection between biological chemistry and inner-knowledge. “This brought home to me a huge chasm between these enzymatic reactions and my own experience.”



- Many of Sheldrake ideas appear to be based on the hologram model to explain different crucial biologic phenomena like memory sharing.



- It is said that he is deeply influenced by Goethe’s work.



- Books written by Rupert Sheldrake:

-A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (1981)
-The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (1988)
-The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God (1992)
-Seven Experiments that Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science (1994).
-Dogs that Know When Their Owners are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals (1999)
-The Sense of Being Stared At, And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind (2003)

With Ralph Abraham and Terence McKenna:
-Trialogues at the Edge of the West (1992), republished as Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness (2001)
-The Evolutionary Mind (1998)

With Matthew Fox:
- Natural Grace: Dialogues on Science and Spirituality (1996)
- The Physics of Angels: Exploring the Realm Where Science and Spirit Meet (1996)



- In 1974 he moved to Hyderabad, India, to work for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. In this country he had close relations with sufi and hindu masters. He also met a very significant friend in his later life and works: Bedde Griffiths, an English Benedictine monk who lived in a Christian ashram located in the deep south of the country. After living with Griffiths in the ashram, for almost a year and a half, Sheldrake decided to write his first book: A New Science, which was dedicated to his friend.



- “Formative causation”

This theory tries to penetrate the cause of form related to the inherent capability of all natural system to self organize.

“The theory of formative causation is concerned with how things take up their forms, or patterns, or organization. So it covers the formation of galaxies, atoms, crystals, molecules, plants, animals, cells, societies. It covers all kinds of things that have forms, patterns, structures, or self-organizing properties.”

In response to this phenomenon, Sheldrake proposes answers based on the presence of form-shaping fields, a kind of organizing Aether which he has called morphic fields. These fields are composed by “the memory of nature” that is permanently fed by the existential habits of all natural system. The information resulting of this collective memory, through the history of certain specie or kind of being, serves as a self-organizing guide inherent to each one of his members. Basically every member has imposed behaviors by this source, and at the same time, it’s influencing it at every moment.

"The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.”

There have been some previous biologists, around 1920’s that suggested the birth of the form, the morphogenesis, had its origin determined by fields: Alexander Gurwitsch, Hans Spemann and Paul Weiss.

“I believe that the natural selection of habits will play an essential part in any integrated theory of evolution, including not just biological evolution, but also physical, chemical, cosmic, social, mental and cultural evolution.”

The morphic fields serve as a conduct for waves of information, not for energy. The info waves that are received permanently by each member of the specie, never lose their intensity. These fields determinate (through some kind of collective unconscious) what we usually call the genetic habits. They are recipients of patterns of existing forms and simultaneously they guide the formation of similar systems, whether it is a crystal, a galaxy or any biological system.

From this point of view the DNA is not the key element in the formation of a living organism. That information is basically contained in the morphic fields. DNA represents a main factor in the capability of each specie member to decipher and assume this info.

This process of holo-sharing biochemical information between members of a same specie and that is composed by all habits of all members during the complete history of the specie is called morphogenetic resonance.

“The whole idea of morphic resonance is evolutionary, but morphic resonance only gives the repetitions. It doesn't give the creativity. So evolution must involve an interplay of creativity and repetition.”

Fusion Anomaly


All is one and Sheldrake knows it….



--- For these reasons and more, Rupert Sheldrake is, indeed, a riveron friend: thank you Rupert.

river on friend: Greater than Celsus.

“Alterius non sit, qui suus esse potest”




Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim “Paracelsus”.



Legendary alchemist, medicine man and philosopher, who was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland on the year of 1493. He also mastered precious knowledge in matters such as astrology, magic and toxicology.


He earned the medical degree from the university of Vienna in 1510. After this, Paracelsus seemed to reject traditional medicine and education, he was the first homeopathic Dr. in occident “what makes a man ill, also cures him” and he decided to travel in search of alchemical information. He visited Egypt, Arabia, Jerusalem and Constantinople. During this journey he learned sacred teachings of different occult masters.



“He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature. ”



Un ojo a los astros que danzan, el otro los laberintos orgánicos de la magia, la planta y el talisman.



Creator of the Alphabet of the Magi.



He is considered the father of toxicology.



"All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes that a thing is no poison."



He use to read antique manuscripts and write new ones, he completed a process of refreshing sacred knowledge’s interpretations.



His writing legacy is composed by:

“Coelum Philosophorum”
“The book concerning the tincture of the philosophers”
“The treasure of treasures for alchemists”
“The aurora of the philosophers”
“Alchemical Catechism”


“Man is not body. The heart, the spirit, is man.
And this spirit is an entire star, out of which,
he is built. If therefore a man is perfect in his
heart, nothing in the whole light of Nature is
hidden from him.”



"We see in Paracelsus not only a pioneer in the domains of chemical medicine, but also in those of an empirical psychological healing science."

C.G. Jung



"The knowledge of the primary causes and of the ultimate essence of every element, of its lives, their functions, properties, and conditions of change - constitutes the basis of magic. Paracelsus was, perhaps, the only Occultist in Europe, during the last centuries since the Christian era, who was versed in this mystery. Had not a criminal hand put an end to his life, years before the time allotted him by Nature, physiological Magic would have fewer secrets for the civilized world than it now has." –

H. P. Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine I, 263



“Paracelsus” (1943)

Film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.



"Paracelso y la rosa"

Short story by Jorge Luis Borges.



“Paracelsus”

His ancient rapture. Thus He dwells in all,
From life's minute beginnings, up at last
To man - the consummation of this scheme
Of being, the completion of this sphere
Of life; whose attributes had here and there
Been scattered o'er the visible world before,
Asking to be combined, dim fragments meant
To be united in some wondrous whole,
Imperfect qualities throughout creation,
Suggesting some one creature yet to make,
Some point where all these scattered rays should meet
Convergent in the faculties of man. . . .
When all the race is perfected alike
As man, that is; all tended to mankind,
And, man produced, all has its end thus far;
But in completed man begins anew
A tendency to God. Prognostics told
Man's near approach; so in man's self arise
August anticipations, symbols, types
Of a dim splendor ever on before
In that eternal circle life pursues.
For men begin to pass their nature's bound,
And find new hopes and cares which fast supplant
Their proper joys and griefs; they grow too great
For narrow creeds of right and wrong, which fade
Before the unmeasured thirst for good; while peace
Rises within them ever more and more.
Such men are even now upon the earth,
Serene amid the half-formed creatures round.

Robert Browning



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“Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another imagination that begets a new star and a new heaven.”
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river on friend: Special Agent Dale Cooper

Dale Cooper “Coop”


Born in April 19, 1954, and graduated from Haverford College, Pennsylvania.


Special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

It is him who suffers the deepest transformation throughout Twin Peaks narrative highway, Lynch´s brightest reality-construction. ´

He who spreads the owls’ breath.

A dreaming shaman who finds the answers by surfing the akasha held by the woods’ spirits. He uses his acupunctured sensibility to choose the right screen he has to observe (and penetrate) in order to keep walking his planetary lifepath.

spiritu buho - spiritu bosque - spiritu spirit us


It’s a dark night, so in the woods, the shaman dances.


For his exemplary intuition and his compromise with the land of the dreams, Agent Cooper is considered a trusty riveron friend.
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river on friend: Paul Otlet "the information architect"

Born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1868. He is considered the father of information management and documentation, and also the first contributor to the creation of the Science of Information.

Otlet was the first to work with organizing structures of information that could be considered as the earliest precedent of the World Wide Web. He spent his entire life trying to conceive search engines that could establish hyper-connections between all existing information.

He dreamed of the creation of an infinite network of information that could contain and interconnect the whole body of human knowledge. This was the first artificial conception of a hyperlink model of infogathering – infosharing. He searched tirelessly for an answer to the problem of how to make the whole record of knowledge available to those who need it? It seems that Otlet’s design of info-organization has a strong relation with the hologram, akasha and aether models.

Co-founder of the Institut International de Bibliographie in 1895 that later became the International Federation for Documentation and Information. He and La Fontaine, also created the Union of International Associations still working in Brussels. Otlet was a humanitarian activist and many of his ideas were crucial in the formation of the League of Nations, later the International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation.

Along his years, he showed a deep and sincere concern to find a way to make information available for everyone who needed it, and was a true believer in the possibility of creating a “universal book”. He wrote various essays related to the organization of knowledge and these were compiled in two books: “The traite of documentation” in 1934, which had a central roll in the development of Information Science and “Monde: Essai d universalisme” in 1935.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Otlet designed a highly advanced index cards machine:
“a moving desk shaped like a wheel, powered by a network of hinged spokes beneath a series of moving surfaces. The machine would let users search, read and write their way through a vast mechanical database stored on millions of 3x5 index cards.This new research environment would do more than just let users retrieve documents; it would also let them annotate the relationships between one another, “the connections each [document] has with all other [documents], forming from them what might be called the Universal Book.”

Alex Wright, article “Forgotten Forefather Paul Otlet”.



Mundaneum

Created around 1910 by Paul Otlet with the help of Henry La Fontaine. It intended to be a kind of information holo-center that could contain and share all the knowledge gathered along human history. Each component of this infinite (permanently being fed) data, would be interconnected forming a kind of open info-matrix. Eventually the Mundaneum project was able to constitute an archive with almost 13 millions of documents and index cards.

The Mundaneum was located at the Palais du Cinquantenaire in Brussels. Later Le Corbusier was commissioned by Otlet to design an ideal place for the purpose. This was planned to be constructed in Geneva in the year of 1929 but was never built. During World War II the archive was forced to move to a building in the Parc Leopold by the germans. After Otlet’s death in 1944 the Mundaneum collection was partially forgotten until 1993 when it was transformed into a museum and archive as a tribute to Otlet and La Fontaine works.

The ultimate goal of the Mundaneum was to serve as a centerpoint in the creation of a “new city of the intellect” that included social participation of people from around world’s societes. This project is considered as a conceptual seed for the actual structure of the Internet. Otlet conceived almost one century ago many of the main concepts that determinate the actual worldwide shared cyber net.

“Everything in the universe, and everything of man, would be registered at a distance as it was produced. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of his memory. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate creation, as a whole or in certain of its parts.”

“Monde: Essai d universalisme” 1935




- Because of our deep sex appeal for information, Paul Otlet is certainly a special riveron friend.