Epstein Secrets

Aldous Huxley to our seminar. He also brought us Alan Watts and several lecturers from the Jung Institu

, the Cabalist’s Yesod, the Sufis Baraka, the Christian Holy Spirit, the Yogic breath energy, prana, Mesmer’s animal magnetism, Galvani’s life force, Goethe’s Gestaltung, Madam Blavatsky’s astral light, Georg Groddeck’s it, Henri Bergson’s elan vitale, Schroedingers entropy, Abraham Maslow, Ruth Benedict

rt phone or 3D goggles, the British mathematician Alan Turing anticipated their arrival when he dreamed

r, they are worth learning about and exploring. They stand out as trailguides to a fresh sensibility in the same way Nijinsky’s 20" century dances or Goethe’s 19" century poetry once did. We flip back and forth between real and virtual in our every day lives now, popping our head from screen to street. O

of the best early members of the New Caste - like Alan Kay or John Seeley Brown- but also a series of fu

ese sacrifices marked sailing adventure. But they knew the rewards for areal mastery of the sea: Fame, riches, knowledge, adventure. Sloterdijk cites Goethe, who reflecting on the power of nautical life in 1787, defined the edgy advantage of that ocean-mapping caste in his age: They had perspective. “No o

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

particular, sun-scorched, caterpillar-chewed clover found outside your house in an atlas. No, you aimed—if you were a genius natural philosopher like Goethe, Albinus, or Cheselden—to observe nature but then to perfect the object in question, to abstract it visually to the ideal. Take a skeleton, view it t

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

particular, sun-scorched, caterpillar-chewed clover found outside your house in an atlas. No, you aimed—if you were a genius natural philosopher like Goethe, Albinus, or Cheselden—to observe nature but then to perfect the object in question, to abstract it visually to the ideal. Take a skeleton, view it t