Epstein Secrets

1998 The Book of Letters, A Mystical Alef-bait, Lawrence Kushner, Jewish Lights Publishing. Woodstock, Vt.

, 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

me ill-advised early experiments, such as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying s

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

me ill-advised early experiments, such as buzzing Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory with one of his self-flying s

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