New Spirits - Reading Deleuze in India
Consciousness only exists in connection with other consciousness
Form is empty. It has a shape, but no substance; it is neither matter nor energy. Form is consciousness - seeing something as something produces form. However, form is also functional: substance, matter and energy interact according to laws. As part of consciousness, they interact in form. Form is emptiness. Form is consciousness. Consciousness [...]
What would a world without the focal point of a lens look like? Our eyes have a lens that bundles light, focusing it onto a plane so the retina can capture this focused image – a single picture. Light rays are captured by receptors and sent to the brain. This vibration of nerve cells is translated into a [...]
Today, for the first time, I went to the Matrimandir. Six years ago, I had a guided tour, which is a prerequisite for going alone later. It also makes sense to have a general orientation about what kind of place it is, how to behave there, and what would disturb others. During my Monday meditations in the Zen circle Bremen, I […]
I have always resisted the word meditation. Much about it seemed suspect to me. However, I have always practiced my own forms of meditation without calling them that, or without having learned them. For me, meditation includes: a) contemplation, i.e., sinking into a thought [...]
Highways have always been special places for me. Most of the time, I wasn't under time pressure, and rarely did I have to get from point A to point B by a specific time. Rather, highways are travel routes. I find myself in transitional states there, a kind of no-man's-land with endless possibilities. That opens up spaces for thought. Often they are simply empty. The brain is busy with [...]
Black holes are a mystery to us. I am not a cosmologist and deal with black holes in a popular scientific way with a philosophical interest. They mark a limit to our imagination. Gravitational force influences space and time, says science. Concentrated at one point, it compresses matter to its pure substance, squeezes atomic nuclei and electrons together to form a mass [...]
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