Note
On Friday 9/29/2000 at Reeds Spring, MO, the History Channel ran a documentary about a South American tribe of headhunters (the Shuar) with a world view like Plato's scenario: familiar world appearances are actually projections from a deeper level of surrounding reality. Maybe this is why the Cheyenne* called the cosmos a "mirror;" as appearance levels reflect (and shadow) one another.
* See H. Storm, SEVEN ARROWS (early 70's).
The Mirror
Rackensack
Note II
We aspiring humans already live subconsciously in that "other" world; that mysterious realm of shamans -- beyond the dew. We're just not aware of it. Our consciousness is always distracted by the material world immediately around us; which evidently has been projected holographically (with smoke and mirrors) as stage scenery for our awakening to the bigger world.
Springfield,
Missouri
January 5, 2001
Foggy Canopy
Bull o' the Woods
These artifacts are scientific demonstrations of nature at work processing the media used -- in the same way as the whole material world is assembled (as an enclave around us). It appears that nature, operating through our minds, facilitates the spinning of matter from fluid energy by erecting an ethereal screen of potentialities (like a plastically permeating "canvas") upon which our sensory perceptions are projected; thereby "solidifying" the surfaces that are familiar as "matter."
Reeds
Spring, Missouri
January 12, 2001
Doors of Perception
(After William Blake and Aldous Huxley)