Comments on: The Informational Body (or, Quantum Alchemy)

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:19:32 +0000

Because “he” helps us carry it!

(or “she”, if you prefer)

By: speedbird

speedbird — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:51:08 +0000

> there is no separation between what the divine wants and what we want, if we are honest with ourselves

Handel’s ‘Messiah’:

http://bible.cc/matthew/11-30.htm

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:49:51 +0000

@ speedbird:

Well, I was going to reply here, but my thoughts kept growing and growing. So I’m turning my reply into a post. Will be up momentarily…

By: speedbird

speedbird — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:24:31 +0000

This is massive stuff. Stop me if I miss the point, I’m still playing catch-up.

I like the idea of entities built out of information, creatures of the imagination if you will.

And I intuit that they come in several kinds, which can contradict each other. Specifically: what one /must/ do vs. what one would /like/ to do, and what one ‘should’ do vs. doing something new. These feel to me like parts of a mandala, like the elements (of which there are of course five). And reconciling them is the path. So actually turning up contradictory ideas is a big signpost that the mind is close to something really important.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:55:49 +0000

Ain’t no other mountain, as far as I’m concerned. We just have to make sure the map matches the territory, and all that…

Anyway. Better basecamp than somewhere in the flat-lands.

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:55:12 +0000

Jainists, too, believe there are many paths up the same mountain. The key, I suppose, being that it is in fact the same damn mountain we’re all climbing. Although I may be stuck at basecamp.