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		<title>Gurdjieff on Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thanked him for what he had said and added that I was sorry that I had not done my work in the garden and that I would do it properly in the future.
He brushed aside my thanks and said that it was useless to be sorry. &#8220;Is too late for that now, and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/10/gurdjieff-on-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Gurdjieff on the end of program-as-solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Further, he said that history had already proven to us that such tools as politics, religion, and any other organized movements which treated man &#8220;in the mass&#8221; and not as individual beings, were failures. That they would always be failures and that the separate, distinct growth of each individual in the world was the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/10/gurdjieff-on-the-end-of-program-as-solution/</link>
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		<title>Schizophrenia, Time Perception, and The Reduction of Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, I read the latest post up at Ann Seeker&#8217;s blog, where she&#8217;s been summarizing her experience of reading David Appelbaum&#8217;s book The Stop.  I bookmarked the article for later reading because I thought it was interesting.  In it, she says:
He is talking about an awareness of a &#8220;movement of energy&#8221; that takes place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/09/schizophrenia-time-perception-and-the-reduction-of-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Dan Siegel&#8217;s definition of &#8220;mind&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A core aspect of the mind can be defined as an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow of energy and information.&#8221;

(full transcript here)
One thing to note is that this definition means we must separate &#8220;mind&#8221; from &#8220;awareness&#8221;&#8230;

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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/05/dan-siegels-definition-of-mind/</link>
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		<title>Gustave Dore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just found out about this guy.  Amazing.
He did engravings for the Divine Comedy, The Bible, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, and a bunch of other stuff.  The best site I could find on him is here.  Wikipedia here&#8230;




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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/04/gustave-dore/</link>
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		<title>Sol Lewitt on how not to throw the rational baby out with the irrational bathwater (ending up with a transrationally clean baby)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.   If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.   The artist&#8217;s will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His willfulness may only be ego.

from Sentences on Conceptual Art
thanks Max!
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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/03/04/sol-lewitt-on-how-not-to-throw-the-rational-baby-out-with-the-irrational-bathwater-ending-up-with-a-transrationally-clean-baby/</link>
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		<title>5 pieces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seems being home sick during the week makes for a productive weekend.
Also, I have discovered that anything done to this music is beautiful.  I could happily watch paint dry for hours, as long as this was the soundtrack.  Do yourself a favor and go download it.





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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/28/5-pieces-2/</link>
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		<title>Sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I&#8217;ve been incommunicado the past few days (what&#8217;s that you say, a whole week?)  Yeah, I came down with what I can only assume is the flu.  Tuesday was spent entirely asleep, and then nothing but movie watching in bed for the rest of the week.  Made it through the entire Cowboy Bebop series [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/27/sick/</link>
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		<title>Global Pop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a little aside today.  I don&#8217;t really like talking about the day job on here, but I got an email from one of my colleges in China.  I&#8217;d asked about his trip back home during last week&#8217;s Chinese New Year holiday, and he mentioned that the trains were absolutely packed.  Imagine 1.3 billion people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/22/global-pop/</link>
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		<title>Tilopa on Good Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The problem is not enjoyment; the problem is attachment.”


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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/22/tilopa-on-good-times/</link>
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		<title>J. D. Salinger on the Digital Nature of Original Sin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Logical. You’re just giving me a regular, intelligent answer,” Teddy said. “I was trying to help you. You asked me how I get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don’t use logic when I do it. Logic’s the first thing you have to get rid of.”
“You know that apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/22/j-d-salinger-on-the-digital-nature-of-original-sin/</link>
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		<title>Nisargadatta Maharaj on How Not to Fuck Up on the Path</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Anything you do for the sake of enlightenment takes you nearer. Anything you do without remembering enlightenment puts you off. But why complicate? Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. Just keep it in mind.&#8221;

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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/22/nisargadatta-maharaj-on-how-not-to-fuck-up-on-the-path/</link>
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		<title>Garchen Rinpoche on The Ganges</title>
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Go here to watch the whole thing.
(You&#8217;ve got a few hours, right?)
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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/20/garchen-rinpoches-on-the-ganges-mahamudra/</link>
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		<title>Lights Redux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saved this one for today, because though photography is an art, it&#8217;s not the kind of art is was posting last week.  However, I do have another set of pictures of lights together, so I&#8217;m posting it today as a kind of bonus round/easter egg for art week.  Enjoy!


































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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/20/lights-redux/</link>
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		<title>The Black (Tape) Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;ve pretty much reached the end of Art Week here at Reclusland, but I wanted to end it with something a little different.  So here you are.
This is something I started doing after reading a book called The Artists Way (which works, let me tell you). It just kind of popped into my head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/19/the-black-tape-arts/</link>
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		<title>John Steinbeck on The Evolutionary Aspect of Morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the race, the species that must go staggering on. Mordeen, our ugly little species, weak and ugly, torn with insanities, violent and quarrelsome, sensing evil&#8212;the only species that knows evil and practices it&#8212;the only one that senses cleanness and is dirty, that knows about cruelty and is unbearably cruel.
Look down. Here he lies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/19/john-steinbeck-on-the-evolutionary-aspect-of-morality/</link>
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		<title>Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, gasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, rumbling, rambling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding grinding grinding away at yourself.  Stop it, and just DO!
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/19/sol-lewitt-to-eva-hesse/</link>
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		<title>4 Pieces</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the last of the abstract pieces.  All of &#8216;em started with a blank screen.  No variations this time either, just single pieces.  Although, seeing them together like this, this are certain commonalities.










Sorry for the slow posts today.  I was away from the computer most of the day.  Tomorrow though, I&#8217;ve got something a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/18/4-pieces-3/</link>
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		<title>T. S. Eliot on The Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“At the still point, there the dance is.”



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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/18/t-s-eliot-on-the-dance/</link>
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		<title>A Break from the Norm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised, I&#8217;m also posting some of the other art projects I&#8217;ve taken up recently.  My girlfriend does a lot of oil pastels and one day she asked if I&#8217;d be interested in doing some with her.  I figured it was a good chance to try taking my abstract tendencies off the computer screen, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/17/a-break-from-the-norm/</link>
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		<title>Some Unfinished Thoughts on Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Christian idea of the kingdom of God, of the new Jerusalem, of a Heaven on Earth that&#8217;s not available until after the Rapture (and yet is spread across the earth and men do not see it) is the same religious meme, unleashes the same program on the nervous system, as the Buddhist idea that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/17/some-unfinished-thoughts-on-religion/</link>
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		<title>Sir Francis Bacon on How to Find Stuff Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/17/sir-francis-bacon-on-how-to-find-stuff-out/</link>
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		<title>Faces of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post number two in my little cavalcade of the arts.  A little simpler than I&#8217;m used to, but as with the last post, it&#8217;s the variations that I find interesting.






















And for those interested in fluctuations, I&#8217;ve made a (huge) animated gif for this one.  It&#8217;s about 4MBs, so either &#8220;right-click-save-as&#8221;, or give it a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/17/faces-of-god/</link>
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		<title>4 Variations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Art week&#8217;s starting here at Reclusland.  A bit late perhaps (for which I can only blame the dead presidents of yesterday), and covered in snow (at least if you&#8217;re in New England), but it&#8217;s starting nonetheless.
First up, four variations on a theme:














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		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/16/4-variations/</link>
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		<title>Watch this space, but first, a bit of nepotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried to get out of the habit of stating in advance what&#8217;s going to be posted here, since my expectations usually end up diverging pretty widely from reality (in a way that almost seems intentional&#8230;). Best laid plans and all that.  But I have to admit, it&#8217;s been quiet lately in Reclusland, and, seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.reclusland.com/compass/2010/02/13/watch-this-space-but-first-a-bit-of-nepotism/</link>
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