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      <title>New to tribe - check out my art!</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Check out my mandalas and paintings at www.richardshuff.com/html/cara_lee.html Thanks!&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:43:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Cara</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2007-11-10T19:43:23Z</dc:date>
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      <title>music</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;how does everyone 'see' organic &amp;amp; sacred forms relating to music? 
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&lt;br/&gt;I know there's the study of 'cymatics' now (the effect of vibration on matter)...but the associations between sacred music, geometry ~ "architecture as frozen music" have nearly always been there.... 
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&lt;br/&gt;but why? how? where do you see this most explicitly? where do you most clearly 'get it'? 
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&lt;br/&gt;guess i am looking for insights or enthusiasms that anyone cares to share... am still learning &amp;amp; formulating ideas myself. 
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&lt;br/&gt;~~ thanks! ~~
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&lt;br/&gt;Melanie
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:53:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2009-06-23T05:53:15Z</dc:date>
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      <title>fibonacci sequence</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;learned a bit about this recently, as it applies to natural forms... what a fascinating concept.  though checking out the fibonacci tribe it looks like the concept has its detractors... does anyone have any fresh enthusiasm or insight to share on the topic?  what are some of the best resources for learning more about fibonacci &amp;amp; patterns in nature?
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&lt;br/&gt;- Melanie&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Fractals - The Colors of Infinity</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;by Arthur Clarke
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&lt;br/&gt;http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8570098277666323857#&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>nature does it better.......</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;nature does it better.......
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&lt;br/&gt;When I am out in nature, captivated by the intricate systems, interconnections, and physical expressions, I sometimes feel like making art is almost pointless, because nature has already done such a superb job of expressing what I want to share with the world.  Other times I am inspired and driven to tap into that natural flow of creativity........
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&lt;br/&gt;Vine brambles are one of my favorite natural expressions of chaos.  The ever changing shore of lake Erie is another beautiful  manifestation of chaos/order and constant change.  The near symmetry of animal bones, and the amazing mathematical expressions found in plants, seeds, etc.....  It is all such a delicious web of life.
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&lt;br/&gt;-Isaac&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>biomimicry - biomimetics</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;This seems like an important topic for global society - employing a sense of the organic (and sacred?) towards the ends of engineering, structures, &amp;amp; sustainability...
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.tumbletruss.com/
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.tumbletruss.com/TrussImages/Biomimetic.pdf
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&lt;br/&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetic
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.biomimicry.net/&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Have been stacking rocks for a while. Big rocks, as big as i can lift and as high as possible. I find that it gives me strength. (duh) A strength not of muscle but something else. Old tradition, masonry. The rocks like being thrown uphill, or being pushed downhill i feel, anything against their usual gravitational path. I find that people have interesting reactions to them, usually good. But sometimes when people see me doing this they get angry, its weird, not angry at me or what i'm doing, but something.... not sure.  I feel these stacks are possibly portholes and have heard that the underworld creatures sometimes make them. I try to make them at energetic places and i do notice something different after erecting them. Dense matter rocks, possibly changes the energy field around, earth radiations. Any links or info on rock stacks would be appreciated. Smile.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA   OCT 20  SAN ANSELMO</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;  CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA         
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&lt;br/&gt;               CREATION OF THE COMPASSION PEACE MANDALA 
&lt;br/&gt;             A Benefit Workshop with Bhutanese Thangka Artist Lama Pema Tendzin
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&lt;br/&gt;This is a beautiful and rare opportunity to learn the ancient art of traditional sacred thangka painting from a master artist and lineage holder. Lama Pema Tendzin has paintings in permanent and private collections throughout the United States including the San Francisco Asian art museum. Additionally he has had the honor of creating beautiful ceremonial thankas for the Dalai Lama.
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&lt;br/&gt;Lama Pema Tendzin began studying the sacred art of thangka under the tutelage of his teacher Buli Tulku Rinpoche since he was six years old. More than paintings, thangkas are potent tools for meditation, contemplation and transformation.
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&lt;br/&gt;For this special workshop, Lama Pema Tendzin will be leading us in the creation of the Compassion Peace Mandala. The day opens with meditation, mantra and prayers. 
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&lt;br/&gt;We will then draw and paint the mandalas together under this master artist's tutelage. When the painting is completed Lama Pema and Tsewong Sitar Rimpoche will lead us in a mantra, prayer and blessing to activate the mandala. This workshop gives participants active creative time with these very special beings in the creation of a potent piece of art that will Benefit all Beings.
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&lt;br/&gt;A SPECIAL BENEFIT: 
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&lt;br/&gt;All proceeds from this event will go towards a special painting of Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhva. This painting measuring 30 feet high by 25 feet high will be placed on the mountainside next to the Sangye Tang monastery in Bhutan.
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&lt;br/&gt;Guru Rimpoche Padmasambhava is recognized as the principle teacher to bring Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th Century.  The painting, which will  be completed in February of 2008,  was revealed in a vision to Lama Pema's brother Tsewong Sitar Rinpoche. Tsewong Sitar Rimpoche is the head of Sangye Tang monastery in Eastern Bhutan. Founded in the late 1500's, this monastery is in view of one of Padmasambhava's sacred pilgrimage sites. The painting will promote blessings, peace and rejuvenation.
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&lt;br/&gt;Details:
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&lt;br/&gt;Cost: $60.00 (Payment can be made in advance by check or by check or cash at the door). 
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&lt;br/&gt;Date: October 20th, 2007
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&lt;br/&gt;Time: 10am-5pm
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&lt;br/&gt;Contact-Registration: phone: 415.686.1516 email:h2olotustemple@yahoo.com
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&lt;br/&gt;Additional Details:
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&lt;br/&gt;Himalayan tea and delicacies will be served. There will be a lunch break and you  may bring lunch at your discretion. This special event will be held at a beautiful Marin private home and directions will be given upon registration.                                   
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&lt;br/&gt;Links: 
&lt;br/&gt;www.sangngak.com 
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&lt;br/&gt;www.vajrayanaarts.org
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&lt;br/&gt;A Rare Exhibition of Lama Pema's Thangkas:  October  27, 2007 
&lt;br/&gt;A rare  exhbition of Lama Pema's thankas will be showcased  on the evening of  10.27.2007 at Cobalt Sun Gallary   (www.cobaltsun.net) in Sausalito, California. The evening will include a special mantra empowerment. Select paintings will be available for sale.
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&lt;br/&gt;For information call: 415.383.1741
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;hey all, 
&lt;br/&gt;Here's a fresh new INSIGHTFUL Forum and Classifieds space ~*~ specializing ~*~ in creative workshops, educational conferences, event planning, team building adventures, group travel (business or pleasure), lectures and seminars, meetings, conventions, trade shows, fund raisers, product launches, festivals, art exhibits and enchanting celebrations for all occasions, that ~*~ inspire ~*~ higher learning, health improvement, environmental awareness and the joy of living !
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&lt;br/&gt;If you know anyone who's giving dance or any type of classes, art or any type of workshops, conferences, seminars, private lessons, or selling equipment, subleting their apt., ... whatever it is ... PLEASE let them know they can sign up with  guarantee of NO spam and post their ad for FREE ... there's PLENTY of space there !!!
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&lt;br/&gt;Please feel free to post your discussions in forum : http://www.insightfulevents.ca/forums
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&lt;br/&gt;OR post your Classified ads here : http://www.insightfulevents.ca/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8
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&lt;br/&gt;You can IM chat, post images, share resources, build communities ... 
&lt;br/&gt;It's already ranking 1st in Yahoo and Lycos searches at the moment under key words &amp;amp;lt;Insightful Events&gt;, and will be advertised in all major media by spring 2007, so feel to be one of the first and most visible ads with free space in a guaranteed spam-free environment.
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&lt;br/&gt;Welcome to Insightful Events ~*~&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:39:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Food for thought from the course description of his "Module 7':
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&lt;br/&gt;"Sacred Geometry 
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&lt;br/&gt;There exists in nature patterns in shapes, colors and mathematics that are the description and content of creation.   Within these patterns we encounter the underlying principles that make it possible for our universe to exist! They describe the movement of energy as it proceeds in its never ending process of transformation.   
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&lt;br/&gt;We will explore the practical uses in spatial design - a fusion of Geomancy, Science and Feng Shui, Integrating Sacred Geometry and architectural harmonies into your work. Every culture and society, since the beginning of time has had their version of a synergistic interrelationship with these patterns. 
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&lt;br/&gt;We will view case histories and examples of the patterned language of nature, including geometric shapes, music, art, the human body, landscaping, architecture inspired by the Cosmic Order, including Feng Shui, Sacred Geometry and Vastu Shastra (vedic design) Mandalas. Historical as well as cultural perspectives will be entertained so as to draw a relationship between primitive indigenous and modern design. 
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&lt;br/&gt;We will draw the Sacred shapes and explore their integration into real world design.
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&lt;br/&gt;Ecological and Sustainable Design 
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&lt;br/&gt;The nature of reality is guided by the choices that we make.   Nowhere is it more important to choose wisely and with conscious awareness than in choosing our building practices and materials. Sustainability in this area is tantamount to global survival and the propagation of humanity."
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&lt;br/&gt;Rave reviews about this guy as a teacher abound...
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      <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:11:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Re: Christopher Alexander
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&lt;br/&gt;Now comes the completion of The Nature of Order, the long-awaited and much-delayed 2,150-page treatise on "the art of building and the nature of the universe" that Alexander calls a single, if very long, essay. In it he provides the theoretical basis for the selection of the patterns in A Pattern Language, and for the creation of new patterns. Alexander claims that the art of building began going awry in the 16th century with the rise of mechanistic scientific thinking. One consequence is that there is now no consensus about which values are most important in making buildings. For Alexander, however, the choice is clear. The criterion that trumps all others is how much life the building has. He acknowledges that aliveness is hard to measure objectively, but he asserts that most people know it when they see it. When, as part of his research, Alexander set photos of two objects -- say, a salt shaker and a ketchup bottle, or a Bangkok slum and a postmodern residence in Massachusetts -- side by side and asked people to comment on the juxtaposition, more than 90 percent agreed on which photos had more life.
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&lt;br/&gt;Drawing on these and other findings, Alexander establishes human feelings as the final arbiter of good design. He writes: "I assert, simply, that all living process hinges on the production of deep feeling. . . . Yet perhaps there is no other place in this essay where the intellectual paradigm I offer is more at odds -- at least on the surface -- with the Cartesian paradigm. At first sight it would almost seem absurd to claim that every living process may be recognized, or measured in its degree of efficacy, according to the depth of its capacity to produce deep feeling. Yet I believe this is so."
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&lt;br/&gt;Toward the end of Book Four, The Luminous Ground, Alexander makes his greatest, and most potentially controversial, contribution. He asserts that through feelings of reverence, awe, wonder, and love, "we somehow come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe, with the domain of pure unity." He's saying that in order to create architecture that has life, that connects us to our wholeness, designers need to train their inner spiritual senses and "to make the practice of architecture nothing less than a path to higher consciousness, a path to God&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Permaculture: A Designer's Manual</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Speaking of the social and ecological intertwinings with aesthetics...
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0908228015/sr=1-1/qid=1154831065/ref=sr_1_1/103-5404831-8576630?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;s=books&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 02:32:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>*** warm welcome! ***</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;As moderator of the tribe, i'd like to welcome all newcomers!
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&lt;br/&gt;Please send me any &amp;amp; all pictures you'd like to see posted.  I'm also open to ideas for reconceptualization &amp;amp; clarification of the tribe's intents, purposes &amp;amp; vision, as they come along.
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&lt;br/&gt;Last but not least, please feel free to post, post away &amp;amp; whip up discussion into a constant, unrelenting frenzy of 24/7!
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&lt;br/&gt;Your most far-out ideas about the intersection of mind-body-energy-aesthetics-environment-consciousness are welcome here!!
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&lt;br/&gt;With special attention to: the significance of mystical experiences, the human responsiveness to organic forms of beauty, the aesthetic dimension of spiritual experience -- &amp;amp; the implications of these sorts of experiences for our daily lifestyles &amp;amp; environments...
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&lt;br/&gt;Thanks again for being here! &lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>New tribe ~ Spiral</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I have created a new tribe dedicated to the spiral and it's universal symbolism: 
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&lt;br/&gt;http://tribes.tribe.net/spiral360?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B7adc4a0c-e100-46a6-9050-41831d04946f%5D
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&lt;br/&gt;Thanks 
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&lt;br/&gt;Love, :) Kro &lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Isaiah Zagar &amp;amp; Philadelphia's Magic Gardens</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Is anyone here familiar with the work of Isaiah Zagar? You might find it interesting. Check it out here: http://www.isaiahzagar.org. I'd say his work is organic and mystical, but in a wild and untraditional way. I have some photos of his work, which I could post here, if there's an interest. See also: http://www.philadelphiasmagicgardens.org/history.html.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>relevant recommendations</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;i'll start this thread off by mentioning a book i finished yesterday: From Bauhaus to Our  House by Tom Wolfe. it's about why the modern Big City is a butt-ugly eyesore consisting largely of beehiveish "glass box" monster buildings based ultimately on what Eurogirl has rightly called that "fearfull puritan aesthetic".&lt;/div&gt;
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      <dc:creator>Holden S.</dc:creator>
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      <title>Beauty be...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;To this Tribe :-)&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:49:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;This looks like a quiet tribe, but I figure I'll jump in regardless.  Organic and sacred forms are one of my favorite sources of insperation.  My name is Isaac, 
&lt;br/&gt;I am a weaver, metalworker, printmaker etc......  
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&lt;br/&gt;you can view my funky organic/sacred art at http://copperweaver.com&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;So.... as a producer of electronic music who is focused on the use of organic sounds articualted and manipulated by cutting edge sound design and technologies, I am really curious what organic sounds move you the most? Why? IF it's all game for use as musical input, what organic sounds do you prefer to hear as a listener?, and where in your being does it connect to? &lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>Predicting events via Internet analysis</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;See http://urbansurvival.com/simplebots.htm 
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&lt;br/&gt;"Ever since Plato's Allegory of the Cave, people have sensed that odd things go on at the archetype level of consciousness. The web bots are an attempt to use the high data density of the internet to sample language and seek linguistic shifts that we believe may precede events. The initial results suggest that language shifts on a macro level begin to occur 45 to 90 days before society-changing events. We believe we've demonstrated, most recently with the Northeast Power Outage forecast, that changes in language do indeed precede events - on a far grander scale than Dean Radin's work first suggested - and these language changes are available by sampling routine internet traffic." &lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;sharing my photo's with you.
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&lt;br/&gt;i'm in love with all things circular and the golden mean. 
&lt;br/&gt;em.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>of possible interest to members of this tribe...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;...2 other tribes of which i'm a member: Glass Bead Game, and Microtonal Music. your participation there could awaken &amp;amp; enrich your participation here. peace.&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>interesting site</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;http://www.hermes-press.com/egomania.htm
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&lt;br/&gt;this site is political as well but has pages  on  transformational architecture and other fine art  pics.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;in this life time withsuch banal architecture like blotches on the plain I think we desperately need awesome spaces of worth and grandeur...that condone beauty and majesty and sacredness....&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;The film "Rivers and Tides" which documents the work of Andy Goldsworthy is quite amazing. I highly recommend. NetFlix offers it. &lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;anyone have any insights into those aspects of music that seem to correspond with our deepest, most delicate emotional fabric?&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;So please forgive my rampant mixing of ideologies, it is something I do often, and I think well...
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&lt;br/&gt;There is something in both the music of India (namely tabla forms) and the art that strikes a cord in me.  If you look at some of the many armed statues and duplicate the hand gestures in sequence, I notice that they are the same gestures I would use to try to grasp something infinetly small or devilishly elusive... like an invisible thread or ungraspable spark...
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&lt;br/&gt;I dont remember a time when I havent thought of creativity as a spark that I was trying to grasp, trying futiley to hold on to as it races along, trying to become a part of and make a part of myself and well... failing.  The spark of creativity is forever creating and once it has been in some place, it is forever moving on, and everything after it is merely imitation.  
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&lt;br/&gt;Heisenburg (sic) I think knew something of this.  
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&lt;br/&gt;The way that photosynthesis works (according to a theory that I like) is to funnel photons through a sort of phi wave thingy that resembles a sort of mathematical shell/funnel that exists because of discrepencys in how matter acts in an electro-magnetic way (I think that certain matter structures create this shell/funnel thingy because of the way the magnetic fields of certain molecules in certain configurations over lap... 
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&lt;br/&gt;essentially, the photons get lost in a shell-shaped-spiral-spherical votex... energy is in motion, never held, only guided. 
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&lt;br/&gt;How can I tie all these notions together? I'm not sure...
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&lt;br/&gt;Become the vortex? or harness the vortex?  any thoughts? &lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;I suspect that many forms, character, pattern or whatever that seems most deeply meaningful to you, contain some sort of profound 'truth'. 
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&lt;br/&gt;What kind of truth, I'm not sure.  Maybe its the truth of the arrangement of your own neurons, or cells or something, that recognize themselves in the design.   Maybe its a truth that approximates the fundamental design of the fabric of reality.  Or simply some sort of psychological truth that's rather universal in the human condition...
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&lt;br/&gt;quien sabe?&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Can you recal the first time that you suspected that reality was pliable?
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&lt;br/&gt;Not too long ago i went on a camping trip with two good friends, We spent the evening staring into the camp flames, making good music, and dancing about freely, without concern. 
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&lt;br/&gt;These fetivities reaced a sort of quiet climax, and I remember being filled with the completeness of the forest, and the pure connection of my friends.Can you recall the first time that you suspected that reality was pliable? Or even that the consciousnes that you experince is not just you own?
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&lt;br/&gt;Not too long ago I went on a camping trip with two good friends, We spent the evening staring into the camp flames, making good music, and dancing about freely, without concern. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;These festivities reached a sort of quiet climax, and I remember being filled with the completeness of the forest, and the pure connection of my friends. This lead me to pull a single stick from the fire, and "carve" my thoughts and feeling into the air, with the glowing ember of the stick's end.
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&lt;br/&gt;I danced and wrote emotional designs in the bare air, for what seemed like hours. As I did this, I began to notice a building of sweet chaos within my mind. This was as if the very aperture of my experience was being stretched, and I could not yet assimilate it.
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&lt;br/&gt;This feeling grew and grew, until I reached a critical point...
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&lt;br/&gt;I began to notice the thoughts of my friends as rhythm, and music.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Each expression they made, each word, became a musical concept in my mind, and I started to "jam" with it.
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&lt;br/&gt;As I experienced this, their thoughts fed into my own. And, in turn, mine into theirs. It became a symphony of thought, and emotion, where we were sharing a mind, and feeling each other in a way which was beyond simple words. This too reached a critical point where I  stopped, stunned, locked in a common mind, shared by the three of us. Anything they thought, I could hear, and vice versa.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It made us realize that nothing is separate, and that we all are indeed an extension of One.
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&lt;br/&gt;Anyone else have any experiences which grace this concept?
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;What happened, good people? There's such a nice little foundation of scrumptious topics to chew on. I wonder why we've lost our appetites?&lt;/div&gt;
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;http://members.tripod.com/~fclark/creative_corner/fern_cave.html&lt;/div&gt;
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      <title>synaesthesia...the obvious starting place</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;Okay, I must admit that for me, this whole conception of there being an intimate &amp;amp; inextricable interrelation between the qualities of 'the sacred' &amp;amp; 'the organic' started at age 19 with my first mushroom trip.
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&lt;br/&gt;The experience really left a mark on me (in a good way, I think! )  And has informed probably every aesthetic experience I have had ever since. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It brought to my consciousness, to my senses - a beauty, a dynamic that had been bubbling there underneath the whole time...
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&lt;br/&gt;Among other things, I saw very clear crystalline images of what seemed to be the throne room of the divine (ever ascending) - &amp;amp; respiring jewels &amp;amp; flowers - living organic yet geometric forms - all corresponding, somehow, with aspects of my deepest being, of my deepest emotions...!
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&lt;br/&gt;It all seemed to be something you shouldn't forget.  
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&lt;br/&gt;And as an artist - I've come to the point where I think what this country needs - among other things- is not, ultimately, more critique (as an end in itself), but a lot more beauty - in the most profound sense -  ie: an expression of what's truly worth living for, fighting for, working for, edifying, preserving, etc...
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&lt;br/&gt;An expression of ideals - but ideals of almost a fluid, impressionistic nature...
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&lt;br/&gt;Those mystical, psychedelic experiences rank to this day among the most profound, mysterious, beautiful experiences of my life... &amp;amp; seem to this day to point at 'the source'...some crucial intersection of dynamics that we are sorely neglecting in the modernizing world...
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&lt;br/&gt;All I know is:  my deepest levels of being respond positively, even passionately to the sight or idea of - patterns, &amp;amp; forms - of a certain tightness &amp;amp; - proportion?  beauty?
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&lt;br/&gt;in nature, in music, in weavings, architecture...
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&lt;br/&gt;*I'm* not even sure where I'm going with all this...what does anyone else think? 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>fearful puritan aesthetic</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;In the US - I grew up in a very evangelical Christian environment, going to about 12 different churches or so - 1/2 the time we went to church in movie theaters or barns - but when a church finally got some money (&amp;amp; sometimes lots of $!) together for a building, it was always the same - brick, squarish, prefab -with that Southern Baptist or Lutheran aesthetic, oftentimes no windows in the "main room" (I wouldn't call it a chapel) 
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&lt;br/&gt;It seemed like aesthetic considerations were nil or really minimal.  I hated going to those buildings, sitting for hours under the flourescent lights - there was nothing inspiring about them whatsoever. They seemed more like coporate conference rooms or hospital wards than sacred places. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Later in life, I became aware of the existence of: 
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&lt;br/&gt;-stupas in southeast asia 
&lt;br/&gt;-gothic arches &amp;amp; baroque detailings in europe 
&lt;br/&gt;-the intricately mathematical ceilings of sacred islamic architecture, etc... 
&lt;br/&gt;- &amp;amp; even the concept of nature being the locus of the sacred 
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&lt;br/&gt;It seemed like certain other cultures were really onto something in combining a sense of the organic &amp;amp; the profoundly beautiful in their conception of spirituality... 
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&lt;br/&gt;In my experience - protestant &amp;amp; especially evangelical americans are afraid of that sort of deepest conception of beauty - &amp;amp; it's 'seductive' power. 
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&lt;br/&gt;Maybe that's why so many in this country are content to have pre-fab &amp;amp; chain-store everything...! 
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:40:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>meldrc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2004-10-05T20:40:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>this tribe could change your life...</title>
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      <description>&lt;div&gt;A huge impetus for starting this tribe was provided by the sterility of my daily environments here in LA -
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&lt;br/&gt;gray cubicle walls, various hours a week staring at the relentless concrete gray of the freeways through the windshield of the steel &amp;amp; glass box that isolates me from the rest of humanity, nature, life...
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&lt;br/&gt;this is ultimately no way for the human soul to live, let alone thrive...
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&lt;br/&gt;beauty, for me, is usually organic - in quality &amp;amp; form...
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&lt;br/&gt;sacred euphoric states of being experienced under different circumstances have always held the quality of being organic - living breathing jewel-encrusted architecture... 
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&lt;br/&gt;how are we as humans to cultivate that which is beautiful in our built &amp;amp; natural environments, in our relationships, in our selves...if we won't attempt to name &amp;amp; encourage what is truly, deeply beautiful?&lt;/div&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:43:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>meldrc</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2004-10-01T19:43:45Z</dc:date>
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