plan for engaging the fourth dimension in therapizing myself. (aka: exposing the fourth dimension)

The reason that Aristotle said that there isn’t a fourth dimension is this: you can’t draw a fourth mutually perpendicular line in the corner of a cube. Aristotle also said that women have fewer teeth than men because they have less blood. I do have to say though, looking at the above trivector, you can’t [...]

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using the 4th dimension as an anger management tool.

Aristotle said that the fourth dimension didn’t exist. Aristotle also said that women have a lower temperature than men and are lower life forms. Times, they are a changin’. Scientists and mathematicians have extrapolated theories using thought experiments and mathematical equations that point to the existence of the fourth (and higher) dimensions. Einstein defined the [...]

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does being right mean you’re powerful?

(painting by H. Goltzius) Something has been bugging me about my last post. It was in the part where I was talking about making decisions based on clarity and love and some stuff like that. This posting came right after the fight in which I blamed my partner for making my life miserable by saying everything is [...]

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power and demons.

(painting by H. Goltzius) In my last blog I mentioned that Rudolf Steiner believed that when we try to bend another person to our will, we create a demon. He also said that when we lie we create phantoms. When we make bad laws or rules that create disharmony in our communities we make spectres [...]

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power and demons. (no, this isn’t the title of the newest dan brown book.)

(painting by H. Goltzius) I got into a fight with my partner a couple of days ago and she said to me that she hopes that someday I can find the perfect partner: a partner who will be chipper and available when I want her to be but who will go away when I’m busy, [...]

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treatise on educating an homunculus part three

Probably everyone has had the experience of having an inspirational moment. Maybe it was a workshop or conference, maybe it was the birth of a child, maybe it was a great book you read–we’ve all felt how great it feels to experience inspiration (L. in, into + spirare, spirat–, to breathe). But how long does [...]

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treatise on educating an homunculus with zeal: part 2

Paracelsus says that to make a “little man” who can do your bidding, one must mix together semen and horse manure and let it putrify for forty weeks. My last statement in TOEAHWZ: part 1 was a thinly veiled metaphor describing the connection between 1.) birthing a little man out of carefully tended but powerfully [...]

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treatise on educating an homunculus with great zeal, part one

Recap: Paracelsus, an alchemist/physician/knave of the fifteenth century, explained how one goes about making an homunculous: Let the semen of a man putrefy  by itself in a sealed cucurbite [glass vessel] with the highest putrefaction of the venter equinus [horse manure] for forty days, or until it begins at last to live, move, and be [...]

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“Decay is the midwife of very great things…” Paracelsus

Paracelsus was an alchemist and physician from the 1400′s. He was a very unusual character, accused of being a drunkard and and a knave by many upstanding citizens in many countries in and about Europe. He happens to be one of my favorite characters, mostly because he said that you can make a “little man”–a [...]

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martin luther and the element of poo.

I’m reading Philip Ball’s The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science, and I came across some interesting stories about excrement that seemed appropriate for this time of year. The young Martin Luther entered an ascetic brotherhood of the Augustinian monks after being caught in a hellish lightening storm. With the [...]

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