Archive for October 2014

People ceased to exist within a panoramic environment, an uninterrupted sequence of immediate events; instead, human beings for whom the outside world was now a thing, the object of deliberate goals and purposes, learned to confront the environment as perspectivistic subjects. To achieve their goals and purposes, they needed a highly developed, highly controlled arsenal…

Men themselves were now split into a (female) interior and a (male) exterior – the body armor. And as we know, the interior and exterior were mortal enemies. What we see being portrayed in the rituals are the armor’s separation from, and superiority over the interior: the interior was allowed to flow, but only within…

To the brain’s eye, the same object appears different according to illumination, distance, and point of view. Our mind’s eye unites these various viewpoints into a single conceptual image “out there”- a process that psychologists call object constancy. The story of the blind men and the elephant points to an apparent failure of object constancy:…

“When an electron is discovered in any universe by an observing piece of equipment or an atomic scientist, the overlapping universes split apart. Then that equipment or scientist enters into all the parallel universes, each sister piece or scientist’s brain recording a different measurement for the electron’s location. All of these measurements are consistent with…

This dividedness, this potential confusion over the state in which the subject finds itself, is, I believe, the beginning of an opposition between the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ realms of the subject, which laid the foundation for a phenomenon recognized by modern researchers to be instrumental in producing the disconnected bodily state known as schizophrenia: the…