Spherical Education

Mystery Egg

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:06:24 -0400

For Mother’s Day

a desperation of our species:

does childlessness

imply

motherlessness?

without children, what will propel us

toward motherishness?

Cura—the original mother

(toward a vocation of care

in the sense of devotion)

you have seen me

my silhouette cutout

screams MOTHER against the stars.

o black against the sky

(another ode to the void)

pointilles of light shine the outskirts

twinkle holy and point to the area of

nothing there.

the absence tells

of an archetype divided:

in one hand Mommy holds

the miracle of new life,

an egg bigger than a speck of dust

(but not by much)

unfolding itself into a five and a half foot tall woman,

holding her own symbols en sphere

but o inescapable, this new spark

a frown on her face, a tear in her eye,

now looks toward the other hand and

Mommy? has morphed into Kali

terrifying, multihanded, and in each

a multiverse burning in flame,

dissolving in poison, a tiny mushroom-headed –POOF-

coming from, well,

nowhere now.

this daughter, not daring a glance at

what she holds in her own hands,

is now undeniably linked to

death.

created into the world,

our bodies now take on the job of composition and decomposition,

a fancy dance

on grass, on pavement, in trees,

on broken glass with leather shoes,

on fire.

in birth, death.

and in death, rebirth.

Mother is our link between worlds,

the person we know

who gets us in the door to this

bizarre party

so far beyond our fantasy

we spend our time in amazement and shock

at the wonders that surround us.

as children of the planet Earth,

we wander about, dazed and

mouths agape at

the tremendous creative

and destructive prowess

exhibited by our collective Mama

Gaia.

Our human understanding

can only go so far,

our metaphors locked up in our bodies

and in their relative positions to

everything else

determine our abilities to comprehend

just where it is we are.

An appropriately human, and motherly, metaphor is this:

we are protein-bits of her genetic code.

Our mother Gaia is still only an egg herself.

Fire-tailed meteors

(looking, eek, oh-so-spermy)\

on a collision course now billions of years past

exploded previously unknown elements onto

Earth-egg and she

continues to gestate,

each new combinatorial compound

provides x^∞ possibilities of

strange new life on the surface.

In some traditions and in some dreams

time exists as a dragon of fire

eating its own tail.

it struggles against itself to consume itself

at a rate faster than the

burning need in its gullet.

Is this what our universe is

incubating in Earth-as-egg?

I feel tender, motherly toward her, and

wonder what she will become

beyond my limited human scope.

What will burst forth from her?

What will she be when she grows up?

What kind of new ideas and new creatures

are seeping ever-outward,

like mystical smoke?

Mother-daughter-egg-mystery.

Creator, Destroyer, birthplace and

composter of us all, all ideas.

The future is vast beyond belief

we cannot fathom it.

We are bound by our idea of time.

Tree of Life, eternally beyond-burning. 3/2011, Seale AL

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:54:15 -0400

Tree of Life, eternally beyond-burning.

3/2011, Seale AL

Dear Mom, your other daughter is moving to Spain.

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:52:24 -0400

apparently.
apparently.
she needs an ocean of
breathing room.

heh. heh. ocean/breathing? but how? a quartered ocean? delineated water?
drawing lines on waves
charting
freedom
(and knowledge of…
fuck. the edge of the world? what are we looking at anyway?
the open waters like a scene from a movie.
i don’t know what happens out there.
tales of dragons snagging ships in clenching, reptilian loops,
easier to grasp at than today’s science-ized creatures of the deep,
hanging phosphorescent lanterns to lure a passing catch of the day,
how are they related to me?
G-O-D in mitochondrial entities,
the same ones inhabit you and me
slough off in skin cells regularly,
so that in just a few short years we are made up of entirely different stuff.
holy?
how can we hold on?
)

love
c

Stir (like) Crazy/Stick in the Mud

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:09:18 -0400

mind alive with language,
myriad fumbling tongues
slavering, sloshing, frothing out
thoughts
slipping on word formation of
electromagnetic impulse,
dense clouds gather fast
try to scream lightning and leap
before it catches the tree,
we must seem to all-seeing eyes
immobile of mouth and foot
unable to get away
with what we want to get across
mind
like time
flies

fuckyeahspace: On May 17, nearly a month after the explosion at...

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:36:36 -0400

fuckyeahspace:

On May 17, nearly a month after the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, NASA captured this real-color image from a satellite observatory. Oil slicks are not usually noticeable on satellite images, but on this particular day the oil was reflecting sunlight in just the right direction.

Click through for a high quality image.
(via Earth Observatory, reddit)

proverbial dessert

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:28:27 -0400

in this
the time of sinking ships
we still want to have
our damn cake!
and eat it/smash it
into our faces/the
faces of loved ones/
parade in it/
parade on it/
take it to bed/
sneak it into the movies/
lick the frosting off of it/
or fingers/
slowly or hurriedly
too!

nevermind that.
what we WANT
is to have the damn cake!
and to continue to do whatever we want!

dreaming

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:00:39 -0400

Just accepted to the Naropa University MA program for TRANSPERSONAL ECOPSYCHOLOGY, and into another vector of my spherical education.

Where are our dreams going?

xoc

13 moon lunar calendar for peace

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:58:20 -0400

13 moon lunar calendar for peace

white magnetic wizard

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:56:00 -0400

white magnetic wizard

mahicari in guatemala

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:55:00 -0400

mahicari in guatemala

glittering webs over lago de atitlan??

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:33:01 -0400

glittering webs over lago de atitlan??

starstuck

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:32:32 -0400

although i have not been posting, i have been adventuring in the spherical realms…look out for these updates coming soon!!

really, where are our dreams going?????

kensu: Spaceflight Now | STS-131 Shuttle Report | Shuttle flies...

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:23:41 -0400

kensu:

Spaceflight Now | STS-131 Shuttle Report | Shuttle flies into space at dawn

madeofstarstuff: unknownskywalker: Our universe at home within...

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:22:24 -0400

madeofstarstuff:

unknownskywalker:

Our universe at home within a larger universe?
Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Such a scenario in which the universe is born from inside a wormhole is suggested by theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski from Indiana University.

Poplawski takes advantage of the Euclidean-based coordinate system called isotropic coordinates to describe the gravitational field of a black hole and to model the radial geodesic motion of a massive particle through the event horizon of Schwarzschild and Einstein-Rosen black holes.

Because Einstein’s general theory of relativity does not choose a time orientation, if a black hole can form from the gravitational collapse of matter through an event horizon in the future then the reverse process is also possible. Such a process would describe an exploding white hole: matter emerging from an event horizon in the past, like the expanding universe.

A white hole is connected to a black hole by an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole) and is hypothetically the time reversal of a black hole. Poplawski’s paper suggests that all astrophysical black holes, may have Einstein-Rosen bridges, each with a new universe inside that formed simultaneously with the black hole.

From that it follows that our universe could have itself formed from inside a black hole existing inside another universe.

Image: Einstein-Rosen bridges have never been observed in nature, but they provide theoretical physicists and cosmologists with solutions in general relativity by combining models of black holes and white holes.
Source: Indiana University

Biochar combats global hunger, poverty, and poor soil

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:32:23 -0500

Biochar combats global hunger, poverty, and poor soil

unknownskywalker: [Photo via NASA]

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:19:50 -0500

unknownskywalker:

[Photo via NASA]

Hubble and the heart

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:18:00 -0500

a void

avoided likened to

bivalves’ secret

quickening pearls secretions

shut tight in a bubble galaxy of

creamy pixilated mollusk husk

mystifying Hubble captures

snap emergings dividing

decayings diverging

implodings opposing flash

force no mortal could muster

tucked and folded

bundled up neural networks beyond measure

highways to the moon and more wrapped

back in the corporeal cranial

double design in real time

a dash of Carlos Casteneda’s

hey baby I can help you heal that

ephemeral hole

meshed

the mess of wholeness and the liberated vein

transcendence everlasting everliving love

ad infinitum and all that

here, here the concrete

slam your hand with a hammer and

damn

that hurts

notion not inescapable

give it some time, baby

give it some time

that light may reach you yet

things always spinning you never even mess your pretty little head about

the heart as a collection of cells

three weeks in the making begins to beat

spontaneously

with no provocation but the onset and onslaught of time

relentless fractionless time, baby

ever so subtle

the change in the neverending conquest of

light versus dark, the difference, the spectrum, the circle, baby

ya dig?

[CASH 2.09]

love,

freshphotons: The image shows the predicted honeycomb-like...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:34:05 -0500

freshphotons:

The image shows the predicted honeycomb-like morphology of a free-standing membrane of colloidal iron particles that forms in a triaxial, magic-angle magnetic field. (Particle size, 4 μm.). Via.

madeofstarstuff: stasis: Spelled out in the protein code.

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:32:06 -0500

madeofstarstuff:

stasis:

Spelled out in the protein code.

the nature of natural

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:59:00 -0500

how we think about nature…is it possible to think about the natural world without politicizing it? without fettering it with possession, romanticizing it, thinking of it in the context of us, instead of vice versa? is it possible to appreciate and admire for the truth of it, and not the conceived meaning?
i’m not talking coats and rugs. i’m not talking cameron’s avatar war dream…what is the mystical but an experience?
we must be together…
i almost said without words,
without clothes,
without the fucking money.
and speaking of,
is that it? the last remaining vestiges of the natural within us?
meditation and sex? or a combination therein?

too many people on the side of mythos are dedicating their energy to alchemy, and not the real kind, not the kind that can save us (finding the chemical compassion), but still the fucking money. if you can hear me, false-chemists, hear this: IT’S STILL ABOUT THE MONEY! by putting your learning in the desire of the material, you are missing the point. put your learning in the desire.

love,
c