Nu Realm

This operation has moved. I am now HERE

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This is interesting....

Wonder if someone is catching my waves? Sure, I did tell them all about how excited I am to meet them, but only with my mind. ...hmm, but only with my mind

;)

People + Things to look into

• Helmut Schmidt

+ Mind Science Foundation / Austin, TX

• Dr. Marilyn Schlitz

+ Institute of Noetic Sciences / Petaluma, CA

• Dr. William Braud

+ Institute of Transpersonal Psychology / Palo Alto, CA

• Charles Honorton

+ Research/ "Ganzfeld PSI performance within an Artistically Gifted Population"

• David Bohm

+ "The Undevided Universe"

• Institute for Biosensory Psychology / St. Petersburg, Russia

* Duncan Laurie

+ Artist

• Timeless Existance

• Dzogchen

• Jelaluddin Rumi

• Longchenpa

50/50

Resources:
50 images / 50 References

References:

1•

Stalking The Wild Pendulum/ Itzhak Bentov

2• The Secret Vaults of Time/ Schwartz

3• Miracles of Mind/ Russell Targ & Jane Katra, PH.D.

4• Limitless Mind/ Russell Targ

5• Mind-Reach/ Targ & Puthoff

6• The Practical Psychic/ Friedlander & Pearson

7• Basic Psychic Development/ Friedlander & Hemsher

8• Astral Dynamics/ Robert Bruce

9• URI: A Journal of the Mystery of URI Geller/ Andrija Puharich

10• Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet/ Jess Stearn

11• The Power of Alpha-Thinking/ Jess Stearn

A Brief History of Fringe Thinkers & How Art Supports the Sciences

(click here to download .PDF version)

 In 1543, the first printed copy of De revolutionibus was released upon a largely geocentric population, believing Earth to be the center of the Universe. It was a manuscript written by Nicolaus Copernicus, which detailed his heliocentric hypothesis, stating evidence to support the idea that the Earth, as well as the other known planets, revolves around the Sun. There is no doubt that Copernicus would have been severely ridiculed for publishing a document containing such outlandish claims. However, in a relatively convenient fashion, he passed away directly after the first copy of the manuscript was printed. Subsequently, The planned condemnation of the manuscript also happened to get postponed due to the death of Bartolomeo Spina, who was the Catholic Church’s authority in the reviewing and censoring of books. It was not until almost a century later in 1633, that Galileo, who is now considered by many to be the “Father of modern physics, science, and astronomy” (1), was sentenced to live the rest of his life under house arrest for supporting Copernicus’ theories of heliocentrism. Not long after this incident, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek published his observations of microscopic life forms, which were previously not known to exist. He was initially scrutinized and his credibility was tarnished for a number of years until his work was validated. Another century later in 1794, German physicist, Ernst Florens Chladni, fearlessly published a book of his collected data, which explained meteorites to be rocks from outer space. The science community immediately dismissed his book and they must have thought, “Rocks! From outer space!? This man is clippin’ the King’s English!”. He was mocked for ten years before some scientists and chemists decided to actually take a good look at his claims.

What these moments, in the history of scientific discovery, all have in common is that they involved ideas, which were in great opposition to paradigms of the time. They revealed the existence of entirely new worlds and concepts that were seen as too strange and abstract to be believed by popular culture and even the science community during these eras. Science, in its most basic form, is the methodical pursuit of knowledge and ultimate truth. So it seems unusual that today, four hundred years after the persecution of Galileo, that contemporary science still does not support research in areas that linger at the edge of knowledge and human comprehension. This major lack of support for research in areas that could potentially be the most paradigm shattering, is exactly why science needs art. Some research may be considered “too out there” to receive funding or scientists may not want to approach it, fearing it will contaminate their reputation and credibility. When science is unwilling to take the plunge into unknown territory, artists are eager to take a swan dive into the abyss. And when scientists are swimming under mountains of data, obscure theories, and concepts like Hyperelliptic Surfaces and Non Vanishing Harmonic Spinors, artists are ready to take these abstracts and translate them into concrete forms. Lastly, art pulls all of this out of the shadows of the lab and casts it into the public realm, were people in all walks of life may experience it.

Psychic Bacteria Lab

This is phase one of my psychic bacteria experiment lab. Five 1/4" deep circles were routed out of MDF. Symbols were placed on 4" diameter Plexiglas disks that were installed in containment unit, which were then filled with a food grade Agar and prepped for inoculation.

The symbols are a direct reference to the history of psychic research. They were originally printed as a deck of cards called Zener Cards, after Karl Zener, the perceptual psychologist who invented them in the 1930's as a means to test ones psychic abilities.

However, the function of these symbols in my experiment is quite different. The basic idea and hypothesis is that a symbol is selected at random by a computer, the graphic of that symbol is then cast out into the public via internet proliferation as well as physical printing and distribution methods. Through the act of intention and the spreading of the chosen symbol throughout a collective awareness, there will then be a higher level of growth and biological activity located above the selected symbol inside the lab unit.

Straight To BlackOut / Trailer

Straight To BlackOut Trailer from BURNS.R % on Vimeo.

Trailer for Straight To BlackOut (Gear For Torque) moped rally put on by the Puddle Cutters moped gang, who are the Portland, OR branch of the national Moped Army. The footage was taken last week during a ride out to Washougal river for some icey swimming and rock diving. I hung out the back of the Geo Tracker filming, while June held my waist so I didn't fly overboard.
Eric screams at the dinosaur ice cream truck as we were trying to keep up with the pack.

From what I was told, the plan for the mini trailer was more or less a montage of footage but there ended up only be one day available for shooting video since I was in the middle of moving. I had tons of the FREQ TEST recordings so I layered some of those clips over the moped shots to spice it up.

The shot of Miguel's Peugeot 103 near the end was taken through a huge lens that I ripped out of an old Fujitsu television station camera. I really need to build a mount because that thing gets heavy fast while holding it in the left hand with the camera in the right. It looks like a portal window from a boat + about the size of my face!
The effect is kind of like the selective focus of a lens baby.

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