Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
January, 2011
Ease Up a Bit
I found these three cartoons synchronistic with a mood that hits me sometime, a delight in being casual. Sometimes I fantasize that our beautiful Sun City community is our regal estate, though we don’t bother dressing up. (Leo Cullum, New Yorker, Jan 17, 2011, p.43) When I stayed at one of the Oxford colleges in […]
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Write It Up
As you might gather, I write easily and for fun, while many others find this daunting. I also advocate for the values offered by this medium—i.e., setting down in a stored form what you have learned. For some this is obvious, yet there are many who do, who act, who are involved in non-literate ways. […]
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The Adaptive Unconscious (Book Review)
Timothy D. Wilson, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, wrote a lovely book titled “Strangers to ourselves: discovering the adaptive unconscious. (2002, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap press of Harvard University Press). Lovely book that is worth studying. It seems to me that it overlaps with my theory of the Amplified Unconscious, and, indeed, I […]
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The Mythic Path (Book Review)
Feinstein, David & Krippner, Stanley. (1999) The mythic path: discovering the guiding stories of your past—creating a vision for your future. (Publisher: New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam, 1999. On page xiii of the Introduction to the 2nd edition by Jean Houston , she says, “ The zeit is getting geistier… the new mythology, […]
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Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids (Book Review)
Mason, Phil. (2009). Napoleon’s hemorrhoids (and other small events that changed history. New York: Skyhorse Publishing —delightful book, chock full of brief anecdotes about the little glitches, where things went awfully wrong, close calls, or moments of serendipity. It’s amusing or terrifying to contemplate how things might be different but for… The author in this […]
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Zordak’s Early Adventures
It took a bit of time for Zordak to learn the ropes, so to speak. There were tendencies in the earlier contacts to transfer assumptions about how things work on this planet. For example, unlike other sentient life forms, our species does not recognize the concept of spiritually enlightened beings, or foolishly confuses that state […]
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The Power of Power-Point (Good and Bad)
My friend Ed sent me an article almost a year ago about the power of image (specifically Microsoft’s Power Point Presentations) to manipulate and possibly distort reality. It reminded him that back during the Vietnam War, there was a similar thing: The Generals in the field used to show maps painted colors suggesting who was […]
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Writing Systems (Autobiographic Notes)
(I’m putting this in autobiographical notes as well as scriptology): Why am I interested in this aspect of culture? Here are some more personal reflections. I always knew there was something special about writing. (Not the contents of literature, novels, articles for magazines, poetry. Well, some interest, but what I am referring to is the […]
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Cyber-Nano-Angels
Contemporary nanotechnological research is also being conducted by trans-dimensional "scientists" (Try to wrap your mind around the idea that trans-dimensional science recognizes that creative thought-forms participate in the co-construction of reality, whereas your culture in its present paradigmatic worldview (redundant?) thinks reality is objective and not subjective. (Ho ho ho says one of our sprite-ual […]
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Thinking About Believing
A friend cited a book by Julia Kristeva (a psychoanalyst / philosopher / writer): "This Incredible Need to Believe,” and noted one of her points: We cannot interact with this world, even speak one word, without believing: – that there is a real person opposite one; and – that this world is real, not some […]
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