Adam Blatner

I asked my dear wife, Allee, who is the smartest person I’ve ever known, what it was all about. This was some few decades ago and we were sitting in some barbecue joint in Texas. She looked up and said, offhandedly, “It’s all mush. You can do anything you want with it.” This struck me […]

Prehension is a word used by the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1865-1947) to refer to a type of perception or vulnerability to influence that includes and transcends ordinary understandings of sense perception. It includes such subtly meaningful qualities such as belonging, feeling of self, meaning, time, whatever. It’s close to experiencing, but Whitehead wasn’t yet […]

There are innumerable stories. It’s a more complex form of individuality. This unique person meets that one, the dynamic takes some twists and turns. It all unfolds within a circle of other individuals with their own quirks, and a setting, club, organization, with its own norms. All this happens in a larger culture and time […]

Images cannot suffice. On this planet people need words to help intuit the many connections implied by these images. The word-juggling left brain offers the advantages of helping to make connections to a wide variety of categories that then invite those parts accessed by the right brain to figure out what all this “means.” (On […]

Elsewhere on my website I explain the symbolism of the Shree Yantra (also spelled Sri Yantra). Here I cast off more imaginatively. In this picture it’s all getting ready, the material and spiritual realms are preparing to inter-penetrate. Spiritual is symbolized by the downward-pointing triangles, and material, the upward pointing triangles. This is also mentioned […]