Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
How It Works
I have been informed by those in the know—or say they’re in the know—that we live in a multi-dimensional cosmos. “Duh, we all knew that.” “No,” they say, “Most folks don’t.” “What? I replied, Haven’t they been reading my blog?” I guess not. Anyway, there are lots of interpenetrating dimensions. As for us, we’re at […]
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The World of Almost-Real
This is a fictional alternative dimension where I “live,” as do many cartoonists, novelists, and others who make up alternative realities. I “become” various characters, and enjoy the fiction that “they” are real and have chosen to “channel” through me. It is thus not me who writes some of these more far-out posts, it is […]
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Sri Yantra as Metaphysical “Organism”
Some abstract things become enlivened by our minds contemplating them. That’s how our clapping can bring Tinkerbelle (the fairy in Peter Pan story) alive. The Sri (pronounced Shree) Yantra is a pattern imagined by many contemplatives in India (South Asia). It has become alive or active or serves as a force—as angelic dynamics do—when enough […]
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Cross-Section of Images Crossing the Corpus Callosum
The brain is, in my thinking, not a manufacturer of thoughts, but rather a receiver. It picks up transmissions from what David Bohm calls the “implicate order.” (I wonder, though, if he ever recognized the profound dis-order that operates in that realm, mixed with certain kinds of order.) Here’s my drawing of three perspectives on […]
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Confabulations 30
Metaphysical Imaginings Here’s a clue to understanding trans-dimensional mandalas: The problem with dimensionality is that humans are not only egocentric and ethnocentric, but they believe that they are the only intelligent beings in the universe (ha!); some even believe they’re the only life-form in a cosmos of hundreds of billions of galaxies (ha ha!); and […]
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Protozoal Elves
I imagine that all life is suffused with alternative reality levels that give it energy. People aren’t the only beings with “auras,” and auras are the extensions into other dimensions of existence. It might be better to say that what we take to be “us” or “stuff” is actually also an extension into 3-Dimensional space […]
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Adam Many-Parts 2
I wrote about the joys of a diversified life over a year ago on this blog. It’s relevant to psychology because lots of folks play lots of roles, and this is thus relevant also to role theory. A cartoon ( Baby Blues 11/26/2000 by Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott) noted all the roles of a […]
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Clutterbugging
I’ve been in a phase of going through my cartoon-doodles and realizing that they offer a wealth of diagrams for my pixilated mind and its philosophical meanderings. This cartoon expresses some trends that I hope to forestall, but it’s not easy. By the great cartoonist, George Booth, the old lady is saying, “There’s more inside.” […]
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Confabulations 28
Essential Manifestation: Auxiliary Functions As said in Confabulations 25, the cosmos unfolds, blossoms like a flower. It “manifests.” In the pictures below this metaphysical (truly!) idea is diagrammed here below (click to enlarge): The center form is the main manifestation, a theme in many of my mandala drawings. Imagine very gradually poking a three dimensional […]
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Confabulations 26: The Cosmic Show
God isn’t that much a show-off, but the game is to extract the optimal degree of aesthetic enjoyment from anything. So it’s good do dance, to feel, but it’s also good a little to be seen. The size of the audience is a factor, but more, the willingness of the audience to appreciate. (As I […]
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