{"id":105,"date":"2010-12-03T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2010-12-03T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T18:41:49","slug":"zordaks-journal-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Zordak’s Journal (Introduction)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first entry of reports by Zordak, a lil\u2019 green guy who visits in his lil\u2019 flying saucer in my back yard. We’ve become friends and he’s finally agreed to “write” this blog—with me as his amanuensis<\/a>. Some might say he\u2019s imaginary, like an imaginary playmate, but Zordak explains that a fair number of things that are actually trans-dimensional seem imaginary to Earthlings. Not to worry.<\/p>\n

Zordak communicates telepathically, because he can\u2019t do language manipulation of sound-waves that involves pulses of air waves at moderately high frequencies. \u201cThat\u2019s so three-dimensional!\u201d he\u2019s inclined to say when encountering another aspect of our more familiar world. He has several phrases of wonder and appreciation like that: \u201cOoh, electromagnetic radiations!\u201d (I correct him: \u201cWe call them \u2018colors,\u2019 Zordak.\u201d \u201cOh, let me adjust my filters. There. WOW!\u201d They\u2019re even more excellent when finely differentiated!\u201d<\/p>\n

Zordak is fun because he helps me get a whole new take on what I tend to take for granted: Gravity, texture, momentum, time, space, energy, inertia . . all these are lovely experiences for him. (Please excuse the gendered pronouns, \u201chim\u201d or \u201cher,\u201d\u2013 a product of local culture and even an archetypal human tendency to project our life on trans-terrestrial life. A more subtle form of ethnocentrism and anthropomorphism. It may take a while before we can get to a consciousness that doesn\u2019t relate to other types of consciousness as higher, lower, terrifying, pitiful, heathen, enlightened, fortunate, unfortunated, talented, crippled, etc. But gradually our circle of not just caring but also recognition of non-valued differences is advancing.)<\/p>\n

Today on an autumn walk dear Zordak, who had made himself invisible \u201cso the neighbors won\u2019t talk\u201d was delighted to discover incredible jewels. I explained that they\u2019re just autumn leaves. He tried to explain: \u201cBut look at those colors, the subtle gradations of color, the textured sub-designs! Notice how they can dance in circles in the breeze or run with the wind, like children at play, with abandon to the flow of energy around them!\u201d He was all agape with wonder. Dear soul, he helped me to see autumn leaves in a whole new way.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll hear more from Zordak in future visits. (\u201cFuture???\u201d Oh, yeah, your universe has one-way time progression. I must remember that.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the first entry of reports by Zordak, a lil\u2019 green guy who visits in his lil\u2019 flying saucer in my back yard. We’ve become friends and he’s finally agreed to “write” this blog—with me as his amanuensis. Some might say he\u2019s imaginary, like an imaginary playmate, but Zordak explains that a fair number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}