Comments on: A Vital Quickening of the Imagination http://unurthed.com/2007/06/28/a-vital-quickening-of-the-imagination/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:46:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Yeats’ Geometry of the Four Faculties « Unurthed http://unurthed.com/2007/06/28/a-vital-quickening-of-the-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Yeats’ Geometry of the Four Faculties « Unurthed Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:18:14 +0000 http://unurthed.com/?p=103#comment-60 [...] I have been told to make these numbers correspond to the phases of the moon [see last diagram of previous post]. The moonless night is called Phase 1, and full moon in phase 15. Phase 8 begins the antithetical [...] [...] I have been told to make these numbers correspond to the phases of the moon [see last diagram of previous post]. The moonless night is called Phase 1, and full moon in phase 15. Phase 8 begins the antithetical [...]

]]> By: Andrew Clarke http://unurthed.com/2007/06/28/a-vital-quickening-of-the-imagination/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Andrew Clarke Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:38:11 +0000 http://unurthed.com/?p=103#comment-59 I like that the designer of the mural had the wisdom not to put Man in the very center. It was always interesting to me though that the human realm, "Middle World", really is so close to the middle of the overall picture. You wonder if this is just the sweet spot for life as we'd recognize it, or if there are equivalent upper and lower limits to what we can perceive of a boundless reality. The mural also reminded me of Powers of Ten (http://www.powersof10.com/) and the Nikon Universcale (http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index.htm), both of which I'm sure you've already seen. I like that the designer of the mural had the wisdom not to put Man in the very center.

It was always interesting to me though that the human realm, “Middle World”, really is so close to the middle of the overall picture. You wonder if this is just the sweet spot for life as we’d recognize it, or if there are equivalent upper and lower limits to what we can perceive of a boundless reality.

The mural also reminded me of Powers of Ten (http://www.powersof10.com/) and the Nikon Universcale (http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/index.htm), both of which I’m sure you’ve already seen.

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