The importance of what is purely human construct vs nature...

The laws and make-up of the universe is beautiful and amazing...!!!

Approaching Truth out of the corner of my eye....

…some people will make that leap and say I believe that God initiated this and then stepped away and the rest was this beautiful mathematical unfolding. And others will say, “well, as far back as it goes it seems to be these  mathematical structures and I don’t feel a need to conjure up any other entity.”

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Overture to L'Amant Anonyme (September 2021)

from The Hope of Better Weather EP

piano - Michael Price

recorded July 17th, 2012 at Snap Studios, London


1. Breaking The Horizon

An astrophysicist who’s also explored her science by way of a novel about two pivotal 20th-century mathematicians, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Both pushed at boundaries where mathematics presses on grand questions of meaning and purpose. Such questions helped create the technologies that are now changing our sense of what it means to be human.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/mathematics-purpose-and-truth/130

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (April 3, 2014)

Tears For Esbjörn (excerpt)

In a probing and personal conversation, Reza Aslan opens a refreshing window on religion in the world and Islam in particular. It’s a longer view of history and humanity than news cycles invite — certainly when it comes to the Arab Spring, or to ISIS. His life is a kind of prism on the fluid story of religion in this century. But in a globalized world, we all have a personal stake in how this story unfolds.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/reza-aslan-on-islams-reformation/7039

Reza Aslan — Islam's Reformation

'Imaginational Anthem vol. 7' Available February 17, 2015

'Trees Return to Soil' by Simon Scott

Velvet Piano, Introduction

John Zorn - ahaha

Silence is an endangered species, says Gordon Hempton. He defines real quiet as presence — not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise. The Earth, as he knows it, is a "solar-powered jukebox." Quiet is a "think tank of the soul." We take in the world through his ears.

On Being with Krista Tippett

Gordon Hempton — Silence and the Presence of Everything

The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection What the Living Do, about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, Magdalene. Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us.

On Being with Krista Tippett 

Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us

Along with George Orwell, the 20th-century political theorist Hannah Arendt is a new bestseller. She famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil” and wrote towering works like The Origins of Totalitarianism. She was concerned with the human essence of events that we analyze as historical and political. Totalitarianism she described as “organized loneliness,” and loneliness as the “common ground for terror.” The historian, she said, always knows how vulnerable facts are. And thinking is not something for elites; it is the human power to keep possibility alive.

Lyndsey Stonebridge — Thinking and Friendship in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt for Now

A thrilling, mind-bending view of the cosmos and of the human adventure of modern science. In a conversation ranging from free will to the multiverse to the meaning of the Higgs boson particle, physicist Brian Greene suggests the deepest scientific realities are hidden from human senses and often defy our best intuition.

Brian Greene — Reimagining the Cosmos

Painovoimaa, valoa

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/19/esperanza-spalding-william-blake-the-fly/

CONTEXT / POEM TEXT

Esperanza Spalding performs "The Fly" by William Blake

Artist: Nick Zammuto
Title: Tonight We'll Go For A Ride
Album: We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Release Date: November 9, 2018 Digital / February 8, 2019 Physical

Pre-Order: www.temporaryresidence.com/products/trr308

We The Animals is the award-winning new film from Jeremiah Zagar (In A Dream). Based on the best-selling novel by Justin Torres, We The Animals is Zagar’s first narrative feature. It reunites Zagar with Nick Zammuto, the renowned composer and co-founder of beloved collage-pop pioneers, the Books. Inspired by the film’s setting in rural upstate New York – and influenced by the early ambient electronic music that galvanized the Books two decades ago – Zammuto pairs that earthen, wooded isolation with dynamic pulses of customized electronics and sparse, crystalline layers of melodic soft synths. The juxtaposition is arresting, and gives the soundtrack a unique heft befitting of its subject matter – and betraying of its minimal instrumentation. Beautifully edited and sequenced to act as both a companion to the film and a standalone album, We The Animals: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is as subtle as it is startling, and succeeds in making even the heaviest emotions feel momentarily weightless.

We The Animals: An Official Motion Picture Soundtrack

Nick Zammuto - Tonight We'll Go For A Ride

From Nat Bartsch Trio's 2008 self-titled release

I Think I Always Knew... - Nat Bartsch Trio

Groundbreaking Peabody Award-winning conversation about the big questions of meaning, hosted by Krista Tippett. Every Thursday a new discovery about the immensity of our lives — and frequent special features like poetry, music and Q + A with Krista.

Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth (April 3, 2014)

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