The poet Goethe argued that colour is formed by the boundaries between light and darkness. He argued that it was possible to see in the dark — that colour (or light) were […]
Seeing in the Dark
Zero, Eternity, Genetics and You
Take a look at these brown-eyed susans after the flower petals have been shed … It looks like hundreds, but it’s only one. There only ever has been one. Take a look […]
Meditation on Light
The human mind reads patterns. Perhaps it does so because it is formed from an earth rich with patterns. Perhaps the moment of apprehension of pattern is called meaning. Perhaps that […]
The Spirit of Colour
Goethe’s theory of colour postulated that colour was an edge effect between darkness and light, and that the colours the human mind viewed were dependent upon mood and health — that they, […]
Holding Light in Your Hand
You can hold the sun in your hand. Really. Just pick a leaf in the fall. Once photosynthesis has shut down, the photons of the sun stay there for a short time, […]
The Social Uses of Colour Theory
While I am preparing a discussion of new agricultural sites to develop a renewed farming economy, a meditation about light , to set the scene. The German poet Goethe observed that shade […]
Science, Art, Spirit and Ethics as One: the Project Moves Forward Now
In technical culture, science is a procedure. It’s a way of breaking the world down into tiny pieces, which can be interrogated with single questions that receive a yes-no answer. With enough […]
Light Does Not Move in Straight Lines
Two hundred years ago, the poet and scientist Goethe observed that if light is measured with Newton’s prisms and measurement devices what will be found will match the method of measurement. After […]
Time Travellers, Dancers, and Evolution
Instead of a science that looked at precise instants in time, constructed out of exact measurements of the kind that gave civilization (so to speak) photography, the poet Goethe proposed a science […]
Aboriginal Ways of Science
There is a way of organizing thought that uses human observers to rigorously observe the things of the world, deduces from them patterns of behaviour and organization and draws from those further […]
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