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the fire elf
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the proposals of Gardner Murphyand others that a psychological field theory
could account for the presence of energies different from those
that we are most familiar with...
are you sure you're doing what you think you're doing?
Regardless of the difficulty in "diagnosis", a higher state of arousal is
a necessary prerequisite for creative activity. This should be documented
if only by two examples of outstanding men, Henri Poincare, the
mathematician, and Max Earnst, the artist. Poincare, once when unable to
sleep after drinking coffee, became a spectator of some ordinarily hidden
aspects of his own spontaneous creative activity: "Ideas rose in crowds; I
felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable
combination." A similar incident is recounted by Ernst:
It all started on August 10, 1925, by my recalling an incident of my
childhood when the sight of an imitation mahogany panel opposite my bed
had induced on of those dreams between sleeping and waking. And
happening to be at a seaside inn in wet weather I was struck by the way
the floor, its grain accentuated by many scrubbings, obsessed my
nervous gaze. So I decided to explore the symbolism of the obsession,
and to encourage my powers of meditation and hallucinatino I took a
series of drawings from the floorboards by dropping pieces of paper on
them at random and then rubbing the paper with blacklead. As I looked
carefully at the drawings that i got this way - some dark, others smudgily
dim - I was surprised by the sudden heightening of my visionary powers,
and by the dreamlike succession of contradictory images that came one
on top of another with the persistance and rapidity to memories of love.
Now my curiosity was aroused and excited, and I began an impartial
exploration...
I stress the fact that, through a series of suggestions and
transmutations arrived at spontaneously like hypnotic visions, drawings
obtained in this way lose more and more of the character of the material
being explored... They begin to appear as the kind of unexpectedly clear
images most likely to throw light on the first cause of the obsession, or at
least provide a substitute for it.
And so the frottage process simply depends on intensifying the
mind's capacity for nervous excitement, using the appropriate technical
means, excluding all conscious directing of the mind... The author is
present as a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his own
work, and observes the phases of his own development.
a necessary prerequisite for creative activity. This should be documented
if only by two examples of outstanding men, Henri Poincare, the
mathematician, and Max Earnst, the artist. Poincare, once when unable to
sleep after drinking coffee, became a spectator of some ordinarily hidden
aspects of his own spontaneous creative activity: "Ideas rose in crowds; I
felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable
combination." A similar incident is recounted by Ernst:
It all started on August 10, 1925, by my recalling an incident of my
childhood when the sight of an imitation mahogany panel opposite my bed
had induced on of those dreams between sleeping and waking. And
happening to be at a seaside inn in wet weather I was struck by the way
the floor, its grain accentuated by many scrubbings, obsessed my
nervous gaze. So I decided to explore the symbolism of the obsession,
and to encourage my powers of meditation and hallucinatino I took a
series of drawings from the floorboards by dropping pieces of paper on
them at random and then rubbing the paper with blacklead. As I looked
carefully at the drawings that i got this way - some dark, others smudgily
dim - I was surprised by the sudden heightening of my visionary powers,
and by the dreamlike succession of contradictory images that came one
on top of another with the persistance and rapidity to memories of love.
Now my curiosity was aroused and excited, and I began an impartial
exploration...
I stress the fact that, through a series of suggestions and
transmutations arrived at spontaneously like hypnotic visions, drawings
obtained in this way lose more and more of the character of the material
being explored... They begin to appear as the kind of unexpectedly clear
images most likely to throw light on the first cause of the obsession, or at
least provide a substitute for it.
And so the frottage process simply depends on intensifying the
mind's capacity for nervous excitement, using the appropriate technical
means, excluding all conscious directing of the mind... The author is
present as a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his own
work, and observes the phases of his own development.
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Ugly Dougly
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Ugly Dougly
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amusement versatility factor
Stratification is the formation of air at different densities filling a house or
room. It occurs when the ceiling is warmer than the floor. This keeps the
hotter, lighter (less dense) air at the ceiling and the colder, heavier
(denser) air near the floor. When the ceiling is colder than the floor,
stratification does not occur. This situation causes the colder, heavier to
fall along the cold walls and cover the floor. The warmer air which was
over the floor rises from the center of the house to the ceiling. This
convection current keeps the air churning and prevents stratification from
occurring.
