Rocks and Stones
It is our good fortune to have such an abundance of metamorphic rocks in our midst, with insights to share not only about their origins but everything they’ve experienced since. It’s not too much of a stretch to say that they are responsive, even sentient, in that they ‘perceive’ their surroundings and change in response. Their stories are genuinel... See more
Sublime Zettels February 2025
These are ancient paths of Dreaming etched into the landscape in song and story and mapped into our minds and bodies and relationships with everything around us: knowledge stored in every waterway and every rock.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
One of the most inspiring things I learned was about how the ancient Greeks used to consider marble a semi-living thing. “The exhalations of the earth.” The idea of stone as crystallized breath is so poetic to me. It’s also a reminder of the great systems that are in progress all around us, the natural order of things, it’s nothing short of a mirac
... See moreSara Petersen • Combatting Seasonal Sadness With Beauty
‘This,’ he said, handling it, ‘is a stone, and within a certain length of time it will perhaps be soil and from the soil it will become plant, animal or man. Previously I should have said: This stone is just a stone; it has no value, it belongs to the world of Maya, but perhaps because within the cycle of change it can also become man and spirit, i
... See moreHermann Hesse • Siddhartha (Penguin Modern Classics)
“Behind the effervescent force of the plant is concealed the warmth of feeling, behind the mobility of the animal lies the force of thought. Thought and feeling are united in the gravity of the stone” - Hilma af Klint
The answer to the koan, “does the rock have Buddha nature?” is apparently just a straightforward yes.
A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
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computers are “rocks we tricked into thinking with lightning” gets at the spirit of what’s going on.
A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023
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The place is alive. Every rock is animate and sentient—but in our worldview this is true of all rocks.
Tyson Yunkaporta • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
[living stones]
The heart that grasps the mysteries is one that is naive enough to think all souls worthy of Paradise, even souls who may have drenched their heart’s life with bitterness. It is a heart that feels and sings like a bird, without caring if there is no one there to hear it. It rejoices over everything that is beautiful, everything that ... See more
The heart that grasps the mysteries is one that is naive enough to think all souls worthy of Paradise, even souls who may have drenched their heart’s life with bitterness. It is a heart that feels and sings like a bird, without caring if there is no one there to hear it. It rejoices over everything that is beautiful, everything that ... See more