BTW, I received my copy of Black Stars in Dim Carcosa last week (haven’t started it yet)!

Being from a country where René Guénon is seen as the holy grail of esoteric thought, I definitively concur. Back in the days, I entertained the idea to write a book titled "Guenonism: history of a pseudo-tradition" ;-)

Sure! Like others in this thread, I'm not a great Discord user (I'm from the majordomo lists generation), but I’ll be happy to occasionally visit and maybe even participate !

Excellent book indeed. I don’t have any specific questions, but I’d be happy to read your comments.

Apparently I can't access to meditation.mgh.harvard.edu (Firefox tells me that "address can't be found" , and I tried with Chrome too). Problems with the site ?

What alien languages can teach us about human language: The linguistics of The Three-Body Problem Imagine if every word you thought could be heard by everyone around you. In this world, thinking would be the same as communicating. What would language—and society—be like?

Want to learn more about the linguistics of Three-Body Problem and the coevolution of language? Check out this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:

Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/three-...
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Just listened to their music, this is fabulous. They have their albums on Youtube :
www.youtube.com/channel/UCt3...

William S. Burroughs: RealityStudio realitystudio.org

Entire Animal Kingdom Communicates at the Same Tempo - Neuroscience News Why is most music 120 BPM? A new study discovers a universal communication tempo of 2 hertz shared by fireflies, crickets, and humans due to neural resonance.

neurosciencenews.com/universal-co...

"The CSNY of decadence", as one French journalist once wrote... And Kevin Ayers is so unjustly forgotten!

Here Comes Now - YouTube

An album by Stephon Alexander, the author of this article, in collaboration with electronic musician Rioux:

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Why music could solve the Universe’s deepest secrets The equations of science and the harmonies of music are intimately linked.

"Even the great Albert Einstein, whose ideas reshaped our understanding of the Universe, famously stated that had his path led him away from physics, he would have found solace in playing music."

Why music could solve the Universe’s deepest secrets:

Ian Watson has died. A great writer and lovely man. Very kind.

I was literally having a drink with him in Spain when my phone rang, and my agent informed me that I had won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Shenanigans ensued.

Sleep well, Old Man.

James Hughes - How Billionaires Ruined Futurism YouTube video by Science, Technology & the Future

I gave a talk for Future Day. We need to take futurism back from the billionaires youtu.be/lKVu_cMd3fg?...

(To put this in relation with Tommy Cowan's excellent work on Burroughs)

(www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomm...)

What does it mean to compute? Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract dynamic systems with observable computational elements like input, output, e...

Some computers are easy to spot — smartphones, laptops, the machines we build. But many natural systems — cells, brains, even turbulent fluids — carry out computations too.

A new paper by SFI’s David Wolpert and Jan Korbel explores these computations encoded in natural dynamic systems.

New article with @oudietted.bsky.social and the @dreamteamicm.bsky.social

Dream-like mental states can occur during wakefulness

Published now in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Congrats to Nicolas Decat!

Couldn't resist...("Could Marconi have invented the radio if he hadn't by pure chance spent years working at the problem?”)
youtube.com/shorts/1Hu0f...

ok merci, peut être pas la peine de l'acheter, donc

il est bien ce livre ? Il y a des infos inédites sur le sujet ?

Berridge, un gars étrange, qui était aussi un grand fan de Thomas Lake Harris (qui avait des enseignements très particuliers sur la sexualité). C'est pourquoi je pense que la "sex magick" était probablement discutée (mais sans doute pas pratiquée) avant Crowley au sein de la GD.

Interesting, I didn't find anything about this in the main French media (at least nothing in my Google News briefing). If it hadn't been on RFI's site (which is serious and a public service), I would have believed it to be fake news...

Fascinating. I didn't know this artist. Makes me think a little of Paul Laffoley. Wikipedia tells me that he was close to Jorge Luis Borges

Top 10 historical board games Spanning over 5,000 years, explore ancient board games, some still played today, like Game of Ur, senet, warri, mahjong and chess.

Read about ten historical board games, including Senet, in this British Museum blog:

www.britishmuseum.org/blog/top-10-...

#OtherMinds #AnimalMinds

Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | A short argument on Platonic Space: variable-agency patterns that in-form physics, biology, computer science, and cognitive science This is a short, logical argument (and commentary) on my current Platonic Space model.

thoughtforms.life/a-short-argu...

I don't know if you can access it with English subtitles, but Michel Hazanavicius's "Le Redoutable" is an hilarious take on Godard.

forget it i found it :-)

🙂what is First Light ?

How Angel Magic Gave Us the Internet - The Steganographia of Trithemius YouTube video by ESOTERICA

youtu.be/Vq96NDOB0xs?...