Archive for the ‘Alchemy’ Category
The Longplayer
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as [...]
The Container of Relationship by James Brown
“Do I contradict myself? I am vast, I contain contradictions.”—Walt Whitman
In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophane states that the original nature of man was androgynous, constituted by the union of the male and female, and possessing a duality in all their bodily divisions. “Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their heart were great, [...]
The Guardian at the Threshold by Maggie Macary
For a long, long time now, I have pondered why it is so difficult to make a change in life. Each January, each new year, we set out with a resolution that something will change in our lives – we will lose weight, quite smoking, read more, meditate more, exercise more, spend more time with [...]
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