Erik Davis and TECHGNOSIS

Erik has some interesting things to say about reality.
www.techgnosis.com

1964 Stratocaster

I found a picture of myself a few years ago.

The universe inside my eyeball

I recently had my eyeball photographed. To me it looks like a universe.

I am a radio.

I am riding the subway yesterday, and praying The Jesus Prayer. A woman suddenly bursts out in a loud scream, "Get off my channel." She yells this out again. I suspect she was on the psychic channel and heard the words of the prayer washing through all channels on her radio.
I am a radio!
Be well, happy, and peaceful, across all channels.

Free Play: Improvisation in Life ... with Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator. Born in 1950, he studied at Harvard and the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art. In the 1970's he was a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola and electric violin and opened up many techniques now used in electroacoustic music. He has presented master classes and workshops at many conservatories and universities. He has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. He has collaborated with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology. He has published articles in a variety of fields since 1966, and is the author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art (Penguin-Putnam, 1990). In recent years he has created computer software including The World Music Menu and Visual Music Tone Painter. He is currently working on a new book on creativity, and new musical projects. He lives with his wife and two sons in Virginia.

Excerpt from www.freeplay.com

In the presence of a dreamer

Creativity grabs us when we know that what is ‘going on’ is delivered by a dreamer who is telling the truth about the nature of the dream. What makes a great painter “great” is the dreamers’ ability to capture truth on canvas. You know it when you see it. There are piano players who play the piano, and then you run into a piano player whose message transcends the instrument. You are in the presence of a dreamer who shows up in the dream with an extraordinary gift. The music has the power to dissolve the fiction called “duality.”

Excerpt from www.thespiritworks.com