• Model Application of Temple in Stone

    The Quiet Architecture Stone by stone, and heart by heart,The quiet Builder shapes the art.Not by power, not by might,But by walking toward the Light.One begins where questions start,Two align the seeking heart.Many gather, truth to hear—And the Living Voice draws near. Where one seeks, the path is found.Where two inquire, the measure sounds.Where many…

  • The Lived Past and the Anticipated Future.

    the autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture — religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. And it is within that culture that we really can get — and this is the novelty — something that is not entirely set by our…

  • Internet Archive: WayBack Machine

    Internet Archive Coordinates: 37°46′56.3″N 122°28′17.65″W Internet Archive Type Digital library Founded 1996 Key people Brewster Kahle (Chairman) Website archive.org Alexa rank 230 (April 2011)[1] Available in English Internet Archive headquarters was in the Presidio, a former US military base in San Francisco, from 1996 to 2009. As of November 2009, new Internet Archive headquarters at 300…

  • The Socratic Method…..and Plato’s Ideas, is Replaced by Google?

    http://youtu.be/dk60sYrU2RU The idea that truth is timeless and resides outside the universe was the essence of Plato’s philosophy, exemplified in the parable of the slave boy that was meant to argue that discovery is merely remembering. Lee Smolin  Bold added for me for emphasis….as well as saying that this philosophy is not “outside of time.”…

  • Liberal arts

    The Pyramid(as an expression of Liberal Arts Encapsulated) is a combination of  the Trivium , and  the Quadrivium My interest has been from a historical position about how such a system while it developed from that ancient perspective,  is still not about a “religious perspective” as to what is to be believed by Lee Smolin.…

  • Quadrivium

    The quadrivium comprised the four subjects, or arts, taught in medieval universities after the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning “the four ways” or “the four roads”. Together, the trivium and the quadrivium comprised the seven liberal arts.[1] The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These followed the preparatory work of the trivium…

  • Trivium:Three Roads

      Logic is the art of thinking; grammar, the art of inventing symbols and combining them to express thought; and rhetoric, the art of communicating thought from one mind to another, the adaptation of language to circumstance.Sister Miriam Joseph  Painting by Cesare Maccari (1840-1919), Cicero Denounces Catiline. In medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three…

  • Rising Above the Duality

    The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who do not have enough. Man’s way is different. He takes from those who do not have enough to give to those who already have too much. (verse 77. Tr. Gia Fu Feng) Gia-Fu Feng (1919 – 1985)…