tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56955399205439106932024-03-17T20:03:10.228-07:00QUANTUM TANTRAInvestigating new doorways into Naturenick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.comBlogger563125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-20967138994679478282024-03-14T18:18:00.000-07:002024-03-14T18:18:23.435-07:00The Discovery of Anti-timeJim RintoulTHE DISCOVERY OF ANTI-TIMEThis being the taleof the future discoveryof what was at first assumed to becounter-reality,(and as such did not matter),but which soon came to be known as anti-time. Because anti-time could be surfedlike any wave,the implementationand subsequent proliferationof anti-time devicesfor the home and workplacemade anti-time big businessif you could just get nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-50557950065586824422024-02-18T14:47:00.000-08:002024-02-18T14:47:11.092-08:00Len Anderson (1944 -- 2024)Len AndersonLEN ANDERSON (1944 -- 2024) Len Anderson passed away in his own bed on Mattison Lane in Santa Cruz early Tuesday morning, January 30, tended by his wife, Elke Maus. Len earned a PhD in physics from UC Berkeley, worked in experimental high-energy physics at Berkeley and in Europe, then switched to industry where he designed sensors for paper-making machines. Moving to nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-74073573186772330752023-10-16T10:19:00.000-07:002023-10-16T10:19:29.929-07:00it's time to face this sex thingAugust O'Connor it's time to facethis sex thing It makes us men.It makes us women.It makes a joketo please usto see us smile.It makes Beautyto open our hearts.It makes Love. August O'Connor nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-88256022328674812812023-09-29T17:44:00.003-07:002023-09-30T08:08:47.339-07:00Fulton-Bennett Woodblock PrintsKim Fulton-Bennett: Boulder Creek LibraryKim Fulton-Bennett is a man of many talents, marine biologist, science writer, composer and performer in several musical genres, primary traditional Celtic music where for several years he was half of the Dobhran ("otter" in Gaelic) duo with August O'Connor which entertained at coffee shops, festivals, weddings and private parties in the Santa Cruz area. nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-51565760582953880672023-07-06T10:51:00.008-07:002023-07-06T18:00:29.961-07:00August O'Connor (1951 - 2023)August O'Connor in meadow with big bodhran. AUGUST O'CONNOR (1951--2023)Born in Southern California in 1951, the middle girl between two brothers, Raleigh and Greg, August O'Connor early experienced a love of animals, drama and mystery. She raised pet rats and played with snakes. And face-painted, dressed in leotard, rabbit skins, leather aviator helmet and shaking a coyote-skull rattle, shenick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-65059313827828666922023-07-01T19:32:00.002-07:002023-07-02T08:49:52.935-07:00I Like My HandsAugust playing her bodhran (Irish frame drum) I LIKE MY HANDSHands, I like my handsThey do so many thingsWell for me.Hands, I like my handsThey do me well.Feet, I like my feetThey do so many thingsWell for me.Feet, I like my feetThey do me well.Friends, I like my friendsWe do so many thingsWell together.Friends, I like my friends.We do so well.Lord, I love my LordHe does so many thingsWell nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-17026149543595368932023-06-04T10:29:00.002-07:002023-10-16T13:25:11.676-07:00Deep in my HeadAugust O'ConnorDEEP IN MY HEAD by August O'Connor I was deep in my headDeep in my headDeep in my headWhen you startled me.I was deep deepDeep in my headWhen I saw youAnd you startled me.When I saw youAnd you startled meI saw youAnd you startled me.I would like to beStartlingly beautifulDeep in my headWhen you startled me.I would like to beStartlingly beautifulI would like to nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-92004818308242832912023-05-16T23:44:00.001-07:002023-05-17T09:15:36.162-07:00Kauffman Flypes Rolfson into O'Connor knotAugust O'Connor, Celtic knot makerKAUFFMAN FLYPES ROLFSEN INTO O'CONNOR KNOTMy friend and musical partner, August O'Connor, designed me a personal Celtic knot which became part of my business card plus a rubber stamp, and which she also painted on my back, my bald head and on a hat box containing my black derby hat.O'Connor knot painted on a hat boxI recently discovered that knot theorists have nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-66571627470418279622022-11-15T15:58:00.001-08:002023-01-10T01:20:52.319-08:00The O'Connor KnotAugust decorating a young lass with Celtic knot.
THE O'CONNOR KNOT
For 10 years, my musical partner in the Blarney band, August O'Connor, lived and
worked at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco as a reader, artist and designer of
vestments. Then, moving to Santa Cruz, she led sweat lodges for many years on
the Pacific coast. But by far August's favorite church is nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-23001040404631998292022-10-30T11:52:00.001-07:002022-10-31T13:18:39.066-07:00A New Kind of SaintNovember 1: All Saints DayA NEW KIND OF SAINTIn this Age that couldn't be DarkerWhen the Lamp of Wisdom grows faintWhen the Empire of Lies seems to triumphWe are needing a new kind of saint. A saint who comes out of nowhereFrom a direction you'd never expectA saint who's tantric, organic and quantumAnd politically incorrect. A saint that performs needful miraclesMore beautiful and nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-78215956897849034002022-10-14T19:07:00.003-07:002022-10-14T19:07:47.593-07:00Reality on RadioTHE DOCTOR FUTURE SHOWKSCO, SANTA CRUZ, CA 1080AMInterview - Physicist Nick Herbert on the latest Nobel Physics Prize on Bell's Theorem, Quantum Entanglement, and Non-local Reality http://www.drfutureshow.com/?fbclid=IwAR14sVgx7HbfCseEzkKYkI1DXTPCS6XBZJg-7fhx-fsBZzUVXdWNjLMul3A&mibextid=34ey5eOrhttp://futurepeak.net/audio/DrF604_20221011_NickHerbert.mp3 Quantum physicist Nick Herbert is nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-29813436202668328702022-10-08T14:24:00.010-07:002022-10-08T18:00:45.685-07:00The Reality PrizeEsalen Seminar on the Nature of Reality Poster THE REALITY PRIZE In the late 1970s, Esalen Institute co-founder Michael Murphy decided to invite physicists down to Big Sur to see what might happen. One of Mike's speculations was that “Perhaps a new kind of inspired physicist, experienced in the yogic modes of perception, might emerge to comprehend the further reaches of matter, space and nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-11467704916677154532022-08-14T20:56:00.037-07:002022-08-16T09:16:04.561-07:00108 Chakra Rosary (Version Two)108 Chakra Rosary (Version Two)108 CHAKRA ROSARY (VERSION TWO)Recently Nick developed a system of 108 Chakras (body parts that can be accessed by mind) and a systematic way of exploring these parts in a particular sequence (108 Chakra Rosary). The easiest way to construct such a rosary would be as a loop of 108 beads, as in traditional Buddhist malas. Too many beads I thought. And so I developed nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-24782260856751961662022-06-25T11:18:00.002-07:002022-06-26T11:00:26.024-07:00A Rosary For 108 ChakrasA ROSARY FOR 108 CHAKRASOne of the most important powers we possess is the ability to put our attention anywhere we please. In particular we can move our attention to any part of the body. A body part attended to is different from a body part ignored. A body part attended to "lights up" in a particular way.To aid us in performing this mindful illumination of the body, I have been working for manynick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-91584210992626759032022-06-17T21:50:00.002-07:002022-06-17T22:17:16.682-07:00Death of a MoorPeter Lamborn Wilson (1945-2022)Peter Lamborn Wilson is dead.Peter Lamborn Wilson was a prolific, controversial writer and researcher into the lives and beliefs of mavericks, misfits, hobos, punks and heretics. He is best-known for his coinage of the term Temporary Autonomous Zone or TAZ which can be applied to any spontaneous association of free people from Burning Man to improv dancing, nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-46077804415234140702022-04-15T12:10:00.072-07:002022-04-15T18:52:30.742-07:00Easter 2022August O'Connor decorating pysanky in Boulder Creek EASTER 2022Easter begin as a pagan holiday celebrating the Anglo-Saxon goddess Oestara, Our Lady of the Dawn, of the Spring, of Fertility and of Regeneration. The feast of Oestara was transformed by Chrisians into the Feast of the Resurrection of Christ, the most joyous day in the liturgical calendar. What better symbol of fertility and newnick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-55410059279073838012022-04-01T18:50:00.002-07:002022-04-01T18:50:57.619-07:00April Fool's Day 2022 APRIL FOOL'S DAY, 2022April Fool's Day, the coming of Spring, the beginning of Ramadan, a few weeks before Passover and Easter: a good time to repost this brief summary of one of the goals of quantum tantra: a brand new more intimate way of experiencing Nature that might someday replace science, religion, philosophy and common sense.FUTURE SCIENCEI wanna wham Momma Nature in a warm, wet nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-7886073527264159152022-03-09T14:31:00.001-08:002022-03-09T14:31:29.333-08:00Ethnic Nick Friends of the (human) family—When August and I first got together she encouraged me to examine and appreciate my ethnic roots which are Slovak on my mother’s side and Ukrainian on my dad's side. For both of my parents English was their second language and among themselves they spoke some sort of Slavic tongue none of us five kids could understand. I grew up with Slovak conversation as a nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-78135843908035234432022-02-21T10:35:00.000-08:002022-02-21T10:35:05.976-08:00What Does Nature Want? nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-43211126461095989062022-02-11T17:30:00.001-08:002022-02-11T17:30:28.034-08:00Classical TantraCLASSICAL TANTRAEvery glance is Her GlanceEvery touch is Her TouchEvery smell is Her Sexual AttractantEvery meeting a Teaching. nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-23345128112902634092021-12-23T15:24:00.000-08:002021-12-23T15:24:13.948-08:00A Calculus of Kisses Zeno of Elea (500 BC): Ancient Greek logician A CALCULUS OF KISSES In a foot raceAchilles can never catch the tortoiseLet alone outrun him.For Achilles gets half way in one slice of timeAnd half way more in slice number twoAnd half way again in slice number threeAfter an infinite number of slicesAchilles merely gets to where tortoise has beenNot to where he's at now.Thus no nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-71695344549504690482021-09-26T16:34:00.003-07:002021-09-26T18:41:26.514-07:00Which of Your Body Parts Needs More Amour?Nick Herbert contemplates his 108 chakras Quantum Tantra represents an as yet unrealized new kind of physics that hopes to connect with Nature in a direct and more intimate way than merely "physicists making measurements". Quantum tantrikas seek a new way of knowing the "inanimate world" analogous to the mysterious way we presently experience our own bodies. Systematically experiencing our nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-28063895885365137412021-09-12T01:22:00.006-07:002021-09-12T09:35:56.850-07:00You Might Want To Know What Tantra Means Many thanks to Prem Ashoka for videoing this at Baron's birthday party.nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-90167721246299054992021-08-02T23:50:00.008-07:002021-08-07T18:59:50.441-07:00Amazed by the MuseErato, Muse of Poetry: Sir Edward Poynting (1836-1919) In science, music, art and even in ordinary conversation, where does inspiration come from? Often fresh ideas that well up in my mind both in dreams and in waking life seem so strange that it is easy to imagine that they come from somewhere outside myself. Thus the notion of a Muse is born, an actual disembodied entity, conventionally nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-70893170990321503122021-07-02T16:37:00.007-07:002021-07-02T17:07:06.641-07:00Sex ManualNick Herbert, Quantum Tantric Philosopher As long as I've known him, my friend Alan Lundell has always carried a video camera on his person to record a kind of visual diary of the many events he originated or participated in from numerous Burning Mans, to lots of private parties, to lifting weights at the gym, to backstage celebrity scenes. So ubiquitous is Alan's camera that the word in nick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.com4