tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56955399205439106932012-01-22T21:12:59.487-08:00Investigating new doorways into Naturenick herberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12806604589435880363noreply@blogger.comBlogger2701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5695539920543910693.post-10902166474505652602012-01-22T21:11:00.000-08:002012-01-22T21:12:59.611-08:00

Oak tree down: Saturday Jan 21, 2012, 8 AM. Living among the redwoods is not without its perils--one of which is falling trees. During the summer the trees grow bushy and top-heavy; then winter rains loosen the soil around the roots and some trees succumb to the force of gravity. Every year during the first big rain we can count on losing electricity  for a day or so when a tree falls across a

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Nick Herbert parts the veils between worlds In the late 60s I had experimented with the then-legal consciousness-expanding drugs LSD and peyote (available by mail from a ranch in Texas) and was ready to explore the effects of a substance considered so satanic by the American government that it is classed with heroin and its use forbidden even to sober scientists. For me legal LSD and peyote

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Nick Herbert caught off guard at his lab bench In the summer of 1960, I was living in a loft in Berkeley near Rose and Shattuck and working as a lab tech at the Berkeley Radiation Lab, minding the liquid hydrogen refrigerator for the 72-inch bubble chamber which tracked nuclear events spawned by protons from the Berkeley Bevatron--the highest-energy particle accelerator of its day, comparable

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Wisdom is often found between the covers. SCIENCE FRIDAY 1. Matter Fundamentalism: Matter is all there is. Behind phenomena there is no Other with Whom to connect. 2.  Classical Mysticism: Every instant of our life is an exercise in merging with an ever-present Mystery that today's scientists are impotent to discern. 3. Classical Tantra: Every glance is Her Glance Every touch Her Touch

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Left eye lens implant 12/8/2011 Having trouble driving at night: headlight glare and 4-6 degree rainbow halos around small light sources; loss of contrast and fuzzy vision similar to dirty glasses. Black musical notes look grey. Diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes. Cataract means opacities in the lens which in advanced stages look white like water at the bottom of a waterfall. Hence the name.

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Ed Cramer MCs at the BC Bistro ODE TO ED An artist, a dreamer, a roustabout clown a friend, a sativer, a man-about-town a poet, a lover, a sly mischief-maker a scholar, a shaman, a fine master baker a lover of life and of yeast and of dough and of things that go "squish" in the night. You've seen the movie "Oklahoma" It celebrates historic pride where farmers, ranchers made there home--ah! Well,

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Also see I can has Heisenburger?

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Esalen Institute--a lab for exploring radical human possibilities. I got my first glimpse of Esalen in February 1963. Stanford psychology grad student Allen Sidle and his wife told me about something hot happening in Big Sur. Together with Tom Records (who later joined a Gurdjieff group in New York) we drove south along the rugged California coast to a spot on the map labeled "Slate's Hot

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Japanese Translation of Nick Herbert's Faster Than Light Starting from the upper right, and reading downward, the characters are phonetic ta-i-mu, but the ending u goes silent, so this is "time" and is written in English (katakana). The middle column phonetically reads ma-shi-n, or "machine" again written in English.  The bottom character is the phonetic Japanese particle -no- indicating

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Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward (photo: Alan Lundell) Gathering this Sunday at artist/sculptor Coeleen Kiebert's garden studio overlooking the Pacific to celebrate the publication by Red Hen Press of New and Selected Poems 1957-2011 by Robert Sward. Poets and artists in great abundance. Many of the Santa Cruz cogniscenti showed up at Coeleen's including local columnist Bruce Bratton, poets Len

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Attila the Hun A few years ago, August O' Connor and I were invited to one of Santa Cruz's most exclusive social events--Kate Bowland's annual Halloween Party. Kate Bowland is a legend in midwife circles, has delivered more than a thousand babies, and helped make more people-friendly both home and hospital births in California. And Kate knows everyone. So her party was sure to be a "scene".

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Faster Than Light--Japanese Edition The hottest news in physics this fall was the alleged discovery at CERN that neutrinos travel slightly faster than light. Most physicists believe this measurement is the result of some as yet undiscovered systematic error but already a handful of theoretical physicists are claiming that they have a new theory which can explain these spectacular results. A

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Saul-Paul Sirag lecturing at Esalen Institute The Sirag Numbers, first arising in the context of "accidental commutation" in the quantum theory of angular momentum (and dedicated to Saul-Paul on his 72nd birthday), were first defined on this blog and partially "tamed" by myself and Saul-Paul Sirag. Recently these numbers have attracted the attention of the larger mathematical community (thank

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Nick Herbert aka Doctor Jabir 'abd al-Khaliq At the invitation of Len Anderson, though the auspices of Poetry Santa Cruz, Nick Herbert appeared as Featured Poet at Poet/Speak, a monthly open reading at the downtown Santa Cruz Library. This reading happened to coincide with a Greek Street Festival sponsored by Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox Church across the street which added a wonderful ethnic

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Nick contemplating the Sirag Numbers First of all, I would like to thank all the peeples dat remembers my birthday this year. And thanks for the many sweet birthday gifts including the opportunity to handle an 1895 Winchester 45-70 rifle On Sunday, Sept 18, Nick will be the Featured Reader at Poet/Speak, a monthly event hosted by Poetry Santa Cruz. Reading will occur at 2 PM at Santa Cruz

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FLURB #12 is here!Rudy Rucker's shameless "webzine without a net"FLURB tests the edges--careful!--no guard rails.After reading Rucker & DiFilippo's Fjaerlandin FLURB12Nick was hooked.Inspiring fables for quantum tantrikas.FLURB #12 is here!

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Saul-Paul Sirag, a "hippie that saved physics" Yesterday, I issued a challenge to my physicist friends to solve a problem that, as Jeffrey Bub informed me, does not even exist. My challenge was based on the fact that for quantum spins 1/2 and 1, the squares of the spin components J(x), J(y), J(z) commute although the spin components themselves do not. I erroneous believed that this result

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Diana Warnock spinning in Boulder Creek The quantum theory of angular momentum is one of the most beautiful creations of the human mind. Furthermore the math of quantum spin is a closed book--all its beauty published in plain sight like the rules of the game of chess, enshrined in textbooks, this wide-open wonder is even taught to undergraduates--no more mystery, quantum spin's intrinsic

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Mudhead--Hopi Kachina clown and trickster Nick Herbert never intended to start a blog. As my blog site guru Harry Hutton remarked: Been doing this nonsense for three years now, and where's it got me? Nowhere. It has simply widened the circle of people who think I'm a dick. That's all it has achieved.My reluctance to enter the blogosphere was further strengthened when I discovered that the

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Quantum wave equation -- Erwin Schrödinger (1925) QUANTUM PHYSICS TELLS US  THE WORLD IS UNLIKE ANYTHING OUR BODIES KNOW The equations harbor what look like small migratory birds blown in on stiff winds.  What land could they possibly have come from?  Just look at them, pecking randomly at the white air, feeding on something we don’t see. In those moments when you think some part of

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"I've come to New York to introduce an alternative to marriage." --Jon Keats With five millennia of history, and a plethora of religious and civil ceremonies, marriage is a popular means of producing families. Yet matrimony isn't the only method of uniting people, nor even is it the most effective technique. Modern science suggests a far more profound alternative, one that does not operate by

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Mug Shot: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) For an exceptional back-in-time experience -- to hear Ezra Pound reading his own work --- visit the University of Pennsylvania's PennSound Ezra Pound Page. Grander than the Beatles and performing without a back-up track --- EZRA POUND LIVE! --- the poet himself chants With Usura in this mp3 recording. An extraordinary man raising his solitary voice against the

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Alexander Klyachko, the "K" in the KCBS inequality Quantum mechanics, the most powerful theory of the material world that humans have ever possessed, comes with a heavy price--the renunciation of knowing what is really going on in the world. Use this theory, give up reality. And perhaps the most peculiar fact about the quantum reality mystery is that it's hidden in plain sight. The quantum math

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Dr. Jabir's KUBLA KHAN: a modern version of Samuel Coleridge's celebrated Pleasure Dome poem conceived during an opium vision--Coleridge's setting it down in writing cut off abruptly by a visit from some anonymous "person from Porlock". Could Jabir in his dervish trance have recaptured in this short video a few of Coleridge's lost stanzas? Today's the 3rd birthday of this Quantum Tantra blog.

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David Kaiser, MIT science historian, author of How the Hippies Saved Physics Continuing praise for MIT historian David Kaiser's How the Hippies Saved Physics. Here's the book's webpage with pictures and reviews. The buzz for David's book began in the blogs--in my own blog, in Peter Woit's and Chad Orzel's. (Everyone is eagerly awaiting an endorsement from Lubos Motl, controversial physics

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August O'Connor encountering a Groffian impossibility How would history have changed had Sigmund Freud's favorite drug been LSD instead of cocaine? Using lysergic acid instead of analysis to access the unconscious mind, Freud's career might have resembled Stan Grof's as recounted in When the Impossible Happens. Freud might have escaped his dreary office in Vienna, lived 14 years at Esalen

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Meditation Hut: Esalen Institute (photo by Judy Tart) Rice University scholar of religion Jeffrey Kripal (Authors of the Impossible: the Paranormal and the Sacred, Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom) in his recent authoritative history of Esalen Institute has characterized Esalen as a center for "western tantra" and as seeking to promote "a religion of no-religion". One outstanding feature of

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Tiger Jones, Special Forces, Normandy Beach 6/6/44 Slate Magazine: Cats of War CIA: Project Acoustic Kitty

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Stout beer, chips and salsa plus a foam-enhancing plastic "widget". Three physicists walk into a bar. They've just read a new paper from the University of Limerick Foaming in Stout Beers and want to test its hypotheses first hand. "By Henry's Law, this Guinness should not foam," says one. By Fick's Law, the making of the froth will be too slow for a good head," says the second. "And by

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Dream of the Believer by Achille Zo TANTRIC JIHAD! (video version posted here) The pious Muslim bathes himself Prostrates five times from dusk to dawn Submits himself to Hidden Mystery That can be neither named nor drawn. At home Omar recites  the verse of Rumi and Hafeez And when Fate cuts short the little life he leads He'll rule a harem full of virgins-- at least ten times seven Or so

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Photon-recoil bilocation experiment at Heidelberg A recent experiment on Argon atoms by Jeri Tomkovic and five collaborators at the University of Heidelberg has demonstrated once again the subtle and astonishing reality of the quantum world. Erwin Schrödinger, who devised the Schrödinger equation that governs quantum behavior, also demonstrated the preposterousness of his own equation by

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Phil Wagner at Ben Lomond Art Center Colorful denizen of the Late BistroScene, founder of the Santa Cruz Emerald Street Poets, moral philosopher and  intellectual sparring partner, Irish fiddle player and Santa Cruz good old boy, Phil Wagner shares here a tale from his youth. HISTORY STUDIES 1952 On Sunday, the A-bomb doesn't fall but rain does, drops the shape of grapes that burst themselves

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Nick befriending some atoms The Oldest Tannery in the West (Salz Tannery in Santa Cruz, CA) closed its doors in 2001 and was converted into a space for artists to live, work and perform. The former tannery is located on Highway 9, just inside Santa Cruz's northern limits on the San Lorenzo River. Old-time residents will remember that, during the transformation from leather factory to artist's

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In alternate universe K-9, a rogue artificial intelligence was successfully violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics through quantum currency manipulation. As part of his plan to bring this silicon-based outlaw to justice, Ferdinand Feghoot was posing as the manager of a walk-in bank on the planet Jeffbezos. The chief teller of Feghoot's bank was an Earth I female named Patricia Whack, a

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Four Bologna E-Cats: nearest one covered in insulation. A remarkable new source of energy has been demonstrated at the University of Bologna. It appears to be a type of cold fusion in which nuclear reactions are initiated at temperatures of a few hundred degrees. At present the mechanism is unknown but the device produces substantial quantities of power for several hours. In a preliminary

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Lunar Farside: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) Mendeleev, Landau, Lebedev, Lemonosov, Lobachevski, Popov, Chebyshev, Evdokimov. Why so many Slavic names On hidden lunar farside craters? Cause Soviet cameras saw them first NASA's lenses got there later. Gagarin, Feoktisov, Golitsyn, Zhukovski, Kurchatov, Numerov, Rasumnov, Tsilokovski. Fair planetoid that shapes our tides Twenty-two

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JABIR'S PROOF That out of a blind, senseless universe Did arise Billions of eyes Like yours and mine-- Could it be any plainer than that? That a thousand human tongues And billions of non-human languages Did emerge From a universe utterly devoid of meaning-- What could be more convincing? That out of a heartless, dog-eat-dog universe Arrived so many men and women  Who have loved and

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University of California at Berkeley Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear reactor catastrophe reached the American West coast around March 18 and was measured by physicists at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of California in Berkeley. Both Jonathan Diaz Leon and his team in Seattle and Kai Vetter's team in Berkeley agreed that the amount of radiation

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From Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010) Few works of fiction have inspired more reworkings than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. From Disney's 1951 animation, Tim Burton's 2010 adaptation. Grace Slick's White Rabbit, Alan Moore's Lost Girls to the definitive Annotated Alice by Scientific American's Martin Gardner, this little Victorian girl's adventures in a world of fantasy have

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ASH WEDNESDAY 1944 In Columbus, Ohio During World War II I was given The Most Important Truth in the Universe. On Ash Wednesday 1944 Kneeling at the communion rail, Father Earl Holzapfel thumbed some holy ash Out of a golden bowl held by my classmate, The altar boy Bobby Dolan, (whose parents came from Ireland) Smudged the ash across my forehead And said to Nick in Latin: Momento, homo,

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WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: THE PATH NOT TAKEN Deliver unto us Osama Or we will wage peace upon you We’ll deAfghanicize your people And turn them all red, white and blue. We’ll drop fifty-five billion dollars Upon your turbaned heads Then a hundred million catalogs Of cars and bras and beds. Our Victoria’s Secret weapons Will smash your Islamic State While we bring down Afghani computers With the next

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Future scientist Nick Herbert FUTURE SCIENCE I wanna wham Mama Nature  in a warm wet dream Wanna strum Her pond, palpitate Her stream Wanna feel Her quiver like a tambourine Wanna hear Her E equals MC scream!

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William Unruh The fastest velocity that any object in the universe can attain is the speed of light. But in certain extreme situations even the speed of light is not fast enough. For instance, at the event horizon of a black hole, gravity warps spacetime so strongly that nothing can escape, not even a light beam. Also in a universe which is expanding at an ever-increasing rate (which was

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Birthday Moon, Whidbey Island: Diana Rico (2005) The Light on the Water by Judith Arcana (always, writers say, the light on the water
 shines like diamonds, shines like gold 
but the truth is that gold, and that diamonds
 want only to shine like the light on the water) Just now, on the early morning river every spangle is a bird flashing tiny wings of light;
 the sun has thrown a sheet of

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Statue on bridge crossing Singel Canal In December of 1999, I was invited to attend the 50th birthday of Luc Sala, Dutch businessman, publisher, TV producer and seeker after the mysteries. See here. I was housed in the tower room of Luc's TV studio, bookstore and mystery salon. From my tower window I could look across the Singel Canal to the floating flower markets on the other side and just

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Reb Yeshua of Nazareth: Miracle worker, purported Messiah And on the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus (Reb Yeshua) was invited, and his disciples, to the wedding. And the wine having run short, the mother of Jesus said unto him: "Son, they have no wine." Jesus said unto her: "What wouldst thou have me do, woman? Mine hour is

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Outside of my best-selling physics book Quantum Reality, my main contribution to the advancement of human knowledge seems to be to invent things that are wrong. But wrong in ways that lead to important new discoveries. For instance in 1982, I proposed a new laser-based faster-than-light (FTL) signaling scheme which I called FLASH (First Laser-Amplified Superluminal Hookup) whose refutation by

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Photo by August O'Connor Happy New Year 2011! It's traditional on Jan 1 to celebrate in explosive ways, to review the old year and express hopes for the new. My explosive celebrations this year were private and inconclusive so I'll confine myself to quantum tantric reviews and hopes. Most impressive creation this year was URGE: a short opera about reality--the kind of crazy inspiration that

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Image from J Orlin Grabbe site

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Wandering in the woods near Schwann Lakes in Santa Cruz on the first sunny December day after a week of rain, we discovered with pleasure that the entire forest had mushroomed. And that one of the most prominent upstarts were colonies of the bright red Amanita Muscaria. Amanitas were everywhere! Red Amanitas are a common theme in fairy-tale illustrations where they form the background and

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Wondering what to give the book lovers on your holiday list? Why not ignore the blockbuster bestsellers and go for the unique and unusual this year? Here's a selection of some of Nick Herbert's favorite things in print. 1. Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics by Nick Herbert. Not only one of the best popular books on quantum physics but also the best book about the quantum reality question--

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In June 2011, W. W. Norton is scheduled to publish a book by MIT historian of science David Kaiser entitled How the Hippies Saved Physics that describes some of the colorful events and characters who researched the foundations of quantum physics in the 60s, 70s and 80s. These out-of-the-mainstream scientists focused their attention mostly on Bell's Theorem (published the same year that the

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John Duns Scotus (not Giovanni Riccioli) 77 ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE MOVEMENT OF THE EARTH In a recent paper published in the Physics ArXiv, Christopher Graney presents a translation from the Latin of a section of Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Almagestum Novum (1651) in which Riccioli presents 77 arguments against the motions of the Earth that the new Copernican (1473-1543)

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Sward reading at Bookshop Santa Cruz Met prolific Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward at Alan Lundell's beach house birthday party a few weeks ago. We exchanged words, books of verse. Sward began as a poet in a North-side Chicago gang of ruffians, published lots of books including a stint as a small-press publisher (Soft Press). He's got a website where you can read his poetry and buy his books which

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Atomic Reality: Do Bosons hate Fermions? HE DID NOT DIE (requested by Jack Sarfatti) "Who is closer to you, Sir, " a monk asked Buddha, "He who loves you or he who hates you?" "He who hates me," replied the Buddha, "Because he thinks of me more often." Mighty King Lucifer Who was brought low Who died by his own hand In a Berlin bunker Who rose again. By the power of hate Is Our Satan kept

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Doonesbury Oct 26, 2010 America was founded largely by farmers who lived independent of central government because they could grow their own food plus cash crops to buy tools and luxuries. The notion of liberty is firmly rooted in the self-sufficiency of family farmers who mind their own business and don't much care for a distant bureaucracy telling them how they should behave. "By the rude

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Sheldon Glashow (recent pix) In 1979 Sheldon Glashow shared the Nobel Prize in physics for his part in the unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces, but in 1962, he was just another faculty member at Stanford with a taste for big cigars and small red sports cars. In the crowded quarters of the Inner Quad, because I was a teaching assistant in a second-floor lab, I was given an

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Vote YES on California's Proposition 19 DEFINING THE MAGIC a good poem is like a cold beer when you need it, a good poem is a hot turkey sandwich when you're hungry, a good poem is a gun when the mob corners you, a good poem is something that allows you to walk through the streets of death, a good poem can make death melt like hot butter, a good poem can frame agony and hang it on a wall, a

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Will you VOTE YES on Proposition 19 ? In a few weeks (Nov 2) California voters will have the opportunity to vote to restore our God-given right (see Genesis 1) to grow and enjoy the fruits of every tree and plant that the Earth provides--in this case restoring our right to grow and utilize the plant called "marijuana". Supporters of Proposition 19 claim that its passage will ease California's

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John Lennon (1940-1980) Today the 70th anniversity of John Lennon's birth was celebrated around the world in a variety of Imaginative ways: Google invented an interactive Lennon logo, thousands gathered in NYC Central Park's Strawberry Field and Yoko Ono produced a concert in Iceland. Here's Doctor Jabir's contribution to the memory of a most remarkable man: JOHN LENNON: SEIBZIG JAHRE What

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Saturday, Oct 2, August O'Connor and I attended the second annual Scottish Games at San Lorenzo Park in Santa Cruz, CA. Here we watched grown men and woman toss heavy stones and large poles (cabers) record distances, witnessed the gathering of the clans in which the McPhersons, the Bells, the Crawfords and a score of other Scottish tribes proudly displayed their lineages to the public and

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Helmuth Deetjen (from Smithsonianmag) Esalen Institute co-founder Mike Murphy celebrates his 80th birthday this month which will no doubt inspire many stories about the man. Here's one more anecdote for the mix. In the aftermath of some gathering at Esalen, Mike Murphy suggested that we all go out for supper at Helmuth Deetjen's Big Sur Inn, a rustic, gemütlich restaurant a few miles north of

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JUST ASK if you forget My Name just ask if you forget how many neutrino families I created just ask if you've forgotten again just how lucky this is--how many million holocausts you've survived if you've forgetten the birth pangs at the beginning of the universejust ask if you forget how much I like to playjust ask if you forget how much I love you just ask

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OPENING NIGHT(Happy Birthday, Michael Murphy) I'd yearned to be the first To part Her Hidden Doors The first to glimpse that Part of Her No man had glimpsed before. And this was the night that it happened: Miss Universe joyfully opened to view The right place, the right timing,                     the right drugs and foreplay The right physics, right chemistry,                               the

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What is it about the Irish and altered states? From William Butler Yeats's fascination with the mystical Order of the Golden Dawn, to Tim Leary's public love affair with LSD, to silver-tongued Terence McKenna's devotion to Magic Mushrooms, to Michael Murphy's co-founding of Esalen Institute (which some have called the Large Hadron Collider of the human spirit), a lot of Irishmen in our time have

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On the Monroe Institute website, Leslie French asks the provocative question: "What books changed your life?" She cites her own life-changing books as do many others in her comments section. I confess that as long as I've been able to read, I've been a book slut. I love books, buy books, devour books and possess several library cards. Books have been changing my life for as long as I can

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Frank Tipler uses "locality" to prove the Multiverse Model Quantum mechanics is the most successful theory of the physical world we have ever possessed. Its range is enormous and it has never made a single incorrect prediction. But this success comes with a steep price--the loss of our ability to say "what's really going on in the world". Many "quantum realities" have been proposed, none of

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QUANTUM JUJITSUWe house-broke quantum realityTaught Schrödinger's Cat to purr--Now regular life's as uncannyAs atoms ever were.

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Salinas River Near Moss Landing California's Monterey Bay Submarine Canyon (twice as deep as the Grand Canyon) is home to some of the most unusual deep sea life forms on Earth. Life calls out to life: the submarine canyon's wild biodiversity has attracted an equally diverse gathering of marine biologists and scientific institutions including Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, University

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In the Paleozoic era of conventional computing (45 years ago), one crucial problem was how to build a fast switchable multi-bit MEMORY ARRAY. Many schemes from vacuum tubes to transistors were devised for storing and changing the 0s and 1s inside the computer's brain. How many of you remember the checker-board arrays of tiny magnetic donuts threaded by little wires that were once the hottest

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In the early 60s S. Leslie Blatt and I worked for our PhDs under Walter Meyerhof, sharing time on the same accelerator in the basement of Stanford's Varian Lab. Earning an undergraduate degree at Princeton, a PhD at Stanford, Les went on to do research at Ohio State University and chaired its physics department for many years. Then he took a post at Clark where he was Dean of their graduate

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HOW DO YOU KNOW? How do you know that this is not the paradise foretold us by Mohammed?

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From J Orlin Grabbe Site

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Mark & Heinz Pagels circa 1980 In Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature, his best-selling quantum theory book, physicist Heinz Pagels explains how an alien intelligence has entered the human world and is beginning to reprogram our culture according to its own inhuman logic. Here I excerpt from his Cosmic Code a segment in which Professor Pagels foresees our inevitable quantum

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Jeffrey Kripal & Nick Herbert, Esalen Lodge, July 2010Jeffrey Kripal is the chairman of the religious studies department of Rice University in Houston, author of many books including a study of sexual mysticism in the world's major religions and an official history of Esalen Institute construed as a center for the development of "Western Tantra". Because so many of our interests coincide I had

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photo by Reno De Caro James P. Hogan was a successful science fiction writer whose plots feature hard science extrapolated into the past or future. Like Robert Heinlein, Hogan could spin a good yarn. Tho big and burly as a wrestler, Jim was a softie at heart--a true romantic: many of his stories mine the perennial theme of a smart, warm and handsome couple bravely struggling against the power of

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Luc Sala 50 JaarenTen years ago, during the waning days of the 20th Century, I traveled to Amsterdam with Al and Sun to celebrate the 50th birthday of Luc Sala, Amsterdam businessman, psychedelic visionary, candidate for the Euro Senate and provocative television producer. I was surprised to see so many canals--this city is rightly celebrated as the Venice of the North--and beautiful old

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Betsy Rose Rasumny Herbert (1938-2002)HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BETSYToday Betsy would have been seventy-two, probably still dancing and mixing it up with children, midwives, teachers, poets, physicists and politicians. All her life Betsy taught and studied dance including a stint in the 60s with Anna Halprin's Dancer's Workshop in San Francisco. (Anna herself will be 90 in a few days and is also still

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Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985)At a conference called "The Whys of Life" in Ben Lomond, I met a precocious 17-year-old boy whose goal in life was to be a "philosopher". When I asked him what he meant by philosophy he replied: "the art of being at home in the world." Today's world, like it or not, is dominated not by religion as in the past but by science and technology. Humans have changed the

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For years I've been experimenting with new ways to formulate and publicize the goals of Quantum Tantra, the as-yet-unrealized, explosively brand-new science of the future. Recently I ran across an early attempt to popularize Quantum Tantra in the form of a Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Here is that world-shattering speech in its entirety.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYThis day marks the second anniversary of Quantum Tantra blog. It's been a busy year which saw the publication of a baker's dozen of Nick's love poems to Mother Nature, as well as the publication of more hot poetry from muse-inspired friends in my own community and the wider world including bard-master supreme D. H. Lawrence.This year also witnessed the production of a handful of

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from Japanese EIZO X-ray pinup calendarWHAT DO MEN WANT?DOES SHE DO VULCAN MIND MELDON THE FIRST DATE?I want your bra size, babyFax number, E-mail address,Modem com code, ID,Phone machine access.Give me your thumb print, password,Blood type and credit check;Give me your antibody spectrum;Give me your human genome specs.Wanna tweak your web site, blog and Twitter,Poke your Facebook's Google maps;

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(click to expand)While searching in my archives for photos to illustrate MIT History of Science professor David Kaiser's upcoming book (tentatively entitled How the Hippies Saved Physics) I excavated many Paleolithic layers of personal history including this bill for my birth in a homeopathic hospital in Pittsburgh, PA.The services for which the hospital billed my parents are itemized thus: "Flat

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Night on Pandora (from James Cameron's Avatar)Saddened by BP corporation'shemorrhaging oilinto life-filled watersof Gulf of Mexico,I'm reposting this lament.HARLOT NATUREI have heard that Nature's a harlotLegs open and flat on Her backThat She's naked, unbridled and shamelessAnd prone to unnatural actsAnd prone to unnatural acts.Can I smother Your prairies with asphalt?Can I murder the fish in

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One of the first instruments for directly observing single quantum events was the human eye. A device called the spinthariscope, consisting of a phosphor screen and a lens, allows a human eye to see flashes of light caused by individual charged elementary particles impacting on the phosphor screen. The now-obsolete cathode ray tubes worked by transforming the impact of high-speed electrons into

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Tantric Table of the Elements: Revision #7 (Click to enlarge)See also Elements of Tantra and 99 Names of Goddess.An earlier version of this tablewas exhibited atThe Poet's Eye/The Artist's Tongue Showat Mountain Arts Center in Ben Lomond. CA.I welcome suggestions for new elements.

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Hardware: Allan Lundell, Awake Media Team and KSCO's "Dr Future"Photography: Reno DeCaro

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John Norman is a writer of speculative fiction whose concerns are mainly male/female relations. Norman's work has been widely criticized by feminists and his work described as grossly unrealistic male fantasy fiction--the male counterpart of female romance fantasy. The fact that romance novels sell in the millions means that something in romance fantasy touches some unsatisfied part of the female

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Natura NaturansThe other night on ecstasyGod the Father spoke to me:Do you covet Natura Naturans?I really hope you do.I fell in love with Her myselfWhen time and space were new.Out of inexplicable nothingnessI struck the primal spark.I barely knew what I was doing.I was working in the dark.Do you covet Natura Naturans?I really hope you do.I fell in love with my own creationWhen time and space

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On an excursion into Old Testament times, Ferdinand Feghoot became a close friend of the Prophet Ezekiel's, and many were the long talks they had about morals, flying wheels, psychedelic experiences and the future of man. So it was that Ezekiel revealed a vision unto Feghoot: "Lo! I was in what seemed a great valley of stone, and the walls thereof were carved into seats for a multitude, and the

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For a long time I had regarded LA poet Charles Bukowski as a "barfly bard" or "lowlife laureate" and had never heard of his semi-biographical novels. Recently I ran across his novel Women, in which Bukowski's alter ego Hank Chinaski beds dozens of women under a great variety of circumstances. Bukowski's fictionalized account of his sexual escapades falls squarely in the literary tradition of John

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Schrödinger's Cash: Minting Quantum MoneyMoney = InformationBecause of the Quantum No-cloning RuleQuantum Information cannot be copied.Therefore the laws of physics guarantee thatQuantum Money cannot be counterfeited.More on efforts to create Quantum Moneyhere.

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A classic Gary Larson cartoon depicts the "Libraries of Hell". All the books are labeled "Word Problems". Most people in high school hated word problems. I liked them, was good at turning concepts into math which is probably one reason I was attracted to physics. Carrying out the computations was another matter; I was and still am inept in arithmetic. Let my computer do the computations, I say:

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Sometimes it appears that that common phenomena are no longer mysterious and that all fundamental discoveries in physics can only occur deep in cosmic space or in high energy accelerator labs. But recently a pair of physicists from the Technical University of Denmark have come up with a new theory that explains rope.Rope? What's to explain about rope? Rope seems to be made of helical coils like

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Foolish papers were published in physics journals on April 1, a man claiming to be from the future was arrested at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, Google changed its name to Topeka for the day and South Street Centre in Boulder Creek sponsored its annual Fool's Day Parade for kids of all ages. South Street Centre, founded by my wife Betsy and her friend Estelle Fein, has for almost 30

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Patrick Reilly, Santa Cruz patent attorney and founder of the Intellectual Property Society ("Protecting the Fire of Creativity"), annually hosts one of the finest Saint Paddy's Day parties on Monterey Bay--loads of corn beef sandwiches, cold Guinness, great company and good cheer. Plus an Irish session band with a quantum physicist playing the penny whistle. In this video clip by Allan Lundell,

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The winners of the 3 Quarks Daily Arts and Literature Prize were announced today. Alas, my quantum tantra entry The New Sex Robot was not among those chosen for this prestigious award. I thank all of you who voted for me and also the judges whose job was made difficult by the high quality of the entries. The 3QD editors timed this prize for the Spring Equinox. And for the contemplation of Jabir's

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JABIR MEETS EARTH'S UNDERLORDSNo, we really don't live on zeta reticuliWe wallow in human lives and in your deaths.We really don't run saucers from alpha centauriWe are as near to you as your breaths.When he lowered his shieldsby taking psychedelic mushroomswe came inside Jack Sarfattiand gave him his skit about hitler.We give you hunches, insights, dreams and stock tips.We are Muse, demon lover;

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After a few years of playing the Irish Whistle in open Santa Cruz Celtic session groups, Nick and a few of his friends will debut at Motiv, a stylish, pub/restaurant (formerly the Dakota) which is poised to be the Next Big Scene in Santa Cruz night life. (See Motiv reviews here.) Our session group, as yet unnamed, will open for the main act on Saint Patrick's Day, March 17, around 5 PM. Motiv is

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You Don't Know Me, but:In this lifetime, so farI have been an eagle scout, anarchist,anabaptist, episcopalian,existentialist,pentecostal,gnostic,pagan.Tutored in Hebrew by wise old rabbis,brow-beaten senseless by desert shaman,reared by physicists,tempered by alchemists,attacked by seagulls,bitten by rattlesnakesand a brown recluse . . .I have fallen off a palomino,played rugby,broken numerous

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