vol VII: Notes

1982

[Notebook DREAMING DB1]

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Sunday 28 February 1982 - Saturday 6 March 1982 ]

Sunday 28 February 1982

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Tossing and turning dream reaches new clarity. Dream says dream itself so complex that it keeps turning up in different Universe of discourse. Move around and find aspects of dream poking out everywhere. Somehow this is comforting - it is so complicated you have no hope of interpretation so relax. Woke to pain between toes (tinea, feet drying from being wet all day) Felt some sort of insight about

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masturbation, but no details. Also felt need to get up and write down what I remembered as dream seemed to collapse (like sinking balloon) into unconsciousness again. . . . figures from movie/slide evening not long finished. Escher's drawing of sphere with tetrahedral points showing through. Escher

. . . Escher's sphere - points are little bits of intelligibility poking out of sphere of ignorance - my image of religion as closed crystalline sphere of knowledge - closed on itself apart from defects poking out which were subsequently handles for my escape; masturbation helped me escape from religion. Waking sensation from this dream was intention to masturbate will save me; noise and creativity; comfort - points show defects, scheme is not unconquerable; my image of trying to understand Universe like trying to find planes of fracture in huge amorphous hard sphere; this dream exposes hope that I will crack secrets of Universe; based on previous escape from crystalline sphere of religion; parallel uses of crystalline sphere; tossing and turning feeling similar to my frustration with making so little progress understanding the Universe; reading Lonergan

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gives me hope - it seems to have heuristic value, I feel that Lonergan helped to save me from religion; I am getting somewhere; comfort that problem is very difficult - no reflection on me - Insight the result of 28 years work - Lonergan is echo of Freud - my attempts to interpret my unconscious put me in league with both - source of good feeling; ajax, apex, complex; universal dream; universal angst; surfacing of pure desire (to know, . . . ); getting to understand desire; historical overlay of reason self-consciousness onto animal consciousness, where does soul join body (Descartes pituitary); me pacing garden at Camberwell thinking about that; sometimes up in pre-dawn darkness as now; nn reminds me of my first love nn; I wanted to share my struggle to know with him as I do with her; very sexual passion involved in love, love of knowledge; Heloise and Abelard. Pyramids on surface of sphere are little windows into reality, in time the inside will be seen as sum of views through them all; tinea - the worm of desire that gnaws our entrails - Paul and the thorn in his flesh. Fleeting grasp of insights behind need to get up; very friendly with my sexual urges; leaving nn is purging me of much guilt, hangups - feel I have surpassed her who was once my idol; sinking balloon - points of knowledge sink back into sphere, like tortoise into shell; intermittent fault into bit of electrical machinery; turntable; Lonergan: Insight, Abelard

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Back to bed. Dream of back. Seemed like lego. I took a couple of bone grafts out and gave them to somebody. Nothing else comes to mind. Very mechanistic idea of back operation; Lego; Maybe desire to give trouble to someone else.

Old house - maybe Victor Harbour, large garden. Old garden and gardener. Large grape vine on trellis on house. Transplanted cutting into cage. Looking to see if it has shot. Also trimming large tree.

Monday 1 March 1982

Early evening . . .. Dream seemed to start in hotel dining room with persons discussing prices of meals in pounds. Seemed a bit like dining room in W top pub. Meal prices one, two, three pounds to be added onto cost of room and board. Something about very expensive meals. Scene shifts upstairs to office of good class English hotel. Well dressed and friendly landlady. Discuss my credit with man. Previously looked through wallet or somesuch and found cheques from english employers on previous trip. Also some payment advice notes from stockbroker with long raves in them. Hotel people look at cheques and decide ok and make me out a cheque with name misspelled.

Landlady chides man, then a little byplay which I do not understand that ends with if I will tear up the cheque they have given me they will give me another. Scene shift to sort of store. I have given my address as number 76 in this street. The number does not exist in the street, but I have parked my car there and intend to stop postman. I come out of store as he is coming up the footpath. His last few letters are for me. Seems quite friendly. Gives me letter and we chat, and then I notice he has nn in his bag, which is a sort of canvas apron with a large pocket running across ar waist height long enough to hold her. Letters go in pocket in front of this. I look to see if she is OK, warm enough etc. Seems natural that he should have her. Some discussion about him minding her for nn, then dream tapers off and I seem to begin interpreting it in my sleep.

It refers to conversation with nn about going to England together. I said I could get work easily there. Dream wish that it would happen and maybe nn come and find a new man (postman) there too? Meal prices may refer to strict budgeting last trip. Swank hotel to show things not so tight next trip - expensive meals too. Another part of dream. One of the payment advices was for a job for which I was paid 50 pounds but it was really worth much more. Had to do with writing for stockbrokers. Funny business about cheque at hotel introduces element of uncertainty. My precarious

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finances always worried about bad cheques? nn offered to pay my fare to Solomons last night. Tear up cheque? reject money. Accept from postman? accept when she is happy. She relatively well off now. 76? Twice my age next birthday? Year I met nn? Number does not exist in street, ie shops go 74, 78? fanciful number? opportunity to stop postman? no fixed abode, house swap. As though I know him. Must be nn's friend (postman). . . .

Who is person with me. Seems there but ghostly - maybe nn, no clues. Don't spot any sexual overtones. Maybe postman to bring me a baby with her. . . .

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Should analyse events and feeling surrounding end of last academic year - seem to have been seminal in my oprientation this year, and maybe have a lot to do with my desire to do vicarious uni through nn.

Sometimes have strong blocks about opening mail.

Start with trip to Armidale in mini to deliver thesis.

Tuesday 2 March 1982

Cannot recall any dreaming. Went to bed quite late after reading Lonergan, looking after xx for P&F meeting, taping records.

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Wednesday 3 March 1982

Good dreaming, but cannot recall. Waking fantasy about C. General feeling of dreams good, narrative, (went to bed relatively early)

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Thursday 4 March 1982

Much rain, river risen and rushing all night.

Woke during night to remove constricting shirt. Was dreaming. Remember thinking that was not feeling strong affect, but merely removing shirt for convenience - this part of dream. Looks like attempts at self analysis are breeding their own resistances. Read in Lonergan last night that Wilhelm Stekel says self analysis not possible - resistance and repressions become too elusive.

Second dream had to do with living in suburbia (Prospect, Canberra) and going to church on top of hill - walking . . .

Third dream complex mixture. In car with A, and it seemed B (4wd) driving around urban place looking for C boys to buy a car. Saw from a long distance that they were home (here more country than city). Drove round and saw them. Did U turn in wide street in front of D's truck. She and E were standing there. E seemed very pale. Pulled up to C's and they came to car. Didn't look like Elands C brothers. Knew in dream that I did not know them very well and so only mildly surprised at their different appearance. Some talk and then scene shift. Find myself in large room in apartment building, with, it seemed F and girlfriend (reminded me of G and H). There were some blown

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up plastic rabbits on a raised platform (bed) at one end. During dream one of these chased a cat and cornered it against floor and wall. I was now on my way to church and has called in to see them. Woman went out and came back with three bamboo pipes with dope in. One had wooden extension to rest on floor (about 3 ft long) which seemed to be joined by simple juxtaposition (noted in dream that it did not look as though it would work). She lit first pipe and smoked, handed it to him for a toke, then he made as if to give it to me and then withdrew it and finished it, saying something that denigrated people that don't supply own dope. I sat for a while longer to cover my disappointment and then left saying something about Church. I noticed plastic rabbit attack cat again. There was a mobile over bed and some large surreal balloons (bright colours) filled with water on floor. She said something about work in progress. Went outside and walked along building. Noted big security screens on end windows and wired enclosure in front. Thought of nurses home and this to keep out men. Looked at screen that was up and noticed complex looking device that had no final padlock. Out gate into street with shops

Then (or before) a scene coming home from Church and looking down over large asphalt parking lot where people erecting something.

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Audible words to the effect that they "putting in the new ..."

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Smoked at Greenwish with Y&Zwhen selling car; M went the evening before - perhaps miffed that he had not stayed to see me - glad he took T - maybe this is him taking pipe from me. Impractical structure, typical of M. Also some guilt because I smoke but rarely supply my own.. . .

Church: had feelings of being in Adelaide; maybe terrain reminiscent of area around OP monastery in Canberra - Dixson parking lot; uphill to mount whatever [Majura] at back of OPs - walked up there a lot; seemed on my way there; did not make it; desire to please my mother by appearing to go to church; something to do with Ms catholic repressions; my inability to communicate honsetly with mother; M's mother? Darwin flats; Mt Gambier church/OP monastery mixed; Main North Road near Gloucester Street.

artistic woman - F's additions to queen - big pears at NSW gallery, maybe transformed bean bags at L; like big balloons K had, with spots, filled with water - interior of wine cask I filled, eggs, amniotic sacs - correlate with pink plastic rabbits - why

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didn't cat's claws puncture rabbit? water bombs, rain and flooding, ideas, insight as a cure for neurotic disorder; security screen with no lock - women like to keep men at arm's length but not really (if you notice no lock) - also security fence first looked hight, but examination revealed it to be quite low. .. . .

Friday 5 March 1982

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Saturday 6 March 1982

Narrative dream. Seemed to be in a large hall with doors leading off, high panelled wall, well made architraves etc. Polished floor with carpet. Some people were presnt. X in bed in bedroom off one end (like MBC infirmary) and others. I was pacing hall both making up and declaiming story about being tried for breach of promise. Seemed I had met quite beautiful woman (I was oldish, lawyer sort, deep voice) and promised her something and failed to deliver. Tone seemed to be very much like Ian Fleming's story of public servant (Quantum of Solace in For Your Eyes Only); continued to pile on details looking for a neat ending. All people including X seemed to lose interest. Remember saying how barristeres netted 10000 pounds each and judge probably 5000, pounds. Put in pounds for ring of authenticity. . . . Fleming

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Abelard, Peter, and Translated with an introduction by Betty Radice, Letters of Abelard and Heloise, Penguin (USA) 1998 Jacket: The grim tale of Abelard and Heloise has echoed down from the twelfth century as one of the world's great love stories. These staunch Christians, as their letters reveal, found a path through self-pity into acceptance of a changed but lasting relationship. Whilst Heloise attained fame for her learning and administrative genius as an abbess, Abelard became an inspired teacher in Paris and the foremost logician of his day. This new translation includes Abelard's account of his misfortunes (Historia Calamitatum); four of their personal letters; the 'letters of direction', in which he advises her how to adapt for women the rule of Benedict; correspondence between Heloise and Peter the Venerable; and two of Abelard's hymns.'  Amazon   back

Archer, Jeffrey, The Fourth Estate, Harpercollins Uk 1996 Amazon customer review: 'We hear much of how the media of the world is controlled by the hands of a few men. THis fictionalized account of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwells fight over the worlds media empires will help all those interested in how the media operates in the world today(or more precisely in the 1990s). This book is also a superb read, it combines the flair of real life with the fictionlized account of the private affairs of two great men, both of whom a flawed. A great character study. By far it is Archers best work.' Seth J Frantzman  Amazon   back

Canon Law Society of America, Holy See, Code of Canon Law: Latin-English Edition, Canon Law Society of America 1984 Pope John Paul XXXIII announced his decision to reform the existing corpus of canonical legislation on 25 January 1959. Pope John Paul II ordered the promulgation of the revised Code of Canon law on the same day in 1983. The latin text is definitive. This English translation has been approved by the Canonical Affairs Committee of the [US] National Conference of Catholic Bishops in October 1983.  Amazon   back

Escher, Maurits Cornelius, and John E. Brigham (translator), The Graphic Work: Introduced and explained by the artist, Taco 1989 Introduction: '. . . then there came a moment when it seemed as though scales fell from my eyes. I discovered that technical mastery was no longer my sole aim, for I became gripped by another desire . . . Ideas came into my mind quite unrelated to graphic art, notions which so fascinated me that I longed to communicate them to other people. . . . The ideas that are basic to [my prints] often bear witness to my amazement and wonder at the laws of nature which operate in the world around us. . . . and here is yet another reason for my astonishment - no matter how objective or how impersonal the majority of my subjects appear to me, so far as I have been able to discover, few, if any, of my fellow-men seem to react in the same way to all that they see around them.' pp 5-6  Amazon   back

Feynman, Richard P, and Robert B Leighton, Matthew Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume 3) : Quantum Mechanics, Addison Wesley 1970 Foreword: 'This set of lectures tries to elucidate from the beginning those features of quantum mechanics which are the most basic and the most general. . . . In each instance the ideas are introduced together with a detailed discussion of some specific examples - to try to make the physical ideas as real as possible.' Matthew Sands  Amazon   back

Fleming, Ian, For Your Eyes Only, Thomas & Mercer 2012 'A departure from the full-length James Bond novels, For Your Eyes Only is a stunning collection of five stories that sends 007 to Bermuda, Berlin, and beyond, and places him in the dangerous company of adversaries of all varieties.'  Amazon   back

Griffel, D H, Applied Functional Analysis, Dover Publications 2002 Amazon customer review: '... The main strength of Griffel's book is its readability. It is one of the most accessible advanced math books I have encountered, comparable to Munkres' "Topology". Griffel explains the intuitions underlying the abstract concepts he presents. He is also careful to point out when he makes a simplification or omission to avoid a difficult or subtle point more suitable to a pure math treatment of the subject. Furthermore, Griffel explains the logic behind his notation, something that is rarely done in math texts. Each chapter concludes with a set of problems. The problems are challenging, but test and expand the reader's understanding of the material. Hints are given for many of the problems. Overall, this is an excellent resource for the applied mathematician, engineer, or scientist who wants an accessible introduction to functional analysis. Besides, the price of the Dover Edition makes this book a real bargain. Reviewer:"elddm" (Boston, Ma United States)   Amazon   back

Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, Harper and Row 1978   Amazon   back

Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '. . . Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'  Amazon   back

Merton, Robert C, Continuous Time Finance, Wiley-Blackwell 1992 Amazon Product Description 'Robert C. Merton's widely used text provides an overview and synthesis of finance theory from the perspective of continuous-time analysis. It covers individual financial choice, corporate finance, financial intermediation, capital markets, and selected topics on the interface between private and public finance. For this revised edition a new section on managing university endowments has been added. The book begins with a foreword by Paul Samuelson.'  Amazon   back

Miles, Jack, God : A Biography, Vintage Books 1996 Jacket: 'Jack Miles's remarkable work examines the hero of the Old Testament . . . from his first appearance as Creator to his last as Ancient of Days. . . . We see God torn by conflicting urges. To his own sorrow, he is by turns destructive and creative, vain and modest, subtle and naive, ruthless and tender, lawful and lawless, powerful yet powerless, omniscient and blind.'  Amazon   back

Nin, Anais, Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1992 Amazon editorial review: From Library Journal "This second volume of the unexpurgated version of Nin's diary spans the period from October 1932 to November 1934. It draws upon previously unpublished material from the period covered by the first volume of the diary as published in 1966. Incest follows Henry & June ( LJ 10/1/86), focusing not only on Nin's continued relationship with author Henry Miller but also on her physical and emotional attachments to four other men. Nin offers intimate details of disturbing events such as her intense incestuous affair with her father and her abortion during her sixth month of pregnancy. Her diary offers direct insight into a narcissistic, passionate, analytical, and complex mind, but the brief introduction does disappointingly little to explain the editorial process that created this version of Nin's diary, which differs dramatically in style and content from its expurgated counterpart. Nevertheless, this is an important supplement to the 1966 diary and is recommended for most literature collections.' - Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Lib. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.  Amazon   back

Polanyi, Michael, and Amaryta Sen (foreword), The Tacit Dimension, University Of Chicago Press 2009 Amazon product description: '“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,” writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The Tacit Dimension argues that tacit knowledge—tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments—is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. Back in print for a new generation of students and scholars, this volume challenges the assumption that skepticism, rather than established belief, lies at the heart of scientific discovery.'  Amazon   back

Wilmott, Paul, Derivatives: The Theory and Practice of Financial Engineering, John Wiley & Sons 1988 Amazon Product Description 'Derivatives by Paul Wilmott provides the most comprehensive and accessible analysis of the art of science in financial modeling available. Wilmott explains and challenges many of the tried and tested models while at the same time offering the reader many new and previously unpublished ideas and techniques. Paul Wilmott has produced a compelling and essential new work in this field. The basics of the established theories - such as stochastic calculus, Black-Scholes, binomial trees and interest-rate models - are covered in clear and precise detail, but Derivatives goes much further. Complex models - such as path dependency, non-probabilistic models, static hedging and quasi-Monte Carlo methods - are introduced and explained to a highly sophisticated level. But theory in itself is not enough, an understanding of the role the techniques play in the daily world of finance is also examined through the use of spreadsheets, examples and the inclusion of Visual Basic programs.'  Amazon   back

Papers

Friedman, Matt, et al, "100-Million_Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fish in the Mesozoic Seas", Science, 327, 5968, 19 February 2010, page 990-993. 'Large-bodied suspension feeders (planktivores), which include the most massive animals to have ever lived, are conspicuously absent from Mesozoic marine environments. The only clear representatives of this trophic guild in the Mesozoic have been an enigmatic and apparently short-lived Jurassic group of extinct pachycormid fishes. Here, we report several new examples of these giant bony fishes from Asia, Europe, and North America. These fossils provide the first detailed anatomical information on this poorly understood clade and extend its range from the lower Middle Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, showing that this group persisted for more than 100 million years. Modern large-bodied, planktivorous vertebrates diversified after the extinction of pachycormids at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, which is consistent with an opportunistic refilling of vacated ecospace.'. back

Godfray, H Charles J, et al, "Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People", Science, 327, 5967, 12 February 2010, page 812-818. 'Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are a further threat. But the world can produce more food and can ensure that it is used more efficiently and equitably. A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.'. back

Newman, Dianne K, "Feasting on Minerals", Science, 327, 5967, 12 February 2010, page 793-794. 'Far up in the Chilean Andes, in remote arid regions seemingly inhospitable to life, intrepid microorganisms thrive on a diet of rocks and air. Unfazed by long periods of desiccation or high ultraviolet energy flux, they grow in baths of sulfuric acid replete with toxic metals. The microbes fix carbon dioxide into biomass by exploiting the energy to be gained by "eating" (oxidizing) minerals that contain reduced forms of iron and sulfur, such as chalcopyrite (CuFeS2). Through their metabolism, these microbes mobilize precious metals from ore deposits into solution, making them powerful catalysts for biomining. Recent research has begun to elucidate how they achieve this remarkable feat.. back

Normile, Dennis, "Holding Back the Torrent of Rats", Science, 327, 5967, 12 February 2010, page 806-807. 'A "rat flood." That's what the tribes in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts call it. Every 48 years, the bamboo forests that dominate the uplands of Bangladesh, Northeast India, and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) simultaneously produce a feast of pear-sized fruit that allows rat populations to explode. After consuming the fruit, the rodents attack nearby fields, devouring 50% to 100% of the rice crop. Rat floods caused famine in 1863, 1911, and 1959, when the misery touched off a rebellion in what is now India's Mizoram State.'. back

Science editorial, , "What it Takes to Make that Meal", Science, 327, 5967, 12 February 2010, page 809. 'Researchers have been taking a close look at just how much energy it takes to produce even seemingly similar foods. The conclusion: Food choices can have a significant impact on energy use in agriculture.'. back

Stokstad, Erik, "Could Less Meat Mean More Food", Science, 327, 5967, 12 February 2010, page 810-811. 'If people in the developed world ate less meat, it would free up a lot of plants to feed billions of hungry people and gain a lot of good farmland. Some food-security researchers, however, are skeptical; they say the complexities of global markets and human food traditions could also produce some counterintuitive—and possibly counterproductive—results.'. back

Links

Antiparticle - Wikipedia, Antiparticle - Wikipedia, the free ecyclopdia, 'Feynman–Stueckelberg interpretation By considering the propagation of the negative energy modes of the electron field backward in time, Ernst Stueckelberg reached a pictorial understanding of the fact that the particle and antiparticle have equal mass m and spin J but opposite charges q. This allowed him to rewrite perturbation theory precisely in the form of diagrams. Richard Feynman later gave an independent systematic derivation of these diagrams from a particle formalism, and they are now called Feynman diagrams. Each line of a diagram represents a particle propagating either backward or forward in time. This technique is the most widespread method of computing amplitudes in quantum field theory today. Since this picture was first developed by Ernst Stueckelberg, and acquired its modern form in Feynman's work, it is called the Feynman-Stueckelberg interpretation of antiparticles to honor both scientists.' back

Aquinas 20, Summa I, 3, 7: Whether God is altogether simple? , 'I answer that, The absolute simplicity of God may be shown in many ways. First, from the previous articles of this question. For there is neither composition of quantitative parts in God, since He is not a body; nor composition of matter and form; nor does His nature differ from His "suppositum"; nor His essence from His existence; neither is there in Him composition of genus and difference, nor of subject and accident. Therefore, it is clear that God is nowise composite, but is altogether simple. . . . ' back

Christian Thiemann and Daniel Grady, Follow the Money: Human Mobility and Effective Communities, 'Ever wonder where your dollar bills travel after you plop them down for a cup of coffee? The Web site Where's George? allows you to do just that: Record your bill's serial number and then track its journeys as other people spend it across the country. But it's more than just a game. Because every time a dollar is spent in a new place, it means someone moved it there. Christian Thiemann and Daniel Grady of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have been using the Web site's data to study how people move within the United States.' Science, vol 327 page 951. back

Entropy (arrow of time) - Wikipedia, Entropy (arrow of time) - Wikipedia, the fre encyclopedia, 'Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that "picks" a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. As one goes "forward" in time, the second law of thermodynamics says, the entropy of an isolated system will increase when no extra energy is consumed.' back

Feynman diagram - Wikipedia, Feynman diagram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum field theory a Feynman diagram is an intuitive graphical representation of a contribution to the transition amplitude or correlation function of a quantum mechanical or statistical field theory' back

Gospel of Luke, Luke 12:22-31: NIV, ' 22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23 Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! 25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[? 26 Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?' back

Gospel of Luke, Luke 18:22-26: NIV, ' 22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." 23 When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was a man of great wealth. 24 Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." 26 Those who heard this asked, "Who then can be saved?" back

John D Norton, Einstein for Everyone: Spacetime, 'We build a spacetime by taking instantaneous snapshots of space at successive instants of time and stacking them up. It is easiest to imagine this if we start with a two dimensional space. The snapshots taken at different times are then stacked up to give us a three dimensional spacetime.' back

Light cone - Wikipedia, Light cone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'A Light cone is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event E (localized to a single point in space and a single moment in time) and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime. Imagine the light confined to a two-dimensional plane, the light from the flash spreads out in a circle after the event E occurs—and when graphed the growing circle with the vertical axis of the graph representing time, the result is a cone, known as the future light cone (some animated diagrams depicting this concept can be seen here.) ' back

Minkowski space - Wikipedia, Minkowski space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In mathematical physics, Minkowski space or Minkowski spacetime is a combination of Euclidean space and time into a four-dimensional manifold where the spacetime interval between any two events is independent of the inertial frame of reference in which they are recorded. Although initially developed by mathematician Hermann Minkowski for Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism, the mathematical structure of Minkowski spacetime was shown to be an immediate consequence of the postulates of special relativity.' back

PBS, Online NewsHour: The Mass Suicide near San Diego -- March 27 1997, 'Recent news reports have been filled with the troubling story of a mass suicide involving a computer-related cult. At a mansion outside San Diego, police found 39 bodies dressed in black and covered in purple shrouds. The members apparently killed themselves to prepare for the arrival of a alien spaceship they say is hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet. After a background report by Charles Krause, Jim Lehrer leads a discussion of the suicides with a panel of cult experts.' back

The Book of Joshua, Joshua 18:10-14, '10 Joshua then cast lots for them in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD, and there he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their tribal divisions. 11 The lot came up for the tribe of Benjamin, clan by clan. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:' back