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Seven Towers reading and open mic night

Dublin

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Seven Towers is delighted to announce the first Seven Towers reading and open mic night to take place on 28th February 2007 inBowes of Fleet St, Dublin 2.At 7.30pm.The purpose of these nights is to provide a forum for new voices, recently published and unpublished, as well as showing a small number of electronic exhibitions by new and emerging artists. The night will consist of:Readings by Seven Towers Writers:Ross Hattaway – New Zealand poet, whose first collection The Gentle Art of Rotting was published in 2006;Oran Ryan - Dublin born novelist whose first novel The Death of Finn and second novel Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger were published in 2006Noel Ó’Briain – Kerry born poet whose first collection Scattering Day, 21 Sonnets and Other Poems will be published in May 2007Readings by Other Guests To Be Announced Including You- A large amount of time on the night will be given over to an ‘open mic’ where writers of prose, poetry and short drama can read their work.Participants in the nights will have their work considered for inclusion in Census a Seven Towers Anthology of new work the first volume of which will be published in late Autumn 2007.Admission Charge: €5 (€3 concessions)

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Ursula K Le Guin

Call for Papers: Paradoxa: World Literary Genres

A Volume on Ursula K. Le Guin

"She is the kind of writer businessmen hate most, producing challenging, unpredictable books whose meanings are too elusive to be easily controlled." - Meredith Tax, The Nation:, January 28, 2002

If Ursula Le Guin were Japanese, she would surely be designated a National Treasure. Her work in Science Fiction and Fantasy spans the fields of fiction and criticism. From her first published story in 1962, her writing has blended elegance and passion, vividness and acuity, and she has the unerring ability to capture the unexpected perspective that is the trademark of science fiction. Her fantasy has achieved that genre's variant sense of wonder, the taste of age and Elsewhere that Tolkien called the air of Faerie. Over the scope of her long career as a storyteller, a poet and a critical thinker, perhaps her greatest achievement has been her work's enduring commitment to ideas as being both politicized and political. It is this commitment, particularly from the 1970s on, when she began thinking about gender in both theory and fiction, that has made Ursula Le Guin a major presence in SF and Fantasy, and in the smaller but more exacting fields of feminist SF and Fantasy.

In these fields Ursula Le Guin's contribution is remarkable, not simply for her fiction's shaping of political debate in the more immediate and gripping form of characters' action, speech, and literal flesh and blood, but also for her jargon-free and emotionally rich critical voice. And, uniquely, for the courage that has allowed her not simply to shift a position, but to admit, freely and in print, as with "Is Gender Necessary: Redux," that her previous arguments, however famous and praised, could have been wrong. It is courage, as much as commitment and talent, that has made Ursula Le Guin not merely one of the best known but one of the most respected and perhaps best loved writers in her field.

Ursula Le Guin has been involved with _Paradoxa_ since the journal's first issue, when she graciously agreed to participate in a "Paradoxa Interview" (1995.) She also agreed to serve on the journal's Board of Editors, and has subsequently contributed articles, and with them wisdom, expertise and entrée at many stages along _Paradoxa_'s path. _Paradoxa_ is now pleased to propose the publication of a special Ursula Le Guin volume, which will be in part a collection of critical essays and commentary about her work. This call for papers requests abstracts or expressions of interest for essays dealing with her adult SF and Fantasy, her critical writing, her books for children and young adults, and her poetry, including her notable translation of the _Tao Te Ching_, and ranging from overviews of her work to studies of specific texts. Especially welcome will be essays that assess the value or standing of this work or works to the field(s) as a whole and at the present.

Please send proposals by e-mail to Info@.... Final date for submissions will be August 31, 2007, and the volume will be published in 2008. For further information about Paradoxa, please visit our website:

Clairsentiences

"Clairsentience [From the French clair, “clear,” + sentience, “feeling,” ultimately derived from the Latin clarus, “clear,” + sentiens, derived from sentire, “to feel”] is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of feeling.[1]"(wikpedia)" ( the present wikpedia entry)


Clairsentience article


The following piece of research was done by Tim Crosby who was both the subject , with the condition known as clairsentience , and also the researcher who, much like research chemists in former times, on the edge of new discoveries , used themselves as white mice in white coats to test a new as yet untried compound.

He developed a philosophical approach over 15 years of research which he found indispensable given the nature of the study area he was exploring. unlike empirical science which hopes to measure the material world and then to gradually reach understandings of its workings through repeated testing , the mind and its contents appears to be a somewhat more slippery fish . Descartes after many years of dedicated reasoning came to the conclusion that no one could prove beyond a doubt that anything coming into the self via the senses could be proved to be objectively existant including measurments , graphs ; other people`s research etc ; the whole external world , and as ethnobotanist terence mckenna put it , " you are at the centre of the only universe you will ever know ".

This pre amble is necessary when coming at the word clairsentience in a way which does justice to the nature of the self/reality which is implicit in its existence as a concept but also its very meaning which is embedded in human culture at large . The word itself pre supposes both a self ; a supra higher dimesional sense world and implicitly , a group of senses and sense organs of a new more highly developed nature.

For the most complete and detailed research in this area i suggest one takes a long look at the work of ex nasa scientist barbara brennan who after a research post at nasa exploring the nature of electromagnetic fields , later developed higher sense perception to a very advanced level. Her work in this area is pre eminent and gives a broader and deeper understanding on the relationships of higher sense perception including , clairaudience , clairvoiance , claircognisance and of course clairsentience ; and their relationship to higher worlds / dimensions of the universe and self.

for more information go to http://www.barbarabrennan.com/

Her approach contextualises these newly discovered layers of reality within the framework of the holographic theory of the universe suggested by physicist Dr. David Bohm in his book " the implicate order " in which he calls the manifest reality " the explicate enfolded order ", in which , " parts are seen to be in immediate connection , in which their dynamical relationships depend in an irreducible way on the state of the whole system......Thus, one is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical idea of analyzability of the world into seperately and independantly existent parts." and also The Morphagenic field theory ( from morph, "form " , and genesis , " coming into being. " ) of Rupert Sheldrake which is explored more fully in his book "A New Science of Life ".

The action of this field involves " action at a distance " in both space and time . Rather than form being determined by physical laws outside of time , it depends on morphic resonance across time . This means that morphic fields can propagate across space and time and that past events could influence other events everywhere else.

An example of this is shown by Lyall Watson in his book , " Lifetide: The Biology of Consciousness ", in which he describes what is now popularly called the Hundredth Monkey Principle . Watson found that after a group of monkeys learned a new behaviour , suddenly other monkeys on other islands with no possible " normal " means of communication learned that behaviour , too.

Barbara brennan's exaustive work in this area gives a broad and highly detailed context for understanding unusually developed senses and perhaps a new understanding of other mechanisms in the universe whereby knowledege , feelings , thoughts and other objects in time and space , might travel across boundaries , for example between bird and tree ; between monkey and monkey or between human and human via a connectedness previously thought not to exist .

As Robert Anton Wilson so aptly put it , " any technology or science sufficiently far removed from ones own will be perceived as magic" , and much like the idea of new and emergent higher facilities which are explored to dramatic effect in the three X Men films , the idea of a new emerging higher state of consciousness is being discussed by integrated philosophers such as Ken Wilber , whereby the next stage of human evolution is not to be a physical innovation as our relative matereal comfort and sedantary lives suggest , but will be one of the mind.

Just as roaming homonids , with a culture which didn`t change one bit for millenia , were replaced by homo sapiens , with their art , religion , language etc , for whom culture now was so varied that it could be differentiated by an explosion of creativity , which is characterised by the highly individual designs of their hand axes and countless other artifacts which are found to be different from one valley to the next across the entire planet; so , the next leap of human development will perhaps be just as huge and qualatively different.

Thesource42 17:37, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

References

Barbara Brennan ex Nasa scientist http://www.barbarabrennan.com/ also her two text books " hands of light " , and " Light Emerging ".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Brennan

Physicist Dr. David Bohm "The Implicate Order "

Rupert Sheldrake , " A New Science Of Life ", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake

Lyall Watson ," Lifetide : The Biology of Consciousness ". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall_watson

Robert Anton Wilson , " Cosmic Trigger ", " prometheus rising " and many more ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.A.Wilson

Terence Mckenna , " True Hallucinations " , " Invisible Landscape ", and " Food of The Gods ", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_mckenna

Rene Descartes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

David Horrobin , " The Madness Of Adam and Eve " .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Horrobin

Ken Wilbur , http://www.kenwilber.com and http://wilber.shambhala.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Wilbur

A key idea in Wilber's philosophical approach is the holon, which came from the writings of Arthur Koestler.As a Mahayana Buddhist, he believes that reality is ultimately a nondual union of emptiness and form, with form being innately subject to development over time

The X Men , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men
Star Trek Next Generation In which Diana Troy is Ship`s Empath or Clairsentient. ( see , above the Robert Anton Wilson Quote )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Next_Generation

Emergence : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

"Perhaps the most elaborate recent definition of emergence was provided by Jeffrey Goldstein in the inaugural issue of Emergence.(Goldstein 1999) To Goldstein, emergence refers to "the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems."

Holism : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holism

I Heart Huckabees . film. for an amusing take on the holographic universe.

The loon show , every saturday afternoon 2pm til 4pm at www.sheffieldlive.org.

"The Temple That Never Sleeps"
By Josh Heller and Gerald Reilly

Cornerstone Book Publishers

"The subtitle of this book is "Freemasons and E-Masonry Toward a New
Paradigm," which is a hopeful prediction, but one that honors the gift of
instant global communication. This book tells the story of Masonic Light, an
internet meeting place for, at the time I write this, 859 Freemasons hailing
from 162 jurisdictions. Some of these jurisdictions you've heard of and
others you might not believe exist. You can learn more about ML at
masoniclight.org.

"Much the way internet shopping poses indefatigable competition to our local
"brick and mortar" retail stores through incomparable convenience and
limitless variety, this "emasonry" model gives Masons instant access to
brethren around the globe for the enjoyment of eye-popping scholarship and
jovial chat alike. For the education Mason, the value of this convenience
and variety can be more attractive than what's in our lodges. The book
quotes one anonymous Brother saying "With 50+ years as a Mason I have
discovered things about the Craft that I never dreamed existed." Imagine
that: a Gold Token Mason with the wideeyed excitement of a kid in a candy
store... and the store is open 24/7.

"It is difficult to say how the internet will shape Freemasonry's future.
With most jurisdictions still fumbling with amateurish websites devoid of
content while the non-recognized jurisdictions prefer privacy over
publicity, there is an actual need for individual Masons to employ the web
to find each other for intelligent conversation. This book is an account of
one forum where ideas like regularity and recognition are exposed as the
naked emperors they've been for the past 250 years. Identities like race,
religion and sex are as unimportant as the time of day in "The Temple That
Never Sleeps." The ML adventure is not for everyone, but if you're a fit,
then the experience can be highly rewarding, as this well written book
documents."

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