January 19, 2009 – 10:43 am
Thanks to Ian for setting up a public email address for the project, “themandalaOS@gmail.com” anyone can email to that address and anyone can log in and answer or browse email there, password “omnivate.” Not necessarily sure how any of this will be used, but I figure that’s something that can be sorted out as we go along. Have been guided by this Richard Wilhelm I Ching quote on hexagram 25:
For wherever conscious purpose is to be seen, there the truth and innocence of nature have been lost. Nature that is not directed by the spirit is not true but degenerate nature. Starting out with the idea of the natural, the train of thought in part goes somewhat further and thus the hexagram includes also the idea of the fundamental or unexpected.
I’m trying to leave enough room for interpretation and projection with all of this that something greater than I could dream up on my own might occur. Ian also set up a public photobucket account for Mandala OS if anyone wants to muck around with it:
login: mandalaos
password: omnivate
January 19, 2009 – 1:25 am
“How can it be that so many poor people, on different parts of the planet, are buying essentially the same highly processed pap with whatever money they have?
Television.
Poor people watch a lot of television and television is how poor people learn to make bad choices about food (and money management in general).”
January 19, 2009 – 12:17 am
Because you need to always be able to rely on it to give you the same answer: keep going, stay strong, hold your head up, thrive and grow. It has to be an impulse inherent within existence itself, not in a man.
January 19, 2009 – 12:15 am
- Squaring the circle
- Boxing the compass
SCXIOS™ advises hexagram 25:
“Thunder rolls beneath Heaven, as is its nature and place:
Sage rulers aligned themselves with the changing seasons, nurturing and guiding their subjects to do the same.
Exceptional Progress if you are mindful to keep out of the way of the natural Flow.
It would be a fatal error to try to alter its course.
This is a time of Being, not Doing.”
January 18, 2009 – 11:42 pm
I’ve always loved this image of the rose, which is similar to the heraldric rose I have tattooed on the inside of my right wrist.
Was just comparing it visually with the hard points and lines of the geometric compass rose:
Both to me are equally accurate and equally beautiful representations on a visual level of what the Platonic Rose™ feels like and does. Love is that eternal orientation, a tingling sensation.
January 18, 2009 – 11:34 pm
Gaining new functionalities, add-ons, extensions, limbs and other modules with Mandala OS should be as easy and fun to do as it was to gain a new spell back in old school RPG days. Not some elaborate thing I have to hunt around and find a program for, figure out the damned license, how to install it, what kind of interface, metaphor or paradigm its operating under…. I SHOULD JUST BE ABLE TO JUST USE IT. Any time I even think of a possibility of something I might want to be, do think, feel or say, it would be laid out right there for me. Would be like having the Midas Touch maybe, maybe just a little too much. #buildspeak. Where is the line when you’re talking about mediating human experience with technology?
