[MD] Mindwalk

[Krimel]

Marsha,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. You are a good friend to us all!
It certainly contains discussions of nearly everything that makes the MoQ
one of my personal obsessions. I don't think I am alone in this.

My review of the film is included at the end of this post. I urge everyone
here to stop what you are doing or writing and watch this movie. There is no
excuse. You all have computers and it is available right now or at your
convenience at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9107401959308808776&q=mindwalk&total
=43&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Krimel




On Capra's MindWalk

On an island rock over laid with Euclidian stone
The artifice of a spire rises 
>From that most solid point where
The certainty of granite is 
Troubled only by the caress of wind and rain
That man made finger, hacked from bed rock
Points toward heaven

Within a castle's walls, 
A Cartesian clock chops 
Time into bits
The inquisitor's office contains
A rack and instruments of pain
Tools to force mind and matter
And all the stuff of nature into submission

The noble, the wizard and the poet
In modern garb stroll and speak
Of parts and wholes, units and connections
Of substance dissolving into patterns of probability
>From chapel to charnel house their conversation
Drifts along paths sheltered by 
The arches and spandrels of ancient minds

The wizard regrets the perversion of her arts
The poet quests for harmonies
That no language is adequate to contain
The noble asks and asks again, 
How to transform paradigm into policy

By foot and formulation
They are drawn inexorably,
As all things are, toward the island shore
That edge where the surfaces of 
Sand and sea and air
Mingle in infinite degrees of flux and stasis
Across that edge, crabs and crustaceans,
Bits of algae and grass tangled in sea foam
Ebb and flow in cycles 
Of dependence and self renewal