[MD] Mindwalk

[David M]

is this the film by Fritjof Capra?

Ta
DM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Krimel" <Krimel at Krimel.com>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:01 PM
Subject: [MD] Mindwalk


> 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
>
>
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