by orchaeus | Aug 29, 2016 | Shared Note
“I spend a lot of time exploring ‘the important things we overlook’. These include such features of our everyday experience as insects, our hands, our relationship with water, and, in this installment, our passage through doorways or...
by orchaeus | Aug 22, 2016 | Shared Note
“It is remarkable to hear the story of the outsider; the scapegoat who attracts the violence and abuse of other children, or the autistic or divergent child whose mere appearance in a classroom (as recently described to me by a teacher) causes utter paralysis...
by orchaeus | Aug 20, 2016 | Shared Note
“As you begin to understand what I here briefly outline, you will not imagine yourself to be ordinary or human in the ways our ideas suppose. Nor will you announce that you are gifted with wild powers or messianic destinies, as is the common thread of the...
by orchaeus | Aug 20, 2016 | Shared Note
“As you begin to understand what I here briefly outline, you will not imagine yourself to be ordinary or human in the ways our ideas suppose. Nor will you announce that you are gifted with wild powers or messianic destinies, as is the common thread of the...
by orchaeus | Aug 16, 2016 | Shared Note
” Dramatic television ‘shows’ are paracosms; invented ‘as if’ universes that persist by establishing and sustaining themselves in our imagination. Their formal purpose is to compete for popular attention in order to sell commercial...
by orchaeus | Jul 31, 2016 | Shared Note
I like to invent toys that assist us in understanding the nature of our relationships with mental phenomena, especially ‘problems’. A toy allows us to more easily recognize and explore a common feature of our waking human experience from perspectives that...