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PERCEPTION is the MEDIUM
First Posted by Michael Grove @zaadz on March 5, 2007 at 13:00
"Perception IS that part of us that perceives - whether it is things
"Perception has nothing to do with the mind. Perception simply perceives. It is a sort of flashlight of awareness that we shine on things as we observe the flux of energies within or without. It is completely devoid of thought. And, perception is present even when there are thoughts in the mind.
Intellect, on the other hand, takes what is perceived and brings it down into the conscious thinking mind. It's a very useful faculty we humans have been given, part of the package we acquire when we take embodiment. It's a tool that resides 'in the attic' and, when used properly, helps us solve problems, make grocery lists, and figure out how much tax we owe.
The bottom line is this: thought impulse arises out of the sea of pure awareness and manifests as a thought. If you really slow things down in your meditation and clock what happens, you can observe an impression rising, a thought formulating, and the thought relaxing as it falls back into pure awareness.
And all of the time this is happening, perception perceives.
What is useful to understand here is that Bridget Riley's paintings are not
just logically enlarged transferences on to canvas of drastically simple
Her paintings are acts of imagination in precisely
FALL - emulsion on board 55.5" x 55.5" 1963
Bridget Riley is about the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt,
sometimes apparently disastrous - that can take place in a given situation.
The situation is presented in the simplest possible terms
John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963
One of the most distinctive characteristics of Bridget Riley's art is that it "insists" with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else.
The experience which Riley offers is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of mind.
The very intensity of the assault which her painting makes on the eye drives it, as it were, past the point at which it is merely a matter of optical effect.
It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, heightened self-awareness or heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being.
Bridget Riley Catalogue introduction - David Thompson
Venice Biennale, June 1968
MY final paintings are the intimate dialogue between my total being and the visual agents which constitute the medium. My intentions have not changed. I have always tried to realize visual and emotional energies simultaneously from the medium. My paintings are, of course, concerned with generating visual sensations, but certainly not to the exclusion of emotion.
One of my aims is that these two responses
shall be experienced as ONE and the SAME
Bridget Riley
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Riley began to paint pure geometric abstract canvases in 1961. Her first works were painted in a black and white palette and were concerned with variations in shape rather than tone. This period of the artist’s op art practice is represented in Tate’s collection by Fall 1963 (Tate T00616).
In 1964 Riley introduced variations in tone into her work, composing a series of paintings, including Hesitate, from a full palette of grey. Curator Paul Moorhouse observed that this imbued Riley’s works with increased subtlety:
were cleansed - EVERYTHING would appear to man as IT IS - INFINITE
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Comment by Michael Grove on May 29, 2013 at 8:23
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the notion that the evolutionary process is ultimately driven by a spiritual impulse is continuing to gain traction, with a growing number of progressive philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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Perception is a kind of improvised dance with the world, a dynamic interaction between my sensing body and the sensuous landscape. Simply to be gazing the blue sky, or watching those storm clouds approach, IS already to BE in relationship, to be participating in an active exchange between my body and those roiling clouds.David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...
Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implications of GAIA
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Psychologists typically make a distinction between sensation and perception. Sensations are uninterpreted sensory impressions created by the detection of environmental stimuli, whereas perception refers to the set of processes whereby we make sense of these sensations.
Perception enables us to literally navigate through the world, avoiding danger, making decisions, and preparing for action. Visual perception has received the most attention from researchers, and then speech.
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The peripheral drift illusion is a perception of movement in a static image; the illusion is caused by the brain's interpretation of patterns seen outside of the eye's area of focus. Certain repeated patterns of black and white and simple colour patterns can elicit the illusory effect. Typically, people see the motion moving from high luminance to low luminance areas of the pattern.
Larger images usually produce a stronger effect and some colour combinations and intensities work better than others. If one stares at a fixed point in the image the motion disappears in the area of focus. The intricacies of how these illusions work are still debated, and theories that explain one type of illusion may fail to account for others. One of the best-known illustrations of peripheral drift illusion is Kitaoka Akiyoshi's Rotating Snakes image, an adaptation of which is pictured below. As you read this text, you probably see the snakes below rotating. If you look directly at one snake, it appears to hold still, while those in your peripheral vision seem to be in constant movement; if you look close to the image but not right at it, it looks like a nest of stealthily stirring snakes. The obtruding tongues do not move, however, even in the illusion, another indication that none of the snakes are actually moving.
Peripheral drift and other types of illusions are often presented purely for amusement or as psychedelic art. However, optical illusions are also used to study how the human brain interprets visual data. From studying how these patterns create perceived motion, we can better understand how the brain interprets motion. We can also gain knowledge about how a damaged brain fails to guide an individual's movement when they have difficulties perceiving motion in their environment. Motion illusions can be used in virtual reality (VR) as well as augmented reality (AR) applications, to properly guide individuals with problems tracking movement. Various types of optical illusions are used for a number of effects in VR and AR.
The peripheral drift illusion and other motion illusions can not only lead viewers to see movement but also to perceive themselves to BE in motion while remaining stationary.
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The [UN]knowns beyond space-time which create everything
WE PERCEIVE and allow our minds to focus on the very journey
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... and herein lies the connessione twixt Riley and Fuller because Bridget Riley is about the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes apparently disastrous - that can take place in a given situation.
The situation is presented in the simplest possible terms
John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963
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The expression ”sense illusion” proves that we are not yet fully conscious, or at least have not deemed it necessary to incorporate the fact into our ordinary language, that the senses represent things neither wrongly or correctly. All that can be truly said of the sense-organs is, that, under different circumstances they produce different sensations and perceptions. As these “circumstances” now, are extremely various in character, being partly external (inherent in the objects), partly internal (inherent in the sensory organs) - and partly interior (having their activity in the central organs), it can sometimes appear when we only notice the external circumstances as if the organ acted differently under the same conditions.
and IT IS customary to call the unusual effects, deceptions or illusions.
Ernst Mach - physicist & psychologist
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The Most Amazing Optical Illusions
PERCEPTION is NOT about capturing a full picture of reality,
but taking snapshots of the world and making the rest up.
Devin Powell
As Ian Gardner has stated in his The Illusion piece from The Milk Is White ...
If we are shown a green leaf and asked what its colour is, we will reply that it is green. However, it is not green. It only appears to be green because it absorbs all but that part of the light spectrum that makes green, and that is the part that is reflected to our eyes. A beautiful butterfly wing is not beautiful at all; it only looks that way because the tiny scales on the wings are angled in different ways to create different colours.
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This article about attention is most interesting.
I mentioned the magican and mentalist Gerard Senehi who is closely connected to EnlightenNext here:
Purpose and Intention
This whole nexus between intention, attention, purpose and perception, conception and perspectives is worth massive research.
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MY OWN PERCEPTION of the potential of global interactive televisual communication, from the outset, was one which did not subscribe to an advancement of the inherent greed & perversion of perception of those that are responsible for the control of the species mindset …
The Hidden Persuaders as Vance Packard succinctly described them.
I raise this issue in apology for the fact that The Battle of Light and Dark YouTube video, which was selected as a perfectly supportive piece of ACTION for this zBlog@gaia, has now been removed and been replaced by a selection of potentially mind-perverting alternatives.
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Enjoyed learning of pace.