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Leonardo was right all alon…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-03-13:5313775:Comment:136012013-03-13T08:42:38.037ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div class="firstPar"><p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" target="_self"><br></br></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" height="360" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" width="261"></img></a> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival/9923336/Leonardo-da-Vinci-was-right-all-along-new-medical-scans-show.html" target="_blank">Leonardo was right all along, new medical scans…</a></strong></p>
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<div class="firstPar"><p><strong><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" target="_self"><br/></a><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133718352?profile=original" width="261" class="align-right" height="360"/></a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/edinburgh-festival/9923336/Leonardo-da-Vinci-was-right-all-along-new-medical-scans-show.html" target="_blank">Leonardo was right all along, new medical scans show</a> -</strong></p>
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<p><strong>He has long been praised as one of the finest artists of the Renaissance</strong>, working far ahead of his time and producing some of the world’s most recognisable works.</p>
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<div class="secondPar"><p>But <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-leonardo-link" target="_blank">Leonardo da Vinci</a></strong> has finally received the credit he deserves for his “startling” medical accuracy hundreds of years in advance of his peers, as scientists match his anatomical drawings with modern day MRI scans.</p>
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</div> PERCEPTION IS indeed THE MEDI…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-02-07:5313775:Comment:104682012-02-07T10:05:11.451ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><strong><a href="http://spiral-dynamics.wholelifewholeworld.com/2011/01/19/ground-breaking-blog-the-dual-the-non-dual-and-the-big-missing-piece/" target="_blank">PERCEPTION IS</a></strong> <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">indeed</a> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">THE MEDIUM…</a></strong></em></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://spiral-dynamics.wholelifewholeworld.com/2011/01/19/ground-breaking-blog-the-dual-the-non-dual-and-the-big-missing-piece/" target="_blank">PERCEPTION IS</a></strong> <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">indeed</a> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">THE MEDIUM</a></strong></em></p>
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<p>Bridget Riley is about <strong>the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes <em>apparently disastrous</em> -</strong> that can take place in <strong>a given situation.</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>situation</strong> is <strong><em>presented in the</em> <a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/6/understanding" target="_blank">simplest possible terms</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><em> John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>One of the most distinctive characteristics of <a href="http://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/bridget_riley/" target="_blank">Bridget Riley's art</a> is that it <strong>"insists"</strong> with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else. <br/> <br/> The experience which Riley <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n13/schw01_.html" target="_blank">offers</a> is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of<br/> mind. <br/> <br/> 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. <br/> <br/> It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, <strong>heightened self-awareness</strong> or <strong>heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being.<br/></strong> <br/> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley" target="_blank">Bridget Riley</a> Catalogue introduction - David Thompson<br/></em> <em>Venice Biennale, June 1968</em></strong></p> " I found within the court to…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-01-08:5313775:Comment:94292012-01-08T12:58:05.395ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><strong>" I found <em>within the court</em></strong> to my dismay that I was at every turn confronted with the views of official scholars - <em><strong>men who spent their lives in study of things or merely claimed the truth</strong></em>.</p>
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<p>Their days at court gave rise to <em>futile speculation and great heated babbling</em> <em>concerning matters steeped in cant and helpless superstition</em> and I was in no way esteemed for my ability to speak of…</p>
<p><strong>" I found <em>within the court</em></strong> to my dismay that I was at every turn confronted with the views of official scholars - <em><strong>men who spent their lives in study of things or merely claimed the truth</strong></em>.</p>
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<p>Their days at court gave rise to <em>futile speculation and great heated babbling</em> <em>concerning matters steeped in cant and helpless superstition</em> and I was in no way esteemed for my ability to speak of <em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/information-is-the-light" target="_blank">knowledge learned by observation</a></strong></em>, so I kept my peace.</p>
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<p>There were odd times <em>when forced by confrontation or command</em> to <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vision-1" target="_blank">express my own opinion</a></strong> I thrust myself upon them in no uncertain manner, and much to their dismay, though I feared such times with all my heart and soul.</p>
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<p>For often <em>the discoveries I had made about our world</em> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-leonardo-link" target="_blank">would not find words enough to describe them</a></strong> and <strong>I would hang in open sentence</strong> <em>while all about men would take me for an idiot</em>.</p>
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<p><strong>The more I spoke the more I sensed my isolation.</strong></p>
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<p>The <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/understanding-1" target="_blank">minds of men shut down on simple truth</a></strong> or they talk instead of "<em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/main/search/search?q=all+science+and+all+scientists" target="_blank">higher science</a></strong></em> " as though it were <em>untouchable to common mortals and governed by the stars</em>.</p>
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<p>If <em>I soiled my hands in experimentation I was treated with contempt as one who dabble in lower science</em>.</p>
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<p><strong>Had I to accept to accept their view as a beggar who</strong></p>
<p><strong>holds out his hand to receive a piece of stale-bread ?</strong></p>
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<p>Was it not honourable to find oneself by sweat of brow and observation that there is <strong>only ONE science</strong> which <strong>Nature herself practices</strong> inside dark caves & in the breasts of nightingales alike ?</p>
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<p><strong>She abhors the vacuum</strong> <em>which she would have found <strong>inside their books</strong></em> <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">if not</span> inside their heads</strong><em><strong>."</strong></em></p>
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<p> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/destiny-1" target="_blank">Ralph Steadman</a></strong> <strong><em>after Leonardo</em></strong> in <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Leonardo-Ralph-Steadman/dp/0671437593" target="_blank">I LEONARDO</a></strong></p> tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2011-11-08:5313775:Comment:82022011-11-08T22:57:41.726ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/index.php" target="_blank">Amboise</a></strong>. April 1519</p>
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<p>"Be it known to all persons, present and to come, that at the court of our Lord the King at Amboise before those present living at the place known as <strong><a href="http://www.closluce.com/en/decouvrir-le-clos-luce/l-histoire-du-lieu/" target="_blank">Le Clos Luce</a></strong>, who have travelled with me in duty to this haven, that I commend my soul to Him above,…</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.chateau-amboise.com/en/index.php" target="_blank">Amboise</a></strong>. April 1519</p>
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<p>"Be it known to all persons, present and to come, that at the court of our Lord the King at Amboise before those present living at the place known as <strong><a href="http://www.closluce.com/en/decouvrir-le-clos-luce/l-histoire-du-lieu/" target="_blank">Le Clos Luce</a></strong>, who have travelled with me in duty to this haven, that I commend my soul to Him above, duly considering the certainty of death and the comfort it may bring, that they despair not.</p>
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<p>For <em>the pattern of life shall continue</em> and <strong>man shall learn more as to his welfare and conduct and shall benefit as he may wish from my <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/video/leonardo-da-vinci" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">humble</span> investigations</a></em></strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>But THE</strong> <em><b>greatest bond in life</b></em> <strong>is <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/video/let-your-love-flow-bellamy" target="_blank">LOVE</a> , and that should receive a</strong> <em><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">fuller</span> <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/understanding-1" target="_blank">understanding</a></b></em> <strong>and be the basis of righteousness in all dealings between man and woman. That is the great mystery which can provide the logic for our being in this world, and it is more substantial than the creation of machines or weapons.</strong></p>
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<p>Dreams are the passionate release of our souls, and in them is the spirit contained by which we should preserve and fulfill our lives, so that in death we will have acquitted our dues and not been envious of others."</p>
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<p>In pace, Io Leonardo</p>