wolfram. someday I hope to approach his level.

yes please!

love the colors… pastel dream

Oh! The first section of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, which goes into life before the reformation, “the enchanted age”, and how ritual structured time and lives. This one is a bit of heavy philosophy though.

I’ll try to think of others. A lot of my interest and impressions here stem from personal moments… experiencing an Orthodox service with a friend who was converting, spending time in cathedrals and services, attending a Quaker meeting, a silent retreat, visiting temples in Nepal, etc.

Byung-Chul Han’ “Dissapearance of Ritual”. Jung and Joseph Campbell also worth a look. And visiting temples/cathedrals, experiencing religious services of different faiths www.amazon.com/Disappearanc...

Here are my starter thoughts newsletter.squishy.computer/p/ritual-tec.... Huizinga is a must-read. I highly recommend Rules of Play (MIT press) and Ritual Design Toolkit is worth a look ritualdesign.net

miyazaki understands this

dream logic is often has this tactile quality: hair, teeth, hands, water...

Joe Walker, editor on Dune, calls them "brainstem images... old and not necessarily verbal or from the frontal lobe..." blog.frame.io/2021/10/27/a...

and you feel dream logic in the design of rituals and games: "within the magic circle, special meanings accrue and cluster around objects and behaviors. In effect, a new reality is created, defined by the rules of the game and inhabited by its players." newsletter.squishy.computer/p/magic-circ...

dream logic is ancient brainstem stuff... millions of years old (embrace it). you feel it in the deep, evolved, vernacular architecture that Christopher Alexander studied (passageways, gates, keyholes, small spaces...)

so like why do people lose their minds over vaccinations but not, like, pills? dream logic correspondence. vax is snakebite, pill is eucharist.

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dream logic weaves together deep brainstem archetypes: large carnivores, the dark, blood, insects, snakes, deep water, passageways going out alone…

Actually existing solarpunk bsky.app/profile/lu.i...