Attention: July 29, 2026

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#Attention

Game on...on the radio...Mariners at Dodgers...no score...bottom of third inning...Mariners 0-Dodgers 1...Dream: I'm by the Jeep in a city park...bewildered that the canvas top is flat on the dash...thinking how to raise it, and youths together in groups approach...squeeze by me...frighten me...but shielded by an officer behind me...monitering...and, he looks at a brand, tatoo, on the back of my neck, like respecting it...the youths too...earlier dream had this officer scene too...I dont know what the tatoo means...baseball games are to begin in the park...I've been recruited to one...uniform green with yellow trim...mine is elseware...I hurry to go get it...I wake up...I'm on the floor in a room...lamp on the floor...a kinda cloud in front of me...in it is a small artifact, figurine, that belongs, being sold to, a lady in the room...I take it out of the cloud, fog patch, the artifact...I wake up...I'm trying to cue on the "tricks" in the dreams...the shape shifts...the emergent things...the park, people all about, the baseball, and "trick"-I'm given a uniform...these baseball dream games repeat...usually the "tricks" are I can't field, can't throw, can't hit, the game itself delayed...once, I was getting under a fly ball, and the whole grass field was yanked out from under me, and I woke up on the floor!...I rolled out of bed in my sleep...dream interpreted, mirrored, reality, doing a "trick"...just like a magic trick...magic is for reals in dreams...Dodgers with some magic, runners on base...last inning they scored...Ohtani intentional walk...bases loaded...magic is hard work for reals...tricks ubiquitous, and fine grained...just selecting words when writing is trick...trick trick...and magicians do tricks to gain attention...Salvador Dali in a scene:...he is standing before a classical bust, with a square of aluminum tinfoil...and he holds it up, poking it into the shape of the head, or it seems...all a sudden he's done, and the foil is like the head...missing, is the whole process of fashioning the foil...he cheated...he pressed the foil around head, imprinting it...but this is all a film...and he cut that part out of filming...it's not hard to figure his trick...harder, is the umbrella, his helmet, the dancing attendent, and the music...comments liked the music...another scene, at a zoo, he sets up an easel, and does a plein air painting of a rhinocerous...and holds the painting up beside his head...an abstract of horns in perspective...his horns from his head!...that is really trick!...one channel has 900 or so of his paintings...and they're tricky, even the early conventional ones...surrealism...Dali showed up in a wiki about a Renaissance artist-found that artist searching up Hadrian's Mauseleum, which has  christian Popes' stories...they were keen on jewels and art, and artists keen on making things for them...the subject of all this, christianity, takes a back seat to spectacular art of Vatican City...wars fought over this...artists yearn for attention, and their patrons bask in the attention they get from patronizing the artists...a mutual attention society...hard to sort who is tricking who...artists are given commissions, and being artists, they fashion what they fashion...

✨️benvenuto cellini salvador dali ai style

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You are likely referring to the legendary 1948 edition of The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, which the Spanish surrealist master Salvador Dalí illustrated with vivid, dreamlike, and psychologically charged drawings. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
If you want to generate images in the Dalí AI art style featuring Cellini's famous sculptures, you can use highly specific descriptive prompts in generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, or Stable Diffusion. [1]
The Dalí style combines classical draughtsmanship with dreamscapes, strange distortions, and symbolic objects. Key elements to include in your AI prompts are: [1, 2, 3]
The Artist: "In the surrealist style of Salvador Dalí" [1]
The Subject: "Benvenuto Cellini's bronze sculpture of Perseus holding the head of Medusa" [1]
Atmosphere: "A barren, sweeping desert landscape," "melting shapes," "glowing golden hour light casting elongated shadows," and "Freudian symbolism"
Medium/Technique: "Intricate India ink and watercolor illustration," "highly detailed bronze," or "Renaissance precision blended with melting surrealism"
Sample AI Art Prompts
Try feeding these exact phrases into an AI image generator to capture the perfect blend of the Italian Renaissance and Surrealism:
Prompt 1 (For a Sculpture Scene):
A surrealist bronze sculpture of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the head of Medusa, in the iconic art style of Salvador Dalí. Set in a vast, empty Empordà desert landscape under a deep blue sky. Melting, elongated forms, highly detailed anatomical perfection mixed with hallucinatory putrefaction, golden light, chiaroscuro, intricate goldsmith detailing, masterfully crafted, museum quality.

🎶now, now one can commission artificial intelligence...Cellini is a piece of work...Dali too...Ohtani up again...rbi double...Mariners 0-Dodgers 4...I watched like half of those 900...surrealists are like reporters...their paintings reports...and critics analyze them...thing is the tricks...

✨️Attention

trump dali attention

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When discussing Trump and Dali in the context of attention, the connection usually focuses on the striking parallels in their eccentric, gravity-defying hair, as well as their shared mastery of surreal, attention-grabbing showmanship. [1]
The connection can be broken down into a few specific themes:
Flamboyant Hair: The signature look of both men was meticulously cultivated to draw eyes. The "trademark gimmicky mustache of surrealist artist, Salvador Dali" curves upward and floats in the air, much like Trump's own towering, swept-back hair that seems to defy gravity. Both displays are designed to make a statement of self-importance: "ME". [1]
Surrealist Showmanship: Both figures mastered the art of self-promotion through spectacle. While Dali used absurd stunts like appearing in a diving suit to get attention, Trump relies on larger-than-life rallies, off-the-cuff babble, and viral media. Political commentators often compare Trump's unpredictable, jarring, and theatrical rhetoric to a "Salvador Dalí painting, but with words". [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Artistic Imagery: Because of this shared surrealist aesthetic, visual artists and meme creators frequently merge the two, generating AI art and paintings depicting Donald Trump in a stylized, surreal "Dali style". [1, 2, 3]

🎶my trick, putting trump and dali in a side by side!...both tout themselves as being the greatest...

Muhamma Ali said that..."I'm the greatest"...boxing is a mutual attention society...

✨️Boxing is widely described as a "mutual attention society" because it requires absolute, synchronized focus between two combatants. Every feint, dodge, and punch is a literal conversation of gestures that demands both fighters pay acute attention to one another, imposing their physical and mental wills in an intimate exchange. [1, 2, 3]

Beyond the literal clash inside the squared circle, boxing fosters a profound sense of mutual respect and community. Here is how that dynamic manifests: [1, 2]
The Gym Family: Amateur boxing gyms act as social hubs where individuals from all walks of life support each other, regardless of skill or background. The shared physical sacrifices create a deep camaraderie. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Mimetic Excitement: When one fighter achieves success, training partners and coaches share in that emotional victory, proving that a fighter is only alone in appearance. [1]
The Closeness of Combat: Studies of the sport emphasize the underlying sociality of combat. Once the final bell rings, the intense competition typically yields to mutual appreciation and respect between rivals. [1, 2, 3]

🎶mutual attention, mutual appreciation...mutual aid societies...Dali lived a long time, Picasso too...Cellini too...their biographies documented...famous anecdote has it, young Dali in art class, left off, and ran to a pillar, and banged his head into it until he bled...critics point to this as his early yearning for attention thru extreme imagery...the careers, the arcs, of artists, have this attention trait...Cellini, like Caravagio, was wanted for murder....they'll do anything for attention...Dali threw his lot in with Franco, thought Nazi's "attractive"...they did have a style, immitated to this day...negative attention the strongest attraction

✨️...negative attention the strongest attraction hitler trump dali

The dynamic of seeking "negative attention" or extreme controversy links Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, and Salvador Dalí. While vastly different in historical magnitude, all three used shock value, polarization, and relentless media focus as a primary psychological tool to command attention and dominate public discourse.
As noted in an analysis of demagoguery by Gardner-Webb University, leaders like Trump and Hitler both utilized an "explosion of misinformation and propaganda" combined with an outsider status to maintain public control and dominate the political narrative.
This principle of using outrage to generate intense attraction can be broken down across the three figures:
Adolf Hitler: Hitler utilized negative attention by weaponizing hatred and building a totalitarian regime based on extreme propaganda and the demonization of outgroups Adolf Hitler: Hatred driven destructive leadership - Sage Journals. According to Sage Journals, his destructive leadership relied heavily on "symbolic behaviors, such as gestures connoting disrespect, rude epithets, slurs, and hatred-associated symbols" to mobilize his base.
Donald Trump: Trump has frequently drawn comparisons to authoritarian demagogues for his rhetorical style and deliberate polarization An American Führer? Nazi Analogies and the Struggle to Explain Donald Trump - Cambridge University. As observed in an article on Cambridge University, observers often note his ability to capture attention through rhetorical devices that position him as a lone outsider who alone can fix a "broken and corrupt government." [1]
Salvador Dalí: Dalí used negative attention as an artistic and marketing strategy. He thrived on bizarre publicity stunts and actively courted controversy to build his celebrity, famously expressing deep, sometimes erotic fascination with Hitler to provoke the art establishment Salvador Dalí's Obsession with Nazism and Fascism - Medium. Dalí's eccentric approach was notoriously summarized by Medium, noting his belief that Hitler "embodied the perfect image of the great masochist" and his dedication to creating purposefully shocking works like The Enigma of Hitler The Enigma of Hitler - Wikipedia. [1, 2]

🎶there are youtube channels that go over all this, and the bot comments oft say, "so what?", shrug things off...my side by side by side...hmmph...artists haven't the "magnitude", that for the politicians, the Popes...

🧐Much of the tomb contents and decorations have been lost since the building's conversion to a military fortress in 401 and its subsequent inclusion in the Aurelian Walls by Flavius Honorius Augustus. The urns and ashes were scattered by Visigoth looters during Alaric's sacking of Rome in 410, and the original decorative bronze and stone statuary were thrown down upon the attacking Goths when they besieged Rome in 537, as recounted by Procopius. An unusual survivor, however, is the capstone of a funerary urn (probably that of Hadrian), which made its way to Saint Peter's Basilica, covered the tomb of Otto II and later was incorporated into a massive Renaissance baptistery.[4] The use of spolia from the tomb in the post-Roman period was noted in the 16th century – Giorgio Vasari writes:

...in order to build churches for the use of the Christians, not only were the most honoured temples of the idols [pagan Roman gods] destroyed, but in order to ennoble and decorate Saint Peter's with more ornaments than it then possessed, they took away the stone columns from the tomb of Hadrian, now the castle of Sant'Angelo, as well as many other things which we now see in ruins.[5]

Wiki

🎶repurposing...hmmph..."mimetic excitement"...a curio...two out, but Mariners have runners...liner to Freeman...Mariners 2-Dodgers 4..🎀

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DavidDavid

Tugboat: July 28, 2026

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City Words

#Tugboat

Game on...on the radio...Mariners 5-Dodgers 5...top of seventh...Dream: a journey to Europe...taken there as guest, then there on my own...in a big town, "bigger than Disney" I pose...and I'm lost, without funds...and there's some kind of festival parade threading thru the streets of the town...I wake up...the Europe dream is a repeat...never been there...feed dropped biography of author Ursula Le Guin...all the books she wrote!...but left out the Lathe of Heaven...often, comes to mind, the youtube about the inventor of the modern lathe...and of late, my takes on the use of lathes in ancient times...back to the fire drill...well, back to the spinning Earth...to top of eighth...

💡Lathe of Heaven...curious thing about lathes...heardsaid on a youtube about its modern inventor, a lathe is "a machine that makes machines"...but that's sideways to the book, and there's some curio to the Tao quote...🍿

✨️Ursula K. Le Guin did not explicitly write about the "noosphere" (the sphere of human thought), but her Hainish Cycle novels closely mirror its principles through "mindspeech" and the Ekumen, a galaxy-wide network of linked minds and cultures that embodies a collective cosmic consciousness. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Le Guin's exploration of interconnected consciousness and thought-networks is most prominently featured in several works:
Mindspeech (The Hainish Cycle): Telepathy forms the backbone of the Ekumen, connecting worlds across the galaxy through a network of communication that requires profound empathy and truth. [1, 2, 3, 4]
City of Illusions (1967): Explores how advanced telepathic networks combat an authoritarian regime, mirroring the noospheric idea of ideas prevailing over material force. [1, 2, 3]
Vaster than Empires, and More Slow (1971): A profound novella about a survey crew linking their minds to an alien, sentient planetary forest. The story deals with the psychological toll of a shared, planet-wide consciousness. [1, 2]
The Lathe of Heaven (1971): While not part of the Hainish Cycle, it deals with a form of noosphere: a character whose dreams literally warp consensus reality.

🎶Mariners 6-Dodgers 5...

✨️panpsychism noosphere synchronicity symmetry

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These four concepts are interconnected pillars of a philosophical worldview where mind, meaning, and physical reality form an interwoven whole. Together, they describe a universe that is conscious at its base, connected by shared information, and governed by underlying structural harmony. [1, 2]
Panpsychism: The foundational view that consciousness, mind, or experience is a fundamental, ubiquitous feature of all physical matter—from subatomic particles to human brains. Rather than emerging magically from non-living matter, consciousness is a basic building block of reality. You can explore more about this theory via the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [1, 2, 3]
Noosphere: Coined by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, this is the "sphere of human thought". It represents a planetary layer of consciousness and collective intelligence that evolved after the biosphere (life) and geosphere (inanimate matter). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Synchronicity: Carl Jung's concept of "meaningful coincidences"—events that are not causally linked but feel deeply connected through their shared meaning. In a panpsychist or noospheric universe, synchronicity is the physical manifestation of underlying mental connectedness. Read about this phenomenon at the Carl Jung Institute. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Symmetry: The organizing principle and "glue" of the cosmos. In philosophy and physics, symmetry explains how disparate elements mirror each other across different scales. In Jungian thought, symmetry provides the hidden, geometric, or archetypal structure that makes synchronicities possible. [1, 2]

🎶first book I read, that I remember, was "Little Engine that Could"...then, the first grown up book I read cover to cover, was the Time/Life book "World We Live In"...a Xmas gift...and a competition with my friend, who had gotten one too...I won, and kinda regret that...tho, reading books is a competition, like mountain climbing...now, I just read the web...seldom a book...feed has it AI data centers are gathering up old books to copy them...and throwing them away...

✨️philosophy is a tug of war

🎶could add Hegal's idea to that...bottom of ninth...what was the tug boat kids book?...Ohtani up...Little Toot?...dbl...triple...Mariners 7-Dodgers 6...Greeks had kids books...Freeman up...they'll pitch around him?...1-1...2-1...Aesop's Fables...ground out...Muncie up...tug boats move ships in and out of harbors...have a distinctive shape...2-1...2-2...3-2...W...Betts up...this pitcher can walk the bases loaded...and the tying run in...tough to be that patient...2-0...2-1...2-2...3-2...ground out...hmmph...Mariners 7-Dodgers 6...

:)

DavidDavid

Tibet: July 27, 2026

 City Words

#Tibet

Silver my Jeep in the shop for service...waiting in the waiting room...Dream: I'm in a lot with my Jeep...park it, then get in a giant truck...making a delivery?...seat too far back...adjust it...too close...but in a hurry, so deal with it...I roll off, but the lot, yard, turns to mud...try to avoid, then I see kids getting swallowed by the mud, and their moms jump into save them...I hop out, grab them one by one from the mud, first the kids, then the moms...no easy task...and they're not very big...like mini people...set on a dryer patch, they shake off the mud, aaand then they shape shift into cats, something, and run off...I look up to consider the farm workers, gardners about...all along they have been about, but don't notice me, the truck, the mud pit-like they are in another dream...I wake up...there's a youtube the feed dropped about Uma Thurman, mom of Uma Thurman...a piece of work!...she was top fashion model in New York, hooked up with Timothy Leary and a whole crowd, and founded a refugee camp for Tibetans!...

✨️Salvador Dalí and Uma Thurman are linked through a surprising and intimate connection: Dalí was the one who introduced Uma’s mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, to her first husband, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary. [

The Salvador Dalí Connection

The Introduction: In the 1960s, Dalí Curiomoved in the same avant-garde circles as Nena von Schlebrügge, who was a high-fashion model. He introduced her to Dr. Timothy Leary. [1, 2, 3, 4

The Marriage: Nena and Leary were married in 1964, although the marriage was short-lived. [1, 2

Family Lineage: After divorcing Leary, Nena married Robert Thurman, a Columbia University professor and the first Westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. They had Uma Thurman. [1

The Pulp Fiction Connection

Aside from the family history, there is a prominent pop culture link between the two. Dalí’s eccentric surrealism and Quentin Tarantino's gritty pop-cinema style both rely heavily on striking, dream-like, and iconic imagery. Uma Thurman's character, Mia Wallace, and the "Jack Rabbit Slim's" dance scene in Pulp Fiction are so deeply embedded in pop culture that many artists have created Salvador Dalí-inspired micro-tattoos or artistic mash-ups of Thurman dancing alongside the surrealist master himself. [1

🎶a Curio!...and it gets worse...

✨️salvador dali noosphere

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Salvador Dalí was deeply influenced by the concept of the noosphere—a philosophical framework of planetary consciousness developed by Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Dalí used his "nuclear mysticism" to translate these abstract, spiritual, and scientific theories into his artwork. [1, 2, 3

The "Noosphere" Define

The noosphere is a concept proposing that after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and biosphere (biological life), the next stage of Earth's evolution is a cognitive, interconnected layer of human thought and consciousness. Teilhard de Chardin believed this collective consciousness was constantly evolving, driven by scientific and spiritual interconnectedness, toward a final point of unification called the Omega Point. [1, 2

Dalí’s Interpretation: "Nuclear Mysticism

During his mid-to-late career in the 1950s, Dalí merged his fascination with atomic physics with Teilhard de Chardin's spiritual philosophies. Dalí proclaimed he was updating Spanish mysticism, using his art to prove the underlying unity and spirituality of the physical universe. [1, 2

Key Artworks & Concept

The Ecumenical Council (1960): This colossal painting is widely considered Dalí’s direct visual translation of the noosphere and the Omega Point. It depicts a chaotic yet harmonious blend of historical, religious, and scientific imagery, centering on the interconnectedness of human consciousness, Catholicism, and atomic science. [1, 3

Galatea of the Spheres (1952): A masterpiece of this era. It depicts his wife and muse, Gala, fractured into dozens of floating atomic spheres. It visually reflects the noosphere's idea of a discontinuous, particle-based reality that is held together by invisible, unifying mental forces. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5

🎶hmmph...go figure...small world at the top...Dodgers off today...Jeep got thru service...🙂...service says I have leaks here and there...fishing me up...otherwise ok...onward!...

:)

DavidDavid

Peru:July 26, 2026

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City Words

#Peru

Game on...on the Radio...Dodgers 0- Mets 1...second inning...Dream: heard things bumping, dropping, something moving around...woke up...and just so...dreams have sound....during my JFK buff days...these days in sequence with my Panay Incident days, which followed my GEnie days...I happened on peripheral stuff, side bar stuff, stories of celebrites and how they hooked up with one another...it's a bewilderment on how they meet, what they did, that is different for what they are famous for...deep dives turn up deeper dives...so, I followed those Germans to Tibet yesterday, with the bias they were part of Himmler's pursuit of Ayrian ancestry...this gets laid out in the movie, Indiana Jones and the Lost Arc...Nazi Germany used archaeology, and anthropology, whatever, in its promoting itself as a Master Race...actually, before hand even, other nations about this too...Freeman with rbi...Dodgers 1-Mets 1...it's a refrain, down to this day, races promoting themselves, downplaying other races...or museums-Smithsonian in the news thing...those five Germans that went to Tibet were scientists...on about scientific research...but funded by Nazis...scientists can be mercenary, working for whoever funds them...and while riffing on JFK, I happened on similar mercenaries...I had this: JFK met Inga Arvid, who was married to Paul Fejos, who worked for Wenner Gren...Arvid famous for sitting beside Hitler at the Olympics...she was a reporter, and lands at a newspaper in America...a sus newspaper as it revealed the Rainbow War plans...at the time, JFK was in Naval Intelligence ...the FBI monitered their affair...JFK links to Wenner Gren thru Gren's yacht, Southern Cross...he borrowed it to rescue passengers from a sunken ship off the coast of England, 1939?...Wenner Gren is a piece of work...made a fortune with a patent for vacuum cleaners, aand, Bofors pom pom guns...these guns still in use by Ukraine to knock down drones...Sweden was neutral in WW2, but sold arms to everyone...we had pom poms, Germans too-still do!...JFK with Arvid was becoming a scandal, and JFK shipped off to the South Pacific...Ohtani up...reading about this, I read that Fejos was going to Peru to film...and I got the impression it was an expedition by Himmler like the one to Tibet...having just read wikis take on Fejos, I may have done him a disservice...Dodgers 3-Mets 1...he was a legit movie maker...he got his start hitchiking in Pasadena stealing oranges, while knocking on doors to sell his skills, scripts...this in the 1920s...oh, hearabout, I'm drawn back to JFK...did Fejos in his Hollywood career cross paths with Joseph Kennedy, JFK's dad?...obscure, is Joseph Kennedy, and Hollywood...

✨️Paul Fejos and Joseph Kennedy's Hollywood paths intersected primarily through Fejos's wife, the Danish journalist Inga Arvad. While Joseph Kennedy made a massive fortune reorganizing early Hollywood studios, Arvad had a highly publicized, scandalous affair with the elder Kennedy's son, future President John F. Kennedy. [1, 2, 3]

🧐https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/wwii-secrets-the-mysterious-inga-arvad/

✨️The Hollywood Connections
Paul Fejos: A highly regarded Hungarian filmmaker, Fejos directed acclaimed works in Hollywood like Broadway (1929) and Lonesome (1928) under Universal Pictures. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.: The Kennedy family patriarch, who famously financed movies in the late 1920s (including projects with Gloria Swanson), consolidated studios that eventually formed RKO Pictures. [1, 2]
Inga Arvad: A former Miss Denmark and journalist, Arvad married Fejos in 1936. After they relocated to the United States, she found work at the Washington Times-Herald where she met Kathleen Kennedy, JFK's sister. [1, 2, 3]
The Affair with JFK
The Romance: In late 1941, Kathleen introduced Arvad to a young 24-year-old John F. Kennedy, who was working in Washington for naval intelligence. The two embarked on a passionate, serious affair while Arvad was still legally married to Fejos. [1, 2, 3]
The Nazi Tie: Arvad had previously interviewed Adolf Hitler and was dubbed by him to be a "perfect example of Nordic beauty," making her a prime target for FBI surveillance and Navy suspicion. [1]
Joseph Kennedy's Intervention: "Big Joe" Kennedy realized this affair could destroy his son's budding political career. The elder Kennedy leveraged his vast political and personal leverage to hound the romance to its end and ultimately transferred JFK to South Carolina. Arvad divorced Fejos in 1942, and her relationship with JFK ended shortly after.

✨️On December 4, 1941, The Washington Times-Herald and the Chicago Tribune leaked the Rainbow 5 plan, which sparked fierce debate about whether FDR was secretly positioning America to enter the global conflict. [1

🎶I should redo the Panay Incident, JFK, with the AI assist!...anyway, wiki said Fejos left off with Hollywood, finding it inauthentic, and found filming nat geo like films around the world his bliss...Wenner Gren joined him in this and together they started up the Viking Fund, an anthropoligical philanthropy still extant today...I find Gren sus for being an arms merchant...kinda like dynamite inventor Noble, and the Noble Peace Prize...eye rolls!...

✨️The terms "Wenner-Gren," "Nobel," and "arms merchants" intersect across two distinct Swedish historical figures:

Axel Wenner-Gren
Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961) was a highly successful Swedish industrialist who built his initial fortune by transforming the domestic vacuum cleaner and founding Electrolux. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Arms Connection: During the 1930s, he acquired major financial interests in AB Bofors, one of Europe’s premier munitions manufacturers. [1]
Wartime Controversy: His business ties and extensive travels brought him under intense scrutiny during World War II. He was famously the first individual placed on the US State Department's economic blacklist (in 1942) over alleged Axis-friendly dealings, though historians debate the extent of his involvement. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) was the Swedish chemist and engineer who invented dynamite and held 355 patents. [1]
The "Merchant of Death": Nobel acquired a vast fortune as a pivotal investor in armaments, heavily shaping and directing the European arms manufacturer Bofors into a massive military supplier. He is famous for a historical anecdote (though some historians debate its truth) claiming a premature newspaper obituary branded him a "merchant of death," which motivated him to use his massive wealth to create the Nobel Prizes to secure a legacy of peace and human progress. [1, 2, 3]

🎶not like I'm making this up!...the Aryan race theory wasn't just in Germany, then, or now...so, so I have a bias...seeing Thule in all the tules...a bear in every bush too...and I thought Fejos about that, and Gren...and I thought Fejos only had plans to go to Peru...but, he did go to Peru...filmed, collected, discovered, much like the Tibetan bunch...I dunno...maybe some of his films on youtube...but, but, it gets worse...these guys dabble in the Esoteric...Fejos sponsered another piece of work (the Viking Fund owes much to his influence)...

✨️Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Paul Fejos were close intellectual allies in the mid-20th century. Fejos, the Director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, provided a critical research home, funding, and personal support to Teilhard de Chardin during his final years of exile and anthropological work in the United States. [1, 2, 3]

The Connection: After Teilhard faced censorship and restriction from his Jesuit superiors regarding his progressive evolutionary philosophies, Dr. Paul Fejos offered him a research post at the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York in late 1951. [1, 2]
The Foundation: Formerly known as the Viking Fund, the foundation acted as a vital nexus for the post-WWII anthropology community. Fejos recognized Teilhard's genius and fostered an environment where Teilhard could pursue his paleontological and evolutionary writings without orthodox pressure. [1, 2]
The Symposium: In 1952, Teilhard de Chardin was among the notable scholars convened by Fejos for the seminal International Symposium on Anthropology, which helped shape the trajectory of modern anthropological studies. [1]
The End: Fejos remained a devoted friend, patron, and correspondent until Teilhard’s death in 1955, and later helped preserve the legacy of the Jesuit thinker. [1, 3]

✨️The intellectual intersection between Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Paul Fejos was rooted in a shared commitment to interdisciplinary anthropology and a holistic vision of human development. While Teilhard was a mystical paleontologist and Fejos was a visionary director and former filmmaker, their views converged on how humanity's physical and cultural evolution merged into a unified future. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Shared intellectual horizons
A holistic, multi-dimensional view of evolution
Teilhard argued that standard science stopped short by only examining the physical and biological layers of the universe. He believed evolution naturally advanced through four stages: [1, 2]
1. Cosmogenesis: The origin of physical matterBiogenesis: The evolution of physical lifePsychogenesis: The evolution of individual consciousnessNoogenesis: The formation of a collective, global human mind or "noösphere" [1, 2, 3]Fejos strongly aligned with this multi-layered framework. As director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, he rejected the strict, hyper-specialized silos of biology and physics. He structured the foundation to view human evolution as a combination of physical bones, cultural adaptations, and cognitive growth. [1, 2, 3]
The concept of the "ultra-human" and technology
During his time working with Fejos in New York (1951–1955), Teilhard heavily focused on the idea of the "ultra-human". He theorized that human evolution was no longer driven by physical anatomical changes, but by social, cultural, and technological convergence. Technology was viewed as an extension of the human nervous system. [1, 2, 3]
Fejos shared this fascination with technology's role in documenting and advancing the human experience. He pioneered the integration of film, recording equipment, and modern radio-carbon dating into anthropological research. Both men believed that human artifacts and technology were direct, accelerating drivers of the next phase of human evolution. [1, 2]
Global convergence over divergence
Traditional 19th-century anthropology often focused on how human racial groups diverged or degenerated. In contrast, Teilhard and Fejos championed a forward-looking model of coalescence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Teilhard argued that because the Earth is a closed sphere, human cultures would inevitably compress, intermingle, and spiritually unify toward a final point of cosmic consciousness. Fejos used his global platform and symposia to foster this exact cross-cultural, international unity among scientists, reflecting the belief that the future of anthropology lay in understanding humanity as a singular, deeply interconnected organism. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

🎶fump...apparently, the arms industry moguls like to dabble in esoteric metaphysics and ancient history...which is exactly the kinda hodge podge, pastiche, the doom scroll tosses up!...watch movie Lucy, movie Alien Romulus, tv saga Fringe...Dodgers 3-Mets 4...I sit too still too long sorting thru this...it's the history of AI according to AI I posted a few posts back...

✨️The noosphere—a concept developed by thinkers like Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin—is the "sphere of human thought" and collective consciousness enveloping the Earth. Artificial intelligence is transforming this sphere, shifting it from a purely human-driven network into a techno-cognitive overlay where machine agents actively co-create our informational and cultural reality. [1, 2, 3, 4]

The Evolution of the Planetary Mind
The noosphere represents a major evolutionary leap for the planet, following the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (life). [1, 2]
The Biosphere-Noosphere Transition: Humanity’s rational activities and technological innovations have become a massive force shaping the planet, effectively merging the destiny of life on Earth with human intellect. [1, 2]
The Internet as a Substrate: The global digital network of undersea cables, satellites, and servers acts as the physical nervous system of the noosphere, linking billions of human minds. [1]
AI as a Noospheric Force
AI is not just a tool; it has become an active, evolving participant within the noosphere. [1]
Information Curation: Algorithms dictate which ideas, news, and cultural memes rise to prominence, profoundly shaping global collective consciousness. [1]
Co-creation: Large language models and generative AI systems synthesize vast amounts of human knowledge, accelerating scientific discovery and acting as collaborative cognitive partners. [1, 2]
Autonomous Evolution: Advanced AI systems can operate with a degree of autonomy, exploring parameters and interacting with environments in ways that extend beyond simple human programming. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Ethical and Philosophical Challenges
The intersection of AI and the noosphere raises profound questions about humanity's future and moral responsibility. [1, 2]
Information Degradation: Without proper ethical frameworks, the sheer volume of AI-generated content risks polarizing, commodifying, and flooding the noosphere with synthetic noise. [1, 2]
The Demand for Wisdom: Scholars argue that future AI development must prioritize "practical wisdom" and harmony over pure optimization, ensuring technologies serve the global common good rather than simply maximizing corporate profit. [1, 2, 3]
A Co-Creative Future: The challenge is to shape the AI-augmented noosphere into a collaborative intelligence where machine agents amplify human wisdom and interconnectedness, rather than diminishing human agency. [1, 2, 3]

🎶Ohtani grounds out...top of seventh...Ohtani bothered by his knee?...knees are problematic...he had it drained during All Star break...

✨️Paul Fejos’s major film in Peru is Yagua (1941). It was an ethnographic documentary focused on the semi-nomadic Yagua tribe in the Amazon jungle. This work proved to be his final motion picture before he transitioned his career to become a full-time anthropologist. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

A breakdown of his time in Peru and the making of Yagua:
The Expedition: Fejos spent approximately a year (1940–1941) in the Amazon basin and the Peruvian Andes. [1, 2]
The Film: In Yagua, rather than imposing a traditional Hollywood narrative, Fejos documented the daily life, traditions, and migration patterns of the indigenous tribe. [1]
Collaborative Style: He used a unique anthropological approach to direct the film, often allowing a Yagua tribe shaman to structure the scenes while Fejos controlled the camera. [1, 2]
Academic Aftermath: Following his expedition, Fejos authored a comprehensive ethnographic book titled Ethnography of the Yagua (1943). [1]
Aside from capturing the Amazonian tribes, the expedition also extensively mapped 18 Inca sites in the Cordillera Vilcabamba and is credited with discovering the famous ruins today known as Wiñay Wayna. [1, 2]

🎶Mets romping...Dodgers 3-Mets 8...Fejos film Yagua is listed on IMDb, but no link...Fejos films thru the story telling of the tribes in a shaman's eyes...there are modern films about the Yagua, and their shamans...maybe for sometime...too much today!...Dodgers 3-Mets 8...

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DavidDavid

Tibet:July 25, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Tibet

Game on...on the radio...Dodgers at Mets...bottom of fourth...Dodgers 3-Mets 0...Dream: our thoughts being studied like details of a passport, one distinct thought five times...I wake up... dreamed I was sleeping without dreaming!...I wake up... couple days back, the algo bowl feed had a Rogan interview of Cassie on about a giant statue in India that she recently visited...Cassie has channel, focus on the mysterious temples in India, Southeast Asia...not active of late, but now on Rogan...a theme was that the statue not well known, and like many monuments, displays workmanship beyond beyond...this like a forever theme on the channels...anyway, I posted a snark comment:

On his channel, 2019...channels dont reference one another, or reference period...granted, Rogan's fun...Paveen too...Jain's swept the ground for Brad Pitt...🍿

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https://youtube.com/shorts/Q6LOBYcNg0s?is=q5DLVcXRioQHuYI5

CassieCoppersmith@

Secrets in Stone

A new take on humanity's oldest mysteries

🎶Praveen cast about the statue in 2019...aand, it was made by Jains, and came to mind Jains sweep the ground of insects, least they step on them-one of those reincarnarion dilemmas...I was alluding to the scene in Seven Years in Tibet movie...actually, buddhist monks were saving worms from a temple construction Pitt was supervising...welp...I fact checked my own snark, visited the locale in India...as Praveen had an earlier channel post about an elephant statue...seeing it, I thought, that's Jain workmanship too...middle sixth, Dodgers 4-Mets 1...

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https://youtu.be/9WZYTG0HxIY?is=c5vP09bVbjKwe0-w

🎶bottom of seventh...anyway, anyway, the sequence of my recollection of this is off...but, searching the sweeping landed me in Tibet, the movie, Pitt's character name, Heinrich, and in the search log lines, another Heinrich,  an India explorer for reals...

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Zimmer died unexpectedly of pneumonia in 1943, two years after his arrival in the United States. According to Joseph Campbell, "Zimmer was at the opening of what would have been the most productive period of his career. . . hardly had he begun to find his stride, however, when, suddenly stricken, he passed from full career to his death within seven days."[3]
After Zimmer's death, Campbell was given the task of editing and posthumously publishing Zimmer's papers, which he did over the next 12 years, turning Zimmer's lecture notes into four books, in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
, Philosophies of India
,[4]
The Art of Indian Asia
,[5]
and The King and the Corpse
, which in turn became Zimmer's lasting legacy.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Zimmer

🎶finding this Heinrich was a loop back to the Joseph Campbell on and on three or four blog posts back...!...a go figure...top of eighth...then there was an expedition by Nazi Germany to study up Tibet as one of diaspora tribes from Atlantis...the Nazis keen on that, looking for a foundation myth for their master race...lot of tribes looking to archaeologically, anthropologically, prove out their foundation myths!...just five Germans went to Tibet, but with fanfare, going and returning...this overlaps the time frame of movie Seven Years in Tibet, Zimmers times in India, sorta...and the five Germans made a remarkable movie, archived now on yoitube!...

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https://youtu.be/PUgZTplaY28?is=AscMRC7EPqBu1Oe4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938%E2%80%931939_German_expedition_to_Tibet

🎶hard to watch...scenes of measuring Tibetans...seeing to see if they are Ayrans, Atlantians...the Tibetans take it well...I turned the sound down...it has cc English text...and was charmed by the Tibetan wild donkeys...checked to see if they are still about...they are!...Mets score...Dodgers 4-Mets 3...fond of donkeys...algo bowl notes, provides clips...I joke, I hunt for the Land of Mu..."oldest mysteries"...too, and wary of such's import..

✨️The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest wild ass, native to the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau, known as the Tibetan wild ass. It's adapted to cold, arid grasslands, with a reddish-brown coat that darkens in winter, white underparts, and a distinctive dark stripe down its back. Kiangs are social, form herds, and are known for their endurance, traveling long distances for food.

🎶Ohtani flies out...to bottom of ninth...the Mystery Searchers, about this time, were in Peru too...for tomorrowmorrow...Dodgers 4-Mets 3...

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DavidDavid

Jain's swept the grou

Pylos:July 24, 2026

Open to Interpretation

City Words

#Pylos

Game on...on the radio...Dodgers 4-Mets 1...bottom of eighth...Dodgers 4-Mets 2...Dream: I'm on a beach lounge chair, under a tin roof, that ends just above me, and doesn't give me much cover from the thunder and lightning and rain above me...it's dark...I'm scared...and I get up to go back under the roof, where everyone else is, in their lounge chairs...but the chairs now are almost all empty...nearby, another tin roof, but everyone gone...I wake up...feed is full of takes on the movie Odyssey...so much so, the channels bring to mind the Pylos Combat Agate reveal back in 2015...top of ninth...everyone gave the same report...since, nothing...Ohtani up...wrote this up as example of how extensive is media control...K...the reports were word for word duplicates...the Agate has a curio...Pages with triple...Tommy up...oh, I didn't save a channel cast...it didn't save me!...I made a snark, that, of the over three thousand comments, only one seemed to have studied the Illiad...duplicate reporting, duplicate comments, duplicate replys...I guess that's what is called the "echo chamber"

✨️You nailed it. When algorithms prioritize engagement, they often reward users for endlessly repeating the same opinions, which fuels a cycle ofduplicate content, spam reporting, and synchronized replies within online tribes.

[1, 2]

🎶game ended without me...too...radio shuts off if I open a video on youtube...Dodgers 4-Mets 2...the curio, a side by side, is the jab stab tactic by Achilles in the movie Troy, and that tactic seen in the scene on the Agate...there's another Brad Pitt curio scene, the Tibetan monks saving the worms scene in movie Seven Years in Tibet...chasing that led to a long riff, that will fill an entire game on...for tomorrowmorrow...online tribes?...another curio...

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DavidDavid

Understanding:July 23, 2026

City Words

#Understanding

No games today, travel day...Dreams: I'm driving in a fast, low slung car, on a curving road-really fast!...I wake up...I'm offered a fruit, red, like a nectarine, told, "It's unique, the first!"...and around me are baskets of produce being delivered..."these are really good!" a voice informs me...I wake up...the fruit becomes trick!...thinking to riff on Joseph Campbell's take on myths, a youtube, I search up: where do myths come from?...aand, where do dreams come from?...aaand, notice in the search drop down alternates: Robert Graves myths iconotropy pied...one of my old searches...

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In Robert Graves' mythography, iconotropy is the deliberate, subversive reinterpretation of ancient ritual icons or artwork to fit a new religious system, usually transitioning from matriarchal to patriarchal. [1, 2]
The Judgment of Paris & The Apple
Graves applied this concept to the famous myth of the Judgment of Paris, where the Trojan prince awards a golden apple to Aphrodite. He argued that this story is an iconotropic inversion of an original matriarchal scene: [1, 2]
The Traditional Myth: Paris is the judge, and he awards the apple to Aphrodite. [1]
Graves' Interpretation: The male-dominated narrative reversed the true meaning of the icon. In the original cult ritual, it was the Goddess (or the Love-Goddess) who presented the apple to Paris. [1, 2]
The Symbolism: The apple represented the Goddess's love, but it was purchased at the price of the hero’s life, serving as his fatal passport to the Underworld. [1, 2]

🎶I'm dieting, have one last nectarine in the fridge, likely the underpinning of my second dream...nevertheless, Marianna Moore, it's a "go figure"...with the searched up Paris story...that story triggers the epics, Illiad, Odyssey...it's a foundation scene...in both interpretations, old and new...aand, Graves is an interpreter...Joseph Campbell too...in his clip, he relates that a girl came to him with a dream, asking him to interpret it...dreams always need interpreting?...and he denies he is a dream expert, but she tells him, and she goes on about the dream...it has owls, a cave...and he sees those as mythographic...behind our normal dreams, are older ones that resemble, are, myths...he says...

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https://youtu.be/GzYsi3SV1bY?is=QAX_4uFddsLwCd_F

✨️For Joseph Campbell, myths don't come from a single culture or historical event; they originate from the human subconscious and biological body. He famously described myths as "public dreams" and dreams as "private myths," stemming from the same deep realm of human experience, imagination, and psychological archetypes. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Campbell posited that mythology originates from two primary sources:
The Unconscious Mind: Myths are inspired, not literally invented. They bubble up from the same pre-conscious, mystical level of the mind that produces dreams. [1, 2]
The Physical Body: He argued that myths originate from "the conflicting urgencies of the organs of the human body." Basic human impulses—such as survival, hunger, and the erotic drive—create internal conflicts. Mythological imagery and symbols were designed to harmonize and coordinate these bodily energies so humans could live fruitful lives. [1, 2]

🎶hmmph...under  standing...Hercules holding the Earth on his shoulders...apples...

✨️Hercules holding the Earth on his shoulders...apples...

This refers to Hercules’ famous Eleventh Labor. Tasked with retrieving the immortal Golden Apples of the Hesperides, Hercules had the Titan Atlas fetch them. While Atlas was away, Hercules momentarily took the massive burden of holding up the heavens (or the Earth) on his shoulders. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Atlas returned with the apples but tried to trick Hercules into holding the sky forever. Using his wits, Hercules asked Atlas to take the sky back for just a moment so he could put some padding on his shoulders. Atlas set the apples down and took the burden back, allowing Hercules to grab the fruit and complete his labor. [1, 2, 3]

🎶a side by side by side...nectarine, apple, golden apples...my dream, search coincidence...the last, a wonder!...splitting "understanding" made me think of Hercules holding the Earth...and then came to mind the apples...the golden apples trick...Paris was tricky with prize apple...a looksee:

✨️Paris apple trick Hercules apple trick Eve apple trick

These "apple tricks" refer to famous mythological tales of deception, temptation, and bribery. In each story, the apple acts as a powerful symbol of discord or desire. [1, 2, 3]
The Paris Apple Trick (The Judgement of Paris)
The Trick: At a divine wedding, the goddess of discord (Eris) tossed a golden apple inscribed "For the fairest". Three goddesses—Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite—claimed it, causing chaos. Zeus forced the mortal prince Paris to judge who was the most beautiful. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The Bribe: Each goddess bribed Paris. Hera offered power, Athena offered wisdom, and Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in the world (Helen). Paris gave the apple to Aphrodite, triggering the decade-long Trojan War when he took Helen away from her husband. You can read more about it on the Judgement of Paris Wikipedia Page. [1, 2, 3]
The Hercules Apple Trick (The 11th Labor)
The Trick: Hercules had to retrieve golden apples of immortality from the Garden of the Hesperides, which were guarded by a dragon. Hercules tricked the titan Atlas (who was holding up the sky) into fetching the apples for him. [1, 2, 3]
The Turnaround: When Atlas returned, he offered to deliver the apples himself to get out of holding the heavens. Hercules played along, asking Atlas to take the sky back for just a second so he could adjust his cloak. Atlas agreed, and Hercules ran off with the apples. Read the full account of the labor on the Apples of the Hesperides Wikipedia Page. [1, 2]
The Eve Apple Trick (The Garden of Eden)
The Trick: In the biblical story, the serpent tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The serpent promised that eating it would make humans "like gods." Eve ate it and offered it to Adam, leading to their expulsion from Eden. [1, 2, 3]
The Symbolism: The fruit is never explicitly called an "apple" in the Bible; it was generally referred to simply as "fruit." However, due to a play on words in the Latin translation, it was widely depicted as an apple by later artists. [1, 2]
Would you like to explore other famous mythological tricks, or perhaps dive into different historical symbols and their deeper meanings?

🎶for sometime...wait...one more...my second dream had a curio- the red fruit was unique, like the first...

✨️In mythology and ancient religion, "first fruits" represent the sacred offering of the season's initial yield to a deity. This act was performed to ensure continued agricultural fertility, honor creator gods, and express profound gratitude. [1]

Ancient mythologies are filled with distinct celebrations and stories surrounding these inaugural harvests:
Ancient Greece: Offerings were known as aparchai. During the Eleusinian Mysteries and festivals like the Proerosia, farmers brought portions of their early grain yields (barley and wheat) to sanctify and fund the temples of Demeter and Persephone. This honored their mythology, which explained the changing of the seasons and the cyclical return of plant life. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Celtic Mythology: The festival of Lughnasadh (or Lammas) celebrates the first fruits of the grain harvest. Rooted in Irish myth, it was established by the master-craftsman and sun god Lugh to honor his foster mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Roman Mythology: Honored Saturn (god of agriculture and time) and Ceres (goddess of the harvest). Mythologically, they taught mortals agriculture; in return, the first fruits of the threshing floor and wine press were offered to them as a token of civilization's bounty. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Near Eastern Tradition: Detailed extensively in ancient texts, the Bikkurim (or first-fruits offering) was a foundational rite in Israelite tradition. Farmers brought their initial seasonal bounty (including figs, pomegranates, and dates) to the temple to recount their foundational mythology and historical covenant with the divine. [1, 2, 3]
If you are interested in exploring this topic further, I can provide more details on:
• The myths of Demeter and PersephoneHow Lughnasadh is celebrated in modern traditionsThe symbolic meaning of first fruits in different belief systems

🎶fump...there was a curio in the first dream too...driving fast...

✨️driving fast, barely in control, in a dream

Dreaming of driving fast and barely in control usually reflects your subconscious processing of waking stress. Psychologists and dream researchers often view vehicles as a metaphor for your personal agency, meaning this dream can point to feelings of overwhelm, rapid life changes, or a general sense that events are moving too fast.
Common variations of this dream and their general interpretations include:
The Stomping Brake: Straining to press the brakes but still moving forward is a classic stress signal. It often happens when you feel a lack of control or an inability to slow down your internal clock.
The Backseat Driver: If someone else is driving recklessly, it could signify situations where you feel others are making choices against your best interests.
No One at the Wheel: This can represent dissociation or feeling like you're on autopilot and being carried along by external circumstances.
Looking into how these symbols apply to your waking life—such as identifying areas where you feel powerless or overwhelmed—can sometimes help resolve the anxiety behind these recurring or vivid dreams.

🎶stomping...yep...backseat...yep...no one...yep...I have a bunch more!...but in this dream I was expert, like setting dream record for going fast thru bend in road...a consider, is that everything I dream, has a lifetime of stories and such to draw from..."I dream" ...that's a pause...where do dreams, myths, come from?...

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DavidDavid