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Game on...on the radio...Freeman up...Ohtani flew out, Pages walked...an old side by side I noticed is the Geometric art in Islam, and the geometric patterns in reports of hallucinations...Tommy up...thing is, Islam combined calligraphy with tiles...Ohtani with an rbi double...mosaics have been a thing...they have common motifs...meanders, braids, peltas...and the thought, that the figures tell a story, and the pattern motifs say something too... Dodgers 1-Royals 3 Freeman up...rbi hit...Dodgers 2- Royals 3 Tommy up...ground out...Betts up...illuminated Bibles a wonder...the text having its say...the illustration and calligraphy having its say...illustrated books from India like this too...much Renaissance art was paired with Bible scenes...
Why did Islam limit art to calligraphy and geometry?
Cosmic Order: Geometric patterns and symmetry symbolize the underlying mathematical harmony and perfection of God's creation.
The Concept of Infinity: Repeating, interlocking geometric tilework and tessellations evoke a sense of boundlessness, pointing the viewer toward the eternal and infinite nature of the divine. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Islam did not historically view the shift toward calligraphy and geometry as a limitation, but rather as a profound theological choice to reflect the abstract nature of God and avoid idolatry. [1, 2]
While secular and private Islamic art throughout history did occasionally feature humans and animals, religious art strictly avoided depicting sentient beings. This concept, known as aniconism, emerged from specific cultural, theological, and philosophical pillars. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
1. The Prevention of Idolatry (Aniconism)
• Historical context: Islam emerged in the 7th-century Arabian Peninsula, where polytheistic tribes worshiped physical stone idols and statues. [1]Theological boundaries: To completely distance the new faith from pagan practices, religious art banned physical representations of divine or holy figures. [1, 2]The Hadith prohibitions: While the Quran does not explicitly ban images of living beings, several recorded sayings of Prophet Muhammad (Hadiths) strongly disapprove of them. These texts teach that attempting to create the likeness of a living, breathing entity is an arrogant attempt to mimic God's unique role as the sole Creator (Al-Khaliq)
✨️Why the xenophobia about idols?
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✨️The connection between N1 sleep, hypnopompic hallucinations, and "idols" links the neurology of waking up with the shapes your brain projects during incomplete sleep transitions. When waking up, your brain can stall in the N1 (Stage 1 Non-REM) transition state. Instead of clearing away dream imagery, it projects formed, static figures—historically referred to as "idols" or phantoms—directly into your physical room.
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✨️How far does hypnopompic go?
How far does hypnopompic go in making cosmological frameworks
The hypnopompic state—the transitional threshold of consciousness experienced while waking up—acts as a powerful catalyst for divergent thinking and creative discovery. In cosmological worldmaking, it functions as an associative flash-point where recursive geometries, scale-invariant structures, and non-linear causality can bypass daytime skepticism to form raw conceptual frameworks. [1, 2]
Cognitive Mechanisms in Liminal States
Free association: Ideas cascade without linear waking censorship or restrictions.
Semantic distance: Brief immersions in early sleep-wake boundaries boost the capacity to connect distant, abstract concepts.
Pattern recognition: Heightened sensitivity to gist extraction and statistical regularities peaks during this window. [1]
Translation into Cosmological Models
Intuitive visualization: Complex organizational principles—such as macro-microcosmic symmetries or expansion-contraction dynamics—are experienced directly as imagery in the body-psyche. [1]
Refinement required: While the hypnopompic state is potent for generating self-consistent insights or alternative ontological frameworks, these intuitive flashes must be captured, disciplined, and tested through awake, rational analysis to become fully realized cosmological models. [1]
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