Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940, Cambridge,
Massachusetts)
The Eloptic Nohmagraphon
1989
Oil, Acrylic, Ink, Lettering on Canvas
37 1/2 x 73 1/2 in.
Subject:
Recording the Degrees of Embodiment of an Entity In order to make the project understandable to the viewing public there will be the need for explanation displays covering the ways of grouping the artworks so that they can act as the source materials for the symposium.
Symbol Evocation: The Lux: The Inner Light of the Mind
that can Model the Complete Appearance and History of the Universe
Comments: Mind-physics or the physics of consciousness-
what will most certainly be the physics of choice for the 21st Century
(The Bauharoque Period) will involve many aspects, and these aspects will
be understood only in a transdisciplinary manner. One aspect, the Vedic
concept of the Tulpa (written of in 1000 BC) is crucial to the development
of mind-physics. The word Tulpa is similar to the word Tulka,
which means the continuity of a particular consciousness (or Soul) from
one life-time to another by means of reincarnation. On the one hand, the
Tulka also refers to indications or clues in the physical realm that prove
reincarnation has taken place. On the other hand, the word Tulpa is much
more generic and can be translated from Sanskrit as "that which manifests,"
but does so in specific degrees of embodiment such as; an idea in the
mind, a ghost, a lucid dream, eidetic images, UFOs, angels, religious
healings, charisms, and thought-forms, occasions of ectoplasmic mystagogues,
and, of course, independent holoforms such as humans, animals, plants
and minerals, constructed instrumentality- in short, the entire physical
universe.
The concept of the Tulpa implies that while consciousness and mass are
at base totally continuous, the manifestation of consciousness-mass occurs
with specified discontinuities. This is similar in Quantum mechanics to
the ideas of valence and conduction bands, definite ranges of energy levels
that allow electrons to remain with or leave from particular atomic structures
(the quantum jump).
The Tulpa is also similar to the traditional notion of geometric proportioning:
the Canon of proportioning, Phi, the divine proportion, the curves of
life and death, and sacred geometry: the logarithmic spiral, and the Fibonacci
number series: (.382…/.618…), (x2-x-1=0), etc. While the Canon
has been a part of Western culture since the time of ancient Egypt (artists
and architects "idealized" aspects of nature and growth patterns
with these proportions and then used them in art works), today scientists
are beginning to recognize these geometric proportions as actual
aspects of quantum mechanics at the macro scale of nature.
The Eloptic Nohmagraphon is a psychotronic (mind-matter interactive) device
that is capable of photographing Tulpas of a lesser degree of embodiment
than independent holoforms (so-called reality elements). It is sometimes
called a "thought camera," but this is a partial misnomer. Neither
is it a camera in the sense that it records physical phenomena, nor does
it record conceptual thought on film.
The range of image recording extends back in manifestation from the albedo
imagery of the photonic realm of physical light, up to and including a
small portion of the non-albedo light (or the lux) of the mind. Its target
images are generated eidetically in the mind and cover such subjects as
lucid dreams, ghosts, UFOs and religious manifestations (the so-called
"thought-forms"). While there are individuals who can project
their own "thought-forms" onto films like Jesus did onto his
burial shroud, the Eloptic Nohmagraphon allows anyone to record
their "thought-forms."
From Somakatoligon:
EXAMPLES:
1. The Tulpodial Index or Spectrum: the tulpa is a Thibetan Buddhist term for the materialized "transformation body" (the tulku) from one lifetime to the next - the discovered reincarnation of a previously deceased person. In psychical research the tulpa has come to mean projections from the "Collective Unconscious" materialized into the ordinary physical world with 3 states:
a. virtual state reality
b. bioframe (an electromagnetic field which can be photographed)
c. the so-called Zeroth Bioframe (full materialization).
We are extending, therefore, the current definition of the tulpa in order to postulate the tulpoidal index:
2. The Albedo - Nonalbedo Spectrum: This spectrum concerns three aspects of light which, while having differentiated characteristics, nevertheless, expresses or implies continuity.
a. Albedo Light is the fraction of incident light or electromagnetic radiation that is reflected by the surface of a body. It is the appearance of light within an environment of mass, i.e. objects in space, point sources of photons, the principles of perspective etc.;
b. Nonalbedo Light or The Lux is the light generated within an environment of consciousness. It is the light associated with visions, imaginings, daydreams, or nightdreams. The Lux does not appear necessarily to derive from a point source which is continuous with darkness. The Lux can appear completely distinct from darkness, occupying a volumetric extention which is both homogeneous and isotropic throughout that extention.
c. Bioluminescence is the mediation between Albedo and Nonalbedo light.
There is an emission of photons as in Albedo Light but without the point source of radiant heat like a star, flame, or electric discharge. It is the so-called "cold light" associated with some plants, animals, and humans. Human Bioluminescence is often considered to be evidence of the presence of a religious charism. Bioluminescence is produced in organisms when oxidative or peroxidative enzymes that couple the chemical energy released from the enzyme reaction, create an electrical excitation of a luminescent compound. The compound that is oxidated with subsequent light emission is usually referred to as luciferin. The enzyme which catalyzes the reation is known as luciferase.
Now consider the concept of Ectoplasm - that substance which is self- luminescent, can be felt, and often has an odor of ozone. It exudes from various orifices of a trance medium producing materializations under the control of discarnate intelligences. It is described as matter which is invisible and impalpable in its primary state (the continuity between mass and consciousness), can become a charged plasma, a gas, a liquid or solid. It is in essence the materialized astral body of a person. Ectoplasm in its various forms can be described as Albedo, Nonalbedo, and Bioluminescent Light.
3. The Repeatable - Non Repeatable Experiment Spectrum: In terms of the analysis of the subject matter for the exhibition, an important spectrum would be the determination of the suitability of the phenomena to the classical scientific experiment.
a. The Open Repeatable Experiment available to all audiences is the goal of science (Methodological Sensation). While this has been the ideal of science, the practicality of science recognizes that it is impossible to control or obtain all of the identical circumstances that have made up the event-horizon of a defined experiment. Even if but one circumstance is different each time the experiment is attempted, there exists another experiment.
b. The Non-Repeatable Experiment which The Symbolists derived from the Medieval Alchemists is, of course, another way of describing the process of creating an artwork. Not any artwork - The Visionary Artwork - the artwork that does not eschew the scientific impulse regardless of when it occured in history. The Visionary Artwork - the goal of The Symbolist agenda could be described as Methodological Revelation. The symbolists were the first group in recent history to call for a revival of what they called "Ancient Wisdom" - the transdisciplinary process of integrating all knowledge and in doing so revealing its own principles of organization - the continuity of "Methodological Sensation" with "Methodological Revelation" - true objectivity.
c. Einstein knew that "Das Gedankenexperimenten" ("The Thought Experiment") derived from Delville's "Experiment Of The Imagination" would yield an advancement in knowledge because (as a type of Non Repeatable Experiment) there would always be some repeating of the circumstances and, therefore, the possibility of public communication of objectivity. It will be possible, therefore, to determine which aspects of the subjects we choose for the motifs for our artworks are best scrutinized by conventional science and which are not.
d. In order to address the theme of the project in the most comprehensive manner possible, diversity of subjects for the artworks will be encouraged.