Interesting People & Ideas

Some links on this page are broken. I would like to update with more interesting people and ideas.

Awareness through Vision

I've been to see Harry Sirota in Seattle, Laguna Beach, and at his Chicago office a couple of times. I heard about him from an acquaintance, whom had undergone a very positive change. He said that he'd seen Dr. Sirota, who prescribed glasses by looking at your body. So when harry was brought out to seattle by his west coast supporters, I went to see him myself. Here is a piece written about him, entitled A New Vision. This may be of interest only to those who wear "corrective" lenses.

On my most recent visit, February, 2000, he warned me that he'd gone further out with his methods - prescribing with the eyes closed! This almost turned me away, but in my mind I new what he was getting at - I can tell a bad prescription with my eyes closed - it's the light that falls on the eyelids, and the tiny amount that passes between them. With the eyes closed, you can focus on your response to the lenses with less distraction. Be warned, however, Sirota's rate is $175/hour and it took three hours that last visit. I expect he could have done it in two, and would have had he seen me more than every five years or so.

Sound Body, Sound Mind

This is an interesting piece of musical and frequency engineering. It combines brainwave-inducing frequencies with a musical score that matches the intended mental states. Very relaxing. Here is an excerpt from the little book that comes with the CD. Produced by Andrew Weil, Joshua Leeds, Richard Lawrence, and Anna Wise.

Spontaneous Healing

I heard an interview with Andrew Weil on NPR in about 1972. I have been reading his books ever since. I have a brief review of his latest book Spontaneous Healing. Also see The Natural Mind, and The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon. Search the web for references to these with Andrew Weil's name, or visit his very own "Ask Dr. Weil" Home Page!

Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science

R. Buckminster Fuller.: A good page on Fuller with further links.
Fuller's Trip to L&C: On the evening of February 5th, 1979, Fuller gave a talk, "Toward a Fuller Future", at L&C. I was the faculty host for this visit. Eventually this may be a link to a story of our picking him up at PDX; Matt Wuerker driving his Volvo, Chuck Farnsworth (?) riding shotgun, me in the back seat with Fuller, hosting a dinner for him in my home, his talk, joining him for breakfast on Feb 6th, taking him to PDX in my Opel, and how his visit has influenced my life. (To think, here is the inventor of the Dymaxion Car riding in a 1968 Opel Rallye!)

Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Christopher Alexander, decomposition of systems.

Pattern Languages

Christopher Alexander's idea for a "Pattern Language" has been applied to a variety of areas. See Gary Swift's page for more on Pattern Languages.

The Pattern Depot, totall busted when I visted the site 1/16/2002.

Some applications:

Office Pattern Language - I seem to have lost this text file!.
Sacred Places and Pattern Langauages contains a Lingia Francas for Design.
Programming Pattern Language (See An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers
Inventing the Future with Structured Planning, by Gary Swift.

I'd really like to see a Local Area Network Pattern Language. Other links, from Linda Rising, AG Communication Systems.

Laws of Form

G. Spencer Brown, predicate calculus for Logic. My Notes of Laws of Form.

L-Systems

Austrid Lindemaier, Need a short description of this idea.

L-systems Software: This page contains a list of the available software that (its author is) aware of for performing simulations using L-systems.
L-systems tutorial: L-SYSTEMS . David G. Green, ANU Bioinformatics Facility.

Cohousing

"Cohousing is the name of a type of collaborative housing that attempts to overcome the alienation of modern subdivisions in which no-one knows their neighbors, and there is no sense of community."

alt.housing.nontrad Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Archive-name: housing-nontrad-faq, 1994.
Intentional Communities (communes, cohousing, co-ops...): Intentional Community is meant to be an inclusive title for information on ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects and dreams... (From www.well.org, now somehwat off limits to non-subscribers).

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