A Stone Marker At A Holy Site Dedicated To The Dual Lunar Cult Of Tanit And Astarte; Phoenician Night

The Moon’s path shown along the Earth’s orbit during the years 1888 and 1889.

Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul

GEOMANCY

Dialectics: Being-Nothing-Becoming

When we think Being it immediately is Nothing, and Nothing is immediately Being. The very thinking of them is their vanishing, and thinking is what a thought truly is. It is no logical nonsense to say the truth we have experienced: Being is Being vanishing to Nothing, and vice versa.

Rudy Rucker, Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota, ca. 1200.

Evaluating Integral Metatheory

A schematic representation of the personality system. 

‘Biological bases’ (such as genes) and ‘external influences’ (such as cultural norms) are inputs to the system. Personality traits are found in the category of ‘basic tendencies’, which are influenced by biological bases, but not external influences. Causal paths are indicated by arrows, and show that, over time, traits interact with the environment to produce ‘characteristic adaptations’ (such as attitudes), and these in turn interact with the situation to produce the output of the system, the ‘objective biography’. The ‘self-concept’ is a subset of characteristic adaptations of particular importance to self theorists. Adapted from McCrae and Costa (1996) 

The ‘Cognitive Science Hexagon’ redrawn from the original cover of the Sloan Foundation’s 1978 State of the Art Report on Cognitive Science