I, standing twenty miles off, see a crimson cloud in the horizon. You tell me it is a mass of vapor which absorbs all other rays and reflects the red, but that is nothing to the purpose, for this red vision excites me, stirs my blood, makes my thoughts flow, and I have new and indescribable fancies, and you have not touched the secret of that influence. If there is not something mystical in your explanation, something inexplainable to the understanding, some elements of mystery, it is quite insufficient. If there is nothing in it which speaks to my imagination, what boots it? What sort of science is that which enriches the understanding, but robs the imagination?..... if we knew all things thus mechanically merely, should we know anything really?

--Henry David Thoreau, after watching a sunset, Christmas, 1851

Monday, February 8, 2010

Knowing the Universe: Robin J. Weeks, Ph.D.

This is a talk that Robin gave at a small gathering he organized in Sedona.  The film is by Connie Baxter-Marlow, co-owner of Sedona's beautiful and welcoming retreat center, The INNstitute.

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