wiktionary microcosm microcosms Microcosm may refer to Microcosm, a literary term used to describe how a large world society can be illustrated in the form of a small world. opposed to macrocosm . Macrocosm and microcosm , a philosophical idea Microcosm CERN , a museum near Geneva, Switzerland Microcosm video game Microcosm video game , a 1993 shoot em up by Psygnosis Microcosm Ltd , a UK software protection company Microcosm clock , a unique clock made by Henry Bridges of Waltham Abbey, England Microcosm Publishing , an independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, Oregon and Bloomington, Indiana Microcosm Portrait of a Central European City , a 2002 book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse Microcosm E. coli and the New Science of Life , a 2008 book by Carl Zimmer Microcosm Model experimental ecosystem The Microcosm, a microscope shop on Regent Street, London run by Carpenter and Westley Scorpius Space Launch Company Microcosm, Inc , aerospace company in el segundo, california See also Microcosmos disambiguation disambiguation de Mikrokosmos Begriffskl rung pl Mikrokosmos fi Mikrokosmos ... more details
Social Microcosms are miniature spheres of distinctly separate Social interaction human interaction and Human Behavior behavior within a city, country, or planet. Macrocosm and microcosm Microcosm s are models of miniature ecosystems existing independently within the larger biosphere usually the Earth . Some factors that define a social microcosm as separate form the whole would be different behaviors in education, science, technology, customs, beliefs, or religions. See also Group psychotherapy References Calhoun, Craig ed Dictionary of the Social Sciences , Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978 0195123715 cite book title oclc 45505995 Scott, John & Marshall, Gordon eds A Dictionary of Sociology 3rd Ed . Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0198609868, cite book title oclc 60370982 Viraj Sinha Category Sociological terms Category Social sciences ... more details
Image UA1.jpg thumb right The central section of the UA1 experiment on display at the Microcosm museum Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva , Switzerland , near the town of Meyrin . It covers a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN. Exhibits include explanations of the purpose of CERN and particle physics research in general. a mock up, hands on version of Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson Rutherford s Geiger Marsden experiment gold foil experiment a real time cosmic ray particle detector detector a mock up of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel models and explanations of current and future CERN experiments equipment from old experiments, including a large part of the UA1 experiment UA1 detector, which ran at the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN from 1981 to 1984, and helped discover the W and Z bosons . Microcosm garden The Microcosm garden features several large components of old CERN experiments. gallery Image Microcosm Garden.jpg The entire garden Image Big European Bubble Chamber.jpg The Big European Bubble Chamber Image LEP RF.jpg An RF cavity from the Large Electron Positron Collider Image Microcosm initial accelerator.jpg Initial stages of an old particle accelerator gallery External links http outreach.web.cern.ch outreach expos cern microcosm.html CERN Microcosm Webpage coord 46.2326 N 6.0558 E type landmark region CH GE display title Category Science museums Category Museums in Geneva Category CERN fr Microcosm pt Microcosmo Cern ... more details
refimprove date June 2010 Microcosm Publishing is an independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, Oregon and Leavenworth, Kansas . They distribute ideas through zine s, book s, pamphlet s, sticker ... time mail order out of a bedroom in Cleveland, Ohio , Microcosm moved to Portland, OR in 1999. The operation ...&dq microcosm publishing&hl en Rents up, so weird businesses pull out , Eugene Register Guard ... , July 1, 2007 pay site . ref ref Scott Moore, http www.portlandmercury.com books microcosm publishing moving to indiana Content?oid 273558 Microcosm Publishing Moving to Indiana , The Portland Mercury , March 8, 2007. ref In 2006, the Utne Reader described Microcosm as an esteemed Portland, Oregon .... ref Microcosm is heralded in the zine community as an entity that, for better or worse, has brought ... approach, Microcosm uses guerrilla styled tactics for promoting their titles unlike most publishers ... 2007 In September 2008, Microcosm opened a new retail store in the Buckman, Portland, Oregon Buckman ... at half retail price or less. ref Alison Hallett, http www.portlandmercury.com books microcosm comes home Content?oid 924723 Microcosm Comes Home Microcosm Publishing opens a new Portland storefront ... SE 11th Ave. In July 2011, Microcosm closed its Bloomington, Indiana office and opened a new distro ... grammar a microcosm publishing kansas staff diary 1 ref One month later, Lansing staffer Jessie Duquette aka Jessie Duke , an employee since 2006, became co owner of Microcosm. ref http microcosmpublishing.com about ref For nearly sixteen years, Microcosm has remained truly independent of any outside ... http www.sheepless.org magazine features microcosm publishing pairs do it yourself aesthetic do it together ethic ref Microcosm Publishing was formerly a record label, and released records by Flotation ... last1 Reid first1 Calvin date November 25, 2011 title The Underground Drives Sales at Microcosm journal ... storefront Category Small press publishers Microcosm Publishing Category Book publishing ... more details
Microcosm Ltd is a UK company established in 1979. Its early claims to fame included Silicon Disk System in 1981 and Microcache the world s first page cache , or disk cache, for microcomputers in 1982 ref Peter Cheesewright, http dx.doi.org 10.2307 2581237 Microcomputers Come of Age . The Journal of the Operational Research Society , 32 10 932 933, October 1981. doi 10.2307 2581237 ref . Since 1989, it has concentrated on software copy protection systems, firstly with CopyControl a software based copy protection system , then Dinkey Dongle small hardware copy protection keys that connect to parallel port parallel or USB port s and, more recently, CopyMinder software based copy protection that uses the Internet where possible to provide an intelligent copy protection system . History 1979 Microcosm Limited was established 1981 Silicon Disk System the world s first RAM disk for microcomputers released 1982 Microcache the world s first page cache , or disk cache, for microcomputers released 1989 CopyControl floppy disk protection released 1994 CopyControl UnLock It software based protection released 1995 Microcosm receives Ziff Davis Europe award finalist, best UK product for CopyControl 1.65 1995 parallel port Dinkey Dongle released 2000 USB port Dinkey Dongle released 2005 CopyMinder Internet based software protection released 2008 The world s first driverless combined Flash Drive and dongle released References references External links http www.microcosm.co.uk Microcosm Ltd official website Category Companies established in 1979 Category Computer companies of the United Kingdom Category Computer hardware companies ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2007 Notability date August 2011 Microcosm was a unique clock made by Henry Bridges of Waltham Abbey, England. It stood 10 12 feet high, and six across the base, it toured Great Britain , North America and the West Indies as a visual and musical entertainment as well as demonstrating astronomical movements. It was first advertised for exhibition in 1733, but it is also claimed that Sir Isaac Newton , who died in 1727 checked the mechanism. Several prints survive of the microcosm including one of 1734 showing Newton and Bridges. When Henry Bridges died in 1754 he left the clock to his 3 youngest children to be sold. It is unclear when the clock left the Bridges family but it continued touring till 1775 when it vanished. The astronomical clock was found in Paris about 1919 and is now in the British Museum. When on tour, entrance was a massive 1s entrance, and souvenir pamphlets were also sold. It had 4 parts, from the top Three scenes which alternated 9 muses playing musical instruments, Orpheus in the forest, and a grove with birds flying and singing Beneath a grand arch were 2 astronomical clocks, one showing the Ptolemaic system, the other Copernican. Two planetariums, one showing the solar system, showing 10 months move in 10 minutes, Another showing Jupiter and its 4 satellites, and on the front face was a seascape with ships sailing and in the foreground, horse drawn carriages galloping and a gunpowdermill and a windmill turning, swans swimming In the pedestal was a working carpenters yard The machine played mechanical music but the organ could also be played by hand. The music was mostly new, some composed especially for it. As John R Milburn stated There were other broadly similar though less comprehensive devices in existence in the first half of the eighteenth century The importance of Bridges Microcosm , however, lies in the nature of its displays combining automated pictures to attract the multitude with educational astronomical models ... more details
Unreferenced date February 2012 Infobox television episode Title Macrocosm Image Commented out File ST VOY Macrocosm.jpg 270px br An enormous virus threatens Janeway and Neelix Caption Series Star Trek Voyager Episode 12 Season 3 Production 154 Airdate Startdate 1996 12 11 Writer Brannon Braga Director Alexander Singer Music Dennis McCarthy composer Dennis McCarthy Guests Michael Fiske Miner Albie Selznick Tak Tak trader Tarik Ergin Lt. Ayala Star Trek Ayala Prev The Q and the Grey Next Fair Trade Star Trek Voyager Fair Trade Episode list List of Star Trek Voyager episodes List of Star Trek Voyager episodes NOTOC Macrocosm is the 54th episode of Star Trek Voyager , the 12th episode of the third season. The title borrows the philosophical term macrocosm , definable as a larger world that mirrors what exists in a miniature world, or microcosm . It has an average fan rating of 4.4 5 on the official Star Trek website as of September, 2009. The plot of this episode is similar to Star Trek The Next Generation episode Genesis Star Trek The Next Generation Genesis . Plot Plot date April 2008 Kathryn Janeway Captain Janeway and Neelix are returning to Voyager from a trade mission with an unusual race called the Tak Tak, but find the ship adrift with no evidence of an attack, the crew apparently missing, as well as strange bio electric sensor readings. They board the ship to find it deserted and try to investigate what happened. While en route to the bridge, the turbolift they are in is attacked and Neelix is sprayed with a mucilaginous liquid. They escape into a Jefferies tube but he quickly begins to get faint and becomes too weak to continue. As Janeway goes to get medical supplies, he is abducted by an unknown life form. Janeway makes her way to the bridge to send a distress message ... title Macrocosm TV.com episode 10693 Macrocosm memoryalpha Macrocosm StarTrek.com link VOY 68942 Macrocosm memoryalpha Macrovirus Star Trek VOY S3 Star Trek VOY Star Trek Category Star Trek Voyager ... more details
Infobox video game title Microcosm image File Microcosm AmigaCD32.png 200px Microcosm caption Box art of Microcosm for the Amiga CD32. developer Psygnosis publisher Psygnosis released Sega CD ref cite web title Microcosm Release Date Sega Mega CD publisher GameFAQs accessdate 2008 08 31 url http www.gamefaqs.com console segacd data 587972.html ref br vgrelease NA 1993 EU 1993 vgrelease JP February 25, 1994 3DO ref cite web title Microcosm Release Date 3DO publisher GameFAQs accessdate 2008 08 31 url http www.gamefaqs.com console 3do data 584436.html ref br vgrelease NA March 14, 1994 vgrelease JP July 9, 1994 Amiga CD32 ref cite web title Microcosm Release Date Amiga CD32 publisher GameFAQs accessdate 2008 08 31 url http www.gamefaqs.com console cd32 data 952179.html ref br vgrelease EU 1994 genre Shoot em up platforms Sega CD , 3DO Interactive Multiplayer 3DO , Amiga CD32 , MS DOS Microcosm is a shoot em up computer game developed and published by Psygnosis in vgy 1993 . It was released for the Sega Mega CD and Amiga CD32 game consoles, as well as MS DOS . Microcosm featured realistic FMV animation, with the graphics being rendered on Silicon Graphics workstations. ref Cite document last Dillon first Tony title Microcosm publisher CU Amiga year 1993 date December 1993 url http amr.abime.net ... last Storey first Dudley III title Microcosm newspaper Amiga Down Under issue 9 pages 73 year 1994 ... of 100 and higher. ref cite web title Microcosm publisher Amiga Magazine Rack accessdate 2008 08 31 ... praised Microcosm as having one of the best displays of graphics seen in an Amiga game. ref Cite news last Dyson first Marcus title Microcosm newspaper Amiga Format issue 58 pages 57 year 1994 date ..., a soundtrack CD and a T shirt. ref cite web title FMV Hell Microcosm publisher The Spoony Experiment date April 6 2008 url http spoonyexperiment.com 2008 04 06 fmv hell microcosm ref References ... Mega CD games Category Scrolling shooters scroll shooter videogame stub computer game stub fr Microcosm ... more details
Other uses Microcosm disambiguation Microcosm No footnotes article date March 2011 Microcosms are artificial, simplified ecosystems that are used to simulate and predict the behaviour of natural ecosystems under controlled conditions. Open or closed microcosms provide an experimental area for ecologists to study natural ecological processes. Microcosm studies can be very useful to study the effects of disturbance or to determine the ecological role of key species. A Winogradsky column is an example of a microbial microcosm. See also Closed ecological system Ecologist Howard T. Odum was a pioneer in his use of small closed and open ecosystems in classroom teaching. Biosphere 2 Controversial project with a 1.27 ha artificial closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona USA . References ISBN date March 2011 cite journal last1 Jiang first1 Lin last2 Patel first2 Shivani N. title Community assembly in the presence of disturbance a microcosm experiment journal Ecology volume 89 issue 7 pages 1931 40 year 2008 pmid 18705379 doi 10.1890 07 1263.1 cite journal last1 Kangas first1 Patrick last2 Adey first2 Walter title Mesocosms and ecological engineering journal Ecological Engineering volume 6 pages 1 5 year 1996 doi 10.1016 0925 8574 95 00058 5 cite journal last1 Kassen first1 Rees last2 Buckling first2 Angus last3 Bell first3 Graham last4 Rainey first4 Paul B. title Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm journal Nature volume 406 issue 6795 pages 508 12 year 2000 pmid 10952310 doi 10.1038 35020060 cite book author Odum HT year 1989 chapter Ecological engineering and self organization title Ecological Engineering An Introduction to Ecotechnology editor Mitsch WJ & J rgensen SE pages 79 101 publisher John Wiley and Sons location New York cite journal ... first4 Mark last5 Muyzer first5 Gerard title On the reproducibility of microcosm experiments different ... 2011 DEFAULTSORT Microcosm Model Experimental Ecosystem Category Ecosystems Category Biological ... more details
Image Microcosm davies moorhouse cover.jpg right thumb Book cover Microcosm Portrait of a Central European City is a book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse about the history of Wroc aw . Content The book opens with a description of the siege and fall of German Breslau at the very end of the Second World War . Attacking Red Army reduces many streets of the city to rubble, the remaining Germans gradually withdraw. The hopeless situation of the civilians, complicated by shelling, temperatures of minus 20 and food shortages, deteriorates still further as revenge seeking Soviet military leaders allow mass murder , rape and looting . The opening chapter of the book contains a description of the Prehistory prehistoric island settlement in the Oder River Oder whose inhabitants took part in the amber and salt trade. The next chapters, named Wrotizla , Vretslav , Presslaw , Breslau and Wroclaw , give exhaustive accounts of the ensuing periods. The authors show the impact of natural phenomena and events such as pandemic s, pogrom s, attack by the Mongols , the Hussite Wars , the struggles of the Protestant Reformation Reformation , the Thirty Years War , Prussian expansionism, the Napoleonic Wars , Nazism and Stalinism . The main premise of the book is to present the history of Wroc aw as a microcosm of the history of central Europe as a whole. To this end, it is suggested that the city ... in the 20th century to both Nazism and Soviet Communism . Reception Microcosm was well ... the history of the city, a microcosm of Central Europe, as evenhandedly as possible, freeing it from ... components. He added that Microcosm must be acclaimed as exemplary. ref English Historical Review, June 1, 2004, Richard Butterwick, review of Microcosm, p. 743. ref In the Spectator, meanwhile, Antony .... ref Spectator, March 30, 2002, Antony Beevor, review of Microcosm, p. 42. ref C.J. Sch ler called ... understanding. ref http www.telegraph.co.uk culture books 4181263 Microcosm Portrait of a Central ... more details
Infobox Book name Microcosm E. coli and the New Science of Life title orig translator image image caption author Carl Zimmer illustrator cover artist country language series subject Genetics genre publisher Pantheon Books release date 2008 english release date media type pages 256 isbn 9780375424304 dewey congress oclc preceded by followed by Microcosm E. coli and the New Science of Life is a 2008 book by popular science writer Carl Zimmer . The book presents an overview of genetics research and genetic engineering by telling the story about the Escherichia coli E. coli family of bacteria. E. coli has been a popular organism to study for researchers since its discovery in 1885. The K 12 strain of E. coli got its genome mapped in 1997. ref cite journal pmid 9278503 year 1997 last1 Blattner first1 FR last2 Plunkett G first2 3rd last3 Bloch first3 CA last4 Perna first4 NT last5 Burland first5 V last6 Riley first6 M last7 Collado Vides first7 J last8 Glasner first8 JD last9 Rode first9 CK title The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K 12 volume 277 issue 5331 pages 1453 62 journal Science doi 10.1126 science.277.5331.1453 pmc ref References reflist Category 2008 books Category DNA replication Category Popular science books science book stub ... more details
The term microphysics refers to areas of physics that study phenomena that take place on the microscopic scale length scales smaller than 1 mm , such as Quantum mechanics Molecular physics Atomic physics Nuclear physics Particle physics Nanotechnology String theory See also Timeline of microphysics Macrocosm and microcosm Category Physics ar fa ... more details
Image Paracelsus.jpg thumb right 100px Paracelsus Paracelsianism was a medical movement based on the theories and therapies of Paracelsus . It was prominent in late 16th and 17th century Europe and represented one of the most comprehensive alternatives to the traditional system of therapeutics derived from Galen ic physiology . Based around the principle of maintaining harmony between the Macrocosm and microcosm microcosm , Man and Macrocosm and microcosm macrocosm , Nature Paracelsianism fell rapidly into decline in the later 17th century, but left its mark on medical practices it was responsible for the widespread introduction of mineral therapies and several other formerly esoteric techniques. Sources Allen G. Debus Allen George Debus . The English Paracelsians . University Of Chicago Press, 1968. original publication 1965 Allen G. Debus Allen George Debus . http books.google.com books?id F0WtayLoFtcC The French Paracelsians . Cambridge University Press, 2002. original publication 1991 Didier Kahn, Alchimie et paracelsisme en France la fin de la Renaissance 1567 1625 Cahiers d Humanisme et Renaissance 80 . Geneva Droz, 2007. Wilhelm K hlmann and Joachim Telle, eds. Corpus Paracelsisticum Dokumente fr hneuzeitlicher Naturphilosophie in Deutschland. T bingen Max Niemeyer, 2001 . Jole Shackelford. A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus 1540 2 1602 . Copenhagen Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. Category History of medicine Category Paracelsus medicine stub ... more details
Macranthropy is a term describing the allegorical portrayal of the universe as a giant anthropomorphic body with the various components of the universe assigned to corresponding body parts. Macranthropy has made appearances in Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient India. References The Shape of Ancient Thought. Comparative studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies by Thomas McEvilley Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts, 2002 ISBN 1 58115 203 5 See also Purusha Macrocosm and microcosm Pantheism Category Allegory Reli stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Unreferenced date July 2008 Olam katan Hebrew language Hebrew Small World is a concept of Jewish philosophy that certain concepts mirror in a kind of Macrocosm and microcosm microcosm the world as a whole the macrocosm . Its use probably originates from the Midrash a section of the Midrash collection Otzar ha Midrashim bears the title . Man is compared to a small world . This is mirrored in the Talmud ic statement that Adam Bible Adam s Human head head originated in the Land of Israel and his trunk in Babylon Tractate Sanhedrin . It is similarly echoed in the famous statement that killing one person is comparable to destroying a whole world Mishnah Sanhedrin 4 5 . In other Midrashic sources, the Tabernacle is referred to as a small world , with its various objects mirroring both different astronomical concepts and certain organs in the human body. Category Jewish philosophy Category Hebrew words and phrases Judaism stub ... more details
Bah books Foundations of World Unity is a collection of talks and writings of Abdu l Bah , dated prior to his death in November 1921, and first published in 1945. The introduction to the 1945 edition is dated 1927. It includes mainly selected talks from Promulgation of Universal Peace , and a few passages from Bah Scriptures, Selections from the Writings of Abdu l Bah and Some Answered Questions . Contents The True Modernism The Source Of Reality The Dawn Of Peace The Cause Of Strife Universal Peace The Prophets And War Foundations Of World Unity Racial Harmony The Spirit Of Justice Cooperation The Criteria Of Truth Man And Nature The Microcosm And The Macrocosm The Universal Cycles Education The Holy Spirit Science Spiritual Springtime Eternal Unity The Darkened Lights The Need Of Divine Education Religion Essential And Non Essential Religion Renewed Divine Love The Foundation Of Religion The Quickening Spirit The Law Of God Continuity Of Revelation References cite book author Abdu l Bah authorlink Abdu l Bah year 1972 title Foundations of World Unity publisher Bah Publishing Trust location Wilmette, Illinois, USA isbn 0 87743 018 7 url http reference.bahai.org en t c FWU External links http bahai library.com zamir fwu crossreferenced Foundations of World Unity Cross Referenced to Other Works http en.bahaitext.org Foundations of World Unity Bahaitext, an online repository of books, letters and tablets related to the Bah Faith. en.bahaitext.org Category Bah texts Bah stub ... more details
A Treatise on White Magic is a book by Alice Bailey . It is considered to be among the most important by students of her writings, as it is less abstract than most, and deals with many important subjects of her works in an introductory, even programmatic fashion. It was first published in 1934 with the subtitle The Way of the Disciple . She promulgated Magic paranormal White Magic as a discipline to serve humanity. It is a fun esoteric text, which Bailey said was dictated telepathically by the Tibet an Master, Djwal Khul . It is offered as a basic textbook for the Western aspirant to initiation, and is divided into fifteen rules of magic paranormal magic , each one taking the reader further into the mysteries of spirituality . Topics discussed include how an aspirant can best prepare himself for service, the various Seven Rays ray types of their influences, the relationship between the macrocosm and Macrocosm and microcosm microcosm , the spiritual, causal, astral and physical realms and their interactions, the spiritual psychology of man although this is dealt with much more fully in the Esoteric Psychology volumes , The Hierarchy of Masters, esoteric groups and schools, the spiritual centres or chakra s , the occult concept of the Seven Rays , meditation work and much more. One of the main themes is that of soul control . Ultimate purpose of White Magic Students of the works of Alice A. Bailey and Theosophy believe that the ultimate purpose of White Magic is furtherance of the spiritual and material evolution of humanity. Specifically, this evolution is conceived in terms of the increased benevolent manifestation of seven spiritual energies or Seven Rays In Theosophy Seven Rays . It is further believed that adept practitioners of Magic paranormal White Magic , wielding the power of the Seven Rays, can contribute to this evolution. The seven rays antific, philosophical, or practical. Students of these schools of thought think that the primary purpose of White Magic ... more details
Power . More specifically, it represents the uniting of the Macrocosm and microcosmMicrocosm with the Macrocosm and microcosmMacrocosm represented by the pentagram and the hexagram , the Rosy Cross ... complementary ideas especially the Five of the Microcosm with the Six of the Macrocosm. ref name hermetic1 ... is a symbol of the establishment of the pillar or phallus of the Macrocosm...in the void of the Microcosm. Mystical interpretations Gematria As with most things found in the mystical works ... more details
For the Egyptian footballer Mohamed Aboutreika Trika, a concept of Kashmir Shaivism , refers to the 3 goddesses Par , Par par and Apar which are named in the M linivijayottata tantra, ref Flood, Gavin. D. 2006. The Tantric Body. P.62 ref a Bhairava Tantra. ref Flood, Gavin. D. 2006. The Tantric Body. P.59 ref This gives Kashmir Saivism its other name, Trika. ref Flood, Gavin. D. 2003. The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. P.213 ref A List of Other Triads iva, akti and IAST A u According to the Trika Darsana there are three essential realities ref name ReferenceA The Trika aivism of Kashmir, Moti Lal Pandit, pag. 13 ref The Supreme Transcendent iva The Supreme Creative Energy , immanent in creation Shakti akti The Spiritual Atom , the limited atom or individual IAST a u sometimes nara man Nara Narayana Anu is a microcosm , a complete image, on a reduced scale, of the macrocosm , and in permanent resonance on multiple levels with the macrocosm universe . The resonance link between the microcosm and the macrocosm is Shakti Sakti , the only one who can help Anu recover his lost knowledge that he is one with Shiva Siva . This is all possible because of the completely free will of Shiva Siva Svatantrya Sakti. The akti trinity Trika is also reflected in the akti trinity ref name ReferenceA The Trika aivism of Kashmir, Moti Lal Pandit, pag. 17 ref par akti the supreme energy, existing in transcendence par para akti the supreme unsupreme akti, existing both in transcendence and immanence apar akti the unsupreme energy, existing in immanence The trinity of energies of will , knowledge and power of action Any action of any being, including God , is subject to three fundamental energies ref The Trika aivism of Kashmir, Moti Lal Pandit, pag. 14 ref Icch akti the energy of will. This energy appears in the beginning of any action or process. J na akti the energy of knowledge, by which the action is clearly expressed first in mind, before it is put into action. ... more details
Chinese t s p W i Hu c n w Wei Huats un Wei Huacun 252 334 , courtesy name Xianan , was a founder of the Shangqing School Shangqing sect of Daoism . Overview Wei was born in 252 in Jining, Shandong in the former county of Rencheng . Her father, Wei Shu , was a government official. From an early age she displayed a propensity for studying the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi , and practising Daoism Daoist methods of cultivation. At the age of 24, she was married to Liu Wen against her will by her parents and had two sons. After they grew up, she resumed her Daoist practices. At some point she became a libation pourer in the priesthood of the Way of the Celestial Master Celestial Masters sect of Daoism. According to her Shangqing hagiographer s, her devotion to Daoist cultivation so impressed a number of immortals that she received revelations from them 31 volumes of Daoist scriptures which would become the foundation of Shangqing School Shangqing Daoism. Among these was the Yellow Court Classic , which detailed a form of meditation involving the visualizations of deities within the adept s body, a practice that would become a defining feature of Shangqing. Shangqing has sometimes been described as a mystical form of Daoism, emphasizing the notion of the human body as a Macrocosm and microcosm microcosm containing universal energies, which could be actualized by ecstatic union with deities. With the emphasis on meditation, there would be much less attention paid to physiological cultivation by ingesting herb s and drug s, which had been important in earlier forms of Daoism. When Wei s disciple Yang Xi formally founded the Shangqing school, 30 years after her death, Wei was acknowledged as the first patriarch of Shangqing Daoism and, as an immortal, would be a source of continuing revelations. The sect would be centered on Mao Mountain , situated to the south of Nanjing , and would thus be also known as the Maoshan sect. From the 6th to the 10t ... more details
Judy Hoffman is an American artist living and working in New York City . Hoffman s work, which includes Art installation installation , sculpture , ref name nyt617083 citation author Jennifer Dunning title DANCE publisher New York Times url http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9F0DE7D8173FF936A25757C0A961958260 date safesubst date 1997 04 15 accessdate 2011 02 17 ref and artist book s, explores themes of birth , Decomposition decay , waste , and Regeneration biology regeneration . Combining disparate elements of industrial refuse, natural debris and handmade paper, she constructs Macrocosm and microcosm microcosm s, ecosystem s, and other natural formations. Her fascination with making things is evident in the magical way that she combines and constructs disparate elements. Hoffman sees the potential for abject Found object scavenged objects to become something else. It s as if a crumpled piece of wire calls out to her from the sidewalk, I m lively. Take me. I could be something, wrote Jennifer McGregor, curator at Wave Hill in Bronx , New York. Hoffman s environmental installations bring a wildness to manmade spaces. Her site specific installation venues in New York City include Wave Hill, Ceres Gallery, Nutureart, Proteus Gowanus , Kentler International Drawing Center and the Nathan Cummings Foundation Rutgers University Rutgers and Jersey City Universities, New Jersey Mary Grove College, Detroit and the Bienalle Bonn Frauen Museum and Kunstler Forum in Bonn , Germany . Hoffman s artist books are sculpted from handmade paper . Her Wild Book, Tree and Leaf Text series are improvisations on the structures of plant and animal life. They are included in the special collections at Yale University , Rhode Island School of Design and Long Island University libraries, the Brooklyn Museum , the Alan Chasnanoff Bookworks Collection, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Hoffman attended the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture N ... more details
the Macrocosm and microcosmmicrocosm as an exact replica of the macrocosm. Consequently, the microcosm consists of a number of Subtle body bodies , each one suited to interact with its corresponding plane or region in the macrocosm. These bodies developed over the yuga s through Involution ... Esoteric cosmology cosmology depicts the whole of creation the macrocosm as being Emanationism emanated ... the initiate traveling the microcosm dharma dharmicly in consciousness soul with the guidance ... of deities presiding deities and divisions of the macrocosm the number of outer Initiation rite ... more details
The Max Planck Institut f r Kernphysik MPI for Nuclear Physics or MPIK for short is a research institute in Heidelberg , Germany . The institute is one of the 80 institutes of the Max Planck Gesellschaft Max Planck Society , an independent, non profit research organization. The Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics has been founded in 1958 under the leadership of Wolfgang Gentner. Its precursor was the Institute for Physics at the MPI for Medical Research. Today, the institute s research areas are crossroads of particle physics and astrophysics astroparticle physics and many body dynamics of atoms and molecules quantum dynamics . There are five scientific divisions and several further research groups and junior groups. Scientific and technical departments as well as the administration support the researchers. The institute has about 390 employees, as well as many diploma students and scientific guests. The research field of Astroparticle Physics, represented by the divisions of Werner Hofmann and Manfred Lindner , combines questions related to macrocosm and microcosm. Unconventional methods of observation for gamma rays and neutrinos open new windows to the universe. What lies behind dark matter and dark energy is theoretically investigated. The research field of Quantum Dynamics is represented by the divisions of Klaus Blaum , Christoph Helmut Keitel Christoph Keitel and Joachim Ullrich . Using reaction microscopes, simple chemical reactions can be filmed . Storage rings and traps allow precision experiments almost under space conditions. The interaction of intense laser light with matter is investigated using quantum theoretical methods. Further research fields are cosmic dust, atmospheric physics as well as fullerenes and other carbon molecules. Scientists at the MPIK collaborate with other research groups in Europe and all over the world and are involved in numerous international collaborations, partly in a leading role. Particularly close connections to some ... more details
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