¶ Up and Down Sequence
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Up and Down Sequence:
"sensing of directional behaviors of physical Universe. When these directions are modified by relative angle and frequency changes, they accurately satisfy our needs in respect to all conceptual systems of consciousness-- subjective or objective-- and all systematic considerations of experience, from instrumental probings of the atomic nucleus to celestial nebulae.
"As do the others of Spaceship Earth’s involuntary and unwitting astronauts, the scientists go on speaking reflexively about ‘The four corners of the Earth’ and the ‘wide, wide world.’
“Frequently the flight control scientists on the spherical deck of Spaceship Earth are heard to say-- on the manned and rocketed capsule television programs-- ‘Well, boys, how are things up there this morning?’ as the astronauts orbiting the 1,000 miles-per-minute speeding Spaceship Earth approximately every hour, pass through a spiraling series of positions, each of which eight-Earth-diameter-miles apart checkpoints are halfway around the Spaceship Earth from where the scientist is speaking, through one of those points which are in the direction of the ‘upwardly’ inquiring scientist’s feet.”
¶ Citations
- BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.4-5, 1968
