The Atomic Ladder Of Life, From Solid To Liquid To Gaseous To Etheric To Spirit.  From The Gate Beautiful by

The continuum of dissociation

Christian Scharfetter, Ego‐Fragmentation in Schizophrenia: A Severe Dissociation of Self‐Experience

All Light, Everywhere (Theo Anthony, 2021)

From Blue and red light: or, Light and its rays as medicine; showing that light is the original and sole source of life, as it is the source of all the physical and vital forces in nature and that light is nature’s own and only remedy for disease by Seth Pancoast, 1877.

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The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algorithm sits at an easel, squinting, trying to catch Your likeness. But these algorithms are true Renaissance practitioners. Not only portraitists, they’re also psychologists, data-crunchers, and private detectives, extrapolating personality from the evidence of our past actions: from our online histories and, increasingly, from what they can eavesdrop, without any meaningful warrant, in the physical world. From all those toothsome bytes of behavior, they create an image of You.

Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"

Taxonomies of misdirection overview

When confronted with a magic trick, you first perceive the relevant sensory information, then store key aspects of it in your memory, and then perhaps use this to reason about how the trick was done. A magician can prevent a spectator from discovering the method by simply manipulating any one of these processes.

These categories define misdirection in terms of the psychological mechanisms affected. The first set of principles manipulate your perception, preventing you from perceiving selected parts of the performance.

—Gustav Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible

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The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը) , 1969

Eileen Agar (Argentine-British 1899-1991), Ladybird, 1936. Gelatin silver print with gouache and ink, 76 × 51 cm.