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Origins
From ancient light and meteorite grains to footprints, creation images and Darwin’s branching sketch: different ways of investigating beginnings.
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Origins
From ancient light and meteorite grains to footprints, creation images and Darwin’s branching sketch: different ways of investigating beginnings.
Duality
Paired forms, opposing forces and complementary descriptions, examined through religious images, living structures and physical experiments.
Nonduality
Connections between things often treated as separate, approached through cultural knowledge, mathematics, physics and contemplative traditions.
Life
Fossils, living forms and images of life, followed by the unresolved search for life beyond Earth.
Death
Extinction, preserved remains, burial and remembrance: what endings leave behind, and how people respond to mortality.
Energy
Sunlight, living systems, fire and nuclear technology, alongside cultural accounts that use a different language for vitality and transformation.
Time
Cycles, calendars and physical limits, with trees, diagrams and cultural works that make duration intelligible.
Causality
Causes, predictions and the limits of knowledge, explored through philosophical arguments, divination, mechanisms and physics.
Memory
Natural records, cultural memory and recording technologies: how traces endure, and how people learn to read them.
Consciousness
Ten ordinary words organise an enquiry into self, relationship, attention, action and memory. This is an experiential archive, not a sequence of historical objects.
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Connections between things often treated as separate, approached through cultural knowledge, mathematics, physics and contemplative traditions.
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Nonduality considers where a distinction is useful and where it may become misleading. The selection ranges from Jukurrpa and Indra’s Net to an equation and a particle. These are not fragments of one hidden scientific theory. They offer different accounts of relationship, continuity and the limits of ordinary categories, each with its own context and standards of understanding.
Knowledge within a tradition
Jukurrpa, Om and Indra’s Net require more than a universal slogan about oneness. Begin with the communities, practices and accounts through which their meanings are transmitted.
Relations that can be modelled
An eclipse, mass–energy equivalence and the Higgs boson concern distinct physical questions. Their inclusion makes room for comparison without turning physics into proof of a spiritual position.
Making an idea visible
A Penrose diagram, the infinity sign and a Zen Ensō use very different visual conventions. Consider what each representation leaves out as well as what it helps someone grasp.
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