The Museum of Lost WonderPresented in book format, this is a history of the human imagination with visual cues and clues. It is like a museum, arranged with 7 halls (representing the seven stages of alchemical process) in which the questions of the universe unfold. |
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... to whom this feeling is alien , who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man . " -ALBERT EINSTEIN WEISER BOOKS San Francisco , CA / Newburyport , MA First published in 2006 by Red Wheel / Weiser ,
... to whom this feeling is alien , who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man . " -ALBERT EINSTEIN WEISER BOOKS San Francisco , CA / Newburyport , MA First published in 2006 by Red Wheel / Weiser ,
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alchemists alchemy Barnum beer belief system believe BIG BANG birth black hole body brain Calcinatio CHOLERIC Circulatio Coagulatio confabulation Conjunctio conscious create creation creative culture curators curiosity cabinet Descartes dreams Earth EIN SOF EINSTEIN emotional everything exhibit hall experience explore feel FIJI MERMAID fire four humors genes genetic GLUE Gnomon gravity Greek hope human humors IDEAL ideas imagination INNER DEFINITION inside inspired invented LEVITY limbic system lives look Lost Wonder machines Mandala matter meaningful memes memory metaphor Michael Maier mind Monroe Mortificatio Muses Museum of Lost Myth & Meaning mythic one's P. T. Barnum PHLEGMATIC physical world questions reality realm reasonable confabulation refinement reflection scientists sense Separatio shadow Solutio souls space stage steady state theory subconscious SUBLIMATIO symbols theory things thought tion unconscious universe visions what's WHITE HOLE yawn