Jim & Kathy's Blog: Gravity and Levity


Report from May 15 MetaQuizzical Cafe 

 On Wednesday evening I went on radio KGGV ‘The Bridge’ 95.1 ,here in Guerneville, speaking and playing on DJ Milo’s politics program ‘Touch’. We had another fine ramble on what it means to be ‘Metaquizzical’. I said to ‘ask many deep questions and see what comes up’, and to use new metaphors reflecting new discoveries about reality. From there we talked about the ‘Goldilocks Zone’, a common astronomical term to describe the best zone, orbit-wise, for a planet to evolve life. We then went on what that…Read more

The MetaQuizzical Cafe is launched! 

 Our first 'MetaQuizzical Cafe' went splendidly at the Beyond Exhibit yesterday...the 'Saturn Room' was full! Giovanni Mandala played some beautiful finger-style acoustic guitar as folks streamed in. He did a great job on an instrumental version of the Police classic, 'Walking On the Moon".

To begin the hour we sang our hearts out on my new song, 'Macro 2 Micro'. I was amazed people had no shyness and jumped right and sang the 'nerdy' stuff! Next I delivered some science news about the long-awaited…Read more

Just four percent of reality ... 

Snake Skin

Everything we grow inside
Becomes a husk we must break free of
There is no room
Within a cocoon
For a constantly emerging life
Eyes cloud over
Life looks dark
But there's a spot
Between a rock and a hard place
Where we can peel our old selves away

So, the thing is apparently we only percieve 4% of reality. This means all the planets and stars and all our friends and personal effects, your new Prius, are just 4% of reality. I don't know how physicists and astronomers got this percentage…Read more