Mind and matter

In the Menachan valley in Gregor s own parish he found and investigated a black sand and published his results in the German Science Journal Crell s Annalen in 1791. A summary  

After repeated treatment of the sand with concentrated sulfuric add and carefirl dissolving in diluted sulfuric acid a white residue is obtained that is reddish after aimealing. This residue can be dissolved in concentrated sulfuric acid. When the solution is diluted with water it is uncolored. With metallic redudng agents such as zinc, iron or tin it becomes purple colored. In air this color disappears, more rapidly on addition of oxidizing agents. If, on the other hand, the colorless solution is boiled a white precipitate is formed. 

The vicar refers to his friend the famous mineralogist Johan Hawkins, who says that he has never seen a mineral like this, ft must contain an unknown metal Gregor proposes that the name of this new element shall be menachanite after the finding-place. Gregor s description of the dark mineral from the Menachan valley and his correct supposition that it contained a new element was not paid much attention, despite its publication in Crell s Annalen. The discovery was forgotten. Gregor died of tuberculosis in 1817. Today we know that Gregor s mineral is identical with ilmenite, iron titanium oxide FeTiO,. 

In 1795, four years after Gregor s publication of his investigation of the black sand, Klaproth obtained a sample of a Hungarian mineral, a rutile. He found and isolated a new oxide in it. Klaproth was first to point out that his new oxide was not new. It was actually identical with the oxide that Gregor had earKer isolated from the black mineral in the Menachan valley. 

The Titans are obviously very scattered. Every chemist who has worked on the analysis of clays has observed that titanium is detectable in almost every sample. 

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GEN. 192.1. Prigogine, Mind and matter, beyond the cartesian dualism, in Origins Brain and Self-Organization, K. Pribram, ed., Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Hillsdale, NJ, 1994. 

Schrodinger, E. (1967). What is Life and Mind and Matter . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

I experienced complete interdependence between mind and matter in terms of the perceived environment. Apparently, this projection and injection of your "psyche" into the elements around you is also typical of many of the mentally ill. 

This insight that we live an occluded and partial existence within a larger unity is found in so many different traditions that it can be regarded as the fundamental postulate of the Shamanic world-view. A misleadingly simple idea, it forms the basis of all inner work and provides a clear explanation for how mind and matter interact. 

The evil eye, envy and fear are not generally recognized as causes of disease in Western medicine. We do not easily believe in such diagnoses and usually label them as naive superstitions. Yet, shamans routinely cure individuals who are genuinely physically ill by working within this frame of reference. In a denotative sense, and quite apart from whatever else it might be, this is psychosomatic medicine, pure and simple, and seems to have more to do with psychiatry than "general practice" -- or does it Where do you draw the line between mind and matter ... 

E. Schrddinger, What is Life Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, first published in 1944, Canto edition with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches, Forward by R. Penrose, 1992. 

Kroes, P. (2012). Technical artefacts Creations of mind and matter. New York Springer. 

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