Moon Enhanced
Of all the countless images I have seen of the moon, none illustrate its inhospitality as much as this. To better appreciate it, I recommend locating the image on the NASA site and enlarging it.
‘Certainly Democritus said that though the mind thought ill of the senses because in themselves they did not reflect reality, yet it took its evidence from them…(the dictum of Democritus was) that phenomena are a window on the unseen. Through them, if we do not stop there, we can become aware of the nature of the invisible realities.
A man that looks on glasse
On it may stay his eye,
Or if he pleaseth, through it passe
And then the heav’n espie’
(George Herbert)
W.K.C.Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 464.
‘The counter-thrust brings together, and from tones at variance comes perfect attunement, and all things come to pass through conflict.’
Heraclitus, The Art and Thought of Heraclitus, LXXV
materialism, mysticism and art 