Maurice Consoli's Aether audit, proving Dayton Miller right, Einstein wrong, and that Michelson-Morley found the Aether drag
https://unstabbinated.substack.com/p/maurice-consolis-aether-audit-proving?r=2clcce&triedRedirect=true

The historical readings of the Michelson Morley and related ether drift experiments misclassified small but persistent anisotropies as “null results” because they were interpreted through an assumed vacuum, rather than through the possibility of a partially entrained aetheric medium coupled to Earth’s mass. Maurizio Consoli was an auditor of both Michelson Morley and Dayton Miller, claiming he statistically confirmed Miller’s 10 km per second ether wind signal at Mount Wilson as a real stochastic aether background tied to Earth’s motion and correlated with the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background, while also linking the mathematical tools of modern quantum field theory and the Standard Model to an effectively superfluid vacuum that, in practice, re-introduces an aether like substrate under different terminology.

Consoli’s asserts that space is a viscous, high pressure fluid medium rather than a vacuum, that the CMB and redshift are signatures of light interacting with this medium rather than relics of a Big Bang, and that both Consoli’s moving Earth through a dynamic aether and Allais Brahe style stationary Earth with moving aether can fit the same data, thereby rendering relativity, the standard cosmological model, and associated vacuum based assumptions as fraudulent constructs upheld by “Scientism” while experiments like Miller’s, Sagnac’s, GPS and fiber optics engineering are said to presuppose and confirm an anisotropic, mechanical aetheric cosmos.

How an Electrical Map Can Override the DNA Blueprint | Biolumination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW9xbAo0RYM

"What if anatomy isn’t stored only in DNA?

In this episode, we explore groundbreaking experiments from Michael Levin’s lab showing that regeneration can be permanently altered by manipulating bioelectric communication, without editing a single gene.

Planarian flatworms can regrow entire heads and tails. But when researchers briefly disrupted gap junction signaling, something astonishing happened. Some worms regenerated with two heads. Others looked completely normal, yet carried a hidden state that revealed itself only after being cut again.

The change wasn’t visible in gene markers. It wasn’t visible in stem cell distribution. It showed up in voltage.

Using voltage-sensitive dyes, researchers discovered that “cryptic” worms carried a hidden electrical pattern. That electrical signature predicted future anatomy. And when they deliberately shifted membrane voltage in the opposite direction, some double-headed worms reset back to normal.

This suggests that bioelectric gradients may act as a distributed control layer - a map that stores and modifies anatomical information.

If biology can store pattern memory in voltage, regeneration may be guided not just by genes, but by an editable electrical blueprint."

Publication discussed in the video:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006349517304277

The Liquid Crystal Body: The New Physics of Living Matter | BioLumination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HucZ1AKrzQY

" There is a phase of matter that responds to electric fields, magnetic fields, vibration, and light. It bends light. It converts pressure into voltage. It reorganizes under gentle influence.

And it exists inside you.

Liquid crystals are not just the material behind display screens. They appear in cell membranes, collagen-rich connective tissue, cytoskeletal filaments, and even densely packed DNA. These are not rigid solids, and they are not chaotic liquids. They are aligned, dynamic, and field-sensitive states of matter.

In this episode, we explore what a crystal actually is, what makes a liquid crystal distinct, and where these phases appear in biology. From birefringence to piezoelectric collagen, from membrane voltage to structured water, we follow the physics into living tissue.

When electricity, magnetism, vibration, and light interact with organized biological matter, they are not meeting randomness. They are meeting alignment. And that possibility reshapes how we think about life itself."


Timestamps:
0:00 There is a hidden phase of matter inside you
0:42 What is a crystal? Order, anisotropy, coupling
3:35 What is a liquid crystal? Order without rigidity
7:23 Where liquid crystals appear in the body
13:08 How liquid crystals couple to forces
14:39 Speculation: alignment, coherence, and life

Paramagnetism & DiaMagnetism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u36QpPvEh2c

Paramagnetism and diamagnetism describe how different materials respond when placed in a magnetic field. Paramagnetic materials such as aluminum, oxygen, gadolinium oxide and cupric sulfate are weakly attracted toward the stronger region of the field and lose this behavior once the field is removed. Diamagnetic materials such as water, glass, pyrolytic graphite, bismuth and superconductors are always weakly repelled and tend to move or rotate toward regions where the magnetic field is weaker, regardless of which pole is nearby.

From Raw Crystal to Crystal Oscillator - Crystals go to War in 1943
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZlWWwxIPQ

"Electronics has always relied on critical materials that have been difficult to acquire. Today we think of the gold, cobalt, neodymium, terbium, or dysprosium that are required to make electric vehicles, but during World War II raw quartz crystals were required to manufacture the oscillators used in the radio transmitters that were critical to the war effort. This was before the technology to grow quartz crystals was perfected, and the best natural quartz was mined in Brazil.

This video shows in amazing detail every step in making a quartz crystal oscillator, from inspecting the incoming raw crystals to shipping the finished crystal in its holder. You'll be ready to set up your own quartz crystal factory after watching this film. Filmed at the Reeves Sound Laboratory, it shows the degree of labor intensive effort that was required to produce an accurate frequency reference, and highlights the contributions of women in wartime manufacturing."

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FREQUENCY MODULATION” 1944 U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT FILM FM RADIO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzvxefRDT84

"Made during WWII by the War Department, this official training film describes what frequency modulation (FM) is and how to use it in reference to radio communications. It also provides the comparison between FM and AM radio as far as what advantages FM has over AM. Originally restricted, the film was released for public educational use in 1949. It opens with U.S. soldiers playing ping pong while listening to AM radio (:28). When one of the men begins to use an electric razor, the radio gets staticky and one of the men switches the radio to FM so they can still listen to the music clearly (1:02). FM was a major step forward in radio and as guests tuned into a radio programs now they were listening to what the microphone was picking up (1:24). AM radio had its drawbacks in the sense that whenever it was used for communication in the battlefield (2:06) it would pick up static which would mess with the signal. Tank tracks made reception near impossible (2:13) as well as a slew of other war materials and natural occurrences such as thunderstorms (2:25). FM was able to remove this issue (2:34) and the film turns to breaking down the proponents of AM radio (2:40). A diagram follows, pointing to the oscillator (2:49) which generated the carrier wave that is fed into the amplifier (2:57). At this point it carried no message and for AM, intelligence was pressed upon the wave through a microphone (3:13). The intelligence is converted into electrical energy which goes into the modulator (3:24) and is then amplified. The intelligence is radiated by the antenna (4:06). The process of amplifying the waves is depicted (4:41) as it moves through the IF Amplifier and then the demodulator (4:55) which changes the vibrations back into audio frequency (5:03). From here it enters a speaker and becomes sound again (5:14). AM worked well in perfect conditions (5:38) unless there were any electrical interferences. A demonstration follows where a lighting strike interferes with the wave (6:00) which makes the wave fuzzy and the intelligence indiscernible. The film shows the difference between AM and FM (7:22). AM carried the wave through increasing or decreasing the strength of the carrier whereas FM did the same job by changing the frequency of the carrier this way the static would only affect the amplitude and not the frequency (7:43). A few of the types of FM transmitters used by the army follow (7:59). The FM oscillator is broken down in diagram next (8:21) with the rest wave pointed to. Capacitor microphones could change AM to FM waves (9:01) and this was done by placing one parallel with the capacitor and the tank circuit (8:57). With this addition, the frequency now varied at an audio rate (9:41). A diagram follows pointing to a line which represents the rest frequency of the oscillator (11:14) and how it varies when sound is impressed on the capacitator mic (11:34). As example shows how the frequency affects the rate of change (11:43) as well as how the volume or loudness of the frequency determines the amount of deviation (13:13). Due to the potential of the deviation to interfere with other transmitters (13:26), the army set a maximum deviation of 40 kilocycles (13:32) on both sides of the rest frequency. Guard bands were also provided as there must be some sort of separation between the channels (14:10) and 10 kilocycles are allotted on either side. In addition to what the film has already shown, the army also used two other systems to get FM called radiance tube and phase modulation (15:04). There are three main differences between the AM and FM receivers and these are the band pass (15:40), the frequency modulation receiver (16:03) and the amplitude variations. A diagram of the AM receiver follows (16:33) and how these variations can be changed to turn it into an FM receiver including the addition of the limiter (16:57) and the discriminator (17:21).

The limiter is broken down in diagram (18:00) and how it clips off any variations on the positive and negative portions of the wave (18:49). After the variations have been clipped off, the wave ends are squared and this leads to distortion of the signal (24:42). The plate circuit handles this problem by smoothing out any irregularities or sharp corners of the wave (24:49). A simplified diagram of the discriminator follows (25:23). The wave from the discriminator is fed into AF amplifiers and comes out of the speakers in the same way which an AM receiver does (27:57). This film concludes (28:19).

This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com "

The Discovery of the TRUE 3D Magnetic Field | Magnetic Orbitals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlKohehsaWY

"For the first time in history, the true 3D magnetic field of a simple magnet has been mapped and reconstructed through experimental magnetic field tomography using a Hall-effect sensor.

In this video, Marsio Salcuni presents the groundbreaking research “Magnetic Orbitals”, revealing magnetic field geometries that mirror spherical harmonics and even atomic orbital structures predicted by Schrödinger’s equation.

Through reproducible experiments, interactional magnetic field analysis, and classical-to-quantum interpretations, this work challenges conventional distinctions between Maxwell’s equations and quantum mechanics.

Download the open-access paper on Zenodo, explore the full experimental playlist, and discover the possible bridge between classical magnetism and quantum orbital geometry : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15936280

How Earth’s Magnetic Field Influences Consciousness | Nicolas Rouleau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fHAvfGQkHY

"Dr. Nicolas Rouleau is a neuroscientist, bioengineer, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University. He wrote the award-winning essay, ‘An Immortal Stream of Consciousness: The scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death,’ in which he argues that the transmissive theory of consciousness may actually be more consistent with emerging scientific insights than the dominant assumption that the brain generates consciousness.

In this conversation with Hans Busstra, Rouleau shares the main arguments from his essay, which touch upon his collaboration with Dr. Michael Persinger, the inventor of the ‘God Helmet,’ and his work with Michael Levin on ‘mind blindness’—the idea that science may be searching for mind in too restricted a place by focusing almost exclusively on neurons. "

More information on Dr. Nic Rouleau:
https://www.wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-science/faculty-profiles/nicolas-rouleau/index.html
Personal website: https://www.rouleaulab.com/

Further reading and scientific references discussed in this video:

Rouleau's BICS Essay: 'An Immortal Stream of Consciousness: The scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death.' https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/index.php/bics-afterlife-proof/bics-essay-contest-winners-runners-up/

Rouleau, N., Levin, M., et al. (2025) (Preprint; forthcoming in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society). Brains and Where Else? Mapping Theories of Consciousness to Unconventional Embodiments. https://tinyurl.com/439rrn8z

Rouleau, N., & Levin, M. (2023). The Multiple Realizability of Sentience in Living Systems and Beyond. eNeuro, 10(11). https://tinyurl.com/2s4bdtmm

Rouleau, N. & Cimino, N. (2022). A Transmissive Theory of Brain Function: Implications for Health, Disease, and Consciousness. NeuroSci, 3(3). https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4087/3/3/32

McCraty, R., et al. (2018). Long-term study of heart rate variability responses to changes in the solar and geomagnetic environment. https://tinyurl.com/254x3b9t

Rouleau, N., & Persinger, M. A. (2016). Differential responsiveness of the right parahippocampal region to electrical stimulation in fixed human brains: Implications for historical surgical stimulation studies. Epilepsy & Behavior, 60, 181–186. https://tinyurl.com/uc5jbr

Rajaram, M., & Mitra, S. (1981). Correlation between convulsive seizure and geomagnetic activity. Neuroscience Letters, 24(2), 187–191. https://tinyurl.com/3snrs4cs

Effects of Acoustic Waves on Microtubules and Cells | Jack Tuszynski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGfEBo7p3g4

Sound waves, especially ultrasound, can mechanically affect cells by shaking key internal structures such as microtubules and cell membranes, sometimes at their natural resonant frequencies. Jack Tuszynski describes experiments and models showing that carefully chosen ultrasound settings can disrupt the microtubule “skeleton” of dividing cancer cells and arrest them in mitosis without immediately killing them, and he discusses how the mechanical properties of cells, the surrounding fluid and the exact frequency and pattern of the sound (including more exotic Fibonacci based signals) may open paths to new, more targeted cancer therapies, particularly for solid tumors.

https://allencenter.tufts.edu/jack-tuszynski-affiliate-research-scientist/

Experimental Evidence for Long-Distance Electrodynamic Intermolecular Forces | Marco Pettini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IHPdRtGwOU

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uG58WXoAAAAJ&hl=it

Marco Pettini reviews theoretical and experimental work suggesting that biomolecules can interact over surprisingly long distances through electromagnetic forces when they vibrate coherently at the same frequency. He explains why random Brownian motion and short range electrostatic forces are too slow or weak to account for the speed and selectivity of reactions inside cells, then builds on earlier ideas by Fröhlich to show that energy input (for example from light) can drive proteins into collective vibrational states and generate long range attractive forces that change how they diffuse and form clusters in solution. Using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and terahertz spectroscopy on proteins like BSA and phycocyanin, he presents evidence for these coherent vibrational modes, for “phonon condensation,” and for associated changes in diffusion that support the existence of long distance electrodynamic intermolecular interactions, and he closes by outlining open questions about how such effects might operate in real cellular environments and help cognate molecular partners find each other.

Goethe's Problem with Hegel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXMbbLqHOi0

"Goethe was friends with Hegel, but held a negative opinion of Hegel's philosophy. In this video, we discuss the comments Goethe that made about Hegel, and the numerous interactions between the two men: such as when Goethe invited Hegel over for lunch in order to see what his daughter-in-law would say about him. She concluded that he was either brilliant or a madman. Goethe also asserted that Hegelian philosophy and its ponderous, complex language was ruinous for one's writing style when adopted as an influence. This tension culminates in a conversation at a tea party when Hegel, who has a tendency to monopolize the conversation, is finally shut down by Goethe, who coins a wonderful phrase: "Those made ill by dialectics would find healing in the study of nature.”

Primer Fields Remastered (4K)| David LaPoint
"The video introduces the Primer Field model: a proposed electromagnetic field geometry using opposing bowl-shaped magnetic arrays that confine and shape plasma in ways that closely resemble structures observed throughout the universe—from planetary nebulae to radio galaxies to the plasma formations at galactic centers.

What began as laboratory experiments has developed into a broader framework that questions the necessity of dark matter, dark energy, and black holes as explanatory constructs. This is where it started."

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CQVPPevJO0
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn8CLHWnl4w
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD10EqhGwsc

High Voltage Plasma Experiments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QogO4bMuoMY

ILA 2009 - Brian Breiling - History of Light and Color Therapy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zijpAurIpI

"Lighting The Way Ahead: Ancient and Modern Pioneers in Light and Colour Therapies.

Since the dawn of human history, civilizations from around the planet have had a deep fascination with the healing powers of Sunlight. From ancient sun temples and solar observatories to the earliest traditional medical practices in both the East and West, light played a central role in religion and the healing arts. Likewise, thousands of years later, at the inception of Modern Medicine, Sunlight and artificial light therapies were routinely used in nearly every specialty of practice.

Brian will take us on an entertaining visual journey highlighting the therapeutic breakthroughs made by historic pioneers who used Light and Colour through the eyes or on the body in medicine, optometry, psychology, chiropractic, education and subtle energy healing. Finally we will celebrate our modern day pioneers, key ILA members, who practice and teach at today’s leading edge of Light and Colour therapies. There is a bright future ahead as more light therapists begin to realize the immense transformational potential of light and consciousness on all levels of our being."

Babbitt's Atom: Key To The Secret Teachings of All Ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ls3ZxOp134
https://weare1.us/The_Divinity_And_Unity_Of_All_Life.html

"Manly P. Hall, founder of The Philosophic Research Society, has been called the “Dean” of American Esoteric Studies. Centered on the very first page of his magnum opus, The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabalistic, Rosicrucian, and Symbolic Philosophy, is an illustration of Babbitt’s atom. In the caption under this illustration he describes Babbitt as a “genius.” This illustration in the center of page one of Hall’s magnum opus, with Babbitt introduced as a genius, indicates that Hall felt that Babbitt’s atom was the “Rosetta Stone” of Hermetic understanding—and the key to the secret teachings of all ages."

Babbitt was reputed to have an expanded threshold of perception of micro-clairvoyant vision through which he could see energy fields on an atomic level and observe molecular dynamics. Writing in the 1850s he discussed left and right brain differences and theorized an “atomic bomb.”

Babbitt presided over The New York College of Magnetics, which had branches in California and abroad. The college offered courses in healing based on an exact science of “Magnetic, Electrical, Chemical, Solar and Spiritual Forces which underlie everything. His home study courses in “Chromo Therapeutics” (color therapy) and natural healing had a large following. Through his influence color therapy was widely practiced as a healing modality until its demise under attack by antiquackery laws with the rise of the medical industrial complex.

In his The Principles of Light and Color Babbitt unveils “The Harmonic Laws of the Universe.” He explains: "The lines of atomic forces, are doubtless not in circles, this being contrary to the general untrammeled movements of nature, as the pathway of missiles, cataracts and planets is in the sections of a cone . . . atoms are in ellipsoids, or rather in the modifications of this form in the ovid . . . One thing in proof of this is in the fact that atoms combine and polarize better by having a smaller end, while, as we have shown, the law of positive and negative action forces one end to be smaller than the other". ...

Anu or Ahh-No?

In Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry, the claim is made he clairvoyantly identified "quarks" in the late 1800s. It is a fascinating story, worth telling on its own terms, but the direction it points is the problem. Leadbeater looked into matter, past the threshold of the normal senses, into what Steiner called the subsensible realm, the death oriented polarity. Steiner consistently pushed research outward toward the cosmos and the supersensible realms, the actual source of life energies. The theosophical conceptions of the ether is simply rarefied matter, degree after degree of finer substance. Steiner's ethers are something else entirely, non-spatial formative moulds that give context and shape to substance from outside in. Theosophy's model is rehashed atomism dressed in spiritual vocabulary. That Leadbeater's clairvoyance was sourced from black magic and pederasty, as Gregory Tillett documents in The Elder Brother, makes the orientation all the more troubling. Steiner's Agriculture lectures say it plainly, over and over: orient research in the wrong direction and you corrupt the results.

Steiner saw the atom as a monad mirroring the organization of Earth's etheric layers, much as human blood corpuscles reflect cosmic forces. Atoms are bubbles in the ether, hollow spaces filled with Ahrimanic substance, the source of repulsion and attraction at the physical level. Matter is shattered spirit; matter is congealed light; substance is frozen cosmic process, the last step in creation; substance is the hieroglyphic writing of the universe; substance is cosmic process; the atom is coagulated electricity (but not of the current conception); electricity is decaying light; electricity is light being destroyed in matter; and human thought and the new concept of electricity are one in the same.

Leadbeater's whirling atomic structures, like the materialist picture, may be projections of the nervous system's onto nature resulting in a reductionist view, not a genuine perception of reality. Atomism holds only on the physical plane. Steiner's formative ethers work in the opposite direction entirely, shaping substance from the supersensible periphery, not drilling inward into dead matter.

Supporting Posts on Occult Chemistry, Resources on the Anu and Steiner's View of the Atom
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3635
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3636
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3638
https://t.me/aetherforceposts/3639

The Elder Brothers Book: https://annas-archive.gl/search?q=The+Elder+Brother+Gregory+Tillett

Goethe's Phenomenological Optics: The Point Where Language Ends and Experience Begins in Science

https://www.academia.edu/164551605/Goethes_Phenomenological_Optics_The_Point_Where_Language_Ends_and_Experience_Begins_in_Science

"In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Goethe, himself an established scientist in the fields of botany, mineralogy, osteology and optics, rejected the mathematical approach to science and sought instead a theory of colors founded in the Aristotelian tradition of physics. Why then, do we hear so little today of phenomenological science? Does it not "work"? No, indeed it does work, and it also functions in practice as seen in Pennsylvania's air pollution regulations. Ironically, it is traditional quantitatively-abstracted science which can be taken on board without the engagement of experimentation. Indeed that is one of the beauties of abstraction-- one can simply consume the reduced product without having undergone the process of experimenting. By comparison, Newton's theorizing, without repeated experimentation, has less to do with what is "really going on out there" than Goethe's experimental engagements. Thus the appeal of quantitative optics lies elsewhere; it lies in the ways in which it can be employed precisely without engagement.

But more importantly, Goethe's phenomenological science provides a possible case by which one can escape the trap of dichotomous thinking which grows out of Cartesian science, and perhaps provides a case-point where upon one may place
minimal realism between absolute realism and so-called radical rhetoric. As epistemological certainty continues to erode, and as the guarantor of certainty, mathematics, no longer carries the day, we are reminded that it has been at just such junctures in history that the discipline of rhetoric has been called upon to facilitate "getting on with public business," such as environmental regulation, an enclave traditionally held in the empire of epistemological science."

Archetype, Urphänomen and Polarity: Aesthetic considerations on nature, art and life between Goethe’s morphology and Taoism

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/aesthetica-preprint/article/view/1672/1328

"In his scientific works, Goethe elaborates a morphology of nature based on a dynamic, organic and anti-essentialist conception of life and its forms. To clarify what Goethe means by “morphology” in both natural and artistic spheres, I mean to show the specificity of such fundamental notions as “archetype”, “original phenomenon”, “form” and “formation”. I will then explain how Goethe’s morphology is closely linked to the notion of “polarity”, referring in particular to Faust. In the second part of the paper, I will develop a cross-cultural comparison between Goethe’s morphology and Taoist thought. Then I will highlight some similarities and differences between the ‘classical’ Chinese landscape painting of Shitao and the and the Goethe-influenced painting of Carl Gustav Carus."

Platonism in the Phenomenology: Genealogical Reflections on Goethe and Heidegger’s Visions of Dialectic and Mathesis
https://www.academia.edu/127532517/Platonism_in_the_Phenomenology_of_Nature_Genealogical_Reflections_on_Goethe_and_Heidegger_s_Visions_of_Dialectic_and_Mathesis?rhid=38519233298&swp=rr-rw-wc-74025266&nav_from=66667889-c169-44df-95f2-04db8d8247be

"This essay examines the metaphysical foundations of Goethe's phenomenology of nature through its relationship with Platonism and modern mathematical science. While Heidegger's critique of mathematical science bears insight into our historical condition, his misreading of Platonism leads to fundamental misunderstandings of both Goethean and mathematical approaches to the study of nature. I argue that Goethe's work represents not a rejection but a revival of classical philosophy in response to the univocal-nominalist-voluntarist turn of secular modernity. Through Nicholas of Cusa's Christian Platonism, I show how a consummate integration of theological thinking into natural philosophy yields a methodology remarkably similar to Goethe's, while offering a systematic reconciliation of quantity and quality that influenced yet was never fully realized in modern science. Goethe's phenomenology, I contend, requires engagement with its transcendent dimension, as the modern alienation of science cannot be resolved through Heideggerian phenomenology alone. Rather than interpreting Goethe primarily through Husserl or Heidegger, I propose reading him through his own distinction between transcendent and immanent, with Cusa's framework providing both historical precedent and systematic foundation. This theological turn in Goethean science reveals a path toward reconciling phenomenology with mathematics while transcending the limitations of both Heideggerian critique and secular modernity. The draft presented here still requires much work and there are some very notable blind spots. I provide virtually no treatment of Goethe's direct reception of ancient Platonism, whether Plotinus, Iamblichus, or Renaissance Platonists such as Giordano Bruno. I also avoid discussion of Goethe's relationship to Spinoza, a figure of great importance for understanding his vision of the transcendent-immanent relation. Moreover, I also do not treat Goethe's reception of the Hermetic tradition which is of great importance in understanding the history of science. There is, therefore, much to be amended but, at the very least, the current form presents what I take to be a coherent argument and a kind of double-advocacy for both Goethean science in general and a Cusanist interpretation, appropriation, or elaboration of Goethean science."

Intro to Matter and Memory: Henri Bergson's Theory of the External Image| Pure Memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLmvc6p5CB4

Henri Bergson proposes in Matter and Memory that matter be conceived as an aggregate of images, exactly the point of view of a mind unaware of philosophical and scientific theories of matter and perception.

Against the materialist view, which treats the perceptual image as a kind of hallucination constructed from movements of the cerebral substance and mapped back onto the world, and against idealism, which cannot account for the autonomous, law-abiding structure that is seemingly indifferent to subjective experience, Bergson proposes that the image of the object exists right where it appears, not generated by the brain, but external to the body and belonging to the world itself. The brain is strictly a center for the redirection of movement, an organ of possible reaction. Living bodies are zones of indeterminacy: unlike inert matter, they receive movements and return them in ways that cannot be fully predicted. What we call subjective perception is, in fact, virtual action, the movements that the nervous system expands into possible reactions, reflected as images organized around the body as a center of action.

Affect, or sensation, arises when those movements overload the threshold of indeterminate response and become real action, as when a sound loud enough can no longer be expanded into possible reactions and becomes pain felt in the ears. This model explains why perception appears to be constructed by the brain without conceding that the brain constructs it: damage to the visual cortex affects perception not because the image is created there, but because the movements concerned can no longer be expanded into voluntary action. Bergson calls this distilled account pure perception, a simplification that sets the stage for chapter two's reintegration of memory, through which perception as it actually is, always infused with duration and the contraction of the past into the present, can finally be addressed.