January 4, 2006

• The Shining
  

  

  
  The Shining according to

  the Catholic Church:

  “The Transfiguration of Christ is the culminating point of His public
  life…. Jesus took with him Peter and James and John and led them to a
  high mountain apart, where He was transfigured before their ravished
  eyes.  St. Matthew and St. Mark express this phenomenon by the
  word metemorphothe, which the Vulgate renders transfiguratus est.   The Synoptics
  explain the true meaning of the word by adding ‘his face did shine as
  the sun: and his garments became white as snow,’ according to the
  Vulgate, or ‘as light,’  according to the Greek text. 
  This dazzling brightness which emanated from His whole Body was produced by an interior shining of His Divinity.”

  – The Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912

  The Shining according to

  Paul Preuss:

  From Broken Symmetries, 1983, Chapter 16:

  “He’d toyed with ‘psi’
  himself…. The reason he and so many other theoretical physicists were
  suckers for the stuff was easy to understand– for two-thirds of a
  century an enigma had rested at the heart of theoretical physics, a
  contradiction, a hard kernel of paradox….   

  Peter [Slater] had
  never thirsted after ‘hidden variables’ to explain what could not be
  pictured.  Mathematical relationships were enough to satisfy him, mere
  formal relationships which existed at all times, everywhere, at once. 
  It was a thin nectar, but he was convinced it was the nectar of the
  gods….

  Those so-called crazy psychics
  were too sane, that was their problem– they were too stubborn to
  admit that the universe was already more bizarre than anything they
  could imagine in their wildest dreams of wizardry.”

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