Michael Persinger, Scientist and Inventor of ‘The God Helmet’ Passes Away
Michael Persinger, Scientist and Inventor of ‘The God Helmet’ Passes Away #occult #feedly
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The Geomantic Figures. Henry Cornelius Agrippa, His Fourth BOOK of Occult Philosophy. Of GEOMANCY (1665)
"So why are all of these strange references on the Nostromo’s emergency destruct keyboard? Well, according to the Alien…
“So why are all of these strange references on the Nostromo’s emergency destruct keyboard? Well, according to the Alien Explorations blog, designer Simon Deering needed some complex-sounding labels for the keyboard at short notice. He was reading The Secret Doctrine by Helena Blavatsky, a Russian philosopher and occultist, at the time of filming. Blavatsky’s book attempts to explain the origin and evolution of the universe in terms derived from the Hindu concept of cyclical development. Deering found his inspiration in its pages, and the Nostromo’s odd keyboard was born.”
The Soviet synthesizer that bridged occultism and electronic music
The Russian avant garde was far ahead of the West in the development of electronic instruments. Leon Theremin, inventor of the first mass produced electronic instrument, is the best remembered experimenter of this period. The Theremin synthesizes motion and sound the same way the ANS sythesizes images and sound. But his eponymous instrument was hardly Theremin’s only experiment. “Theremin worked on countless projects, striving to bring music, light, movement, smell and touch together in a single technology,” Smirnov and Pchelkina wrote. Scriabin would have been proud.