#Mind's eye

[vaxolang]

"Mind's eye"

Acrylic painting

[oliviawhen]

I don’t know if this is accurate to everyone, it’s just the weird art lens I need to look at everything through. It took me till adulthood to figure out both these things. 

[sirenjose]

The Proof of Azoth's Theorem - (Concept Art) Analysis

(About Philosopher's Stone, Stibnite, Maria's Axiom, Philemon's Altar, Azoth, and a few of the symbols on each of their outfits)

Philosopher’s stone: the goal of turning base metals like iron into precious metals like gold or silver. It was also said to provide the elixir of life, which could cure any illness or bring longevity. It was considered the most pure and perfect of all substances.

Stibnite: an ore that is the primary source of antimony

Described in Basil Valentine's 1st Key (the image Fool's Gold is holding). This depicts purifying gold using melted stibnite.

Impure gold dissolves in melted stibnite. Metals besides gold are turned into sulfides and rise to the surface, while a white allow of antimony and gold sink to the bottom. Roasting this alloy causes the antimony to evaporate, leaving only the purified gold behind.

In the image of the First Key, stibnite is likened to a hungry wolf in the First Key due to how quickly stibnite dissolves (devours) metals.

In German, stibnite is called “spießglanz”, which means “spear shine” due to its shiny “spear” like crystals, thus why the First Key says “on account of his name, is subject to bellicose Mars”, as a spear is a weapon and all weapons are subject to Mars (the god of war).

This is like what is described by Nicholas Flamel, where silver is combined with mercury and antimony then distilled and cohobated (repeatedly distilling a liquid then pouring the distillate back onto the residue to extract more of the desired substance) to produce red power.

Maria’s Axiom: “1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3, and out of the 3rd comes the 1 as the 4th” (also described as “1 becomes 2, 2 becomes 3, and by means of the 3rd and 4 thachieving unity, thus 2 are but 1”)

Carl Jung uses this as a metaphor to describe the process of “individuation”. This refers to the process of self-discovery to become our true, unique self.

This involves finding your identity outside of the roles and expectations imposed by the outside (society, others, etc…). The goal here being to achieve a sense of “wholeness” and “unity” with yourself.

1 is the 1st matter, or prima materia, containing everything you need. This is then divided (into opposites), with each element purified by itself then united again (reconciliation of opposites) into a complete whole more perfect than the starting matter, the philosopher’s stone.

Philemon’s altar: may refer to Jung’s Philemon, which is based on Philemon and Baucis from Ovid’s Metamorphosis and Goethe’s Faust.

With Ovid, Jupiter and Mercury are disguised knocking on houses but not shown kindness until they meet Philemon and Baucis, an old, poor couple. They let them live while killing everyone else (the wicked), with the couple’s house being transformed into a temple.

With Goeth, Faust is building a city on land reclaimed from the sea and asks the devil Mephistopheles to move Philemon and Baucis, but Faust is horrified to see the demon burn their house down with the couple still inside. Faust then decides he needs to atone for his crime.

Philemon was a figure in a dream of Jung's, a wise old man that represented superior insight and wisdom. For Jung, Philemon symbolized the ��artifax” or skilled alchemist, with the goal to purify and perfect materials (transform base materials into noble ones like gold).

On a spiritual level, the goal of the artifax is to purify and perfect the human soul, achieving enlightenment (becoming a higher/whole human being).

Over Jung’s gate he put the inscription: “Philemon’s Shrine – Faust’s Repentance”. This involved integrating the moral questions raised by with the spiritual goal of alchemy via the opposing figures of Philemon and Faust (so acknowledge necessity of confronting evil on the path to individuation, atoning for Faust’s crime, and affirming the goal represented by Philemon).

Azoth: Considered to be a universal cure or Elixir of Life that could be created by the philosopher’s stone.

It is also essential agent of transformation in alchemy.

As the Universal Life Force, it's the energy responsible for the drive towards physical/spiritual perfection

Azoth is called Prima Materia in Latin. This was the first matter, the starting material required for the creation of the philosopher’s stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.

It is the 1st matter at the beginning as well as its perfected essence (philosopher’s stone).

It relates to unity, wholeness, and synthesis of opposites

Alchemy Symbols:

Philosopher’s Stone:

triangle = fire

triangle in a circle = Wheel of Fire (Ignis Rotae)

entwined snakes = likely Hermes Caduceus (Hermes as Hermes Trismegistus was closely associated with alchemy)

Stibnite

upside down triangle = water

hexagram?() = represented the reconciliation/union of opposites (fire and water)

Philemon:

- triangle with a line through it = air

Maria's Axiom:

- downward triangle with a line through it = earth

- symbols on her dress and floor for Mercury/Quicksilver, Venus/Copper, Moon/Silver, Saturn/Lead, Jupiter/Tin, Mars/Iron, and Sun/Gold

There were several bits that looked like they could be symbols but I haven't been able to identify them yet (I've already spent so long working to identify everything. I'll try to add more if I identify them later).

Also I did notice/wonder how that shadow thing has eyes that appear around it could relate to Hunter Norton's weapon, which almost looks like an eye. Matthias also might have something on his boots but it's hard to be sure.

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[lifewithaview]

David Duchovny and Lili Taylor in The X Files (1993) Mind's Eye

S5E16

Mulder and Scully assist local police when they suspect woman they arrested at a murder scene, Marty Glenn, is the murderer. The problem is that the woman is blind. Mulder finds it all very unlikely That a woman who has been blind from birth could actually commit the crime in question. Matty knows a great deal about the crime scene and can describe much of it in detail however. Testing confirms her blindness but Mulder begins to think that she is "seeing" things in a far different way than a normal human being can.

*Writer Tim Minear deliberately chose to make his blind protagonist Marty rather dislikeable as most interpretations of blind people tend to make them rather noble.

[battle-subway-ghost]

what happened at the end of feburary or whatever

Oh just a few things. Run-ins with cults, friends going missing, being put in a time loop and then having people get upset at me when I snapped at the person who did it, (fuck you all by the way I still remember that and I'm pissed about it.)

Then got horrible constant nightmares that are still ongoing even now, stalked by a "thievul," my pokemon got hurt, my pokemon hurt me, and the entire universe tore apart at the seams before my eyes and I died for several months.

Just a few things.

[deathsbestgirl]

i was listening to jesus of suburbia and started thinking about mulder and somehow ended up thinking about the way he rejects the idea of fate. he rails at fate, he fights for every person he meets. in oubilette, he won't accept lucy can't have a good life, can't help them find the missing girl. he performs cpr on the girl even as scully is begging him to stop because she's gone. he sobs over lucy's body when she dies. in mind's eye, he's determined to free marty. despite whatever petty crimes she committed, he doesn't believe she murdered anyone and he tries so hard to convince her to help herself. he wanted to keep her free. but in the end, she makes the choice to kill her father (?) and spend her life in prison...

in the field where i died, mulder asks scully if its true that they've been together in other lives, would it change anything? scully tells him she wouldn't change a day. fate or not, she chooses him.

when scully is marked for death with cancer, he won't accept it. they find the mufon women, they investigate. she tries treatment and writes him letter after letter as he continues chasing down leads. he learned from melissa to stop when it's what scully needs, so when she calls he drops it and does as she asks. he's so relieved and happy when scully says she's going to live, she's going to keep working. it isn't a typical route for cancer, but it bolsters him. and when it's revealed she was given this cancer, he nearly collapses in on himself until he has something to fight. because if it was given to her, maybe it can be taken back. and he finds the way to save her.

everything he does is about not writing people off just because of what's happened to them, what's been done to them, and the maybe bad choices they've made because of it. he won't leave them to drown when he can do something, help them do something. fox mulder tries so hard to make everyone see there are other possibilities. they have choices and power. they can change things.

mulder tries so hard to prove this to himself. if things can be different for others, maybe they can be different for him.

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[madcat-world]

Mind’s Eye (2 of 3) - Oska

[chrissabug]

Alrighty!   New artwork + Rewards are up! https://patreon.com/posts/78255663

[arconinternet]

The Mind's Eye Series (Videos, 1990/1992/1994/1996)

The iconic 90’s CGI showcase series. You can watch it all here.

[vaxolang]

"Mind's Eye"

Acrylic painting on canvas

Size 40 x 30

2021

[all-eyes-lead-to-the-truth]

All Eyes Lead to the Truth | Mind's Eye (5x16)

I hate the way you see me.

Sometimes it feels like everyone sees her the same way. Helpless. Weak. Pathetic. She doesn’t see bright light, she doesn’t see blackness. Only nothingness. People seem to think her lack of vision inhibits her; that without it, she’s unable to see. 

But Marty sees plenty. 

She sees it every day: pity, impatience, even revulsion, like she’s something abhorrent. Something inhuman. And after twenty-nine years, she’s sick and tired of it.

She’s lived her entire life putting up with the way others view her, but Marty knows the truth: that she is just as capable as anyone else. She’s traversed certain pathways in her life enough times to know them by heart. Three steps forward inside the lobby and seven steps to the left will always get her to her building’s staircase, without fail. Twelve stairs, then two right turns will get her to her front door. And when she gets there, she can access an entirely new set of muscle memories to get her through the rest of her daily routine. She gets by just fine, thank you very much.

Her blindness isn’t the issue, not for Marty. But she still feels trapped. She’s been imprisoned for as long as she can remember, and for her entire life, she’s come to accept it’s where she will always be. But that acceptance doesn’t lessen her yearning to escape.

Her imprisonment doesn’t come from her lack of sight. It comes from her experience of life in a cell through the eyes of another: a stranger, or so she’s thought all these years. An ex-con who had finally been released into the world again, only to unknowingly share with Marty all the horrible things he’s done.

Her father. 

She should’ve expected such cruel irony: that the very man who gave her life is the one ruining it. 

She could be more helpful to the police, if she really wanted to. Finding the murderer of some loser drug dealer really doesn’t seem worth making an ass of herself, though. Maybe it’s better if they think she did it. Marty’s had it tough enough defending her own independence, her own worth. Getting someone, any one to believe she’s seeing through the eyes of another person would be impossible.

At least, that’s what she’s thought until now.

You didn’t do it. And I’m not gonna let this happen. 

Do you hear me, Marty?

Agent Mulder understood her right away. She didn’t really get it at first, the way he seemed to want to let her off the hook because he felt sorry for her. But that wasn’t it. He’d been testing her. He wanted to let her off the hook because he genuinely believed she was innocent, which was more than she could say for Pennock and his cronies.

Agent Mulder is the one who convinces her to help. He’s probably the only one who can. And she does want to stop Gotts. Watching that poor woman’s demise isn’t something she ever wants to relive. 

But Agent Mulder is still basically just another cop, after all. If she lets him take over, he’ll put Gotts in prison. 

And that means he’ll put Marty back in prison, whether he means to or not.

She cannot allow that.

As you lost one sense… you gained another.

He can talk all he wants about this power she’s gained. She wants no part of it. She never has. She’s lost far too much.

When she pulls the trigger, the images finally disappear. And even though she’s being led away in handcuffs, she doesn’t mind at all.

It’s control, finally. It’s freedom.

She is free.

She can’t see Agent Mulder in the room, of course, but she now can recognize his energy. She can sense his presence as she’s taken away. And she can sense it again when she’s tried and sentenced. Never judging, but quiet, observing. Seeing.

Surely Agent Mulder will approach the judge on her behalf, make a plea for leniency. She knows this because he’s a good man, a kind man. Someone who understands that a black and white world has many shades of gray whether or not a person can see them. But she doesn’t want special treatment. She’s killed a man in cold blood; she will face the consequences like any other human being. And she knows that Agent Mulder will understand that, too. 

He’ll visit her soon, in prison. She can feel it. And this time, she’ll be pleased he’s come. Because for the first time in her life, even after all she’s lost, she’s gained something even greater: someone who sees her the way she wants to be seen.

Read the rest of All Eyes Lead to the Truth on Archive of Our Own!

@admiralty-xfd

[protoslacker]

But really, everybody’s weird, Nanay said. We all sit on the spectrum between hyperphantasia and aphantasia. It’s not only possible but likely that you have a totally different internal experience than someone you walk by on the street.

Kristina Armitage in Quanta Magazine. What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences

I remember as a young boy wondering abou tthe nature and extent of our different internal experinnces. To be honest I 'm aphantasiac, or at least don't form very vivid mental images voluntarily.

[acrekette]

[ailelie]

How's your mind's eye?

By 'rough outline or general image,' if you ate a sandwich, you might picture a basic bread/stuff/bread sandwich, rather than the thick toast+oozing mayo+bright spinach+long bacon sandwich that you actually ate.

By 'remember details,' I mean that you know what you ate and you can recall details and as you recall the details, you see them. So you remember you ate soup and the soup was green (you see green) and you swirled sour cream in it (see the swirls of white in green) and there were misshapen dumplings in it (see a dumpling). And you just smoosh those details together. (The dumpling came the soup; it should have green dripping from it, etc).