This book is crazytown

So I'm reading "The Book of the Damned" by Charles Fort. It's basically supposed to be about those things that science has excluded from consideration, as I was ruminating about a few days ago. But the thing was written in 1919, so he mentions electricity as one of his examples.

A good quote, though:
"all things [that] are trying to become the universal [are] excluding other things"

This is a really good examination of many world religions. Most of them adhere tightly to a scripture or a set of laws, totally excluding any other evidence. This simply cannot be the method to joyfulness.


"all attempts to find Truth in the special are attempts to find the universal in the local"

Many aspects of Hinduism already know this. Each bit of good research conducted on a local scale out there is triangulating a tiny piece of the universal. As we know, there is no truly local research, it is all confounded by outside noise. Hence the phenomenon known as the laboratory, a vain attempt to separate the thing to be tested from the world which it is both inevitably a part of and influenced by.


Fort also mentions Equilibrium. "there is no motion except toward Equilibrium, of course always away from some other approximation to Equilibrium.
All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments.
Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it."

Examining biological processes is a fantastic method of studying tiny changes in reality. Biological patterns often reflect different aspects of reality at the quantiscopic level that seem driven to Equilibrium, or at least from a false state of Equilibrium.


"[Science] divides all intellection: the obviously preposterousness and the established"

Nothing more to comment on here.