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Concrescence
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concrescence

concrescence (ken-krès´ens) noun
1.Biology. The growing together of related parts, tissues, or cells.
2.The amassing of physical particles.

[Latin concrêscentia, from concrêscêns, concrêscent-, present participle of concrêscere, to grow together.]
- concres´cent adjective

concrescence (noun)

union: concrescence, coalescence, fusion, merger, mixture

• webbed nexus fUSION Anomaly.
• space rock track _Convergence_ MP3 by Landing off of _Circuit_ (2001)
• metallic hardcore entity Converge
  • track _Jacob's Ladder_ MP3
  • split release with Agroaphobic Nosebleed on Relapse (1999)
  • release _When Forever Comes Crashing_ on Equal Vision
    • 7. _When Forever Comes Crashing_ MP3
• electro track _Prepare To Merge_ MP3 (192k) by Decal off of _Forget The 80's_ 12" on Satamile #008 (2001)
• experimental release _All That Rises Must Converge_ CD by The Hafler Trio on Grey Area (1995)
  • 1. _An Introduction To Go_
    2. _Of The Building Of Forms By Vibrations_

I don't see it as a "versus" situation, although we tend to think dualistically in this sector of the universe. I think that's in our genes. (DNA = pairs of opposites). I'll bring in the idea of "concrescence" here. At some locales in the flux of Time, qualities or energies aggregate and form a critical mass, and something entirely new is born. This is related to the idea of "emergent properties" which Terence explains somewhere with the example of gold. You can have a certain number of gold atoms, but they won't be the element gold until there are a certain number of them. At some point they are just gold atoms, and then at a certain concentration they take on the qualities of what we call "gold" i.e. a pale yellow color and so on.  So the color "gold" is an emergent property of gold atoms. I guess you could say the same about consciousness. It's an emergent property of the human nervous system. I would also add that Novelty is not merely something new or different, but also a measure of greater connectedness and complexity.

 - post off of the Novelty mailing list

"The tryptamine state seems to be in one sense trans-temporal; it is an anticipation of the future.  It is as though Plato's metaphor were true--that time IS the moving image of eternity.  The tryptamine ecstasy is a stepping out of the moving image and into eternity, the eternity of the standing now, the NUNC STANS of Thomas Aquinas.  In that state, all of human history is seen to lead toward this culminating moment.  Acceleration is visible in all the processes around us...What is obviously happening is that everything is being drawn together." - Terence McKenna - _The Archaic Revival_  p. 113
 

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