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intention
intention (în-tèn´shen)
noun
1.A course of action that
one intends to follow.
2.a. An aim that guides
action; an objective. b. intentions. Purpose with respect to marriage:
honorable intentions.
3.Philosophy. A concept
arising from directing the attention
toward an object.
4.Medicine. The process
by which or the manner in which a wound heals.
5.Archaic. Import; meaning.
[Middle English entencioun, from Old French intention, from Latin intentio, intention-, from intentus, intent, from past participle of intendere, to direct attention. See intend.]
Synonyms: intention, intent, purpose, goal, end, aim, object, objective. These nouns refer to what one intends to do or achieve. Intention simply signifies a course of action that one proposes to follow: It is not my intention to argue with you. Intent more strongly implies deliberateness: The executor tried to comply with the intent of the testator. Purpose strengthens the idea of resolution or determination: "His purpose was to discover how long these guests intended to stay" (Joseph Conrad). Goal may suggest an idealistic or even a remote purpose: "Black Power . . . is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals" (Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton). End suggests a long-range goal: It has been said that the end justifies the means. Aim stresses the direction one's efforts take in pursuit of an end: The aim of every performing artist is to achieve perfection of execution. An object is an end that one tries to carry out: "The chief object of the English was to establish . . . a great empire on the Continent" (Macaulay). Objective often implies that the end or goal can be reached: "A major objective [of political liberalism] is the protection of the economic weak" (Wayne Morse).
intent
intent (în-tènt´) noun
1.Something that is intended; an aim or a purpose.
2.Law. The state of one's mind at the time
one carries out an action.
3.Meaning; purport.
adjective
1.Firmly fixed; concentrated: an intent gaze.
2.Having the attention applied; engrossed: The
students, intent upon their books, did not hear me enter the room.
3.Having the mind and will focused on a specific
purpose: was intent on leaving within the hour; are intent upon being recognized.
- idiom.
for all intents and purposes or to all intents
and purposes
In every practical sense; practically: To all
intents and purposes the case is closed.
[Middle English entent, from Old French, from Medieval
Latin intentus, from Latin, an extending, from intentus, attentive to,
strained, from past participle of intendere, to direct attention.
intend.]
- intent´ly adverb
- intent´ness noun
for me, it is a constant evaluation
and re-evaluation of objects and contexts, balanced with intentions. a
piece of art may be beautiful, but can be outweighed by a countering intention.
for me personally, if ego is the motivation, then the work is negated, no matter
how technically or aesthetically perfect. the concept is called into question
with the cyberpunk
ethic: the most beautiful things arise out of struggle and limitation.
one can easily throw money and power at something to create something beautiful
quite easily, which to me is an ugly situation. the most valued object
is that which was not intended to be beautiful, but simply formed out of struggle.
an example would be the bedroom music producer, just like the fanzine revolution
of the eighties in light of desktop publishing. personal web pages as
opposed to Time/Warner and Disney websites. since we are all human,
i do acknowledge that our intentions are far from perfect, but i will definitely
make a choice regarding the matter. a good tactic is to not expect perfection,
and also to "keep things special". what i mean by this is that if
we overexpose ourselves to our favorite situations, like drug use or anything
else, we may find that politics and ego creep in and the magic
is lost. by keeping a slight distance, one can prolong a good thing.
non-flyered, non-advertised TAZ
in the desert over clubs and flyered candy raves... no matter how well
Keoki or Sasha may mix, the relevancy
is lost because their intent is feeding ego, and the result is a well paid job.
gimme Nick
Taylor over any dj with "skillz". if the artist reeks of bad intentions,
i won't even give it a chance. to me, paying attention
(the new currency in the information
economy) to great art with bad intentions is a waste of time.
i don't use the excuse of how great something is anymore. if i smell a
rat, i don't bother. that's how the memeflows...
- @Om* 9/4/00
_Om
Rock_ MP3
by Groovy
Intent off of _Matsurythm 1_ compilation CD/EP 12"
on Matsuri
Productions |
by Ian Void
by Endeavor off of _Boogie Woogle_ 12" on Rotation (1998)
by Exos off of _Eleventh_ 12"x2 on Force Inc. #184
by Diego off of _The Persuasion Channel_ 12" on Kanzleramt #056 (2001)
by Urban Primitivism off of _Fraud_ 12" (1993)
by Portraits Of Past off of _01010101_
by Fire Party off of s/t 12"
on Dischord (1988)hardcore
punk track _Whispers Of No Small Intent_ MP3 (192k)
by Embassy off of 7" on Repercussion
by Engine Down off of _To Bury Within The Sound_ on Lovitt
by Cex off of _Oops I Did It Again_ 12" on Tigerbeat6 #015 (2001)
by Gorilla Biscuits off of _Start Today_ 12"
on Revelation (1989)(15:06)(21megs)
by Spectrum off of _Forever Alien_
on 3rd Stone (1997)
by Devilfish off of _Techwise & Otherwise_ CD on Bush Records #06 (2001)drum
& bass release _Serious Intent MP3 (160k)/Fuzed_
12" on Language
#008
(1996)
by Stewart Walker off of _Nevermore_ 12" on Force,
Inc. #173 (1999)Oblique
Strategy: Honor thy error as a hidden intention Over the course of my readings, I constantly wondered how nature could be devoid of intention if it truly corresponded to the descriptions biologists made of it.
One only had to consider the "dance
of the chromosomes" to see DNA
move in a deliberate way. During cell division, chromosomes double
themselves and assemble by pairs. The two sets of chromosomes then
lineup along the middle of the cell and migrate toward their respective
pole, each member of each pair always going in the direction opposite to
its companion's. How could this "amazing, stately pavane" occur without
some form of intention?
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acid,
to be precise, biologists describe it as both a molecule and a language,
making it the informational
substance of life, but they do not consider it to be conscious, or alive,
because chemicals are inert by definition.
How, I wondered, could biology presuppose that DNA is not conscious, if it does not even understand the human brain, which is the seat of our own consciousness and which is built according to the instructions in our DNA? How could nature be conscious if our own consciousness is produced by nature?
- Jeremy Narby - _The
Cosmic Serpent: DNA And The Origins Of KNowledge_
p. 137-138
"....even if one is not a writer one still can write,
but writing is transformed from a literary action into a shamanistic
action. What decides the subject and the development of a book is not the mind
of the writer but rather aforce
that the shamans consider the basis of the universe, and which they call intent.
It is intent which decides a shaman's production, whether it be literary or
of any other kind. ...a practitioner of shamanism has the duty and the obligation
of saturating himself with all the information
available. The work of shamans is to inform themselves thoroughly about everything
that could possibly be related to their topic of interest. The shamanistic act
consists of abandoning all interest in directing the course the information
takes. Don Juan used to say, "The one who arranges the ideas that spring from
such a well of information is not the shaman, it is intent. The shaman is simply
an impeccable conduit." For Don Juan writing was a shamanistic challenge, not
a literary task. "
from an interview with Carlos Castenada
What pets
seem to pick up is intentions. They pick up when people are about to go
away on holiday even before they've started packing. They pick up when
people want to take them to the vet, and will often hide. Dogs often pick
up when they're going to be taken for a walk. Dogs can be trained to respond
not just to words and whistles, but even to silent,
mental commands.
Many dogs and cats seem to know when a person they are bonded to has died, even
when this happens far away. They seem to be sensitive to changes in the
field that connects them to their people. This field is affected by the
activities, emotions and intentions of their people - whether they're coming
back or going away, whether they've died, whether they're in pain or trouble,
whether they want to play. The animals seem to be picking up not specific
messages but rather general changes in the tension of the field...
Rupert
Sheldrake - _The Evolutionary
Mind_
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Cyber-culture, music, psychedelics, feminism,
ecology, the new spirituality, all of these concerns could profit and strengthen
themselves by appealing to a visual language,
a new way of processing
what is heard. This is what I think art in the 20th century has unconsciously
been striving for, ever since jazz and cubism and throughout the evolution
of 12-tone row, abstract expressionism, rock'n'roll, pop-up virtual
reality -- all of these schools of art and technological innovations in
the art-making process are setting us up to be able to see what we mean at some
point in the future. And this will deliver us essentially into the equivalent
of a telepathic society. Now, you may have imagined
telepathy as something different, you may have imagined it as one person speaking
and another person hearing the thought composed, but this isn't it. Telepathy
will be nothing more than seeing what the other person intends -- seeing meaning.
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Then there is the phenomenon of non-ordinary, or
what I call visible language and this is very interesting to me. This is
where technology, virtual-reality, cybernetics,
human-machine interfacing can actually make an impact and explore a frontier.
Visual language is a transormation of the physiological impulse towards
syntax into a final product, speech, which is not heard with the ears,
but beheld with the eyes. It's very interesting that all our metaphors
of clarity of speech are visual metaphors. We say, 'I see what you mean,
he spoke clearly.' This means that at the organismic level we associate
a higher signal clarity with visual input, and on DMT
and other tryptamine psychedelics you actually experience the field of
language both heard and self generated as something that is visibly beheld.
Its almost as though the project of communication becomes high-speed sculpture
in a conceptual dimension
made of light
and intentionality. This would remain a kind of esoteric performance on
the part of shamans
at the height of intoxication if it were not for the fact that electronics
and electronic cultural media, computers, make it possible for us to actually
create records of these higher linguistic modalities. In other words its
possible to imagine a virtual reality that was driven by a speech operated
synthesizer where the various parts of ordinary speech adjectives, modifiers,
subjects and objects were interpreted by the cybernetic environment as
topological manifolds of various shapes so that speech would then generate
a visibly beheld topology and its possible to imagine a future world where
in setting up marriage contracts or in negotiating corporate takeovers,
in areas where clear communication, clear expression of intentionality
was very important, that people would actually go into the virtual reality
to use the visible language because its capacity for conveying intent would
be much greater than ordinary spoken language. It's not for nothing that
Plato connected up the notion of the Good, the True, and ultimately, the
Beautiful. The beautiful of those three concepts is the primary concept
because it is visibly beheld, because it is seen. This is the great convincing
power of the psychedelic experience. That it ultimately appeals to us through
the sense that we value most. That we existentially relate to as the most
authentic and that is the visual. Visible language is a kind of telepathy
because if i make a statement in visual language and then you and I regard
my statement, we are somehow, in the act of regarding, made one. Because
meaning is not being created out of interiorized dictionaries which we
each consult in the privacy of our own mind but rather meaning is
a visible manifold in the public domain. Meaning goes public and the differences
between people then decline toward being insignificant. Its a kind of final
confirmation of the McLuhan
apotheosis and i think visible language is coming. Life in the imagination
is to be the life of creativity carried on through these virtual environments
driven by
linguistic engines.
_Ordinary Language, Visible Language and Virtual Reality_ by Terence McKenna
.......Sometimes meaning is a palpable thing: like liquid being poured through cracking ice, language moves ahead of its intent; it encloses its object and gives you almost a reverse casting of the thing intended. There are many ways for words to fit themselves over the contours of intentionality. - Terence McKenna
In studying mathematics, I saw structure
derived directly from intent. Everything in math is created by intending it.
As one of my math teachers said, math is built on twin foundations
of motivation and language.
In Don Juan's world, the conscious application of intent is also fundamental.
Don Juan said that we are heirs to intentions formulated long ago, including
the intentions of ancient Greek mathematicians. We assemble a Euclidean world,
even though that view is so limiting that it consistently interprets only a
tiny fraction of our sensory input.
- _Mappinig Awareness_ by Lawrence Au
track _Remember_ MP3 (vK)
by Deep
samples:
time...
We ask you, as keepers of the great stories, to proclaim an allegiance
to earth, pledge the transformation of yourselves, which is the journey
to light
and dark, and honor earth's momentous role in setting you free...";Pleiadian
energies, calling to you from the future... we also exist within you.
we are your ancestors existing within you, as well as without... we are
you. on the golden
spirals of time. cycling the epics of existence... calling to
you yourselves, to reconsider all you thought holy. we ask you to
re-evaluate the purpose of your life. to redefine the forces
that rule you. to resurrect the codes of consciousness within your
being. it is time for you to reclaim your knowledge as the creator
through thought, to recall the purpose as the living library
of earth... to restore beauty through value of life, and to remember, remember,
remember, who you are..."
Meters and Indicators:
a good way to gauge resonating
intentions is to check response mechanisms. if any experience garners
a superficial reaction such as: "but why?" or "you need to get a life...",
is usually a good indicator that you are doing something right. those
that claim you are "wasting" time
have already made up their minds about what is meaningful(less) in their own
lives: such as advancing in one's career, earning wage slavery meal tickets,
pursuing the goals of the "alternative cool" (e.g. traveling as an end, as opposed
to a means, jet set bohemia, etc.). anything outside of their personal reality-tunnel
construct is "wrong" because you are not living by their own rules.
if something is taking up your "precious" time and you are satisfied with it,
no matter what the external responses are of their ego trips, then your intentions
are pure and worth its own reward. the reason why they would elevate their
ego above you and your pursuits is to justify their own insecurities about what
is meaningful to them, which they learned through culture, parents, television,
or whatever external sources of command that they chose to absorb and exist
by. - @Om* 10/29/01
Self-reference mathematically and
as wave
function is the indicator of self-awareness. Iteration perfected as the place
where a wave form, can re-enter itself
non-destructively is the mathematics
of self-reference. Spin or pattern can reference self with no resistance or
fear in the perfect geometry where the re-entry incident curvature is Golden
Mean. Pure intention is the test for symmetry or shareability which cyles
of phi or recursion permit. Getting phy-sical is permission to touch. Thus the
geometry of intended or aimed spin direction reveals the Golden nature of pure
intention itself. The most angles from which a wave can approach a common concentric
center is indexed by the geometric condition of the perfect fractal. In 2D this
re-pents, and 3+D systems it is dodecahedral (DNA,
Earth Grid and Zodiac fit this same fractal.)
This is the idealized physics for "E Pluribus Unum", the ultimate and perhaps
only way, many become one. Shareability perfected for waves is fractal: infinitely
spin dense, infinitely information
dense, infinitely compression
dense, and infinitely "aware". - Dan Winter
Music is the one thing in which
there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses. - Confucius
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