mondo23
29-10-2008, 11:00 AM
Yesterday I was browsing through the MBS section of a 2nd hand book stall at my local market and came across this book:
http://cgi.ebay.com/COPTIC-RADIO-ORBICULAR-THOUGHT-Adolf-A-Braun-1921-UK_W0QQitemZ300159002171QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p32 86.m20.l1116
I bought it as they only wanted £3 for it and as it is a first edition from 1921 I thought it would be worth a bit more (it is but not much.)
When I got home I was flicking through the book and it seems pretty way out. Although I am yet to read it properly it boasts of a system of having the Master Key to Universal Knowledge, Achievement, Wisdom and Morality.
I spent a good half an hour flicking through the book mainly because its so old and in pretty good condition and I got to thinking about where it has been and how many people have been its owner thoughout the years. I love that about old books. Sometimes its almost as if you can tune in to all the differant people that have read a book and how it effected them, their thought processes. Anyway, I kept flicking through and getting quite engrossed in some of the writing in the book and then I came across page 67. There's a small spider, squashed there on the page and it looks like it has been there a very long time. I see this as synchronicity as, from what I can gather the subject of the book is using a spiders-web as a model to explain the universe and the same for our thought processes and I basically get the impression that the book suggests that our subconscious mind is like a spider that has created the spider-web of reality and moves about it at will.
I dont know what to think of this flattened spider on page 67. It could just be a funny coincidence or, as I strongly felt yesterday when I spent some time thinking about it, someone who owned the book anytime between 1921 and me buying it yesterday, was reading it one day, and noticed a spider had crawled onto the page and so slammed the book shut to squash it. I guess it wouldve been quite funny to the person who did it, what with the subject matter of the book. Then I got to wondering how many people had read the book and saw the spider on page 67 and what they thought of it. Its a real head spinner but a very cool one I think. I was doing some pretty hearty belly laughs yesterday about it.
The book is by a guy called Adolphe Armand Braun and I can find very little information on the guy. There's nothing on Wiki about him or the book but i did find a copy on ebay. I wonder if that copy has a spider on page 67...:cool:
http://cgi.ebay.com/COPTIC-RADIO-ORBICULAR-THOUGHT-Adolf-A-Braun-1921-UK_W0QQitemZ300159002171QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p32 86.m20.l1116
I bought it as they only wanted £3 for it and as it is a first edition from 1921 I thought it would be worth a bit more (it is but not much.)
When I got home I was flicking through the book and it seems pretty way out. Although I am yet to read it properly it boasts of a system of having the Master Key to Universal Knowledge, Achievement, Wisdom and Morality.
I spent a good half an hour flicking through the book mainly because its so old and in pretty good condition and I got to thinking about where it has been and how many people have been its owner thoughout the years. I love that about old books. Sometimes its almost as if you can tune in to all the differant people that have read a book and how it effected them, their thought processes. Anyway, I kept flicking through and getting quite engrossed in some of the writing in the book and then I came across page 67. There's a small spider, squashed there on the page and it looks like it has been there a very long time. I see this as synchronicity as, from what I can gather the subject of the book is using a spiders-web as a model to explain the universe and the same for our thought processes and I basically get the impression that the book suggests that our subconscious mind is like a spider that has created the spider-web of reality and moves about it at will.
I dont know what to think of this flattened spider on page 67. It could just be a funny coincidence or, as I strongly felt yesterday when I spent some time thinking about it, someone who owned the book anytime between 1921 and me buying it yesterday, was reading it one day, and noticed a spider had crawled onto the page and so slammed the book shut to squash it. I guess it wouldve been quite funny to the person who did it, what with the subject matter of the book. Then I got to wondering how many people had read the book and saw the spider on page 67 and what they thought of it. Its a real head spinner but a very cool one I think. I was doing some pretty hearty belly laughs yesterday about it.
The book is by a guy called Adolphe Armand Braun and I can find very little information on the guy. There's nothing on Wiki about him or the book but i did find a copy on ebay. I wonder if that copy has a spider on page 67...:cool: