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Newsletter Nr. 1.467
Amsterdam, December 7, 2025

Gravity: From Occult Force to Cosmic Illusion — The Strange Story of a Reluctant Concept - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Gravity is the most familiar force in the universe—you feel it the moment you get out of bed—yet it remains the most conceptually slippery. It resists visualization, resists unification, and resists final explanation. Its history reads like a series of failed metaphors the universe keeps laughing at. No force has travelled a stranger intellectual arc: from medieval occult influence… to Newton's “action at a distance”… to Einstein's curved spacetime… to today's speculations that gravity might not be a fundamental force at all, but an emergent illusion.

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https://www.integralworld.net/visser705.html?4


The Noun-King and the Three Great Engines of Teleology - The Dreaming Kosmos, Chapter 14 - Joseph Dillard

Before the first stories were spoken, before language congealed the flowing world into categories, the Dreaming Kosmos moved in pure relation. Everything was verb. Everything was becoming. Rivers didn't flow, they were flowing. Stars didn't shine, they were shining. Creatures didn't grow, they were growing. But from within this shimmering field of motion rose a peculiar tribe: The Nouns.

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https://www.integralworld.net/dillard164.html