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Seven Little Known Birds of the Inner Eye

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by Mulk Raj Anand


  On Art (Klee), 124

  optical: concepts, 33, 38-39, 71, 136; illusions, 28, 32-34, 36-38, 65; vision, 26-27, 29, 37, 47-48, 50, 57, 95

  optical vision, bird of. See dickeybird

  Pacioli, Luca, 99

  papyrus: F. bers, 90; Edwin Smith, 90

  Paradiso (Dante), 53-54

  Parkes, C. Murray, 90

  Patanjali, 92

  Pedagogical Sketch Book (Klee), 46, 124

  Penfield, Wilder, 59

  perception, 15, 17-23, 28, 30-31, 40, 41, 43, 48, 57, 64, 79-80, 93, 95, 102, 105, 111, 116, 118, 120-21, 132, 141-44; psychology of, 13, 15; psychophysical aspects of, 18-21, 23, 32, 100, 105-6, 108, 111, 143

  Pereira, Irene Rice, 34, 95

  Phaedrus (Plato), 118

  phoenix bird of paradise. Sec bird of the imagination

  photons, 30, 38, 42

  Picasso, Pablo, 20, 59, 110, 134-36, 144

  Plato, 98, 118

  Pointillism. See neo-Impressonism

  Pollock, Jackson, 59

  Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbour (Seurat), 28

  prana (energy), 93

  Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture (Boner), 95

  Protagoras, 58

  psychic force, centres of. See chakras

  Ptolemy, 90

  purusha-prakriti (psycho-physical interactions), 56, 96-97

  question-mark bird. See thalamus bird

  Ragmala paintings, 38, 42; of Todi Ragini, 38

  Rajasthani peasant woman, 141

  Raman, C. V., 15, 29, 38-40, 42

  rasa (flavour), 24, 57, 112, 116

  rasika (critic), 18-19, 21-22, 56, 65, 119-21, 140, 142

  Ray, Nihar Ranijan, 15

  Read, Herbert, 14, 15, 131, 136

  Reddy, Krishna, 78

  Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn, 13, 130

  Renaissance perspective, 47

  retina. See eye

  rhythm bird. See bird of rhythm

  rhythms, 18-19, 24, 31, 52, 55, 57, 65, 85, 88, 111; experience of, 51, 95, 136; in sculpture, 42-43; source of, 22, 42, 77, 80

  Rig Veda, 91

  Rothenstein, William, 14

  Russell, Bertrand, 13, 21, 56

  sadanga (six limbs of painting), 46

  Sahitya Darpana (Vishwanatha), 117

  Samkhya Darshana (school of thought), 56

  Sargent, John Singer, 138

  Schroedinger, Erwin, 137

  Scott, Geoffrey, 99

  Self-Portrait (Rembrandt), 13, 130-31

  serpent power. See kundalini

  sesnago (eternal serpent), 97

  Seurat, Georges, 28

  Shakespeare, William, 23, 116

  skankh (conch shell), 73

  shapes and forms, 18, 43-44, 47, 50, 54, 96-99, 116

  shilpashastras (encyclopedias of' architecture), 46, 100; Manasara, 46

  Shiva, 42, 97, 100

  Sickert, Walter, 136

  Sistine Chapel, painting of (by Michelangelo), 144

  Souza, Francis Newton, 86

  space, 41-42, 59, 64-65, 72, 95, 100, 122, 129-30, 132, 138-39, 142, 144; in architecture, 37, 46; optical concepts of, 34, 116, 125; perception related to, 32, 34, 38, 125; and time relations, 36, 47, 65, 144

  Spenser, Edmund, 71, 72

  stream of consciousness, 52, 53, 93

  subconscious, 20, 31-32, 34, 42, 80, 84, 94, 100, 118, 120

  tabla (percussion instrument), 42

  Tagore, Rahindranath, 91

  Tantric philosphy, 15, 42, 63, 67, 73, 77. See also Hindu, philosophy; yoga philosophy

  temple architecture, 36-37, 44; Egyptian, 90; garbha griba (inner sanctum), 37; Greek, 90; Indian, 36; sikhara, 44, 96

  thalamus, 22, 31, 67, 69-73, 75, 87, 111, 118; functions of, 69-70, 72-73, 75

  thalamus bird, 22, 57, 69-70, 73, 75, 77, 87, 118

  "third eye," 20, 120-21, 125, 135, 142

  Threading light (Tobey), 138-39

  Tobey, Mark, 138-39

  Topolski, Feliks, 59

  unconscious, 42, 48, 50, 56, 63, 64, 67, 77, 80, 82, 86, 94, 99, 104, 132, 145

  vagal centre, 105, 110, 111

  vagus nerve, 78, 80, 82, 85, 109, 118. See also chakras; nerves

  vasanas (energies released by the body-soul), 20-22, 30, 32, 42, 44, 48, 54, 57, 80, 87, 102, 111, 120, 142

  Vatsyayana, 44

  Vedanta philosophy, 132, 145

  Vishnu, 43, 98

  Vishwanatha, 117

  Wordsworth, William, 64

  yoga philosophy, 32, 64, 70-71, 78, 80, 85, 92, 109-10

  yogic exercises, 77, 80, 85, 92-93, 110. See also breathing, exercises

 

 

 


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