{"id":535,"date":"2021-01-07T08:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizbergthemes.com\/omg-blog-lite\/?p=19"},"modified":"2021-01-27T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T05:00:43","slug":"i-am-not-the-same-having-seen-the-moon-shineon-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/i-am-not-the-same-having-seen-the-moon-shineon-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Recomposing Temple Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officeofuncertaintyresearch.org\/tirtha-recomposting-temple-complex\"> Recomposting Temple Complex<\/a> is where human bodies can not only be composted, but also where bodies can be ceremonially received, prepared, and honorifically &#8220;sent off&#8221; to the recomposting islands just off-shore from the temple. The originating conceit of the project is that while the science of human body recomposting is well developed, we don&#8217;t yet have a cognizant and matching 21st century social epistemology for recomposting, that can be celebrated with an appropriate honorific ritual practice, which of course needs to be staged upon a suitably rich, ritual architecture. OUR project aspires to do just that, joining the work of others in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic epistemic conceit of the project is &#8220;&#8230;.something becomes something else&#8230;.&#8221;. The laws of physics suggest, indeed require, that everything in the universe, &#8216;dead&#8217; or &#8216;alive&#8217; is made of the same sub-atomic particles and forces and is subject to all the same laws, without exception. This suggests therefore that birth and death, while indisputably significant &#8216;events&#8217; in this complex sub-atomic particle configuration we call life, are in fact little more, and nothing less, than reconfigurations of sub-atomic particles and forces, a process that is enacted in the universe in a myriad different ways, everywhere. Life on planet earth is no doubt a very special event; even so, it is part of the infinite diversity of particularly re-configuration &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;something becomes something else&#8230;&#8221; again and again, that is fundamental to the processes of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tirtha<\/strong> is a Sanskrit word that means &#8220;crossing place, ford.&#8221; In India, there are dozens of these places, some of which have become pilgrimage sites. In this project the temple is at the core of the tirtha, but \u2018the crossing\u2019 is a drawn-out spatial and temporal process that encompasses the whole site and its program. In that sense the tirtha is embedded in a type of \u2018temenos\u2019 or sacred area, the intensity of which is thickened over time and use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Recomposting Temple Complex is where human bodies can not only be composted, but also where bodies can be ceremonially received, prepared, and honorifically &#8220;sent &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/vprakash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}