Marked States publications from
The Spencer-Brown Society and
Select works inspired by Laws of Form
Marked States
Marked States, a series on form in the widest possible sense, provides a place for radically original thinking.
The series title gets its meaning from the void-based formalism of Laws of Form (George Spencer-Brown, 1969) that establishes itself in the firmament of absolute nothingness called the unmarked state. The marked state is what stands in that radical foundation as it crosses from the unmarked state to the marked state through this first distinction. In Laws of Form, all form is the form of the first distinction.

Marked States, and the Journal, Distinction: Journal of Form, conceived in the context of the Laws of Form conference series, offer new work in wide-ranging, transdisciplinary fields, including but not limited to pure mathematics, philosophy, computer science, cybernetics, consciousness studies, phenomenology, psychedelic science, poetry, performance art, theoretical physics, philosophical mysticism, speculative fiction, and other areas.

The editors of Marked States and of Distinction: Journal of Form intend to bring into the world a new and radical way of thinking.

Contact Randolph Dible for more information (https://randolphdible.com).
Contact and Multidimensional Subjectivity
Toward a Phenomenology of Disclosure
Kimberly S. Engels
What happens when accounts of contact with the intelligences behind UFOs/UAP are no longer interpreted through the lenses of delusion or extraterrestrial technological threat, but are instead allowed to appear on their own terms? Working closely with first-person accounts of contact, Kimberly S. Engels asks what new possibilities for thinking about humanity, consciousness, reality, and ethics emerge when these experiences are taken seriously as sites of inquiry rather than dismissed or reduced to preexisting explanatory frameworks. Disclosure appears as a phenomenological event—one that opens new ways of thinking, doing, and being.

Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else
Meontology
In the Vast Sea of the Masnavi
Ali Sait Sadıkoğlu, translated by
M. Felat Özsoy
n Meontology, Ali Sait Sadıkoğlu undertakes a radical reexamination of the notion of non-being, drawing upon the profound insights of the fifth book of Rūmī’s Masnavi. Challenging the Western metaphysical tradition from Plato to Heidegger, a tradition that has historically treated non-being merely as a logical modality, a nothing, or a problematic counterpart to Being, this book posits non-being as pure thought and the very essence of existence itself.
By liberating this concept from subjective and anthropocentric frameworks, the author returns to the genesis of philosophical inquiry. Through an exploration of the experience of divine love, Meontology reveals non-being not as the oppositional shadow of existence, but as its royal gateway. This transformative theoretical shift provides a novel vantage point for reconsidering the domains of art, science, and religion. Ultimately, the book breathes new life into contemporary spirituality, proposing a new ideal of human existence: the human as the guardian of non-being.
The Harvard Psilocybin Project 1960-1963
Toward a Phenomenology of Disclosure
Edward J. Reither
Psilocybin changed the world - but first, it shook Harvard. The Harvard Psilocybin Project, 1960-1963 reveals how a daring research initiative at the heart of academia challenged postwar cultural norms and set in motion a revolution in psychology, medicine, law, and spirituality that still echoes today.
"It is fitting and natural that the Harvard intellectual community be the first to grapple with this new philosophic and practical issue and that the University of William James be given the first chance to accept or reject the educational protentialities of consciousness-expanding drugs."
Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary.
December 13, 1962, Harvard Crimson
On Feeling Good
An Operating Manual for the Human Consciousness
Samuel Clarke McLaughlin
Thought experiments can lead us to new frontiers. On Feeling Good taps into modes of consciousness and real existence-through experiments in cognition, perception, and freedom of will and action-that are not only higher than ordinary but located in the depths of hyperspace in a very precise way. This book moves us through dimensions where there is enough room to grasp such phenomena as immortality and universal love and compassion. What Edwin Abbott's 1884 classic Flatland does for lower dimensions, On Feeling Good does for higher ones. At the same time, On Feeling Good makes esoteric knowledge accessible, much like Aldous Huxley's popular 1945 book The Perennial Philosophy. But most importantly, the doors to the fourth, fifth, and sixth dimensions open in this volume. Through the simple imagery of a raindrop and its path, the reader ascends to higher and deeper reality, and then ascends again into another new dimension. But the greatest good here is the lesson about good feeling. The good is beyond being, beyond measure and order, and feeling good is what being does: being is an ecstatic rising.
Toward Repurposing Mind
The Metaspheric Perspective
James Guy
Watching news footage of crumbling ice shelves, one cannot help but ponder the fall of civilization, which these signs portend. So, what were we thinking that brought us to this crisis? Actually, the answer is not "what" we think, but the "way" we think-the way mind, or the geometry of thinking, is evolutionarily pre purposed toward self first, with blind consideration of the harm that "self itself" has caused the planet and the other human and non humans on it. And if you think this indictment does not apply to you and me, then think again. Think phenomenologically, which means explore, perhaps for the first time in your life, the structures of consciousness, awareness, and experience from the first-person point-of-view.
You will discover that it is only by way of a "point-of-view" that we apprehend anything at all. And what if that "point" were indeed merely a "point" in the geometry of mind, and not an entity itself?
Further titles related to the life and work of George Spencer-Brown
Laws of Form (Alphabetum III),
West Den Haag 2019
Dirk Baecker
Chair of Culture Theory and Management, Witten/Herdecke University
Akiem Helmling & Baruch Gottlieb
AH: Partner of the type-collective Underware and founder of the Alphabetum
BG: Member of the Telekommunisten, Arts & Economic Group
and laboratoire de déberlinisation artist collectives
R. John Williams
Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Yale University
George Spencer Brown's "Design with the NOR" With Related Essays
Steffen Roth, La Rochelle Business School, France
Markus Heidingsfelder, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
Lars Clausen, UCL University College, Denmark
Klaus Brønd Laursen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
includes essays by Mohammad Arif Sobhan Bhuiyan, Lars Clausen, Albrecht Fritzsche, Markus Heidingsfelder, Franz Hoegl, Klaus Brønd Laursen, Kelvin J. A. Ooi, Steffen Roth, Divyamaan Sahoo, and Peter Zeiner
"Laws of Form – A Fiftieth Anniversary", Series on Knots & Everything, Vol. 72,
World Scientific, 2022
Dirk Baecker, Cliff Barney, Vanilla Beer, William Bricken, George Burnett-Stuart, Art Collings, Leon Conrad, Fred Cummins, Randolph Dible, Graham Ellsbury, Jack Engstrom, James Flagg, Philip Franses, Florian Grote, Nathaniel Hellerstein, Akeem Helming, Louis H. Kauffman, Bernie Lewin, Phillipe Michelin, Diego Lucio Rapoport, Divyamaan Sahoo, Tom Short, Christina Weiss
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