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'Extra Sensory Perception' - “Mature, fiery and exalting music that you may just fall in love with.” -PR “Truly riveting and impressive contemporary progressive rock!” -PH “Wonderful album with superb production standards, absolutely fantastic.” -SG "Haunting, mesmerising and magical" -CC Thank you all! @tony_lowe @rawedgespassion @MarkBrzezicki @ESPProgProject @sunncreative #progrock Credits, comments, reviews & purchase👇

"Born to Be Wild" is from Steppenwolf's 1968 self-titled debut album and became forever linked to the 1969 film Easy Rider. The track peaked at #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 where it was kept from the top spot by The Rascals' "People Got to Be Free, and is frequently cited as one of the earliest heavy metal songs. The lyrics feature the first well-known use of the phrase "heavy metal thunder" in a rock song although it originally referred to the roar of a motorcycle, not the music genre. The track’s association with Easy Rider turned it into the ultimate motorcycle freedom anthem.

Queen "Killer Queen" Top Of The Pops 1974 Happy 79th birthday to the legendary #BrianMay guitarist for #Queen born July 19th, 1947. 🎉🎉 #RockOn 🎸🥁🎶🔥🔥

Yes "Roundabout" Live 1972 Enjoy! ✌️😎 #RockOn 🎸🥁🎶🔥🔥

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'Extra Sensory Perception' - “Mature, fiery and exalting music that you may just fall in love with.” -PR “Truly riveting and impressive contemporary progressive rock!” -PH “Wonderful album with superb production standards, absolutely fantastic.” -SG "Haunting, mesmerising and magical" -CC Thank you all! @tony_lowe @rawedgespassion @MarkBrzezicki @ESPProgProject @sunncreative #progrock Credits, comments, reviews & purchase👇

Captured by the Keck Observatory telescope, this infrared image showcases the ice giant Uranus. The planet, its rings, and its moons all rotate at an extreme tilt of over 90 degrees compared to the rest of the solar system.

Who was Dr. Rudolf Steiner? A man who dedicated his entire life to showing that the spiritual world can be known with the same rigor as science — and paid an extraordinary price for it. Born on 27 February 1861, Steiner grew up living in two worlds at once. Outwardly, the quiet son of a railway employee. Inwardly, a child who perceived reality with an unusual clarity that never left him. Geometry became his first proof that truth exists independently of the senses. Perfect forms could be grasped inwardly before they were ever seen outwardly. That realization became the foundation of everything that followed. He questioned priests about life, death, and the soul, yet found that conventional religions could not reach the depth of what he already perceived. Yet he loved Christian liturgy. He felt its symbols pointed toward a living spiritual reality buried beneath dogma. As a young man he immersed himself in Goethe and Schiller, while remaining an outsider to ordinary social life. His notebooks filled with symbolic sketches and imaginative forms that would later reappear in the architecture of the Goetheanum. By fifteen he was tutoring other students simply to survive, unknowingly developing the clarity that would later captivate thousands. His mission became unmistakable: To reunite scientific thinking with spiritual reality. Modern humanity had perfected the study of the external world while forgetting the inner dimensions of existence. Steiner sought to build a bridge between them. His years in Weimar were decisive. Through Goethe’s way of observing nature, he discovered that disciplined perception could be extended beyond the senses into the spiritual world. This became the seed of Anthroposophy. Berlin tested everything. He lived through poverty, isolation, ridicule, and profound inner struggles. He described confronting forces that tried to harden human thinking into lifeless abstraction. Those years forged the strength that sustained his later work. With Christianity as Mystical Fact, Steiner presented Christianity not as a collection of dogma, but as the central event of cosmic evolution — the moment the spiritual world entered earthly history in full reality. He joined the Theosophical Society simply because it was one of the few places willing to listen. But he refused blind belief. He refused to replace one dogma with another. When his own spiritual research diverged from theosophical teachings, separation became inevitable. Anthroposophy was born from direct spiritual investigation, later compared with ancient wisdom only to reveal their deeper harmony. Together with Marie von Sievers, Steiner published the foundational works of the movement, renewed art of speech, created the Mystery Dramas, inspired eurythmy, and conceived the Goetheanum — architecture as spiritual knowledge made visible. His insights eventually gave rise to Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and an entirely new understanding of the human being's place within the cosmos. Everything emerged from one conviction: That the invisible can be approached with discipline, clarity, and conscious experience. Steiner raised human understanding to the Spirit and united it with the spiritual being of the cosmos. Marie Steiner called this “the greatest human deed.” He was hated with all the demonic power of which hell is capable — yet he answered every misunderstanding with Love. After his death on 30 March 1925, Marie Steiner wrote that he became free to continue his work from the other side.

J.R.R. Tolkien explains why he spent years building Middle-earth before writing The Lord of the Rings. In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he devoted more than a decade to creating the world behind his stories before writing them. He rejects the idea that Middle-earth emerged purely from his unconscious, describing himself instead as “a meticulous sort of bloke” who spent years working out timelines, languages, histories, customs, and genealogies until everything fit together. For Tolkien, the world existed before the story. He even says The Hobbit began almost by accident, explaining that the larger mythology was already in place and that the novel simply became absorbed into it. When asked why anyone would build an entire fictional world before telling a story, Tolkien points to what he calls “subcreation.” As creations of a Creator, he argues, humans naturally desire to create. Since we cannot create something from nothing, we instead reshape existing reality into new forms that are both imaginative and aesthetically satisfying. Tolkien also rejects the idea that art should be driven solely by moral purpose, insisting that beauty and aesthetics are just as fundamental to human creativity. Discussing good and evil, he explains that Sauron was not evil from the beginning but fell from grace, much like Lucifer. The One Ring, he says, symbolizes a power so absolute that even someone with good intentions would inevitably be corrupted by wielding it. He adds that this idea long predates the atomic age, noting that the foundations of his mythology were developed while he was still an undergraduate, not as an allegory for modern events. At the end of the interview, Tolkien is asked whether he would rather be remembered for what he said or for what he made. He dismisses the distinction, arguing that lasting creations endure precisely because they have something meaningful to say. Source: The Tolkien Professor interview with J.R.R. Tolkien (BBC, 1968), “J.R.R. Tolkien Interview (1968).

In Scots language, 'ern' is eagle Eagle is one of the 'Three Elders of the World', the other two are Owl and Blackbird, and Eagle represents inner strength and courage. 📷 Golden eagle; Iolair bhuiidhe in Gaelic

“Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.” — Guillermo del Toro

Supertramp "Take The Long Way Home" Live In Paris 1979 Have a great afternoon! 💫 Enjoy! 😎 #KeepRockin 🎹🎸🎶🔥

Golden Earring "Radar Love" 1973 Enjoy! ✌️😎 #RockOn 🎸🥁🎶🔥🔥

Royal de Luxe is a famous French street theater company. Founded in 1979 by Jean-Luc Courcoult. #HappyFriday

Did you know that bees sleep between 5-8 hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to sleep with other bees and hold each other’s feet. 📸 Joe Neely

‘Still Waiting’ - I never tire of seeing this beautiful heron - ✨

Out Now! Hear and buy the new album from the ESP Project feat. Tony Lowe, Peter Coyle & Mark Brzezicki - available on Bandcamp as a CD/download and on iTunes, Amazon 💫 @tony_lowe @rawedgespassion @MarkBrzezicki On @sunncreative Art @StringAll esp-prog.bandcamp.com/album/extra-se…

Extra Sensory Perception “The sound is completely unpretentious, just cool … highly crankable in an open-top convertible as the sun comes up on Santa Monica Boulevard.” - Thank you Future Imperfect!☀️💫futureimp2.com/p/roundup-the-… @tony_lowe @rawedgespassion @MarkBrzezicki @StringAll

By the mid-1700s, science accepted that the Moon could move oceans through gravity. But it increasingly rejected the idea that living organisms might also respond to unseen forces. Traditional astrologers saw the universe very differently. They believed a universal principle of attraction and repulsion (often called magnetism) permeated everything. It was just the cosmos, but living organisms too. Every person, every plant, every creature was thought to possess its own magnetic balance while remaining responsive to fields and rhythms. In this view, nothing existed in isolation. What changed wasn’t just science. It was our understanding of what it means to be alive... and our relationship to the cosmos. Whether that shift represented progress, an incomplete picture, or both is a question still worth exploring. -- From Your Nostradamus Factor #Consciousness #Curiosity #BigIdeas