THE FUTURE OF BORDERLAND RESEARCH
This website marks the initiation of a new phase of borderland research. The philosophy of the content of the borderland stream has gone through definite and requisite metamorphosis over the years. Such is inevitable with a living information stream.
The term “borderland” is used in several ways, but has one main definition in this context. Meade Layne used borderland to designate the area of contact with the unseen spiritual forces. In Goethe’s theory of color, the prismatic colors form on the border between white and black when viewed through a prism, indicating that the formation of color is a borderland phenomenon. Borderland has also been used to designate “fringe science” types of ideas. Fringe science is oriented toward ideas that are generally incapable of being understood by the mainstream—usually because the world view of the inventor or discoverer is unique—and generally works with unseen and unknown energies and activities. This is in accord with the main contextual definition l use. The border we speak of is the border which separates the seen from the unseen, the ponderable from the imponderable, the physical from the spiritual, the known from the unknown. … Continue reading →