Ordinarily Nowhere
GX Jupitter-Larsen, 1986/2000

Down off the South Dixie Highway in Florida one will come across a place called Coral Castle. This magnum opus to one individual's vision took form from around 1920 to about 1950. Edward Leedskalnin was secretive and often worked at night, never allowing anyone to see how he carved the hard coral rock into the various chairs, tables and monuments that fill his Rock Gate Park. Leedskalnin, who was a diminutive man, also never revealed how he managed to raise and position the massive coral blocks. Many weighing in at over 30 tons. All in all, using mostly just tools he fashioned from junkyard auto parts and without any benefit of mechanical equipment, Leedskalnin quarried and sculpted over 1100 tons of oolitic limestone for his Castle. Leading into the castle is a nine-ton gate so perfectly balanced it swings open with the touch of a finger. When closed, there's only a five-millimetre clearance on either side. He also sculpted a 30 ton Polaris telescope to study and record data that enabled him to design and construct a very accurate sundial.

His tower contains 243 tons of coral rock made up of huge blocks weighing up to nine tons each. The average weight of the stones used in the construction of Coral Castle is greater than those used in the pyramids at Giza. Several of Leedskalnin's stones are also taller than those found at Stonehenge. The fact remains, he built it all by himself. Did Leedskalnin discover techniques of magnetic current as yet unknown to science? Or did he just utilize a trick too simple to be obvious? I don't think it really matters how he did it. Regardless how you look at it, Coral Castle is a superhuman achievement!

Leedskalnin was a free thinker. He believed that electrons were only a fantasy. As far as he was concerned, only forms of magnetism really existed. But as we can see with Coral Castle, free thought can lead to some pretty extraordinary concrete realizations. Everything is true regardless if it's false or not. Facts just occur a lot more often than non-facts. Your perceptions are as much an aspect of reality as are the subjects of your perceptions. This is because the mathematically symbolic functions which compose each of your thoughts are as every bit as genuine to the interconduction of waves of potentiality as are those functions that don't compose your thoughts. This doesn't mean that thought effects reality, just that all thought is part of reality. The potential in all this is that it doesn't matter what you think. What counts is how you count. You can think whatever you want, because no thoughts are any more or less proper than any other. As long as it works for you, it's the right answer! For myself, I don't really believe the mind and body are at all contacted, yet I still find myself leading a perfectly productive life.

In addition to Leedskalnin, another truly great visionary I've always deeply respected is Emperor Norton. Like Leedskalnin, Emperor Norton was a man who defined his own meanings of who and what he himself was, and lived without compromise to any of those definitions. Joshua Norton the First, who reigned as Emperor of The United States from 1859 to 1880, summed the whole thing up best when he said; "A man needs to first fully comprehend his own cerebral culture, before he can comprehend any one else's. Noise necessarily supposes the previous existence of expression and as its design is to teach any soul, ignorant of itself, that it must be adapted to the genius of that particular mind of which it treats."