The Baha'i Studies Listserv I just sent this message to the meta-Reality Yahoo group. I thought that some people here might find it of interest. The "cosmic envelope" is a basic concept in Roy Bhaskar's meta-Reality:
I Googled "cosmic envelope" and found several references (apparently unrelated to Bhaskar). Almost half of them are related to Hindu "Vastu," which I was previously unfamiliar with. There are many more sources, but I stopped after the first page of hits. "On this way remedies decode and nullify the old quantum memory associated with the human mind and creates a cosmic envelope around the human vessel." - Astro Vaastu <http://www.vedicsecrets.com/vaastuastro.html> ... create a cosmic envelope around the the human vessel through harmony, rhythm, and polarisation. - Mystic Science of Vastu <http://books.google.com/books?id=UQdaR0hZm9oC&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=%22cosmic+envelope%22+-groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-reality&source=bl&ots=-AlEGt6Prh&sig=EXCklgCZnRGJ5F0Orh6oXlqa6GM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6nZ4T5a6Moft0gGey6jNDQ&ved=0CPUBEOgBMBs#v=onepage&q=%22cosmic%20envelope%22%20-groups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2Fmeta-reality&f=false> (book) Vastu analysis is the science of nature and human existence. It blesses the cosmic ENVELOPE to dwellings, where all energies dance rhythmically to tune human consciousness to Bliss, Happiness and Abundance. It takes care of Solar thermal radiation, balanced electromagnetic flux & protection against the ill-effects of imbalanced gravitational forces in co-relation to organics of human enclave. - Vastu mega planners <http://vastumegaplanners.com/about_us.html> Vasstushastra is the art of living with natural forces in harmony and peace. It is a Science of fortune making, hence catches everybody's attention. Yogshastra is the mother of Vasstu Science. All concepts of this science find its principles in the theory of Yogashastra. The theory is very simple : *" Sky, ie, ether, is full of events"*. Events flow along the natural streams of energy. If these streams are blockage-free, impedence free and frictionless, one meets a positive network of events in life, which makes one fortunate." Hence Vasstu Science creates a cosmic envelope around you by using the art of orientation with some crystals, some plants, colours, prisms, pyramids, metals, water, stones and levels. - Why one should follow Vastu <http://www.vastushastraservices.com/why-one-should-follow-vastu.html> Vaastu shastra is an art of developing a cosmic envelope around the Vaastu that can provide rhythm, harmony, and the tranquillity to the household. - OmVaastushastra <http://www.zonkerala.com/OmVaastushastra-1952.html> So, to the cosmic envelopes: Imagine there are metaphorical cosmic envelopes. Inside each one are the beliefs of individuals. - The Last Word on Truth... from me, for now, anyway... <http://weescoops.wordpress.com/2011/06/> (several references to "cosmic envelope" on this page) But if the term were Ananimander's, there would be reason to suggest that the /Apeiron/ functioned more than simply the material source of things, or some kind of cosmic envelope. - Ancient Greek philosophy: Thales to Gorgias <http://books.google.com/books?id=88PFcpKjupAC&pg=PT51&lpg=PT51&dq=%22cosmic+envelope%22+-groups.yahoo.com/group/meta-reality&source=bl&ots=8zMtH9N9p3&sig=fbQuoi9ftt3ULH1qeiXILPCydbc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6nZ4T5a6Moft0gGey6jNDQ&ved=0CMUBEOgBMBQ#v=onepage&q=%22cosmic%20envelope%22%20-groups.yahoo.com%2Fgroup%2Fmeta-reality&f=false> (book) Ritual theater such as that in Africa establishes the spatial medium not merely as a physical area for simulated events but as a manageable contraction of the cosmic envelope in which human beings exist. - **African Poetry Begins <http://www.collegetermpapers.com/viewpaper/1303613782.html> His church advocates handling snakes to push the edge of the cosmic envelope, to blur the line where the self meets the larger world. - Robert Hellenga's "Snakewoman of Little Egypt," reviewed by Carolyn See <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606360.html> New Paradise Laboratories artistic director Whit MacLaughlin says the space and the show are a good fit. "The space is highly strange, extraordinarily beautiful and holy in an ecumenical way. It's sort of a cosmic envelope for these ideas in the piece about recreating Eden." - Site-specific theater finds a home at both the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe <http://www.queso-fresco.com/print_friendly.php?id=10358> As r increases above 10' h, self-lravity begins to be important and a thin. water-saturated env 1l ope forms. The density enhancement due to self-gravity in the cosmic envelope is -cxp[(r/900 km) I, so optical depth unity in ar hydrogen alone is achieved when r- 3000-4000 km. - On Forming the Giant Planets Quickly <http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1984/pdf/1416.pdf> (PDF file) --- Mark A. 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