Gorillaz's latest album, Plastic Beach, takes the band to an isolated island in search of higher truth.
Such hocus-pocus did not prevent the likes of Kandinsky from appreciating the vigor of Theosophy's assault on materialism in the name of higher truth.
His shouting is elevated, though, to a kind of higher truth.
Here was a man excavating the darkest corners of his soul in order to bring us some sort of higher truth.
I came into this night expecting to find some kind of higher truth in our shared love of getting fucked up.
I do not know if it portends things ugly and low, something related to aging and time, sadness and death, or if it's the exact reverse, and in fact illuminates some sort of higher truth, an enlightened and honest wisdom happily marinating for many years in dark rum and sultry chillout and classic Iron Maiden.
Warm, witty and sly, both proud and self-loathing, he's a dishonest man in search of higher truths in a corrupt world of power and brutal ambition.
But in the same essay Emerson also inclines toward Platonism, stating that nature is "emblematic" of higher truths, and suggesting that the material world has value by virtue of being a subsidiary product of mental reality: each natural object is therefore "a symbol of some spiritual fact".
A refugee from a culture of secular materialism, I was now an unabashed and public proponent of higher truths, meaning, purpose and spiritual depth.
Knowing this relation enables a multitude of applications, for example coloring the point cloud, the generation of textured meshes, or the creation of high accuracy ground truth for range cameras.
