getting (a)head

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"One frontier begets another"

- from Outer Range

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. what does it take to get (a)head in the world today ..? .. when things seem to be accelerating at an ever more rapid pace, & there's a con stant threat of coLLapse .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. one should move forward &, when it's warranted, look back .. mistakes & corrections are to be expected, but so long as a forward overall trajectory is maintained, eventually we'll @LL aTTain ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. both the past and future are viewed dimly ..

"Dreams are messages from the deep"

 

 

- from Dune

shades & the cult of no underpants

 

 

 

 

 

 

shades (thus named because 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. you guys don't know what darkness really is, but I do ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. I never looked away; that's not my Way .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. I engaged .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & I found that the dark, too, communicates  .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. like a gateway to another

) was initiated into the ancient Cult of No Underpants, or C :. N :. U :. many years ago & far away, but he remembered it like it was yesterday .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. this was in the daze when he still bothered with underpants, not yet realizing that, to truly attain to the lofty heights of esoteric gnosis, knowledge & wisdom, one must shed such vain accoutrements, attachments of the inflated ego, & 'let it all hang out', as it were ..

.. for hopefully obvious reasons, initiates into the C :. N :. U :. went about their Work unknown & hidden to others, but, years later & in another far away land, shades had encountered a fellow initiate ..

.. it was then that shades understood that the esteemed initiates of the venerable C :. N :. U :. were widely spread & far apart, but that all worked to .. uplift & to .. support humanity in its age-old quest to collectively enter the new aeon, the age of aquarius; a long foretold golden era in which people would be well acquainted with Truth, Justice & Beauty ..

 

.. to know is not yet to gnow ..

The forces involved in making machines and making life - one is impersonal, the other is very personal (if you catch my drift).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's make the assumption that if you are an operator, using this word because of its super cool relation to [esp]ionage, but I prefer the word inhabitant, - in any event, if you are an operator of a human body, forget the psyche except as it relates to bodily perceptions, then there are certain geometrical structures that must find their realization in how we relate to, or operate, our body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These may or may not be imposed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Machine, Animal, Character [in the sense of a mark]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Competition and change | civilizational development - races

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technologies and their relation to personalities and personality types

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idiosyncrasy randomness and structure \ order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mem(ory) vs mens [mind in mensuration, etc.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I assume this is real, that I am alive and can die (di-graph). Diverge
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But what can i buY (bi-sect), while I'm still here?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A (G)reenback, lying in the grün raspy [gr]ass on the ground.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I pick it, and eat with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s the difference between doing tricks for food, and doing tricks for money?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sellurla automata

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you spell things wrong enough, autocorrect can’t help you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefit of the doubt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shuffled around by larger forces

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The unwitting tourist of hells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Film laminated moments
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Nothing is more precious than freedom and independence"

- from The Sympathizer, after a slogan by Ho Chi Minh

.. what if the crisis which everyone seems to fear is right around the corner, is but a challenge, a prelude to the cultivation of psychic powers ..? .. perhaps the latter is in fact an inevitable con sequence of the former ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. one has to first encounter the gaping void of the Nothing in order to develop true freedom & independence .. to rise, one must go within, & here there be monsters .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. thus, this crisis can be seen as a collective initiation .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. especially here & now, we ought to be wary of retreating back into a tried & true that demonstrably doesn't cut it any more,  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"[a]s the values of the old world, the old aeon, crumble away or undergo radical change. Furthermore, the entire mass of humanity  - not a mere handful of nations, however large and powerful - is now threatened with destruction [..] That a form of survival can be ensured by magical foreknowledge, and the access which it gives to dimensions of being, outside the circles of time and space, is not entirely beyond belief [.. ] Now, more than ever before, it is evident that man must find his centre, his 'soul', or perish as a self-conscious entity .. "  

 

 

 

 

- Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time

 

hermeneutics of suspicion / inns erection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible"

- from Alice through the looking glass

.. I didn't succeed until I stopped striving ..

.. by then I couldn't even hold success back if I tried ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. we mourn the demise of the monoculture, of neoliberalism as a viable political economy, of "the press" when we should really be celebrating.. because what all of these disparate fields have in common is the assumption that there is one right way to understand things & that the other ways are wrong, & that theirs is the former ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. today, we're realizing more & more that this may not actually be the case; that it's superficial to the point of inaccuracy to see things this way ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. a 'hermeneutics of suspicion' is a way of reading, or interpreting reality, that assumes someone(s) has something to gain by con vincing others that things are a certain way .. this hermeneutics, or Way of reading & interpretation, then looks at things & decides that they are not as they had been con vinced they are, but rather otherwise ..

.. in other words, applying a 'hermeneutics of suspicion' is simply a way of saying that one is reading between the lines, not taking things at face value, is hip to the con ..

.. there is one important point that's worth emphasizing here, & it is that if there's more than one right answer, for sure there's more than one wrong answer .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. our double chaLLenge then is not to find the one right answer, because then we fall into the trap of assuming that there is only one .. rather, it is to find the answer that is most applicable to the con text in which we find ourselves operating, & to avoid being swayed either into the view that everyone else is wrong, or that there isn't a more appropriate Way to the one we've happened upon .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. if we succeed at both of these, we have little to fear from con artists who would sway us to their Way, generally at our own expense ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Logistics is the foundation of Civilization - gotta count that shit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is the nature of the reality of the past in so far as it concerns our present existence as, I assume you who are reading this are, human beings - [or web scraping computer systems (Hello Google)]: FF ONE! day -> 5-16(2024) f= -11... then another one too, for good measure; it is now 5-17-2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ehr, scratch that - I wouldn't go down that path if I was me, and I am, so I won't go down there on the probabilistic side of things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead let's have physicality remain stable, so you know, things that happened stay happened and we don't get the rug pulled out from underneath us. I will assume you are in a building.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How did that building get there? Someone built it, right? Who, and with what? How long did it take? What is the building made of? Metal, wood, brick, clay? How did it get there, now, where the house is? Who carried it? How much weight had to be moved how far? Where did the energy come from to move the mass in bulk and then to arrange it so that, you know, the building was an "actual" building that did the expected building things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you have heating / cooling? Electricity, running water, gas? Where does the electricity, water, etc. come from? How does it get to the building you are in? What laws had to be intelligibly recognized by someone, somewhere, sometime in order to become physical mechanisms of sufficient complexity to be able operate in the form they are RIGHT NOW in the room in which you are sitting?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We live IN the productions of the past. *[REDACTED([XXX-ORG-XXX])]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think of the trajectories that the objects around you have taken in the journey to within, say 15 ft. | 5 m., of where you currently are. Try to imagine what they might each look like from different points of view. Try zooming out, looking down at a globe. And this only provides a high structural overview of the very "real" system in which we find ourselves. The complexity, and distance, of these journeys from wherever to wherever again and then here are pretty ridiculous - it's the supply chain thing that was demonstrably shown in out-of-whack state during the pandemic. And along the whole chain there are people and money involved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These things we take for granted are, when it boils down, in very large measure the work, and to some degree suffering, of other people. Other people worked very hard, for very long, for the things we have now - and they may have rather been doing other things. But, what would have to be given up in order that the hours of our labor could be as short as possible and leisure maximized? ... do people even want leisure maximized? and what is leisure?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can we determine a measure, a cost benefit analysis acceptable to the majority of human beings, where we can all just chill at a steady state? I don't expect people to want to just lay about in one place, even if they don't want to go very far. So let's start with the basics: how many people do you need to feed and how many people would you like to feed? I don't even know the answer to that question as far as it concerns my own physical sustenance, alone. Is that a bit wild? At least someone has measured it for the "average" individual, even if we have not taken good notes on ourselves, ourselves. I haven't really dug, but you can find a lot of this type of information in old (new?) military manuals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In some sense we here do have a very real numerical calculus of survival in the sense: I must eat at least X slices of bread, Y ...<- etc. in order to operate at base line. What is that baseline, and what is required to generate that baseline directly from the land or similarly relatively omnipresent sources? For constructing a foundational life support system, somewhere, else, there is no reason to not take advantage of the productions of existing supply lines, but those supply lines themselves may have only a limited lifespan or even cause the opposite of life support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because of our current location in time, durable consumer goods can be had with relative ease, but development of progressively newer versions of "same" thing could, can, and maybe should stagnate due to environmental stresses they cause. In any event, maybe some people could get together to build something that's not too BIG that would allow them to eat for "free" indefinitely. So, i.e., never a concern about what to eat, or drink, in the water management equivalent which underlies the food supply. Might not be a fancy diet from a Michellin star restaurant, but I'm just looking for a way to make it so we don't have to do too much that we DON'T WANT to do, not find a way for everyone to do everything that they ---DO WANT to do. Personally, I'd rather avoid the DON'Ts than have the DOs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

##, but the gist is that the "real" existent past is somehow tied up with "personal" memory##
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in psychology, 'transference' refers to when someone transfers feelings or associations they had with someone in their past to someone in their present world .. what we seek to outline here however is both a more general & a more precise understanding ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..  just as energy is transferred in the physical realm, indeed reality as such would not be possible otherwise, it can also be transferred in the more subtle energetic spheres .. an angry person can, without a seemingly direct physical medium of transfer, cause others to become agitated, & vice versa ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. it is this kind of subtle energetic transference which is behind such phenomena as extrasensory perception (ESP) and telepathy, but also less supposedly fantastical experiences as empathy; without it, the latter would not be possible ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. but if a phenomenon which underlies empathy, a relatively common & arguably an essential experience in modern life, also is the mechanism which is responsible for telepathy & ESP, then both of these are just as possible .. indeed, in oder to 'activate' these abilities, one simply has to come to terms with this fact ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. given the positions outlined thus far, the ever increasing global population, & the corollary thesis that the resultant heat & entropy of a closed system inexorably increases with time in an ever-escalating feedback loop, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ .. additional notes on how said feedback loop will ultimately result in "societal collapse" (.. a term which it is all too easy to bandy about, but the outcomes of which it is arguably impossible to overstate, & which will make every insurrection or protest hitherto seem like dry runs at best .. ) predicted by many experts in our very lifetime, are redacted to avoid any liability for mass hysteria & global panic, which, arguably, are inevitable in any case .. ]

 

 

.. the real magick is following a trajectory into a new magickal universe; 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeing all of reality in a fresh & vibrant way ..

anthropocene/scene/seen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Our loyalty was never to humanity but rather to the revolutionary force of cosmic evolution and to all those, of all species, who also align themselves with it"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Jason Reza Jorjani, Promethean Pirate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. humanity is more than a word or a picture in one's head, or at least it should be ..

.. to get to what it reaLLy means to be human calls for a deep & thorough examination; to be bold enough to ask challenging questions & prepared to receive uncomfortable answers ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. to not take prepackaged answers as given .. to be ready to be surprised by what one might discover in such an undertaking ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The one thing I know is that we're con stantly being born"

- from Ripley's Game

 

 

 

Humanity is something akin to a large language model, certainly at least as far as individuals are considered. As children we have each learned a few starting words, which then balloon out into the larger cultural context, first of a single particular language and then potentially expanding to the worlds of discourse encompassed by each of the world's languages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Approaching the world through the lens of language, we are constantly labelling what we see, computing visual and other sensory phenomena and attempting to reduce them to the static structures embodied in words and sequences of words, fitting them into existing conceptual arrangements that are codified according to previously ingested media and those labelings provided from out of the past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The individual tokens we use to communicate may be atomic and capable of being placed in sound or on page in finite time and space, but the concepts themselves are not so well defined. They are nebulous and fuzzy, each calling up separate associations according to an individual's experience and not fully capable of finality as the context in which their meaning lies is itself a part of any attempt at definition. Of course, we can get the gist of a phrase or saying, and that is enough for practical purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When people communicate, and are confronted with diverse utterances, when the language is understood and considering them apart from tone, body language, etc., the words are sequentially parsed and processed by the mind and fit into the internal model which was formed over time, as stated, by the ingestion of various cultural productions. The incoming bits of information must be fit into those existing structures, or form part of an external surface of meaning that is rejected. Assuming that modern science is correct in its conclusion that the essence of our conscious existence is confined to the brain and its operations, then the incoming information must literally be fit, in a dynamic geometric sense, into the three dimensional structures already active in that organ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The brain is in a constant motion of cycles and fluxes which are to some degree stable, but which are constantly being perturbed by incoming sensory information and must variously accommodate these impulses. In conversation, when the semantic data is not outright rejected and is also not immediately taken as "understood", we respond with our own selection of words either to elucidate further understanding or to comment upon and reform the others' understanding. Think of something like tentacles reaching out and probing a space, or an organism confined to the plane of agar in a petri dish, extending and retracting as they come into contact with external forms that are also expanding and contracting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It may be worthwhile to consider that in their surface geometric structures, or forms taken at face value, sentences (and words) are sequences, or lines, very much like an "actual" tentacle that enters into our being and is somehow dealt with, or managed. And, once inside, they take on another life of their own - just think of a time when something someone has said has continued to reverberate and take hold of conscious attention, how sometimes you respond with words internally to what you have just heard. This is certainly noticeable when there is an associated emotional reaction, but there is no reason to think that it is not also true for all cases, only that the reaction is likely to be subconscious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additionally, it may be worth suggesting that these "tentacles", threads of active meaning within the mind / brain complex actually take hold of the physical organisms in which they reside, swaying them and sometimes moving (literal) mountains. One only needs to think, in particular, of the religious habits and the required behaviors, to outsiders often seeming bizarre, to see just to how strong a degree these complexes affect real, gross physical movements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting aside standard notions of "adversary", and thinking in the technical sense of modern artificial intelligence, individuals, and the groups composed of them, are each acting somewhat in the same capacity as GANs, or generalized adversarial networks. We are set up "against" each other and in our exchanges modulate each other's internal neural networks in response, learning as we go. For some reason, however, and the answer likely lies partially tied in with the nature of language itself, this situation of being set up "against" one another turns into real, physical adversarial activities - fights, wars, etc - with some frequency between different language groups.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't be a machine that can't program itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Except for stable eras, all times are chaotic eras"

 

 

 

 

- from 3 Body Problem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. scientists recently met to discuss whether the changes that humanity has wrought upon the earth warrant the dubious honour of designating a new geological epoch in our name, which, following the con vention for naming geological eras, would be the "anthropocene", from Anthropos, the Greek word for "human" ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. the experts decided that this wasn't necessary, mostly for technical reasons; geological epochs typically last for millions of years, & by that measure, it's far too early to determine that our effects on the earth are so drastic as to call for such a technical term ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. they didn't con sider the possibility that, at the rate we're going, we may not be around another million years .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. in any case, the real heart of the issue isn't a technical geological term, which surely should be left to the experts in that field, but rather a question with which everyone should be con cerned, namely, what is it to be human ..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. today we face more challenges than ever before, & it's no longer enough simply to leave questions like this to the experts .. it's our response ability as members of humanity, as individuals, to determine our own Way, & where we stand on issues that really do affect all of us ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. admittedly, there are things we can't do much about even if we've thought them through, but this in itself shouldn't hinder an examination of where humanity is at present .. as members of the coLLective Anthropos, we have an energetic vote, one that can sway decisions on the quantum level ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. the increasingly problematic nature of arguably outdated scientific theories & "big pictures", such as the standard model of particle physics that otherwise accounts for so much that occurs in reality, might well necessitate a re con sideration of their viability in the long term .. indeed, scientists are wondering whether there is in fact a force hitherto unaccounted for, the inclusion of which would result in a more accurate & widely applicable model ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. what if this hitherto hidden force is none other than con sciousness, will, intention ..?  .. & what if this is the very essence of humanity itself, rather than how one dresses or how they do their hair ..? .. what if the problem isn't that we've focused too much on inserting humanity into the scene, but rather that we have focused too much on details, & not yet even seen what the nature of humanity is in the first place ..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"These questions are as dark as the stormy seas that lie ahead of us. They are liable to produce what Kafka called a “seasickness on dry land.” But now, there’s no turning back. Like Atlas, we bear the burden of holding up the heavens at the end of the world. As Promethean pirates wielding the trident of Poseidon, we forge on ahead. So be it if we are chased by the lightning and the thunder. Stay under. Our story is not over. Our Leviathan sails on through the dark night of time."

 

 

 

 

 

- Jason Reza Jorjani, Promethean Pirate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. to succeed is to program the un con scious; it's not a vanity or a game .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. repeating incantations, mantras, words of power, is precision Work that pays off outsized dividends ..

.. everywhere & now here ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                             .. nowhere cuz it's everywhere ..

paraLLaX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. there is a Way ..

.. & if there's a Way, it leads to another place,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

& if it leads to another place, then surely, it's a better place ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. but what is this Way, & how are we to find it..? .. each must determine this for themselves .. here, we simply present notes from our own journeys & travels ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. ultimately, the true Guide is inside ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is the relation between a gnomon and a gnome?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surfaces of relative discontinuity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The discontinuous nature of step functions is mediated by waves, as with the fourier series that lead there to. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The linear arises from the wavelets, which are always extending and impinging, or generated from within, and received from without. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At a solid surface, a fourier series has converged to a step function by both frequency and phase shifts as distances approach that zero. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The compositional force in normal existence is never seen to break down, i.e. solid objects generally hold their shape, which seems to indicate that if the surface is due to inward and outward wavelets, then those waves can pass through, largely, the other surrounding matter, with little change. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The waves impinging at the surface may not be coming at a distance, but instead arise a local action, or reaction, to some object or process at an interior ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

".. the binary of the natural and the artificial, or of what is produced by nature and what is produced by technology, is a superficial and untenable distinction. Technology is actually a teleological phenomenon intrinsic to the cosmic evolutionary process. Its revolutionary power to restructure society is an expression of the force of evolution. The danger to humanity is not from technology as such .."

- Jason Reza Jorjani, Promethean Pirate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"It's a long fucking night; even the dead get bored"

- from True Detective: Night Country

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. Freddy Will Nietzsche said the problem with looking into the abyss is that it looks into you, but are we to take this in the form of a warning, or a challenge ..?

 

 

 .. like, maybe the abyss is supposed to look into you ..? .. how do we know what we like, if we don't know what we don't like ..? is it possible to know what one reaLLy wants if they don't know what to a void, in life ..?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. certainly it's possible to ban technologies, apps, even Ways of thinking .. but it's arguably foolish to imagine that this is the last word, that somehow it solves the problem ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in fact, a good argument can be made for why doing so is ultimately self-defeating, & those who have reflected on the above trajectories of thought are already some Way along developing it ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. parallax is a Way to determine how far away something is by gauging the difference between two different points of view, & triangulation is a similar technique .. what they have in common is that they rely on seeing things from con trasting perspectives .. 

.. there is a similar method that can be used in the realm of ideas .. but it depends as its foundation on the ability to see things from disparate positions, or in diverse Ways .. where we stand, our position with respect to a certain question or problematic is never reaLLy at one or the other extreme, but at some point, somewhere in between ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..we do not become stronger by avoiding, but by engaging with; undergoing & overcoming chaLLenges that emerge ahead of us on the Way ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Better a white hole than a black hole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 or, on the whole, is it better to be no hole at (w)hole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man lies in repose, body lax, mind follows -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

reaches out, not ready for sleep - turns to a screen: a show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a relatively passive subject still craving stimulation,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but too tired to get up after it himself, flying flat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at ease, untensed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

why the desire for additional stimulation?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If avoiding sleep, why avoid sleep?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why not?: sit with limited environmental input

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

why not?: sit still without stimulation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stimulation is sought out and \ or found within

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oneself - if the subject remains awake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

----

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What does it mean to have one's actions continue to be active in an effectively infinite span of time?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---- ☠

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"hope doesn't come without a price"

- from Avatar: The Last Airbender

.. but numbers don't mean anything except relative to each other ..

.. your eyes narrow ..

.. you know either you or they will win ..

.. but u already know who it'll be ..

 

re:program reality (delulu free remix)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Magic is always the tactic of last resort for those who refuse to give up hope. You do not summon Cthulhu to help you find the TV remote. You only visit the witch at the edge of the village when all other options have been explored, for she is the loan shark of the gods. It is only a certain kind of person who is willing to take the road we are about to walk"

 

 

 

 

 

- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. reality is neither 'just' an idea in our head, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nor something that independently exists .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & while it's possible to get lost in the world between these extremes, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

magick is the means of finding the Way through it ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"There are no definitive, dusty tomes come down to us from hoary antiquity that tell us this is How Magic Works. In all cases it is someone’s best guess, it is the personal workbook of a particular person at a particular time … the spirits and incantations that he or she found to be efficacious"

 

 

 

 

 

- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Things aren't always what they seem in this place; you can't take anything for granted" 

 

 

 

 

- from Labyrinth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. I think strange things happen in this world, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

& what we know of them is just a fraction, at that ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. programming the collective &con scious .. isn't that what magick reaLLy is ..? .. well then, let's cut to the chase, cuz there's not any time to waste ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. what words mean is how they're used .. in other words, there is a dialogical relationship between the world & the symbols we use to represent it .. it goes both ways: just as things in the world can affect what we see, our perspective can influence reality .. & if there's a key to understanding & using magick to its greatest effect, surely this is it ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. individuals & groups have used it to gain great power, wealth & success .. anyone can, really, if they Work at it .. indeed, none are better prepared & suited to do so than those magicians who have strengthened their will, mind, heart & body ..

.. but how is one to avoid becoming deceived by one's own symbols, trapped in among them, lost in a labyrinth of one's own making ..? .. if only there were a sure way to avoid this, surely it would be beyond price .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. as it happens, there isn't .. success in one's Work is the only real gauge of how well they've managed the dialogue between symbols & reality to their benefit .. & there will always be things we can't do, just as there are things we can affect .. but there isn't a way to know the difference; other than to try, that is ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. where there's a discrepancy between outcomes in the world & one's esoteric Work, there lie the seeds of (potential) delusion, & it is this feedback from reality which the magician must attend to, interrogate & account for, in order to attain ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & ultimately each must be their own judge, as to whether they've lost, or found, the Way ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"There really is no way to sugarcoat this. We do live in a “last resort” world. A biosphere in crisis, a wealth gap not seen since the age of empires, levels of youth unemployment that have previously triggered revolutions, total surveillance and the erosion of civil liberties, robots competing for middle class jobs that were once safe for life, an unelected overclass rigging the game at our expense, a global economy built on criminal banking and continuous war.

 

 

 

 

 

Even if this is the apocalypse, that is no call to avoid making things interesting"

 

 

- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taylor Swift aside, everything is a psy-op, or sales. Something-or-other vying for your attention, time, effort, energy - and....,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. it's only a psyop if they're good at their job. Besides having access to a megaphone, how do you think characters like Swift or the Beatles come to prominence and maintain their connection to people's hearts, minds, and pocketbooks? They have to be channelling, unconsciously or otherwise, from a set of shared feelings and experiences and expressing them back to the body politic eliciting a form of resonance between the "unit human" (hey man, you might not like it, but I didn't come up with the idea...), and a more encompassing, because shared, form that exists in a different kind of space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why do you listen to whatever music or watch whatever shows that you happen to do? Is there something conveyed by the artist you find in common with yourself? Are there feelings and thoughts that you want to amplify, or that cause a pleasant feeling when they happen to be amplified? Use your own judgement, but people seem drawn to support figureheads when there is some apparent commonality with themselves - wouldn't otherwise somehow be a form of self-destruction?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, and those facts can be used in\for psyops to de- and re-program. You can do it yourself: force yourself to ingest media, thinking right now of that type of experiences that are usually considered "art", i.e. music and fiction, (let's leave the "news" alone), that you are averse to. At the least you will become desensitized, but you may also find your self "putting on" those sociœmotional hats. Looking back on my life I, at least, have seen that I had done so, not often without substantial delay. This program occurs primarily in youth - neuroplasticity and all that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IGNORE::
 

 

The internet existed long before its realization in-the-metal -, well, ok, maybe not a digital internet, but an analog one, but that's even unassuming the fact that our nervous systems acts as a smoothing function to discrete nervous impulses - something performs the transition, or lives between the discrete points of contact with some phenomenon.))
 

 

::IGNORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The internet, subcultures and the non-global culture:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The self-selection process in more recent times has been opened to a wider array of "possibilities" by the wandering, not salesman nowadays, but by the wandering consumer, ever searching for the next bit of stimulation in whatever form - looking for something anyways. Our eyes cover more terrain, in less time: new human generated "things" can be had almost as if they were "materialized", not just digital representations, but even physical goods if you live within an advanced transportation network: I'm a person and I can just click some buttons with the words representing whatever "random" content happens to be sloshing around in my brain and which would like further elucidation or illumination. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLOP: I'm watching CAT videos or listening to a POD CAST about the climate effects of METHANE from CoW FARTS << IGNORE::there is no secret code here, but, back to PSYOPS, that's what they would say, wouldn't they??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You already know it: you can find whatever shit you want to watch or listen to and that is in some sense a measure of your style, a part of who you are that has gathered about itself various accoutrements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The major internet platforms that set the rules for how people interact with each other using digital devices determine much of what you see. They want to bank cash, so, generally, they don't really care about what it is that they are feeding you, just that you come back for more. Q.E.D. - one's own tastes or curiosities are reflected and sold back to you. So there's a bit of reverb going on here between yourself and your interests in the "human thought space: socio/econo/technic/art".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People associate with similitudes - You have sought out something inside yourself or something you think is missing (the curiosity) when you make a query into the internet, and you spend your Attention\time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

People are able to create
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seen, Scene, and Uns[c]e(e)]n[e]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 .. the master creates their own world .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. beyond that, it's up to others to decide if they see themselves in it ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"As the old gambling saying has it, if you can’t spot the sucker at the table, you are the sucker"

 

 

 

 

 

- Gordon White, The Chaos Protocols

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Knowledge is stronger than belief"

 

 

 

 

- from The Book of Clarence

 .. there's a villain in every story ..

.. otherwise it isn't a story, is it ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. u gotta play to win ..

.. & if u don't play, that's okay; but u won't win ..

 

.. "as brothers fight ye", as Alick said, & what he meant is brothers, or sisters, fight to improve each other, not to see who ends up dead ..

.. but hate is not a religion ..

.. say it with me .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. HATE IS NOT A RELIGION ..

NPC's

.. before there was a sun, there was a sea of stars ..

.. & before there was a coalesced, con gealed solid ego there were aggregates or skandhas, networks of magickal links not yet even in a circle; causes & effects of actual events in the world .. 

.. & we're all NPC's, in a sense, innocence; until we decide not to be ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello, hello.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So currently we have communication networks using various forms of physical transmission of signal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They use different wavelengths for achieving these goals and different media or mediums in which to convey the message from point A to point B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've been increasingly using shorter \ faster communication channels in terms of both data or information exchange as well as the movement of physical things that have mass and you know, you got to lift up and move around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These communication networks can be considered in terms of information without a holding form - just the mental content decoded on reception. So, a question is, as these frequency rates have increased, data rates have increased, if there was not, in prior days, just as there is now, a set of the population [engineers] who know how to manage and manipulate these information channels, physical information channels - - - whether or not sometime in the past there had been, unknown to probably most ]time-frame?[ individuals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But somehow a communication network using very slow rates of data exchange over long ranges, basically like radio, but even slower than a radio rate of exchange, and using perhaps the dolmens and megalithic monoliths of semi\prehistoric times. Now, the data, the messages would have to be probably parsed out a little bit differently; wouldn't be in spoken language - I'd suppose - and would have to be some more generalized wave front spreading over the globe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where the early technologists would be able to broadcast out whatever radio waves, electromagnetic frequencies, they required to reach some goal or purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because that's what happens now, right? You've got stepping back, maybe about a century or so you got the invention of radio, the spread of radio, radio sets in the average household receiving broadcasts from centralized locations, to inform them of world events, maybe true, maybe not. And then different stories and ways of people looking at people and how they're portrayed in media to this day, just people stories, I guess, human interest stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you've got these centralized locations of influence, or at least content production, and going out into the wider population. And these all take place over the electromagnetic spectrum.  back further to my great grandfather out on a farm, and how eventually they had TV and radio, but at some point, they didn't have any TVs, radios, phones, or any of that they're just people exchanging letters, communicating in person at local churches, and other establishments, what have you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Were there broadcast stations in existence, even then, because it seems like somehow for some reason, communication media do really need to have a tie in to those electromagnetic frequencies and electromagnetic realm of subtle energetic fluxes that are not easily at least perceivable by the human frame, in their relations between objects, which surely exists since well, electro magnetism, electricity, magnetism, all those things are easily demonstrated to be real to the average individual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in any event,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

maybe there's something with that thought that these structures are antennae, mostly definitely antenna, no way around it, just this question is what frequency range they operate on and the form of the field in which they exist. So yeah, some of the signals should still be there operating in the actual real f*cking physical field..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I, too, have been in the underworld, even as Odysseus, and I shall often be there again. Not sheep alone have I sacrificed that I might be able to converse with a few dead souls, but I have not spared my own blood .. With them I must come to terms when I have long wandered alone. I will let them agree and disagree with me, and listen to them when, in proving me right or wrong, they agree and disagree with one another. May the living forgive me that occasionally they appear to me as shades” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. once, there was a wily, old trickster; a con artist in the shape of a god called Legba ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..  encountering a sincere seeker on the path, Legba thought it would be amusing to help him find exactly what he sought, & thus cursed him, saying, "you will attain to the Way, oh yea, but only if you keep a record, to help those who might need some assistance .. to this end, may you henceforth be called shades" ..

.. at which the aforementioned, poor sap, thought as if in reply, "I wanted to be a Napoleon, an Oppenheimer, a Bernstein, a Ferrari even, but in the end I was merely (a) shades" ..

"For Tantric devotees of Shakti, just as for Nietzsche, the human condition is something to be overcome — it is a transitional state between the bestial and a form of life beyond the gods who no longer deserve to be set up as something above ourselves"

- Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes argues that back in the day, as it were, in ancient history, our ancestors experienced their own con sciousness, or perhaps reality itself, giving them orders or commands, which they could but obey ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & while a scientist could well ask a lot of questions about such a thesis, for the occultist, there is a sense in which it contains a profound esoteric truth .. indeed, it's not difficult to see a parallel here with the idea of NPC's (non-player, or non-playable characters, in a game), 'actors' in a play that merely react, without initiating conscious action per se ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. moving along this trajectory, one might con clude that the will itself also evolves, from a merely reactive posture, to thinking through & initiating actions based on long term plans & schemes ..

.. looking at the world today, from this perspective of an evolving will, can go some way to explain why things might seem so "messy" .. William Gibson once said “the future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed“, and in a similar way, a free will to act in accordance with our higher ideals is also here, but not for everyone, equally ..

.. & so, we see that there are esoteric applications to con cepts such as that of the NPC, & a certain inner truth to that uncanny suspicion that some of these are NPC's ..

".. the sleeper has awakened .."

- Frank Herbert, Dune

.. you haven't thought it through ..

.. the end of fossil fuels, which even today we can see over the horizon even if we can't foresee exactly how far away it is, won't come about because of climate change, as difficult at it is for an avowed environmentalist such as myself to say that .. otherwise, it would have already happened by now ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. it will come about because we've learned better (because they're less abrasive, less destructive) ways of engaging with the very material, the "building blocks" of reality, from which we too are made ..

.. in other words, it will happen when we realize that we aren't NPC's, & that, in causing harm, we're actively harming ourselves .. & that there are better alternatives ..

.. if u don't give a shit, you're bulletproof; 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but don't take my word for it, unless of course u don't give a shit ..