Blogs for profit – A how to guide

There are so many people out there that are strating blogs to sell on the likes of flippa.com.

The idea is that you find a new topic that is about to trend hard, like an iPad for instance. You buy a domain associated with it, get wordpress installed. You then just blog about any news items that come in about it over 2 or three months.

Combined with a good backlinking strategy, and anything else you can do to start to get traffic showing on the analytics account, these blogs can sell for about $5000 each once the domian has aged. I really don’t know who is buying these. If you had something to sell in order to leveredge the traffic it would make sense.

It looks like a lot of work though, and not many of them actually sell. A lot more make about $50, after 3 months of fairly draining mental effort. Even if they are outsources, the chance of making more than you spend is quite low for a lot of them.

You really just need to get online and blog from deep within. Just let your consciousness flow onto the page, out through your fingertips and you will soon see results. I couldn’t keep my writing on topic if I tried.

This is also supposed to be an egoless exercise. I am writing here to be purely free of results. I dont care what happens to this blog. Its just to let the words flow, and to keep them flowing. Something changes inside when you let the words flow out without an editor in the way. You feel lighter, free-er. I wonder how much of the worlds depression and angst is becuase people spend all day consuming words and ideas, but feel that they have no real way to express them. Being pent up, full of a creative energy that just wants to burn out.

This really is more of a surrealist / expressionist paintin

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The Ultimate Brain Test

The ultimate brain test is to recognise that what you are seeing around yourself is not reality. It is just a simulation that is being created by your mind, and assembled by sub consciousness that resides in your brain.

A brain test shows just how smart you are. Don’t take brain tests that show you how conditioned you are. This is a lot like the modern school system, where you learn things via memorisation, and then spew them out on the exam paper, forgetting them as soon as the test is over. Learn some real skills, learn what is really happening to the world. Test your brain and intelligence at every step.

Don’t accept the official lines, question everything. You do whatever you want, you just need to train your brain to know that at an instintual level.

Test your left brain against your right brain. Play games with reality. that is what being a psychonaught in the true sense is all about. Really see that your brain is not a passive creator of reality at all, but is instead a co-creator with the physical. A simulation machine that an illusory you resides within. That illusory you has sub components, and is not really a solid whole.

How could there be a soul when the self is not a solid whole? that rhymes.

We are really a whole heap of personality sub components and evolved psycho firmware inside wet hardware. Not that we are ‘just machines’, but we are definately not a set individual, indivisible. We are not the atoms of newtonion physics, but more the atoms of sub atomic physics. We can be broken apart.

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Perception Of Time

Our perception of time fluctuates dependent on our state of consciousness. I think it is far more subtle than being relaxed or stressed etc. Sometimes when I am relaxed time seems to go very fast (like on holidays) and sometimes circumstances can be quite similar, buy a different mindset creeps in and time moves slowly.

When I was stressed or bored time used to seem to go quite slowly as well sometimes, but If I am active and engaged time can go by in an instant. Learning subtle brain techniques to change our perception of time has been a goal of mine over the past 10 years.

Various meditative, magickal and psychological (all the same thing really) techniques have shown subtle things I can do to make time go slower and faster.

Taking stock of the moment, and actually recognising each moment as it passes makes time go slowly.
Being very motivated in tasks, and giving them 100% makes time go very fast. Also if you are caught in a narrative, be it watching a movie, being involved in sport or even something at work, having a narrative structure to what you are doing makes time go very fast.

Having a depressed state, mood or low energy makes time go very slowly. If you can learn to break this state then time goes quickly AND you get a lot done during the time.

That is the key idea I think. How we percieve time and how much we can get done in that time. Not that there is anything to do, buy that is entirely another post. If you are energeticly active, time goes fast and you get a lot time.

Time is really linked to subtle psychological states, and these change our perception of it

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The Happiness Conference

The upcoming Hapiness Conference in Brisbane looks like a great idea. With speakers like the Dali Lama and other attending, it will be a good way for people who have a positive mindset to get together and reinforce their own energy.

A happiness conference is interesting, becuase happiness is one of those things that are least considered in this day and age. People work and stress themselves into depression at unprecedented rates, not stopping for a moment to consider the true purpose of life. You are here to be free and happy. Not in some fake mindset may, but in a real true sense. The chains and burdens on you are all man created, and therefore based on societal conditioning and are illusory.

There is no you inside there, only sum parts of conditioning and sub personalities all fighting for dominance. There is a you inside you that loves to work, there is a you inside you that loves to be miserable due to the attention that it gets you. Once you realise that the self is an illusion, you can see that the choice of your disposition is yours, and that happinesss and positive energy is a choice that you can make.

I would be interested to go to the happiness conference and see just what is discussed there. If it is all gloss over, fake positiviy. Or perhaps people will really speak to these core truths, and wake people up from their sleep.

SEO for Business Results

To get SEO for Business results you need to do a lot of indepth keyword research. You really need to know what words make your market tick, whcih bring in results and which are easy to rank for, but have no real business intenet behind them.

Using AdWords as a research tool is great for this, as you can setup a campign with the words that you think will bring in high traffic volume, and then after a week run a search query report. This will tell you what people are actually typing into google. These are the phases that you should be optimising your pages and domains for.

Remember that domains are 70% at least of business SEO. The phrase must be in the domain.

Once you have that setup, get as many backlinks as possible with those money keywords as anchor text. Own as many social media profiles as you can with those keywords as the account name. Go through analytics and webmaster tools, see what you rank for and what the volume for keywords are, and then write more target content to go after these outside phrases.

It all takes time, buy SEO for Business results is possible

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Rabelais, Crowley and Thelema

Interesting results today from a random wikipedia hit. I thought I would test the internetmancy waters once more, and the first result I got was for Francois Rabelais.

His wikipedia entry came up, and I thought this is interesting, a 14th century French monk and literary figure. As I read down something tweaked in my mind, and a google search confirmed.

Rabelius is the guy who first used the term Thelema , and had a protypical Abbey of Thelema in his writings. Crowley got the basis of thelema, and the abbey concept straight from reading Rabelius. Not from some musty tome of archane law, or entities or even a sudden flash of insight.

He just read it. Though that it’s ‘do what thou wilt’ philosophy and utopian vision sounded cool, and used it as the basis for his new ‘religion’

Rabelais used the thelema ideas in his novels, which were very controversial in 15th century France.

The synchronicity of that random wikipedia page is amazing. I had just been listening to the latest paracast where the listener/host was talking about his experience with chaos magick, and also with crowley. This is a really strong message.

Aliester Crowley was just a person, like you and I. He was flawed, and his ideas cane to him from the universe, just like yours do to you.

I believe his controversial behavior was modeled somewhat on the actions of Rabelius also.

Another amazing internetmatcy session

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This blog is a sigilised magickal act

This blog is both the ego letting go, and an exploration of the collective unconsciousness and reality. I had a whole other post ready to go here on the iPhone, and then deleted it as I was cutting and pasting. I really need a better way of producing content on the fly.

Back to the main focus of this post, and that is the idea that this blog is a magickal framework, and also a sigil itself for my own magickal understanding of the universe, my enlightenment at the realisation that there ‘is no point’

Fun is had in life when there is no point. The pathless path is the only one worth taking. The journey is the experience, and there is no where to get to on this one. All goals are illusory, but they can be fun illusions to attain. Don’t struggle to attain anything, just play

Play is the essence of life. Things done just for the sake of it. Just to see what happens. That is the nature of good magick, art, adventure, fiction, life.

Start with the end in mind and you may as well not begin. If you are not going to begin anything, then you may as well yourself as you do that nothing.

There is nothing to attain, you are but dust and a spark of the everything, and the you that thinks this does not own the dust or the spark.

I have this competing notion in my head that there are things to discover, but also the realisation that everything is fleeting, illusory and pointless. Not many enlightened magicians out there are there. I wonder why those two stereotypes are so far apart.

Why is the mage and the mystic, the magi and the holy man always different, always on different paths and displayed separately in the narrative?

The answer to the reconciliation of these archetypes is the play notion. Do not be the Magician, or the Emperor, but be the Fool.

Love life for its sake, know that its a game. Love that its a game. Live everything as an experiment. Every act is discover and  play. Live with beginners mind. That is Zen. The magician is the scientist. The scientist knows that when they start an experiment they have some hypothesis, but the results have to speak for themselves. The scientific method states that any preconception may bias the results, so all precautions are taken not to do so.

The magickian does magic as play. Just because, just to see. Really. Everything else that is done in the name of magick is done in ego. You are forcing the point, you are dancing against the universe, not with it.

You are not enlightened in any way, and you are pissing in the wind more than those other that live everyday normal lives

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Good things happen when you step the energy

I have always found that when things look busy, but opportunities are drying up the best thing to do is actually step up your energy levels.

Hit your to do list hard, clean the table of all those projects that have been just sitting there and make some room in your life for new opportunities to emerge.

This is not some motivational nonsense, this really does seem to be some law of the universe. Look busy and people will notice, get things done and people notice.

Don’t become a slave to any system, especially not your own. Just approach ant mountain of tasks with a playful mindset. Do not let it get you down. Simply do not allow it.

You choose how you react in any circumstances.

Step up the energy, take control of the immediate, but let go to the universe and keep your eyes open.

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The Digital Hermits Cave

This is where I go when I don’t care about the word and the consequences of my thoughts. This is me digging my own reality tunnels in both virtual and psychographic space.

The hermit used to disappear into the wilderness to find enlightenment. To live without interaction with others, so that his thoughts and intentions were not being changed by his interactions with the world of culture. He was not withdrawing from the ‘real world’ at all, just the illusory one that we call civilization, and all of the games that go along with it.

He didn’t want to be around with people because each were meme spreading machines, spewing forth contagious pathogens of ideas with every sentence. Hermits wanted to connect to the pure source of thought, the natural arising that occurs in our brains when the memes have nothing else to feed on, and no help of being spread across to another host. It is the ideas inside us that drive us towards doing things we don’t want to do, and propagating the civilization that we know is killing the natural world. The hermit lives right there in that natural world.

The veil has been dropped, and he is now truly alive, purging each mind virus (and there would be many) as they spring to the surface. Every story when the hero goes away from the tribe/people, off into the wilderness to ‘conquer his demons’ or an externalised source. That is this story. He conquers that inside himself (the bullshit memes that control most of us) which has control of everyone else, and at that instant is transformed into something other. Someone who can look the beasts in the face and know that they have no power of him. It’s not only your traditional heroes that follow this narrative. Jesus and Buddha, to name two of millions over time that have walked this path were also prime examples. The conquered the inner chatter, the temptation to follow the script that life had given them and instead starting freeing others to see that they could write their own destiny, or at the very least write their own memes as well (like the eight fold path) into their consciousness.

Things like the eight fold path or the golden rule of the early Christians are like antivirus software for the mind. The allow checks to be made so that runaway memetic forces can’t get hold and take people over.

So any way… this is my digital hermits cave. Look at the paintings I make on the wall. They may make sense to you, they may not. Look at the shiny adsense temptations that I dangle before the unwary. This is a cave of wonders and secrets. It’s the place where it all spills out. It’s my psycho geography, muse and experience of the mystery all tied in one.

It is a place without consequence. Here I am lord and master. I can do as I want. The memes can’t get me here

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What is CVB?

CVB is one of those easy three letter combinations that are sitting right under your fingertips on the keyboard. Short three letter domains like that go for a lot of money on the domain reseller marker, and I am sure that CVB is no exception.

I think they cost so much becuase they are after people putting in type in traffic, as it is called in the bix. The just type a query in the URL bar of the browser, for instance in this case cvb, and then just start using that site. I think in the old days of the web, where people were very net illiterate this may have been a viable strategy.

These are probably also very old domains with some good accumulated PR, so that would go a long way to making them worth somehting.

Domain sitters may also use thWhat is CVB?em becuase they know sometime now or in the future, all TLA (three letter acronyms) will be used by a corporation or organisation, such as a sporting league. Sitting on those domains until someone is despeate enough to buy has been a business model for as long as the internet has been running. It really is the