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Rabelais, Crowley and Thelema

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:21:44 +0000

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

This is consciousness marketing

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:24:29 +0000

This blog is a new attemp at generating novel content for the web. I am starting to write about the idea of generating income purely from your stream of consciosness.

As we move forward with technology and the web evolves, we are getting to the point where the friction between the ideas in your head and the method of distributing these ideas to the whole of humanity has been greatly diminished.

I see a point in the near future where you could literaly turn your thought to text ( via some interface), publish them to a blog style setup, put adsendd on it and then in effect get paid to think.

You can almost go that now. Consider a setup that involves a speach recognition package such as dragon naturally speaking. You could right now in effect just narrate your stream of consciousness to a blog format, setvthe seo on it just write and then earn something for the direct contents of your head.

The only limit to this idea is the amount of new novel thought that you may have.

This is where the second part of consciousness marketing idea. How do you constantly come up with new ideas?

Using the random principal of course, and the idea of internetmancy that I have discussed before on this site.

Ancient names of constelations

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:59:08 +0000

We tend to think of constelations in the night sky as those of the major zodiac, and then s few select others such as Orion or the southern cross.

But when you really study it, there are hundreds of constellations with names that have been carried down from at least roman and Greek times.

Look into these constelation names via wikipedia searches and you can get a facinatinv insight into ancient mythology, and find some of the lesser known myths and deities from these cultures

Eridanus for example was the first I just found, and is a constelation of the south. It symbolised s river to the Greeks with the same name, and also a river that souls traversed in the heavens.

Run these constelations through cooliris or google image seach and you start to get dome strange syncronistic and interesting image results, and they can be a great source of random noise.

I plan to make these searches more a feature of the content generation strategy for this site

What Are Animal Paths?

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:20:42 +0000

The idea of animal paths came up in today’s Internetmancy session, and I got a number of interesting results. This whole random process is a great way to discover new philosophical insight, as well as ideas that you never would have thought of before. I know this writing is a bit rough, but its all about using randomness as a catalyst for breaking the stasis of your usual mindset, and joining up with the source where everything arises from.

Occultists and philosophers over the millennia, perhaps forever have wondered where this source of ideas is coming from. They just spring from nothing. Sometimes fully formed, sometimes not. Sometimes they need to be coaxed, but generally when they do they are tainted without mind stuff of pre-conceptions, desires and fears.

When I work up the inspiration and find the time to go for a walk in the evening, I often do so in a large area of forest that is near my house. I have been traversing that forest, alone and with friends, for the past 20 years so I know it quite well. There are a number of known tracks, a number of hidden or less used tracks and then large areas where there are no tracks. Except that in these areas, you do see tracks that go into the bush. Slightly trampled, often with overgrowth so low that a person finds it hard to walk down without ducking. These are obviously animal tracks made by kangaroos, (yes, here we do have them running wild in certain areas), small deer, foxes and wombats.

It just occurred to me then that I wonder what the point is of certain animals using one defined track through the bush, when they really are free to go through the bush at any point. Why use the same pathway over and over again like people would? I understand if they were going towards water but these are near the top and on the side of a hill. I think that animals can get patterned by behaviours (Pavlov’s dog anyone?) just like humans, and not just domesticated ones. They build up rituals based on things that have gone well before, ie. they found food there before, and then a second time along the same path. You can see the survival benefit of this pattern forming behaviour as it means that they will go back to areas where there are higher probabilities of food being found, or safety, or mates etc. This tendency being innate in most creatures (I see it in birds that we feed bread to on ou back lawn) shows you how deeply it is ingrained in humans. The pattern matching / habit forming matrix inside us is a powerful force, one that can be used for good or for your detriment. You can form habits that help, like exercise and healthy eating, or ones that don’t, like fast food and 6 hours of tv a night.

Train Tracks

Pictures of hidden paths and long forgotten trails are cool don’t you think. They speak of Mystery. They speak of people finding something of interest long ago here, and now if you just follow the trail you may find it. Sounds like a lot of different things when you think about it. Occult practice, Internet money making schemes, mysticism, religion, careers.

path in hill

Maybe we thing that someone else has discovered the truth before us, and all we have to do is find the right path and we will get there. Maybe that’s right, I’m not here to make any definitive statements on this blog. The universe however seems to be a constant unfoldment, A novelty producing and conserving engine ( to quote the great Terrence). The truth is ever changing, and the path built to yesterdays truth now runs into a wall, or goes straight of a cliff.

Internetmancy Means Scrying Via The Internet

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:10:28 +0000

Looks like someone found the site via the term Internetmancy, which is a term that popped into my head to describe the process of finding something random online to answer to a question that you have in your head, or just as something to spark the creative process.

By pulling up something completely random, you introduce an element into your thought process that was not there before, and this disrupts your current cycles of thinking, allowing fresh new ideas to come to the surface.

The main advantage that this has over traditional random/divination/scrying methods is that this is brings in ideas from the whole spectrum of the human society. Its like scrying into the collective conciousness of humanity. It brings you knowledge that you could not know before via any other means. Things that you would never search for, and that your social media circles would never tell you about.

I am ranking top for searches for Internetmancy, so looks like I just coined a new term!

Tuning To The Random Message

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:57:35 +0000

My random internet divination / scrying came up with a very surprising result last night. The first push of the random Wikipedia button bought up a radio station that the headquarters is situated about 200 meters from my house.

In fact, I would say that it is the closest physical thing on wikipedia to my location when I pushed the button.

What are the chances of that happening.. One in a billion? Seriosuly, that was a very spooky result to get back.

Still reeling from that, I pushed the random button again, and came up with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruber

Some cartoon character, nothing very synchronistic about that.

However

I then placed the answer into the Google Image Ripper, and came up with this.

There is a strange story about a fungus that looks like that.

Last year I pulled into the driveway and saw a strange red shape next to my fishpond. I had no idea what it was, and as I approached it I saw that it was a weird, red crinkly looking thing. It was one of these exact fungus. The first time that I had ever seen one was at that time, and it was virtually next to my front door. I have never seen one before in the local area (near Melbourne Australia), and have not seen one since.

So we have a massive change of synchronistic events here, meaningful to me, probably not to anyone reading this. I have a bit of a theory about all of this.

By encouraging the random function to play in your life, you bring the probability of available synchronicities up to a higher level. By completely opening yourself up to just surf the random data streams that come to us on the web, to follow the results of some random process, you give up control and let the universe talk directly to you.

Some people think that massively synchronistic events like these are an indicator by the universe that you are on the right path. I think that I have to agree with that hypothesis at the moment.

Also, by letting some random noise into the normally ordered nature of your life and thoughts, you open yourself up to evolve your consciousness, and just to learn and consider things you wouldn’t normally.

So what is the message? Tune to the frequency of the fungus. To look for the strange differences that present themselves in life?

The modern subconscious is a deep ocean to fish

admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:12:23 +0000

The modern subconscious has been so filled up with media, conditioning, schooling, parenting and working that it must be one of the most dense information stores in the history of the universe. The thing is that we are not really provided with any nets or fishing gear at the moment (that’s what shamans etc were good for), and the things found in its murky depths are not taken to be of any value.

By looking into sources of information noise, such as random wikipedia sources (method) and looking within yourself, you stir these waters and can see thoughts as the arise to the surface from the pressurized depths. These strange creatures are the whole basis for our civilization, culture.

This is a great tool to explore your own inner and outer reality.

Its just like tarot cards. They are just symbols on a page, with no actual absolute value. The interpretation of each card changes from person to person, even in subtle ways. The literal meaning of the cards is not the important bit. How these random media work is that they stir the mind in unexpected and unpredicted ways, and allow fresh insights to emerge. Signal from noise.

Internetmancy Shamanistic Scrying

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:29:28 +0000

Here is the method for those of you that want to play along at home :

1. Get random information noise from the internet. There are now some great services out there online that will give you something TOTALLY random, be it some text, a picture or a video. The scryers and card readers of old would go crazy if they had power like that

2.Feed that random search back through some more random generators. Put the random seed through another set of filters, such as google image ripper, or even a straight google / wikipedia search to get some more background to the concept that you have uncovered.

3. Reflect on what this random noise drags up from your mind. Think, remember and start to take notes.

4. Write down the thoughts that have been agitated to the surface from this random intake of information

There is also another step at the very start, if you want to take the divination part a bit further.. Ask a question before you begin

3, 2, 1 Fight!

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:56:17 +0000

There used to be a plethora of fighting games around when i was growing up, a whole genre of titles focused around two guys staring at each other and just going at until one was defeated. As simple as the formula was, there were hundreds of titles developed, with thousands of characters designed with special moves. Street Fighter 2, Tekken, Kind of the fighters, Mortal Combat, just to name a few of them.

My random wandering on the internet trail today brought up a number of images of fighting games. My new method of writing on this blog involves getting random inspiration from various online sources, which I then reflect on the areas that I am interested in, and write down any concepts that seem worthy of further development. Here is what the fighting games stirred from the depths of my unconscious mind.

Character Development Traits.
Why are certain character types used again and again in fiction, video games, movies and other cultural forms of entertainment. You can even see these character arch/stereo types in the way that the media portray people, and the public persona’s that people take.

Although we live in an unquantifiable world (more on this concept later), people like to behave, and treat others in ways that they deem to definable and predictable. Our whole way of living in the world is to constantly match the model of our predictions up to the data being presented to us and react accordingly. While viewing the world as these categorizations can be restricting, we must also remember that categorizations are the only way that we actually know ANYTHING. By learning about archetypes, different character traits and stereotypes constantly (researching new ones that you don’t know or understand, for instance The tarot trumps, the characters in the matrix, Greek mythology.) Looking at the origins and development of these archetypal characters can give you deep insights into the nature of culture, and how arbitrary a lot of the cultural memes we deal with every day are.

A lot of characters in these games are based on real people, it would be a really interesting way to teach people history that, by getting them to play late 90’s fighting games and then show them the historic figures behind it.

A Fractal Mythology :
All of these games, like nearly everything that we treat as a story has its own internal mythological universe when you look at it. There are good guys and bad guys, wise old people, novices learning the rules, people to be saved, victims, villains, henchmen and a vast other plethora of character types.