We really have to store so many passwords in our heads these days. Its one of those extra features that are brains are adapting to. The way to memorise long strings of inconsequential numbers is a skill that we need to have to survive in the modern world of computer hackers, internet banking and social networking.

So what is the best way to remember a password? Here are a few tips.

1. Use a swear word, or a nickname that you called someone that is derogatory. Not only will you not want to share it with others, but it will be pretty hard to guess.

2. Use a book title, or authors name for a book that always sits in the top right hand corner of your book case.

3. Video game titles are also a good one that not many people use.

4. make it random and complicated, but use mnemonic memory techniques or turning the string of characters into a song in order to remember it.

5. The name of a landmark you can see out of your home or office window

The funny thing is that the password is one of the last things that we actually do have to remember. Everything else can be accessed once we have used the password to get into the ubiquitous devices that we carry everywhere with us.

Humanity does seem to be built for these play activities, and when we engage in them we intensely enjoy the experience. The daily grind of survival and banality goes out the window, and people revert to a simpler mode of being. Its like people slip back into an original mode of being. Not civilized, or pre civilized might be the right term to put on it. They bring out the best, and sometimes the worse in people. Both of these things tend to bring out the tendency in people to live in excess. Drugs, alcohol and depression are both by products of both the professional athlete and musician. It might be all the idle downtime that they get to ‘enjoy’ while the rest of us slave away at the 9 to 5 grind.

People are drawn to the spectacle of live music and live sport for some very subtle reasons. More than I can even articulate now I think. It is the primal aspect, the safe letting go, the vicarious participation in a spectacle. The chance to lose oneself and be part of a crowd.

People behave at live music and live sports in very different ways than they do in everyday life. The move as one, they shout at the performers, using language that they dare not speak in any other public forum. Perhaps I am speaking more here of crowd behaviour than any common bond between musical and sporting spectacle.

There are some very interesting esoteric elements to sports that I may pursue further in the near future

- Origins of team mascots

- Origins of certain sports

And for music things like

- Origins of rock etiquette (things musicians do onstage)

- Strange occurrences at music festivals

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

I generally keep my eyes open for new phrases and Memes that I see in the media and in my day to day activities.

I then feed these through some randomized processes so that novel new ideas take form.
In the last week I have been very tied up with work so I have not seen a lot of novel content to expand on.

I just installed the digg app on the iPhone today just to see what the quality of content being highlighted on there was like these days. It was not good.

The top articles are very mildly amusing photos and articles with punchlines that have been heard a million times before. The rest are just rehashes and lists of facts that have been on the net for years. It seems as if nearly all the novel content available to people has been written down and indexEd online.

I don’t really believe this to be the case however. I think there is still great complexity and novelty on the edges, but it is getting more uncomprehending by those at the the cultural centre.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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