I’m putting in an insane amount of hours on multiple clients and I’m still behind!! Almost to the point where I’m comfortable purchasing a ticket for esozone and an airplane ticket though. I’m about 3,000 dollars behind schedule as I had to pay for a full year of health insurance up front, and the old landlord has yet to send the deposit, so it’s all going onto credit cards. However, it does seem as though everyone else is also having a tough year, and I’m not really bitching.
But yes I fully intend to be at esozone - I’ll see you all there I assume
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Is absurdly beautiful. I’m trying an expirement, shifting into a blogging situation which relies heavily on firefox plug-ins and a google chrome-based identity portfolio, to see how much more efficient I can get. Working online for several clients means maintaining a massive amount of data, and keeping everything straight is mentally exhausting. Having tools at hand like this new Chrome browser is essential: google.com/chrome
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Right now, I’m mostly focused on getting together a portfolio of sound to take to Esozone for an MMD/PKN face-off as well as doing the compiling on a comic book I’m looking to publish. In addition, I’ve been doing social network marketing for two clients, as well as helping them establish ongoing podcasts and editing their web pages for better search engine placement.
Of course, all of this reflects off the writing in the past I’ve done around viral marketing in social networks and memetics in theory and practice. It does, however, cut into my writing time - I much prefer writing to the detail-oriented tasks involved with actually doing social bookmarking and networking necessary to penetrate niches effectively. That’s a hell of a lot of work, and if you’re not doing in naturally it becomes a huge investment of time.
And honestly that time can be more profitably spent in other ways, hence this site. This site has always been lurking at the back of my mind - eventually I expect that this blog, and the other blogs on aelturnity, will become my primary and central focus - at the moment, I’m just finished updating the wordpress this blog rests on, and updating wesunruh.com to more accurately reflect my online presence. I’ve got a lot more plans. but it won’t happen over night…
there are some hosting issues, and the fact that I learn all of this webstuff on my own, through trial and error, means that I’ll always rely somewhat on more stable platforms that I can’t accidentally erase by bad aim during an ftp session…
Still, I fully intend to get everything I’m working on to completion in one form or another. Keep an eye on this blog, it will become a new node in my personal web of meaning.
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(The following is a section of the appendix of the book The Art of Memetics by Edward Wilson and myself. This article is an adaption of an article I wrote some time ago for Key23, and is significantly cleaned up and revised for publication. Enjoy.)
Studying occult arts is dangerous only to those who have a vested interest in seeing you remain the same. There isn’t any such thing as supernatural - all things that occur happen within the realm of the natural. So the occultist’s task is puzzling out the secret knots by which this reality is bound - understanding both the mechanics of reality and the mechanism by which mind, unfettered, can untie these secret knots or bind up new ones.
The adaption of satanic imagery to magic is a relatively christian phenomena - but the supplication of a parishoner to a saintly or divine force is just as magical. Transubstantiation is socially acceptable cannibalistic theater and this kind of theophagy occurs in many different traditions. This is quite possibly the real reason that our culture has produced vampire and zombie archetypes, the symbolism of the blood of Christ has cast a shadow. Any ritual theater gives its shadow equal power, so these doctrines writ large on a society produce a corresponding harmonic negative manifestations can utilize.
I believe the soul you possess is determined by the path you walk, and to alter your course requires that you sacrifice who you are to who you can become, or it requires you to subsume yourself to some greater archetypal force and act as its avatar in the phenomenal world. The pragmatic approach is to engage with experience, then apply experience to signifying intent. If it can be used, then it can be understood. Knowledge, information, is a new ordering, or a reformation, of ignorance. Ignorance can be thought of as a formless void, a place of not-as-of-yet. When knowledge takes up space inside, the ignorance is re-arranged to be meaningful.
This formation is a physical reality, and takes place within the protein strands that make up the cell walls of neurological tissue. Cab drivers in London have been shown to manifest larger sections of their brain because they have to memorize such an impressive array of bewildering and contradictory information, then navigate through it. That which is known never becomes unknown, but it can become inaccessible. The brain being what it is, a crucifixtion of matter and energy upon which consciousness writhes, it can move along axis in time that are un or pre-physical. But how do you get there, and what do you do there once you’re there? Kundalini yoga promises to make the bio-energy field of a mortal some kind of super-conductor, and the easiest way to understand any of this is to look at Alex Gray’s Sacred Mirrors. (more…)
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Yesterday I received a copy of this book in the mail from the editor, Taylor Ellwood.
A year and a half ago I had a conversation with Ben Mack and then Taylor Ellwood about how problematic it was that pagans and magicians seemed to exhibit negative attitudes toward wealth in general and toward money in particular. While they have various reasons for this, the end result is often the same - broke magicians and pagans living paycheck to paycheck.
It turned out that Taylor had already been thinking along these lines, and on the Occulterati Season One podcast he put out the call for contributions to the book I now hold in my hands. The end result is a powerful and compact compilation of the various approaches toward manifesting wealth into one’s life. I have a section in here on using collage in wealth magic, and the collage that I built before writing the chapter, along with the sigil that I designed, are online for reference.
Currently I’m working through the book myself, and I’m very impressed with the range of the articles within. Taylor does a great job editing and compiling. I’m finding this book to be an awesome little resource, and I’ll come back and review the book both here and on amazon once I’ve finished reading it.
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