notes and comments: -------------------------------------------------------------------- FLAME WARS (Techgnosis, Magic, Memory) p.40 One of the imaginations greatest powers is its ability to generate psychedelic perceptions with a minimum of sensory cues....magic as a way for manipulating data space. p.45 From a qualitative perspective, complexity space- any information system, when dense and rigorous enough, takes on a kind of self-organizational coherence that resonates with other systems of complexity. p.46 Daemon implies an endless series of divisions of all important aspects of the world into separate elements for study and control...images of artificial intelligence...text based on expert systems p.41 Kabbalist. Replacing words with numerical equivalents, one could discover esoteric correspondences ,cryptographic enigmatic coding space. Goal: long-distance telepathic communication. astral network. p.38 Dante: virtual database, coded space the very rigidity produces a surreal counter movement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NECRONOMICON FILES P.107-110 Tunnels of Set p.109 Crowley's Liber CCXXXI Nightside of Eden [Grant] is essentially a grimoire providing instructions for meeting the inhabitants of each tunnel. Part of the Qlippothic universe [Kabbala] reached through the gateway of Daath... Lovecraft supposedly reached via dreams. Necronomicon a astral book from a akashic grimoire. [Daath] Hebrew for knowledge Greek for gnosis. Beyond the Mauve Zone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MEMETICS AND MAGIC Memetic theory holds tremendous potential to explain exactly how ideas are formed,maintained, and replicated within social cultural systems. p.61 68 Meme and archetypes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PROTEAN SELF Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation by Robert Jay Lifton "We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms." .. from The Protean Self "As he revises the psychology of the self, Dr. Lifton is subtle, even profound, in drawing a line between multiplicity and fragmentation. To those who are nostalgic for the age of the unitary ego, his message is that it is better to be fluid, resilient and on the move than to be firm, fixed, self-assured and settled. To those who worry that the post-modern age is an age of shattered selves, dissociative states, multiple personality disorders and identity diffusion, Dr. Lifton brings the good news that discontinuity can be a mirror of reality, and the standard for a reasonable life." Richard A. Shweder, New York Times p.72 James Joyce decomposed the mind into various component parts and exposed himself to "the terror of Chaos" in order to emerge with a "music of ideas". Joyce charted an endless cultural chain of encounters, oppositions, contradictions, and visions to constitute "the world with which contemporary man must deal." Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses---Rushdie refers to the physical remnants of the plane and then tells us that "equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, slouged-off selves, severed mother-tongues, violated privacies, untranslatable jokes, extinguished futures, lost loves, the forgotten meaning of hollow, booming words, land, belonging, home." p.97 Dadaism and surrealism. Artists in those movements "knew perceived reality to be inauthentic, [so they] prowled around its margins, made everything over, and indeed were always just starting out:always for the first time." Andre Breton declared, "I have never appreciated in myself anything other than what appeared to contrast drastically with what was outside," and suggested that a true surrealist "places himself, without saying a word, in a system of interferences." p.87 "Integrative proteanism."Not a contradiction in terms, integration here involves holding together, however loosely, disparate elements of self. It imposes priorities among these elements and the emotions they contain, and can include certain images and forms that are both enduring and energizing. p.232 As the self-reflecting species, we are bound to each other and to every other species. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTHINGNESS AND EMPTINESS A Buddhist engagement with the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre by Steven W. Laycock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUANTINUM ARCHETYPES Science, Metaphysics and Spirit by Robert J. Verdicchio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MATRIX WARRIOR Being the One by Jake Horsley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOCUS ON LUDWIG ZELLER POET AND ARTIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PSYCHOLOGY AND KABBALAH by Z'ev Ben Shimon Halevi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESOTERIC CHRISTIANITY OR THE LESSER MYSTERIES by Annie Besant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PSYCHOLOGY AND THE OCCULT by CG JUNG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEFER YETZIRAH The Book of Creation In Theory and Practice by Aryeh Kaplan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE KEY TO SOLOMON'S KEY Secrets of magic and masonry by Lon Milo Duquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PSYCHEDELIC MONOGRAPHS AND ESSAYS Volume Five ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE VISION AND THE VOICE with Commentary and other papers ALEISTER CROWLEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PEARLY GATES OF CYBERSPACE A history of space from Dante to the internet by Margaret Wertheim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALIEN INTELLIGENCE A fascinating exploration into the mysterious world of non-human, paranormal, and extraterrestrial intelligence by Stuart Holroyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JUNG AND FEMINISM LIBERATING ARCHETYPES by Demaris S. Wehr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SATURATED SELF Dilemmas of identity in contemporary life by Kenneth J. Gergen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DALI AND POSTMODERNISM This Is Not an Essence by Marc J. LaFountain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RELIGIONS OF STAR TREK by Ross S. Kraemer; William Cassidy and Susan L. Schwartz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE EGYPTIAN GODS A HANDBOOK by Alan W. SHORTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GLIMPSES OF THE LEFT HAND PATH . A collection of essays on the philosophy and practice of the path to self-deification. Lodge Magan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LORDS OF THE LEFT-HAND PATH. A history of Spiritual Dissent. Stephen E. Flowers, P.h.D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT. The Grimoire of the Serpent. Michael W. Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOK OF THE WITCH MOON. Chaos, Vampiric & Luciferian Sorcery. Michael W. Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HEKATE. Keys to the Crossroads. Sorita D`Este ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO IMMORTALITY. Extraordinary people, Alien brains, and Quantum resurrection. Clifford A. Pickover ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BIBLE OF THE ADVERSARY. Micheal W. Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE FUTURE OF THE SELF. Inventing the Postmodern Person. Exploring the Post-Identity Society. Walter Truett Anderson p.189 In place of rigid social classes and unchanging social roles, we now have lifestyles that are made and maintained through purchasing habits. So our purchases are creations of meaning. p.188 Instead of asking somebody "What do you do?" we should now ask "What's your mix?" p.184 The "artificial person"..characterized by their particular mix of these ever- shifting combinations of social artificiality of every variety. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ELECTRIC MEME. A new theory of how we think. Robert Aunger (front flap) A meme is a distinct pattern of electrical charges in a node in our brains that reproduces a thousand times faster than a bacterium....ideas seem to have a life of their own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE BLACK SUN. The Alchemy and art of Darkness. Stanton Marlan (front flap) The black sun accompanies the most negative of psychic experiences but also the most sublime, resonating with the mystical experience of negative theology, the Kabbalah, the Buddhist notions of the void, and the black light of the Sufi Mystics. p.175 (Sol niger or Black Sun) Our experiences of Sol niger, with a darkness of unkowing...described as an advance over light and as blinding, divine darkness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE MATRIX AND PHILOSOPHY. Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded. Edited by William Irwin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCING POST-MODERN-ISM. A graphic guide to cutting-edge thinking. p.188 Reductionism won't answer the question: "How is it that matter can have ideas?" "What we call freedom is the irreducibility of the cultural order to the natural order" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPAL MAGIC. Occult practices within the catholic church p.101 IX The world we see is related to light, which makes things visible, measurable. The world we don't see is related to Darkness, which makes the world we see invisible and therefore unmeasurable. p. 60 Clergymen were definitely involved in occult and magical practices virtually throughout the Church's two thousand year existence, in complete and total disregard for Church law and beliefs..still exists to this day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Beginner's Guide To Immortality: Extraordinary people, alien brains, and quantum resurrection by Clifford A. Pickover p.xvii The future no longer belongs to people who can reason with computer-like logic, speed and precision. It belongs to a different kind of person-[individuals with abilities like] artistry,empathy,seeing the big picture, and pursuing the transcendent. ...We're progressing to a society of creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers (Daniel H. Pink) p.xix Fire is a symbol of humanity's connection to nature. p.42 [The Call of Cthulhu. H.P. Lovecraft] The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on the placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of disociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. p.45 [hell NDE] people were like silhouettes, or shapes. Heard voices, a thick dark cloud and mystery beings striping flesh from his bones.. P.48 The word "hell" is Scandinavian in origin and refers to Hel, the Teutonic queen of the dead and ruler of "the other world". Legends indicate that fairly decent people went to Hel. Hel, the Goddess, was said to be deformed, with half of her face human and the other half featureless. Christians who adhere to the "Apostles' Creed" are probably aware that Jesus went straight to hell after he was crucified. "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creater of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell." [Interrogatory Creed of Hippolytus ca AD 215] p.50 The Epic of Gilgamesh around 2000 BC mysterious wedged-shaped symbols. A portal to a parallel universe serves as a model..of how we reach across cultures to connect with one another and learn about what we hold sacred. Perhaps with this kind of interface, one might even look for realms beyond our ordinary reality [Clifford P.] p.58-59 [Susan Blackmore] eerie and crepuscular death-tunnels produced by computer simulations ,see Blackmore's 1991 Skeptical Inquirer article. p.74 I have come to the conclusion that depression is about seeing the world as it is..In order to get out of this depression, one has to get a sense of the other world- the Akhira (the afterlife) and also a sense of the ghaib (unseen worlds)-Psychiatrist Joel Ibrahim Kreps, Islamica p.78 Lovecraft. His tales of cosmic parasites, ventricumbent Gods, and mysterious dreams. p.85 Richard Linklater's 2001 animated film Waking Life is a fictional example of a deeply nested set of dreams. p.90 [Multiverse']"In the Matrix" Martin Rees [we are simulations. Simulated universes] Astronomer Paul Davies in "A Brief History of the Multiverse"..."Eventually, entire virtual worlds will be created inside computers. p.90 Tierra, a system in which self-replicating machine-code programs evolved by natural selection. p.91 Some topics Artificial Life: "Evoving Flying Creatures with Path Following Behaviors"."Self-Replicating Machines.. p.96 IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer, which can perform twenty-two trillion operations per second. p.118 Process Physics. Building realities from pseudo-objects.Something like our space assembles itself out of complete randomness. Connectivity even for two faraway objects. Quantum phenomena are caused by "fractal topological defects embedded in and forming a growing three-dimensional fractal process-space". p.125 [John Barrow, "Living in a Simulated Universe"]If we live in a simulated reality, we should expect occasional sudden glitches, small drifts in the supposed constants and laws of Nature over time, and a dawning realization that the flaws of Nature are as important as the laws of Nature for our understanding of true reality. p.126 The Singularity is meant as a future time when societal, scientific and economic change is so fast we cannot even imagine what will happen from our present perspective, and when humanity will become posthumanity [Anders Sandberg,"The Singularity"] p.149 [Rick Doblin]"the brain functions best when it has access to altered states" p.160 [Rilke]Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror...Every angel is terrifying". p.198 less than one-third of human conceptions culminate in live births. p.207 The very first eyes appeared about 543 million years ago-in a group of trilobites. p.210 [Jean-Paul Sartre's "Self-Taught Man"] p.211 [Malcom X] Decided to focus exclusively on the dictionary while in prison. p.216 Secret of the universe in fractals. p.219 [Jack Parsons-helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory] came to believe that magic rituals could tear the very fabric of reality. p.219 Language of Enochian p.224 computer as extension of nervous system. p.224 Serendipity. Some of the greatist discoveries have been achieved through chance happenings. p.231 [Charles Fourier] reality and social structres morphing in incredible ways. p.232 champion of "free love". More on Fourier. p.235 Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities. Infinitely complex spider web of strings so thick and complex connections. p.236 Revelation 21: DMT like vision similar to to Gilgamesh jeweled garden p.237 [Greta Christina] your lifespan is an infinitesimally tiny fragment in the life of the universe... p.239 Rudy Rucker "The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. p.240 Seth Lloyd Programming the Universe. The universe as a giant computer that feeds on information and generates reality. p.243 p.244 p.245 p.247 p.248 p.253 Parallel Universes, The Matrix and Superintellligence p.260 Conversations at the edge of the Apocalypse p.261 From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity -Edvard Munch p.268 Ninty-nine percent of all living creatures die by being eaten alive p.269 p.271 H.P. Lovecraft p.275 Dream Dictionary www.hyperdictionary.com/dream p.288 Taking the red pill p.289 What are superstrings made of? They are pure mathematical constructs. The universe seems to be made of nothing, yet somehow it manages to exist. -Martin Gardner,"Science and the Unknowable" [i.e. magic? my own thought] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SWORD and THE SERPENT Vol2 The Magical Philosophy by Melita Denning & Osborne Phillips. p17 The Qliphoth are dissociated developments from the true Archetypes in the Divine Mind. For a universe as for an individual person the greatest good lies in balance , not in the excess of any impulse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATAN WANTS YOU. The cult of devil worship in america. Arthur Lyons p.175 Satanism, along with other occult belief systems, has historically made its appearance in times of social fragmentation, when the established system of norms and values is in a state of confusion. note:read The Call to Cthulu Chapter X11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DREAMING UNIVERSE. A mind expanding journey into the realm where psyche and physics meet. Fred Alan Wolf P.H.D. p.191 With practice the Tibetian dreamers were literally able to "dream anything into existance" in their dreams...All matter and forms of matter, whether they are cosmic scaled, human scaled, or subatomic, are subject to the will of the perceiver. p.220 Some Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhists practice the creation of TULPAS----materialized thought forms (Peter M. Rojcewicz). The students attempt to visualize a solid object based on an image in much the same way that an architect envisions a three-dimensional building from drawings, renderings, and blueprints. But the process goes further. In Tibetan yogic tradition the yogin practices visualizing some icon over a period of time until it goes through three stages of materialization: 1. First the initiate will meditate upon every aspect of the icon until he or she can clearly see it entirely in the mind even while performing everyday activities. 2. The image is actually "projected" outward like a holographic image that can be seen by others. 3. The image becomes material. Tulpoidal "objects" are meant to survive the life of their originator. (see also Alexandra David-Neel). p.227 C. G. Jung in his notion of the PSYCHOID suggests that there is a realm of being on the borderline between the physical and the psychical. It is a place where psyche and nature manifest with a dual aspect resolving itself into either of its two aspects. p. 281 Maxim Gorky and the Dream Museum in Moscow. A house of dark dreams; every window has a different shape. The balcony over the entrance has a spider's web banister. Ancient Egyptian and baroque styles are placed in opposite parts of the building... p. 286 Wolfgang Pauli believed that reality had both a rational and irrational aspect. Matter is capable of consciousness and of dreaming. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BLACK GODDESS AND THE SIXTH SENSE by Peter Redgrove ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LUCID DREAMER. A waking guide for the traveler between worlds by Malcolm Godwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE NEW ORLEANS VOODOO TAROT. Louis Martinie and Sallie Ann Glassman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FANTASTIC WORLDS OF H.P. LOVECRAFT. James Van Hise ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORDER OF NINE ANGLES. THE SINISTER COLLECTION by ONA & Christos Beest. Edited with introduction by Michael W. Ford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEVELOPMENT OF THE PSYCHEDELIC INDIVIDUAL by John Curtis Gowan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANCE, ART AND CREATIVITY by John Curtis Gowan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HISTORY OF BRITISH MAGIC AFTER CROWLEY. Kenneth Grant, Amado Crowley, Chaos Magic, Satanism, Lovecraft, The Left Hand Path, Blasphemy and Magical Morality. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MAGIC MAKERS. Magic & Sorcery through the ages. David Carroll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LALIBELA; THE MONOLITHIC CHURCHES OF ETHIOPIA by Bidder, Irmgard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIBER NULL & PSYCHONAUT. Peter J. Carroll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIRTUAL MUSE. Experiments in Computer Poetry. Charles O. Hartman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RIMBAUD AND JIM MORRISON. The rebel as poet, A memoir by Wallace Fowlie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE COMPLETE UNIVERSE OF MEMES. Branches of reality on the reality tree by Lloyd Harrison Whitling.(MEME: A packet of related ideas about any kind of subject matter whether real or fanciful, which has the ability to transfer to new hosts by a process of replication, and which meets a series of criteria. See demon, daemon, soul, antisoul, angel. p.48 With our perceptions, we alter reality and create our own artificial versions, which exist in reality because we declare it so. The physical existence of God takes place as electrical states within the mental systems of true believers, as memes. p.63 There is a polarity within all human consciousness that, like the poles of a magnet, is pulled toward creativity, awareness, understanding, knowledge and emotion on one end, and toward apathy, security, vested interests, and status quo on the other. p.218 The Demon--A concept of synergisis (Energy has a physical nature of its own.. implying that memes could be entities of energy who would regard the material aspects of reality in the way we do energy: as something of an abstract nature, of which they could learn to take advantage. p.219 "This is not something from off the wall. We are learning here of an entity built of energy-in-continuum, whose existence is entirely of energy...the parasitic meme of many books and articles in curent literature". (see The 'onion' Arthur Janov-PRIMAL SCREAM and the 'robot' of Colin Wilson NEW PATHWAYS IN PSYCHOLOGY). p.221 Hosting a demon. p.237 Synergisis sees that God and Satan, being the antipodal cultural ideals of our society, are one and the same Great DEMON. p.238 The Christian Bible was compiled in 512 AD by the 8th Ecumenical Council. Atheism is probably the oldest religion. p.239 Do our memes compete with our genes for evolutionary dominance? YES! p.243 Satan and God are One; and that Satan cannot be banished without also banishing God; and that God cannot be called upon without also bringing Satan forth; and that to know one from the other, one must know both aspects equally intimately. p.292 p.293 FIRE is a visionary person, an idealist who recognizes and often will promote changes. He is most at home where developments are taking place, where the past is meaningless and the future uncertain. Little concerned for what it is, he would change a thing or place seemingly for the sake of changing it, for he cannot feel at home except amidst chaos. Having little use for such abstract notions as 'respect', 'authority', or 'logic', he is apt to be thought schizophrenic by those who deal with him (or try to). The present is meaningless to the intuitive, for the future is where he lives. (Dr. Osmond's book Understanding Understanding). p.402 LUCIFERIZE: To set afire; refers to the process of utilizing a demon's energy (burning it) to transform it into an angel. It is thought the energy thus released is contributive to human synergy, and may be its heretofore unkown source. A process of human-engineered evolution involving energy and memes. p.403 MAGICK: The effective practice of ritualized hypnosis, generally recognized by its practitioners. The actions taken to gain self-awareness. MAGIC: The rites and procedures organized to support synthetic reality; the operational procedures of organized synthetic reality, including its rites and doctrines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN CREEDS: THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING by EDWARD CARPENTER 1920 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAX ERNST AND ALCHEMY. A Magician in Search of Myth. M.E. Warlick. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SURREALISM & the OCCULT by Nadia Choucha ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JESUS the MAGICIAN by Morton Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE GNOSTICS by JACQUES LACARRIERE p.21 THE DARK FIRE Injustice governs the universe. All that is made and all that is unmade therein carries the imprint of a corrupt fragility, as if matter were the fruit of an outrage in the womb of nothingness (Emile Cioran, A Short History of Decay). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESSAY ON A DREAM OF BAUDELAIRE'S by MICHEL BUTOR 1969 Baudelaire (excerpts) A mirror as enormous as the crowd. A kaleidoscope endowed with consciousness, which at each of its movements, represents the multiform life. "To drink down great draughts of perfume, sound, colour" (the atmosphere of woman).The artist as a lesbian and hermaphrodite. THE MUSEUM-BEDROOM Habitual hallucination of the eyes of childhood, which magnify and complicate objects. (the dream) The whores in the dream are scattered through these galleries like the school desks in the study hall. The carvings on the desks form a little museum, masterpieces of the knife, grotesque figures, whole names (images of bizarre, monsterous, almosat shapeless creatures, like meteorites..). I find myself in a series of enormous, interconnecting halls...the walls are decorated with many kinds of drawings, in frames. Not all are obscene. There are even architectural studies and Egyptian figures...In a secluded part of one of these halls, I find a very unusual series: drawings, miniatures, photographic prints in a crowd of tiny frames, representing brightly coloured birds with brilliant plumage, their eyes ALIVE!. Sometimes there are only halves of birds. Sometimes there are images of bizarre, monstrous, almost shapeless creaturees, like meteorites. In a corner of each drawing, there is a note: This particular girl, aged, gave birth to this foetus in this particular year... A monster born in the house that stays eternally on a pedestal. A part of the museum. It is not ugly. A great deal of pink and green in its face.. THE LIVING EYE the notion of evil as inspiration. BIRD LANGUAGE the bird announces the poet. SOLITUDE a man who cannot populate his solitude cannot be alone in a bustling crowd..Wandering in search of a body, he enters, when he wishes, into each mans character. SUICIDE AND POETRY breaking the rules of society. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARCHETYPES by Anthony Stevens The need for enemies: For a rush of adrenaline and a cure fore boredom, for cameraderie and thrills, there is nothing like a good scrap. Aggression, like sexuality, is an ineradicable feature of human nature, and its manifestations in battle with outsiders for territory and resources and in struggle with insiders for power and prestige are everywhere characteristic of the life of mankind. What matters, is not that we are aggressive, xenophobic, sexual, hierarchial and territorial but what ATTITUDE we adopt to these fundamental aspects of our nature- how we live them, and how we mediate them to the group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUPERNATURAL. Meetings with the ancient teachers of mankind by Graham Hancock p.37 According to Professor David Lewis-Williams, ideas are not part of the normal, predictable currency of everyday life but arise from the universal human neuro- logical capacity to enter "altered states of consciousness". p.48 Gnostics of old thought that reality consists of a series of layers extending upwards from the grossest matter to purest spirit. p.64 Uniao de Vegetal (UdV) Brazil-urban shamanism p.66 a "light being," or a intelligent giant snake that transforms into a jaguar, or a hybird crocodile-man, or an insect-man. p.89 Cave symbolism. Passage into another world. Experience comprised isolation and sensory deprivation. Portals. p.92 Hypothesis that shamanic exploration of hallucinatory realms during the Upper Paleolithic played a catalytic role in extracting our ancestors from the five- million-year torpor towards galvanizing their creativity. p.94 The brain may be operating as a receiver to pick up frequencies, dimensions and entities that are completely real in their own way but that are noemally inacces- sible to us. p.107 One should impose limits on the knowledge one seeks to aquire, and above all, "one should not be too eager." p.124 Ontology is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. Epistemology is the critical study of the validity of knowledge. p.312 The everyday non-visionary life is considered "fake" and "false"(Jivaro Indians) All things which the eye can see are mere phantoms, and unsubstantial outlines; but things which the eye cannot see are the realities.(Hermeticists. Gnostics) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERATION HEX. Edited by Jason Louv ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GATES OF DOZAK-PRIMAL SORCERY by Michael W. Ford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Concrete" Poetry from East and West Germany. The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism by Liselotte Gumpel 1976 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Thomas Ligotti Reader by Darrell Schweitzer (Author) p.33 The final desirable, beautiful, and true is "that summit or abyss of the unreal, that paradise of exhaustion, confusion, and debris where reality ends and where one may dwell among its ruins". p.34 "zones of fractured numinosity"."ultra-mental hinterlands of metaphysics"."a haunter of spectral marketplaces, a visitant of discount houses of unreality, a bargain hunter in the deepest basement of the unknown"."persons interested in pursuing the existence of utter chaos and mayhem: that is, one of complete liberation at all conceivable levels". p.35 mystagogue, the initiator into forbidden knowledge. p.37 "a liturgy of shadows, a catichism of phantoms" used by a secret sect who are silent, like all true gnostics, toward the outside world because they possess "a knowledge that was unspoken and unspeakable". p.113 Now I saw dreams as the unstoppable influx of the other into the totality of our life, not merely small revelations of unearthly beauty with little meaning. Dreams were not only often absolutely real to me, but were now accurate representations of an absolutely trans-dimensional existence. Through them, I think I came as close to understanding Hell as anyone can in purely imagical terms; Tom took me sight-seeing there..(David Tibet on ligotti). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONDENSED CHAOS An Inroduction to Chaos Magic by Phil Hine p.16 The Book of Results by Ray Sherwin explains A.O.S. sigil magic. p.18 More people are getting into the idea of a religion based on the celebration of confusion and madness. p.20 p.21 p.24 p.73 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PRIME CHAOS by Phil Hine p.75-76 Cut-Ups as Sorcery: From the juxtaposition of word and image, meaning is glimpsed. From the Chaos of the normal is woven apparent simplicity. All the secrets of magic are on open display. That which is truly hidden is our own resistance to this realisation. To live within the confines of Consensus Reality is to remain locked in Time: Past-Present-Future. In this sense, all magical acts are scripts for momentary slips through the fabric. Magic takes place outside of Time. Through the simple technique of Cut-Up, pioneered by Brion Gysin as a literary tech- nique, the magician can collapse sequential experience into syncretic Gnosis. The basic technique is simple enough when applied to text: Take a page of text, cut into 4 sections and re-paste. New word lines and messages appear. This distruption of the sequence of language creates Tangential Deliriums--new messages arising from juxta- positions of words and the derangement of the associations this provokes. Cut up texts on magic to discover new magick. Cut up The Book of The Law and discover any amount of new chapters. There are parallels with this method and the more obvious tools of magic: sigils as cut-ups of desire, for example. Divination systems that cut-up a subject into image blocks, throwing up insights, new images, gestalts. Reshuffle beliefs by deliber- ately holding two contradictory belief systems---make meaning from nonsensical beliefs. Cut-Up belief to understand its dynamics. Third Mind: Record two different conversations. Then record them onto the same tape. Intercut with street noises, television fragments, readings from texts and newspapers. Record, replay, and intercut. Result-a Third Mind. The 'absent' source of information which slides in to the listeners' awareness, arises from the Time Disorientation induced by listening to the tape. Why Time Disorientation? All routes to Gnosis act to temporarily dislocate the Ego. The Ego requires Time (sequence) to maintain the fiction of single identity. Text and logical thinking are sequential. One step at a time, one unit following another. While attention is selective, the creative spark is associative and syncretic. A great deal of magical practice rests on the ability of the mind to make associative connections. Any stimulus which is strong enough to evoke emotion and memory throws awareness out of sequential Time. Smell particularly, is a hotline to memory. Inst- ant access. Word juxtapositions throw up new messages. Image juxtapositions open new worlds. Modern media presentations particularly in the the visual arts, are increasingly utilising the Cut-Up technique: the layering of images and associations serving to collapse Time-sense. Elements of the Past, Present and possible Futures may be evoked simultaneously in a single visual image. The news media works to change the context of a message to create new hidden meanings, acting under the illusion of 'objectivity. p.145 COBOL language anology- One may consider that an evoked entity is a program shell, with a particular name, identity, functions, and the ability to process variables. The magical operation serves to launch the program, and set it working upon a user-defined operation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE DOOR TO THE FUTURE by Jess Stearn p.232 Fatima:"As thousands watched, spellbound, the shinning orange disk seemed to spin, and as it spun it gave off fiery fingers of light reaching across the sky. The earth first cast a red shadow, and then in bewildering succession, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Three times this phenomenon repeated itself". -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STOLEN LIGHTENING The Social Theory of Magic by Daniel Lawrence O'keefe p.39 Linguistic symbolism is central to magic. p.93 Drug cult at heart of original esoteric christianity. p.138 Christian shamanic trance practices of Jesus. p.140 Jesus adopted the magician's style of communication. p.161 Science is merely magic with legitimate hypotheses. p.263 Magic defends the individual against society, against the superego. p.265 Freud's theory of magic. p.267 Dream work Freud"transformation into opposites".."uncanniness".. p.271 Roheim's Positive theory of Magic. p.274 Magic as the basis for action. p.275 Stekel:magic fights religion as superego. p.279 Multiple selves. p.305 Postmodern atomic suicide. p.317 Magic is mans first defense against his own socialization, when it interferes with his spontaneity. p.321 Magic seizes control through the power of abstraction. Abstraction does violence to reality. Abstractions and creative representations dismember or replace reality. p.414 Black magic. p.504 (?)Magic emerges out of religion. Magic empiricism may at times feed into science but is not its engine. p.506 Magic against the logos. p.559 Universe as interconnected unity of forces. Relativity, time reversal, black holes threaten the objective framework.Magic blocks the rational structures of consciousness. Magic may stimulate science. p.560 (?)What enabled science to advance, what held it back is more likely to be found in social structures than in ideas. p.567.Today Tantrism perhaps bids to take the place that Hermeticism had in the Renaissance; this eclectic Mahayana and Hindu magic has some of the same idea of microcosmic correspondence to the macrocosm which it attempts to manipulate via mantra-mandala-yantra-sudra.Self-conscious definitions of magic as the art of effecting changes in consciousness by will or magic as the search for power.. magic as the recovery of ego from social illusion..easily fit into the Tantric systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CRACK IN THE COSMIC EGG .New Constructs of Mind and Reality by Joseph Chilton Pearce. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LUSTMORD-Sexual Murder In Weimar Germany by Maria Tatar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psychic Dreamwalking Explorations at the edge of self by Michelle Belanger --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERSUASIONS OF THE WITCH'S CRAFT--Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. by t.m. luhrmann --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLLAPSE--Philosophical Research and Development volume IV --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIGHTMARE CULTURE-Lautreamont & "Les Chants de Maldoror" by Alex de Jonge 1973 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SURRREALISM, INSANITY, AND POETRY by J.H.Matthews --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VORTEX/t The poetics of turbulence by Charles D. Minahen --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEYOND PAINTING by Max Ernst --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ART OF SCRYING AND THE MAGIC MIRROR by Katlyn --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TANTRA THE PATH OF ECSTACY by Georg Feuerstein p.101 The adepts of the Aghori sect, an extremist left-hand path school of Tantra, are famous in India for frequenting cemeteries, stealing skulls... their lifestyle seeks to demonstrate that reality transcends conventional morality. p.227 Everything that the conventional mind, which is burdened by all kinds of illusions, delusions, misjudgments, and negative emotions, rejects as undesirable or reprehensible, the disciplined mind of the Tantric initiate welcomes openly as a form of the Divine. p.228 Tantra faces squarely the instinctual life. The tantrikas understand that the energy that goes into the creative process is not sexual libido but the far more fundamental energy of the kundalini-shakti --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEMONS OF THE FLESH. THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO LEFT HAND PATH SEX MAGIC by Nikolas Schreck and Zeena Schreck 2002 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANCIENT CHRISTIAN MAGIC. COPTIC TEXTS OF RITUAL POWER. Edited by Marvin W. Meyer and Richard Smith.1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE SELF-AWARE UNIVERSE. HOW CONSCIOUSNESS CREATES THE MATERIAL WORLD by Amit Goswami, Ph.D. 1995 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNG ON SYNCHRONICITY AND THE PARANORMAL by Roderick Main p.7 JUNG:"All things considered, all these metapsychic phenomena could be explained better by the hypothesis of spirits than by the qualities and peculiarities of the unconscious...the spirit hypothesis yields better results in practice than any other". p.10 synchronicity: things happening at the same time moment as an expression of the same time content. p.12 Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge. p.13 far from being an abstraction, is a concrete continuum which possesses qualities or basic conditions capable of manifesting themselves simultaneously in different places by means of an acausal parallelism, such as we find, for instance, in the simultaneous occurrence of identical thoughts, symbols, or psychic states. p.15 Knowledge of events at a distance or in the future is possible because, within the unconscious psyche, all events co-exist timelessly and spacelessly: For the unconscious psyche space and time seem to be relative; that is to say, knowledge finds itself in a space-time continuum in which space is no longer space, nor time time. p.17 Jung credits physicist Wolfgang Pauli on his essays on synchronicity. p.18 activated archetype might result in numinous effects, and this numinosity or affectivity results in a lowering of the mental level, a relaxing of the focus of consciousness. p.24 Acausality: The discoveries of modern physics have shattered the absolute validity of natural law and made it relative. p.29 A miracle is an archetypal situation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ON DIVINATION AND SYNCHRONICITY- The psychology of meaningful chance by Marie- Louise Von Franz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPEAKING OF JANE ROBERTS- Remembering the author of the Seth Material by Susan M. 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An investigation by Fry and Malcolm Long based on the ABC radio series"...And Something Else Is Happening" 1977 p.18 There are realms of experience that are outside empirical verification and which have a strange status for which we have no convenient term. p.26 identity and consumption. p.28 enormous amounts of information available in the home. p.31 science deals with metaphors. Science is not about the matter of verifying what reality is. p.45 Sorcery on the whole is selfish and egotistic. Shamans on the other hand heal, tell the future, stage the spirit world and make others get caught up by it... p.48 If you meditate on a certain Tarot card you precipitate a mythological process in your mind. You find your way into certain symbolic regions of consciousness because the the Tarot card acts as a "directive". p.49 Jung said, archetypes - mythological energy sources - tend to act as if they are seperate from one's own identity. In modern magic the shamanistic process is to encounter this pantheon. p.68 possession... another consciousness trying to take over and treatment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE HERESY OF SELF-LOVE. A study of subversive individualism by Paul Zweig 1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H.P. LOVECRAFT. A spine-tingling collection of the macabre inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. CTHULHU 2000 Edited by Jim Turner 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DEATH OF TRUTH by Dennis McCallum 1996 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE VARIETIES OF PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE R.E.L Masters and Jean Houston, Ph.D. The first comprehensive guide to the effects of LSD on human personality. 1966 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPANDED CINEMA by Gene Youngblood introduction by R. Buckminster Fuller 1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIND GAMES . The guide to inner space by Robert Masters and Jean Houston 1972 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QABALAH, QLIPHOTH AND GOETIC MAGIC by Thomas Karlsson 2004-2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCURSIONS TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE MIND. A BOOK OF MEMES by Howard Rheingold 1988 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Mystical Life of Jesus. H. Spenser Lewis Kingsport Press, 1968, this is later printing of 1929 edition p.81 divine conception is universal and pre-dates the christian version. Lao-Tsze, the famous Chinese god, was claimed to have been born of a virgin, black in conception, and described as marvelous and as beautiful as Jasper. p.82 The serpent was used as an emblem of the "Word" or "Logos"...the Holy Ghost; Jesus the Christ. p.89-90 Common belief among the mystics and Oriental philosophers that the power of thought or the power of a mental or audible word is capable of impregnating matter and bringing lifeless matter into consciousness. p.91 Mystics of all times have demonstrated that even the spoken word, composed of a properly intoned vowel uttered by man, has the power to disturb the status of matter, and to set it into vibration or to change its elementary nature of its chemical composition. Sound upon a violin string ... which would cause a manifestation in matter.. p.93 The Rosicrucians understand that Jesus was not the first and only, but the last and greatest of all the messengers of God. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Demonic Bible by Magus Tsirk Susej, Antichrist servant & disciple of the Dark Lordas revealed to him by his Unholy Guardian Demon the spirit Azael (pdf file) Read from a "satanic" perspective, the Bible reveals itself as a history of Hebrew magicians and sorcerers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MAGIC MIRROR. Divination through the Ancient Art of Scrying by John Nelson. 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARTY OF ONE. THE LONERS' MANIFESTO by Anneli Rufus 2003 p.146 Book of Luke 14:16 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters..he cannot be my disciple." p.148 In The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon called Saint Anthony "a hideous, distorted, and emaciated maniac...spending his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture." p.149 "like a horde of barbarians his thoughts came crawling in upon him from all sides, raining down as it were a shower of arrows." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE. THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT by Rev. R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Fifth Completely Revised Edition 1964 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MESSAGES from MICHAEL by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AT THE THRESHOLD OF LIQUID GEOLOGY AND OTHER AUTOMATIC TALES by Eric W. Bragg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SURREALIST GAMES 1993 Edited by Mel Gooding --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PSYCHIC ENERGY: ITS SOURCE AND GOAL by M. Esther Harding 1947 with foward by C. G. Jung --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KUNDALINI FOR THE NEW AGE. 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THE CLASSICAL TEXTS OF MAGICK DECIPHERED by Aaron Leitch --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE MUSEUM OF LOST WONDER by Jeff Hoke --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNDER GROUND! THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, ASTONISHING ARCHAEOLOGY AND HIDDEN HISTORY. Edited by Preston Peet --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LUCID DREAMER. A WAKING GUIDE FOR THE TRAVELER BETWEEN WORLDS by Malcolm Godwin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH MAGIC THEORY PRACTICE by Frater U D --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE GREAT MOTHER. An analysis of the archetype by Erich Neumann Second Printing 1970 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY by E.M. Cioran 1975 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONVERSATIONS ON THE EDGE OF THE APOCALYPSE by David Jay Brown 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRAMMATICAL MAN. Information Entropy, Language, and Life by Jeremy Campbell 1982 p.86 Entropy is missing information. p.87 It has been estimated that the microscopic state of a gas in a laboratory would be altered significantly in a fraction of a second if a single gram of matter as far away as Sirus, the dog star, were to be moved a distance of only one centimeter. p.110 "I am even prepared to suggest that there is, in all great poetry, something which must remain unaccountable however complete might be our knoledge of the poet.." T.S.Eliot p.111 No single discipline or school of thought has a monopoly on the truth. p.130 Al-Khowarizmi devised abstract rules of procedure for reorganizing mathematical expressions. He wrote a treatise entiled Al-jebr w' al-mugabala, meaning " transportation and removal," the transposing of terms from one side of an equation to the other, and cancellation of equal terms on both sides. Algorithm is some special method of manipulating symbols, especially one which uses a single basic procedure over and over again. It converts certain quantities into other quantities, using a finite number of transformation rules. Rules of language, for example, are of this kind. In case of DNA, the rules may enable sets of genes to be copied over and over again and to be expressed as protein in various specific ways and not others. p.132 "metat-statements"--statements about statements-- p.133 mutation changes are in a meta-statement of DNA, not a statement. p.182 Archetypes are essentially constraints, mental structures in the unconscious mind, whic make it possible for messages, in the form of images, to be sent to the conscious mind. The nature of these messages is mythological and symbolic. Archetypes, as Jung describes them, supply possiblilities, conditions, for the actual production of ideas and fantasies. They are not in the mind as a result of training or instructions, but are a biological endowment, specified by DNA. An archetype cannot be known directly, but only through the appearance of the archetypal image, whic arises spontaneously. Because mythic information has a universal base, outside time, it is not dependent on particular experiences and is not tied directly to intelligence. The rational intellect may dismiss myths and images as nonsense, and try to suppress them, but they always return in one form or another. However, the form is constrained. It is not free to be just any form. Myths, like dreams, have their own peculiar logic and structure. And this structure reflects the structure of the mind. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FLOWERS FROM HELL. 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Everything is so strange that even this is possible. p.106 The Kabbalah teaches the doctrine that the Greeks called apokatastasis; that all creatures, including Cain and the Devil,will return, at the end of the great transmigrations, to be mingled again with the Divinity from which they once emerged. (The missing fourth in Jungian typology). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORACLES AND DEMONS OF TIBET by Rene De Nebesky-Wojkowitz. The Cult and Icon- ography of the Tibetian Deities. Gordo Press 1977. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OUT OF CONTROL. The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ON THE HEIGHTS OF DESPAIR E.M. CIORAN. 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Arthur 2008 p.35 word meaning p.37 Arcana Coelestia p.39 darker beings p.45 nest organisms p.48 insect beings p.50 membrane p.53 "I could feel how my mind was almost sectioned or diced by a kaleidoscopic dimension". p.55 solidity of the world p.83 solidity p.84 abandoned thought thoughtless awareness p.87 death -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GIORDANO BRUNO PHILOSOPHERR HERETIC by Ingrid D. Rowland 2008 p.47 Plato comparied the human search for knowledge to hunting game. p.57 Bruno decided in his private thoughts that Jesus of Nazareth could not have been the son of God incarnate in human flesh. p.60 Bruno belived in the infinite. That God would be nothing without the world and for that reason did nothing but create new worlds. Bruno's contact with the Jewish Kabbalah, its multiple worlds, its combinations of Hebrew letters, and its interconnections, its interplays with darkness and light. p.63 The basic principle of artificial memory was to link words and images. p.64 Ancient orators built up their memories by creating imaginary buildings in their minds and stocking these buildings with people and statues that represented individual ideas or parts of a speech. p.69 Bruno's mind in our terms was both artistic and scientific. p.78 Europe was full of wanderers. p.82 Apostles "idiots from the rude crowd, almost entirely illiterate, ignorant asses". p94 that the sins of the flesh were no sins at all. ---------------- [mathematician and Neo-Platonic mystic, Giordano Bruno. Bruno was a genius and visionary who had fled from his position as a Dominican priest in 1576 to escape charges of heresy. As a mathematician, Bruno is considered the father of statistics; as a visionary, he predicted that the infinite universe contained many worlds that harbored intelligent life. The Church chased Bruno from country to country all through Europe, as he published one after another manuscript on a wide range of mystical subjects. Bruno was captured by the Church in 1592 and tortured for eight years; when he failed to break under torture, he was burned alive at the stake on February 17, 1600.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED (OR YOU WON'T FIND IT). A CREATIVITY TOOL BASED ON THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF HERACLITUS by Roger Von Oech 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KABBALISTIC APHORISMS by James Sturzaker 1971 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE OCCULT ANATOMY OF MAN by Manly P. Hall 1929 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAR JOURNEYS by Robert A. Monroe 1985 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ULTIMATE JOURNEY by Robert A. Monroe 1994 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MODERN SATANISM ANATOMY OF A RADICAL SUBCULTURE by Chris Mathews 2009 p.3 Origins of Satan Zoroastrianism is commonly seen as the means by which the idea of an evil opposing force or devil entered the Judeo-Christian tradition 597-537 B.C.E. p.4 The temptation of Job is the first major introduction to satan p.5 Heosphorus dawn bringer (Venis, Lucifer latin for light bearer. (Phosphorus also occurs as a surname of several goddesses of light, as Artemis (Diana Lucifera, Paus. iv. 31. § 8; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 116), Eos (Eurip. Ion. 1157) and Hecate. (Eurip. Helen. 569.) p.12 Gnostic group Luciferians: The supreme god was Lucifer, the light-bearer; the God of evil was the Christian God. p.13 Malleus Maleficarum 1485 p.14 Dr. Faust p.15 Hellfire Club. p.22 Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. p. 23 John Milton 1608-1674 Paradise Lost. p.24 Romantics: Protean creative enery, noblty and courage, principled rebellion, lack of respect for rank privilage, intellectual freedom, and the overthrowing of oppression. They were Satanists, but for them the power of the Satanic tradition was in enabling liberation of the imagination. (i.e. Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.From internet source) p.28 Without the influence of Darwin, Nietzche, London, Ayn Rand there would be no modern Satanism. p.31 Social Darwanism and Eugenics. p.31 Max Stirner 1806-1856 p.33 Nietzche idea of The Will to Power. p.34 Jack London. p.35 Ayn Rand 1905-1982 p.36 Aleister Crowley. p.41 Anton Szandor Lavey. p.205 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MAGICAL SELF DEFENSE A QUANTUM APPROACH TO WARDING by Kerr Cuhulain 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPLORING SCRYING HOW TO DIVINE THE FUTURE AND MAKE THE MOST OF IT by Ambrose Hawk 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT GOD IS WRONG. 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Johnson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know by Russ Kick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Aion Lectures: Exploring the Self in C.G. Jung's Aion (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts) by Edward F. Edinger p.84 Dante's Inferno descent into hell. p.85 (excerpt of Dante's Inferno: "With all six eyes he wept, and from three chins The tears and bloody foam were trickling down." p.115 Lucifer is the archetype of the ego, and Prometheus is another version of that same archetype. (excerpt from wikipedia.. "The apocalyptic beast let loose has become a reality to our generation, and nobody knows what is still ahead of us. It is understandable therefore that books on the devil have been on the increase lately. ... If the attempts of this school have not yet borne much fruit, it is because we fear the devil's sight more than his activity, and because of a very understandable reticence to force open our 'whited sepulchres"). p.140 See Figure 19. The Paradise Quaternio Text. The Gnostic text equates Paradise with the human head or brain, and the four rivers which arose in Paradise with four orfices of the head; eye, ear, nose and mouth. The waters have the power to make one whole. p.164 The Reciprocality Principle. p.193 Christ pictured as a water bearer and water dispenser. ...image of a stream of water flowing from Christ's belly when his side was pierced at the Crucfixion. ..But the water he dispensed did not generate more dispensers; it generated fishes rather than water carriers because the church became the water carrier, the fish pond in which the faithful could swim. ...the aeon of Aquarious will generate individual water carriers. 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Ashgate Publishing (April 28, 2009) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DARK EROS THE IMAGINATION OF SADISM by Thomas Moore 1994 p.11 Rafael Lopez-Pedraza, the archetypal psychologist and mythologist---"I would like to see the images of sado-masochism,"he writes in Hermes and His Children,"as having archetypal roots in humankind, and as offering a spectrum that can be viewed in psychotherapy as the demand of a part of nature in need of being lived." Again he suggests necessity. The mythology of sado-maschistic themes has a place in life and structure of the soul. p.144 In jung's alchemical studies, blood is the prima materia and red the color of sulphur and the sun. Angels of hell, vampires draw the red life-blood from the soul, preparing it for a shade existence of the underworld. The Greek underworld was the psyche's natural home, and it was a bloodless place. Vampires are also allergic to the dayworld of the sun and thrive at night. Their thirst for blood serves the underworld psyche, turning the red literalism of life into the paler hues of that land that lies outside life's affairs. Blood gives image to unrefined life. Alchemy transforms the raw materials of life into more subtle forms. Gross elements of everyday activity turn into imaginal figures events, and thus soul emerges as a realm of fantasy, mood, and deep interiority. The blood literalism of life transmutes alchemically into the stories and themes of imagination. Vampires, therefore, are technicians of the imaginal. p.194 Sade..exceptional for showing us ways to imagine evil that in the end will not destroy us...he teaches us how to imagine evil, how to depict it so that its necessity shows through...until we have heated our violent ways in steamy forms of imagination, we will be left with its unredeemed literalization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANGER, MADNESS, and the DAIMONIC. The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity by Stephen A. Diamond Foreword by Rollo May 1996 p.65 The Daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. (Rollo May). p.75 "My name is Legion, for we are many." p.78 Desire to resurrect the devil. Current trends toward Satanism in America are a tragically misguided attempt to discover some missing sense of personal power and significance, community, and a deeper connection with the daimonic domain. p.85 Abraxas p.90 Un-consciousness anology. p.91 Defined by Jung. p94 Integrated darkness. The id is, by definition, "amoral," it is not the least bit concerned about such insignificant matters as good and evil; existentially, it antedates even the most basic polarities of what we decree to be "positive" or "negative." Hence, the ego--with the help of the superego or "social conscience" --must protect the external world from the dangers of the id as well as vice versa. p.98 Demonism. The daimonic, is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself. The daimonic becomes evil when it upsurps the total self without regard to the integration of that self, or to the unique forms and desires of others and their need for integration (Rollo May) p.100 Uncondcious as an autonomous psychic entity. p.100 Dissociation. [THE UNCONSCIOUS IS COMING!--from the internet--- Jung felt that, “The great problem of our time is that we don’t understand what is happening to the world. We are confronted with the darkness of our soul, the unconscious. ”[x] [Emphasis added] It is as if our shadow, both personal and archetypal, has gripped us and is revealing itself to us as it plays itself out through our unconscious. This is particularly dangerous because this process is happening unconsciously. When we act out and give shape and form to our unconscious without being consciously aware of what we are doing, the outcome is always destructive. Jung went on to say: "This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man. You cannot compare it with the early times of Christianity, because that movement did not come from the blood, but came from above, a light that shone forth. This is not a light but a darkness, the powers of darkness are coming up."[xi] Instead of God incarnating in His light aspect, it is as if the powers of darkness are coming out of hiding in the shadows and are showing themselves. The dark side of our nature, or we could even say the shadow of God, is revealing Itself and incarnating through the unconscious of humanity. We are a species possessed. Our species has been seized by a more powerful energy that has taken us over and is acting itself out through our unconscious. Jung said, “Insanity is possession by an unconscious content that, as such, is not assimilatable to consciousness, nor can it be assimilated since the very existence of such contents is denied.”[xii] Being unconsciously “possessed by autonomous psychic contents,” Jung said, “…disorders the brains of politicians and journalists who unwittingly let loose psychic epidemics to the world.”[xiii] The unconscious itself is incarnating and becoming visible as it drafts people into its service so as to give shape and form to itself. We then become the unwitting agents through which the unconscious is literally materializing itself into full-bodied form. To the extent we are taken over by the unconscious, we unknowingly become the “secret agents” through which it propagates itself, our “secret” being “secret” even to ourselves.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Samuel Avery. A physical basis for immaterialism 1995 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LUCID VIEW by Aeolus Kephas. Investigations into occultism, ufology, and paranoid awareness 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EL TOPO. A book of the film by Alexandro Jodorowsky 1971 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FUTURE. CAN WE DESIGN SOCIETY'S FUTURE OR ARE WE HELPLESS SLAVES OF THE PAST 1976 Gerald Leinwand, General Editor. p.152 The Predesigned Body by Alvin Toffler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FIVE GOSPLES. WHAT DID JESUS REALLY SAY? THE SEARCH FOR THE AUTHENTIC WORDS OF JESUS. Robert W. Funk, Roy W. Hoover, Aand the Jesus Seminar 1996 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Essential Jung (Hardcover)by Anthony Storr The message of the Christian symbol of Gnosis, and the compensation effected by the unconscious is Gnosis in even higher degree. ...human wholeness as the goal.... is inextricably bound up with one's philosophical or religious assumptions. It would hardly be correct to say that the gaping "rift" in the Christian order of things is responsible for [the contradictions and conflicts of the conscious situation], since it is easy to show that Christian symbolism is particularly concerned with healing, or attempting to heal, this very wound. It would be more correct to take the open conflict as a symptom of the psychic situation of Western man, and to deplore his inability to assimilate the whole range of the Christian symbol. [within psychoanalysis:] ...the archetypal images -- which in a certain sense correspond to the dogmatic images -- must be brought into consciousness. ...all coercion [by the analyst] -- be it suggestion, insinuation, or any other method of persuasion -- ultimately proves to be nothing but an obstacle to the highest and most decisive experience of all, which is to be alone with his own self, or whatever else one chooses to call the objectivity of the psyche. The patient must be alone if he is to find out what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. Only this experience can give him an indestructible foundation. During the process of treatment the dialectical discussion leads logically to a meeting between the patient and his shadow, that dark half of the psyche which we invariably get rid of by means of projection: either by burdening our neighbors -- in a wider or narrower sense -- with all the faults which we obviously have ourselves, or by casting our sins upon a divine mediator.... we assiduously avoid investigating whether in this very power of evil God might not have placed some special purpose which it is most important for us to know. One often feels driven to some such view, when, like the psychotherapist, one has to deal with people who are confronted with their blackest shadow. {NOTE: A religious terminology comes naturally, as the only adequate one in the circumstances, when we are faced with the tragic fate that is the unavoidable concommitant of wholeness. "My fate" means a daemonic will to precisely that fate -- a will not necessarily coincident with my own (the ego will). When it is opposed to the ego, it is difficult not to feel a certain "power" in it, whether divine or infernal. The man who submits to his fate calls it the will of God; the man who puts up a hopeless and exhausting fight is more apt to see the devil in it. In either event this terminology is not only universally understood but meaningful as well.} We are told on every side that evil is evil and there can be no hesitation in condemning it, but that does not prevent evil from being the most problematical thing in the individual's life and the one which demands the deepest reflection. What above all deserves our keenest attention is the question "Exactly *who* is the doer?" For the answer to this question ultimately decides the value of the deed. It is true that society attaches greater importance at first to what is done, because it is immediately obvious; but in the long run the right deed in the hands of the wrong man will also have a disastrous effect. The encounter with the dark half of the personality, or "shadow," comes about of its own accord in any moderately thorough treatment.... out of a conflict borne with patience and fortitude, there emerges the solution destined... for that particular person. ...the patient... must do the right thing, and do it with all his might, in order to prevent the pressure of evil from becoming too powerful in him. He needs "justification by works," for "justification by faith" alone has remained an empty sound for him as for so many others. Faith can sometimes be a substitute for lack of experience. In these cases what is needed is real work. ...little should we reproach ourselves that to love the sinner who is oneself is to make a pact with the devil. Love makes a man better, hate makes him worse -- even when the man is oneself. ...the contents of the personal unconscious (i.e. the shadow) are indistinguishably merged with the archetypal contents of the collective unconscious and drag the latter with them when the shadow is brought into consciousness. This may exert an uncanny influence on the conscious mind; for activated archetypes have a disagreeable effect even -- or I should perhaps say, particularly -- on the most cold-blooded rationalist. He is afraid that ... superstition... is, as he thinks, forcing itself on him. It then takes the form of the fear of "going mad" -- for everything that the modern mind cannot define it regards as insane. It must be admitted that the archetypal contents of the collective unconscious can often assume grotesque and horrible forms in dreams and fantasies, so that even the most hard-boiled rationalist is not immune from shattering nightmares and haunting fears. The psychological elucidation of these images, which cannot be passed over in silence or blindly ignored, leads logically into the depths of religious phenomenology. Whereas in the Church the increasing differentiation of ritual and dogma alienated consciousness from its natural roots in the unconscious, alchemy and astrology were ceaselessly engaged in preserving the bridge to nature, i.e., to the unconscious psyche, from decay.... It is true that alchemy always stood on the verge of heresy and that certain decrees leave no doubt as to the Church's attitude towards it, but on the other hand it was effectively protected by the obscurity of its symbolism, which could always be explained as harmless allegory. What the symbolism of alchemy expresses is the whole problem of the evolution of personality described above, the so-called individuation process. The alchemists ran counter to the Church in preferring to seek through knowledge rather than to find through faith.... they were in much the same position as modern man, who prefers immediate personal experience to belief in traditional ideas, or rather has it forced upon him. The central ideas of Christianity are rooted in Gnostic philosophy, which, in accorance with psychological laws, simply *had* to grow up at a time when the classical religions had become obselete. It was founded on the perception of symbols thrown up by the unconscious individuation process which always sets in when the collective dominants of human life fall into decay. At such a time there is bound to be a considerable number of individuals who are possessed by archetypes of a numinous nature that force their way to the surface in order to form new dominants. This state of possession shows itself almost without exception in the fact that the possessed identify themselves with the archetypal contents of their unconscious, and, because they do not realize that the role which is being thrust upon them is the effect of new contents still to be understood, they exemplify these concretely in their own lives, thus becoming prophets and reformers. Jesus became the tutelary image or amulet against the archetypal powers that threatened to possess everyone. ...there have always been people who, not satisfied with the dominants of conscious life, set forth -- under cover and by devious paths, to their destruction or salvation -- to seek direct experience of the eternal roots, and, following the lure of the restless unconscious psyche, find themselves in the wilderness where, like Jesus, they come up against the son of darkness, the [Gk. antimimon pneuma]. Thus an old alchemist -- and he a cleric! -- prays: "Horridas nostrae mentis purga tenebras, accende lumen sensibus!" (Purge the horrible darknesses of our mind, light a light for our senses!) The author of this sentence must have been undergoing the experience of the *nigredo*, the first stage of the work, which was felt as "melancholia" in alchemy and corresponds to the encounter with the shadow in psychology. When, therefore, modern pschotherapy once more meets with the activated archetypes of the collective unconscious, it is merely the repetition of a phenomenon that has often been observed in moments of great religious crisis, although it can also occur in individuals for whom the ruling ideas have lost their meaning. An example of this is the *descensus ad inferos* in *Faust*, which, consciously or unconsciously, is an *opus alchymicum*. The problem of opposites called up by the shadow plays a great -- indeed, the decisive -- role in alchemy, since it leads in the ultimate phase of the work to the union of opposites in the archetypal form of the *hierosgamos* or "chymical wedding." Here the supreme opposites, male and female (as in the Chinese *yang* and *yin*), are melted into a unity purified of all opposition and therefore incorruptible. [specifically re Job of the OT] Like all old gods, Yahweh has his animal symbolism with its unmistakable borrowings from the much older theriomorphic gods of Egypt, especailly Horus and his four sons. Of the four animals of Yahweh only one has a human face. That is probably Satan, the godfather of man as a spiritual being. Yahweh's behavior is [that] of an unconscious being who cannot be judged morally. Yahweh is a *phenomenon* and, as Job says, "not a man." {NOTE: The naive assumption that the creator of world is a conscious being must be regarded as a disastrous prejudice which later gave rise to the most incredible dislocations of logic. For example, the nonsensical doctrine of the *privatio boni* would never have been necessary had one not had to assume in advance that it is impossible for the consciousness of a good God to produce evil deeds. Divine unconsciousness and lack of reflection, on the other hand, enable us to form a conception of God which puts his actions beyond moral judgement and allows no conflict to arise between goodness and beastliness.} The symbolic history of the Christ's life shows, as the essential teleological tendency, the crucifixion, viz. the union of Christ with the symbol of the tree. It is no longer a matter of an impossible reconciliation of Good and Evil, but of man with his vegetative (=unconscious) life. ...the cosmic power of self-destruction is given into the hands of man and ... man inherits the dual nature of the Father.... Materialism and atheism, the negation of God, are indirect means to attain this goal. Through the negation of God one becomes deified, i.e. god-almighty-like, and then one knows what is good for mankind. That is how destruction begins.... The danger of following [this] path are very great indeed. It begins with the lie, i.e., the projection of the shadow. There is need of people knowing about their shadow, because there must be somebody who does not project. They ought to be in a visible position where they would be expected to project and unexpectedly they do not project! They can thus set a visible example which would not be seen if they were invisible. ...it is not Christianity, but our conception and interpretation of it, that has become antiquated in the face of the present world situation. For more than fifty years we have known, or could have known, that there is an unconscious counterbalance to consciousness. Medical psychology has furnished all the necessary empirical and experimental proofs of this. There is an unconscious psychic reality which demonstrably influences consciousness and its contents. All this is known, but no practical conclusions have been drawn from this fact. We still go on thinking and acting as before, as if we were *simplex* and not *duplex*. Accordingly, we imagine ourselves to be innocuous, reasonable, and humane. We do not think of distrusting our motives or of asking ourselves how the inner man feels about the things we do in the outside world. But actually it is frivolous, superficial, and unreasonable of us, as well as psychically unhygienic, to overlook the reaction and standpoint of the unconscious. [this from the editor of the book from which all above quoted:] The philosophical alchemy of the Middle Ages must be viewed in historical terms as a compensatory movement issuing from the unconscious in response to Christianity, for the subject of alchemical meditations and techniques -- the realm of nature and *materia* -- had been denied a place and any adequate evaluation within Christianity; it was seen as that which was to be overcome. Thus alchemy consists of dim, primitive mirrorings of Christian imagery and ideas, as Jung was able to show in *Psychology and Alchemy*..., using the analogy between the central concept of alchemy, the *lapis* or philosophers' stone, and Christ. ------------------------------------------------------------- all from: _The Essential Jung_, ed. 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Edited by Christoph Grunenberg 1997 excerpts from the book: GOTH--"rugged and broken surface","infinity",Eternal drizzle",violent thunderstorms", "darkness","greatness of dimension",cartilaginous trees,decadence and decay the beds, from conscious to unconscious mutation suffuses every level of contemporary existence whether a lifeless object might not in fact be animate One of the enduring characteristics of the Goth can be found in its emphasis on fragmentation,inconsistent narratives, and an excess of morphological, disjoined and decentralized forms and shapes--an "uncanny pathos which attaches to the animation of the inorganic," defining identity through commodities picturesque ruins to fracture the illusion of consensus. demonic flesh of Max Klinger Thomas Ligotti. p.209. "I" is the tempestous loveliness of terror"1819 p.176. The notion of the uncanny has been described as "aesthetically an outgrowth of the Burkean sublime, a domesticated version of absolute terror. p.169 I beheld in full frightful vividness the inconceivable,indescribable,and unmentionable monstrosity which had by its simple appearance changed a merry company to a herd of delirious fugitives. I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny,unwelcome,abnormal,and detestable. It was the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and dissolution; the putrid dripping eidolon of inwholesome revelation, the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. (H.P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider". p.160 Edmund Burke "productive of the strongist emotion....the ideas of pain are much more powerful than those which enter on pleasure". Gothic sublime today reflects a hesitant and apprehensive state of mind obscured by a deep fear of the unfamiliar future. p.156 Although in some current disarray,psychoanalysis has in this century largely fulfilled the traditional function of Gothic literature. Freud's case studies stand alongside the best of Poe. The Gothic displays its tendency to subvert any and all established structures of thought. The idea of the "real man"--or the "true self," or the "essential identity" --has no validity in the Gothic. The Gothic recognizes the fluidity, the multiplicity, the contingency of identity. It shies away from absolutes and essences. p.155 Many of the dominant themes and motifs of the Gothic--masks,monsters,grotesques, doubles,ghosts,madness,intoxication,dreams--speak to this instability of identity... p.154 the id--overwhelmed the higher self. The result is a creature. The Gothic revels in ruin,whether it be architectural,moral,biological,ontological, or psychic,and every manifistation is emblematic of death. Frued identified as a tendency in all living organisms to slide back toward an undifferentiated state of nonbeing, to lose identity, to emerge organically; in a word, to die. p.153 driven by transgression as well as decay.......no aesthetic system can be seriously entertained that does not exclude cruelty. p.149 Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of the Sublime and Beautiful (1759), had claimed aesthetic respectability for the grand, the indeterminate, the boundless, the infinite, the dark. p.142 1905 experiment where a doctor tried to communicate with a condemmned man's severed head immediately after the guillotine execution (30 seconds text). p.126 terror is imaginative, aroused by contemplation of the dark, the dangerous, the unkown. p.124 blood an ambiguous sign of violence or fertility. p.122 the experience of fear in art may exorcise fear, since artistic fear is chosen, sought, and controllable. p.121 self is a structure, like a house; that it is haunted by history--both one's own and that of one's family; that this psychic "house" has secret chambers that need to be opened if the house is to be livable. p.118 the blues has plenty of subject matter in common with what came to be known, in the late 1970s and early 80s, simply as "Goth." p.116 Gothic rock perhaps began with Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1957 hit,"I Put a Spell On You," which radio stations banned for his "cannibalistic" howling, supposedly the result of Hawkins' intoxication during the recording session. p.93 Ian Curtis p,91 "Atrocity Exhibition," an insane asylum turned roadside attraction. p.79 technology distrupts the conventions that guided us between fantasy and reality and creates a third cognitive space: simulation. p.78 Curtains--Dennis Cooper p.54 horror works to reactivate the viewer's somatic consciousness. p.49 the Gothic experience is about stepping into darkness, into that which is forbidden, repressed. p.35 art that presents "horror" in aesthetic terms is related to Expressionism and Surrealism in its elevation of interior (and perhaps repressed) states of the soul to exterior status. ..in this Age of Deconstruction...we should sense immediately, in the presence of the grotesque, that it is both "real" and "unreal" simultaneously..... horror renders us children again, evoking something primal in the soul.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPACE-TIME and BEYOND. 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