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Unusally Clear-headed

I woke up unusually clear-headed today, after spending the night dreaming that I was remembering things I'd forgotten. It's also been an unusually cold morning, almost like it was already winter.

So what? Well, our memories sometimes become accessible through priming, and priming can occur by any sensation we can perceive. The upshot of this is that the shifting of the seasons comes with it's own cycle of easily accessible memories.

Just something to think about. :)

Now This is Awesome

Eight of Cups

Quoted from the post "A Beginning":

Welcome one and all to a year long experiment I am attempting for 2010. I decided that for the entire year, I will be celebrating as many of the major religious holidays for as many major religions as I possibly can.

A bit of background is in order to explain this. You see, i am by nature not a religious person. I was once Christian, in the sense that I occasionally went to church (Episcopal, if you care to know) and believed in God. When I hit my teen years, I began to question my beliefs (as many teenagers do). I just never really came back to a belief in God. For a long time, I considered myself an atheist, but as I have grown older this has shifted more to agnostic. In recent years this shift in belief has once more eased up to become a belief in some higher power, but not in any single religious faith.

Despite this lack of "faith," I have had a deep fascination of religion for a long time. I have done a little bit of comparing of different faiths. Nothing deeper than a surface glance. Along the lines of a Complete Idiot's Guide to Religion. A quick glance at everything, without a deeper understanding.

Here's the link to "The Piety Project".

So, yeah. This.

I set out with the intention to create a logo, and...

Not Again!

Still the Best Video on Youtube

Gurdjieff and His TranshumAnts

Up until recently, I thought that Gurdjieff predicted transhumanism. After doing some simple research, I have to admit that I was probably wrong, but if you were wondering WTF I was talking about when I made a recent comment about Gurdjieff's logical deduction, here was my line or reasoning.

One element of Gurdjieff's space-opera cosmology is the ants. According to Gurdjieff, ants were an failed experiment by the Sun to create self-developing life forms. The ants chose instead to tinker "with their organs" and in doing so were reduced to what they are today -- cogs in a hive mind.

The One-Man Matrix

Take the blue pill or the red pill, it's your choice.

If you take the red pill, you get to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

If you take the blue pill, stop reading, and forget that you ever saw this blog post.

This isn't a joke. Think carefully before making your decision.

Hypersigils, art that manifests your Will

Emiel, The Satanic Dutchman wrote about a concept very similar to my concept of carrier waves of hypnotic experience almost a year before I did. Other noticeable differences between the two posts are that Emiel's concept is rooted in Chaos Magic, includes examples, and is quite a bit more well written than mine. My post, on the other hand, was just a fart in the wind.

If you found my post interesting, you'll find his even more so: Hypersigils, art that manifests your Will

Enlightenment in the Age of Oversharing

I don't share the doom and gloom about the future that most people seem to have. I'm actually becoming more and more optimistic about the upcoming generation and I'm beginning to believe that they're going to change the world in ways that old fogeys like me can scarcely begin to imagine.

On Drinking Urine

I don't value blanket, unthinking "tolerance". As Marilyn Manson once sung "Love everybody is destroying the value of 'All hate has got me is nowhere.'"

"Tolerance" is often a mask for the game of social approval.

 If someone drinks their own piss, so what? It may not be my cup of tea, but it's their prerogative. I might be curious to learn something about the practice to increase my understanding about acquired tastes, biochemistry, and even the imbiber's state of mind and  reasons for doing it, but I have absolutely no need to give approval of it or validate it in any way.

Blogification of Classic Satanism Videos

The following are blogifications of my some of my old and lost videos. It seemed important to preserve them. Enjoy, and stay frosty.

What Does a Satanist Believe In?

The answer to this question is simple and direct: A Satanist believes in himself.

There's no need to dress this up, whatever you're already wearing will do.

Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience

I know. WTF. "Identifying Carrier Waves of Hypnotic Experience". That's a hell of a title isn't it? I'll break it down, but first, I'm going to pose a question:

What do a roller coaster, guided meditation, any given musical composition, a speech, a movie, or a story all have in common? As you might suspect by the unoriginality of my approach that they are all carrier waves of hypnotic experience.

Don't look so surprised. I'm crazy.

It's a funny thing that happens...

This post is about a funny thing that happens to people. It's happened to me twice.

It's funny for two reasons.

The first is that both times it's happened I've found myself in the bathroom with my pants down.  The first time it happened included a bit of slapstick when I fell into the nearby tub.

Fourth Way: Some Assembly Required

If there is one phrase which explains the general method of teaching the Fourth Way it would be: "Some assembly required."

If you're a Fourth Way fan then you're sure to know the metaphorical story about buying good leather and making your own shoes. If you don't, the Fourth Way is the leather and the shoes are what you get from studying and practicing the Fourth Way.

It's similar to the way a Spanish textbook is the source material and your ability to understand and speak Spanish is what you get from that source material. It's like that, with one major exception: standard method in the Fourth Way is to shred the textbook and require that the student put the textbook back together.

Amanda Palmer: Fakir

I was reading "Willpower" by Roy Baumeister and found this passage which I imagine that Fourth Way fans might find interesting. I don't know much about Amanda Palmer, but that she's married to Neil Gaiman counts for something in my book.

Here's the passage:

If you have a causal acquaintance with Amanda Palmer's music, if you know about her banned-in-Britain abortion song or the "Backstabber" video of her running down a hall naked holding an upraised knife chasing the equally naked guy in lipstick who was just in bed with her, you probably don't think of her as a paragon of self-control. 

She has been described in a lot of ways -- an edgier Lady Gaga, a funnier Madonna, the high priestess of "Brechtian punk cabaret"-- but the words 'Victorian' and 'repressed generally don't come up. Her persona is Dionysian. When she accepted a marriage proposal from Neil Gaiman, the British fantasy novelist, Palmer's idea of a formal announcement was a morning-after confession on Twitter that she might have gotten engaged "but also might have been drunk." 

Lessons Learned From Hoaxing: Man of Steel

I thought that the 'deeper meaning' of the most recent Superman movie couldn't be more clear. With the filmmakers being so obvious about it, it really surprised me that anyone could miss it.  The filmmakers were so obvious about what they wanted to say that I regard Man of Steel as the most "preachy" movie of all time. (Finally surpassing the all time winner of movie preachydom, Return of the Living Dead part III). [1]

Alas, despite having their noses rubbed in the point of the movie repeatedly, nearly everyone missed it. By miles. Only one of small sub-culture actually understood what The Man of Steel was all about -- self-proclaimed individualists. This wasn't so much a surprise because the movie is about individualism.

But this post isn't about the hits. It's about the misses, and this brings me to my time as a hoaxer. [2]

Welcome to the Rectal Nethervoid

Welcome to the Rectal Nethervoid. I'm Shawn, and the mess you see around you is mine.

This blog is nothing more than notes I've sounded while farting in the wind. Each post is an exploration of some idea. And that's all it is. There's no knowledge here -- just theory, ideas, and the (somewhat) occasional opinion.

I've created it for three reasons:

1) I like exploring ideas and working through theories. It's the first stage in developing something more substantial: Before you can build a house you have to plan it out.

2) I have A LOT of ideas and needed an outlet to get all these things I think about out of my head.

3) Labeling this outlet as output from my rectal nethervoid saves many headaches. I'll probably write about this later, but it boils down to the fact it keeps what I write from being taken more seriously than it should be.

Well, that's it. Happy sniffing.