Therapeutics * Esoterics * Psychotronics * Conspirituality * Multimedia * Intelligence * MindBodySpirit
Science Without Boundaries * Art Without Frames * Healing Without Walls * Integration Without Tears * Culture Without Borders
Multidisciplinary Explorations, Social & Scientific Innovations, Now Paradigm Nonfiction, Spy-Fi & Digital Media
Cutting Edge Science; Bleeding Edge Art; Global Architectronics; Worldview Warfare; Spooks, Kooks & Alphabet Suits
NOW AGE PHYSICS * QUANTUM PHILOSOPHY * CONSCIOUS ACTIVISM * SOURCE MYSTICISM * SACRED GEOMETRY
Science-Arts for Personal, Social & Cultural Transformation
Iona Miller's Meta-Site 1/2
ONE MAGICAL MOVEMENT FROM KETHER TO MALKUTH
COLLECTED WORKS 1
Conscious Explorations
Portal 2010-2012: "From Underground to Under Cover"
Website Archive, Collected Works, Part 2/2 - go to
http://ionamillersubjects.weebly.com/
Science Without Boundaries * Art Without Frames * Healing Without Walls * Integration Without Tears * Culture Without Borders
Multidisciplinary Explorations, Social & Scientific Innovations, Now Paradigm Nonfiction, Spy-Fi & Digital Media
Cutting Edge Science; Bleeding Edge Art; Global Architectronics; Worldview Warfare; Spooks, Kooks & Alphabet Suits
NOW AGE PHYSICS * QUANTUM PHILOSOPHY * CONSCIOUS ACTIVISM * SOURCE MYSTICISM * SACRED GEOMETRY
Science-Arts for Personal, Social & Cultural Transformation
Iona Miller's Meta-Site 1/2
ONE MAGICAL MOVEMENT FROM KETHER TO MALKUTH
COLLECTED WORKS 1
Conscious Explorations
Portal 2010-2012: "From Underground to Under Cover"
Website Archive, Collected Works, Part 2/2 - go to
http://ionamillersubjects.weebly.com/
Welcome to the Ionasphere
"The inexplicable is always in vogue."
"The inexplicable is always in vogue."
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EDGEWORKS: The transformative worldview that we are all in it together is the only foundation for mutually assured survival
rather than the deadly alternative. EDGEHUNT means expressing something relevant we haven't seen in the mashup before so
it can be addressed through sacred activism, personal and collective. Be an advocate for the future.
CONTACT IONA MILLER
iona_m@yahoo.com
http://www.facebook.com/iona.miller
EDGEWORKS: The transformative worldview that we are all in it together is the only foundation for mutually assured survival
rather than the deadly alternative. EDGEHUNT means expressing something relevant we haven't seen in the mashup before so
it can be addressed through sacred activism, personal and collective. Be an advocate for the future.
CONTACT IONA MILLER
iona_m@yahoo.com
For a long time we have been accustomed to the compartmentalization of religion and science as if they were two quite different and basically unrelated ways of seeing the world. I do not believe that this state of doublethink can last. It must eventually be replaced by a view of the world which is neither religious nor scientific but simply our view of the world. More exactly, it must become a view of the world in which the reports of science and religion
are as concordant as those of the eyes and the ears.--Alan W. Watts
are as concordant as those of the eyes and the ears.--Alan W. Watts
SCIENCE-ART
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. --Marshall McLuhan
It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. --Marshall McLuhan
"IO [I/O] is the cry of the lower as OI [O/I] of the higher. In figures they are 1001, in Joy. For when all is equilibrated,
when all is beheld without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond,
every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself." (Crowley, The Dragon-Flies)
when all is beheld without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond,
every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself." (Crowley, The Dragon-Flies)
OVER THE TOP SECRETS
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
"The Spywhisperer" - "TRUTH FOR REEL" Productions;
Agent Provocateur, Meta Hari - the "Blue Sky Spy"
OSINT: NEW STRATEGIES IN ART & MEDIA
"MYTHS OF IDENTITY & MYTHS OF STATE"
THE CHANGE OF AGE IS THE BIRTH OF A NEW MYTHOLOGY
INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION - INTEGRATED INFORMATION - CONSCIOUS ACTIVISM
Implications and applications of ancient & emerging technologies
Catalyzing relationships among artists & innovators
SOURCE MYSTICISM
The Truth of the Matter
“And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies.” -- King Lear
The Truth of the Matter
“And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies.” -- King Lear
"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis"
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
THE INEXPLICABLE IS ALWAYS IN VOGUE
THE INEXPLICABLE IS ALWAYS IN VOGUE
2012
Iona Miller YouTube Channel & Vimeo
Jan. 2012: Holographic Archetypes
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/holographic-archetypes.html
HOLOGRAPHIC ARCHETYPES
Holographic Being * Holographic Memory * Holographic Ancestry
by Iona Miller, (c)2011
WEBSITE -
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com
Coming soon to JCER and SGJ
Jung argued that imagination is structured by the archetypal potentials of the unconscious. Archetypes structure the possibility to generate and entertain such ideas. The archetype itself cannot be known but structures everything we come to know. Their totality functions as a holographic psychic organ. Universal themes appear in distinct cultural garb. But newer models question even the categories of such thought, orienting toward emergence and process theories, rather than inheritable structural theories.
Archetypes are raw potentials. As unconscious structuring principle, the archetype lies beyond normal consciousness and emerges suddenly and dynamically from the (holographic) psychoid field, with a powerful emotional charge that invests it with significance. Everything that happens is conditioned by the moment in which it happens. The universal field imposes the conditions. Matter is not inert but receptive to holistic patterning. If the mythic world taught our ancestors how to manipulate the empirical world, it also taught them to manipulate that mythic narrative itself for control purposes. Socioeconomic power enforces its mythic narrative.
The holographic psychoid field imposes holistic function. Autonomous inner forces arouse compelling opportunities to enact archetypal behaviors. They guide our perceptions and behavior, usually without our awareness. Limbic action of complexes is a big part of the holistic dynamics of the psyche. Dreams report what goes on beneath the veil of conscious awareness. To the consciousness of the 'thinker', knowledge is thought. Period. Without thought, the consciousness of the 'thinker' collapses into psychosis or transcendence.
With archetypes come the potential for wisdom, relatedness, sociality, ambiguity, projection, identification, denial, subpersonalities (fragmentation), hypnotic dissociation, the contagion of participation mystique, mythologizing, complexes, compensation, and self-delusion. Identity is a characteristic of the primitive mentality and the real foundation of participation mystique, which is nothing but a relic of the infantile non-differentiation of subject and object, the primordial unconscious state. The further we go back into history, the more we see personality disappearing beneath the wrappings of collectivity.
When a projection is strongly fixated, it may be next to impossible to separate one’s projected material from the person who is carrying the projection. Whether it is a person or an object, suddenly, all those things outside become carriers, unconsciously, of what resides within. Such illusory states left unconscious turn toxic and consuming. Denial leaves room for serious errors of fact. It is a warning against extreme conscious attitudes which inevitably get compensated by the Shadow. In the process Jung termed enantiodromia, projections can break or revert into their opposites as psyche seeks to equilibriate or rebalance itself.
HOLOGRAPHIC ARCHETYPES
Holographic Being * Holographic Memory * Holographic Ancestry
by Iona Miller, (c)2011
WEBSITE -
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com
Coming soon to JCER and SGJ
Jung argued that imagination is structured by the archetypal potentials of the unconscious. Archetypes structure the possibility to generate and entertain such ideas. The archetype itself cannot be known but structures everything we come to know. Their totality functions as a holographic psychic organ. Universal themes appear in distinct cultural garb. But newer models question even the categories of such thought, orienting toward emergence and process theories, rather than inheritable structural theories.
Archetypes are raw potentials. As unconscious structuring principle, the archetype lies beyond normal consciousness and emerges suddenly and dynamically from the (holographic) psychoid field, with a powerful emotional charge that invests it with significance. Everything that happens is conditioned by the moment in which it happens. The universal field imposes the conditions. Matter is not inert but receptive to holistic patterning. If the mythic world taught our ancestors how to manipulate the empirical world, it also taught them to manipulate that mythic narrative itself for control purposes. Socioeconomic power enforces its mythic narrative.
The holographic psychoid field imposes holistic function. Autonomous inner forces arouse compelling opportunities to enact archetypal behaviors. They guide our perceptions and behavior, usually without our awareness. Limbic action of complexes is a big part of the holistic dynamics of the psyche. Dreams report what goes on beneath the veil of conscious awareness. To the consciousness of the 'thinker', knowledge is thought. Period. Without thought, the consciousness of the 'thinker' collapses into psychosis or transcendence.
With archetypes come the potential for wisdom, relatedness, sociality, ambiguity, projection, identification, denial, subpersonalities (fragmentation), hypnotic dissociation, the contagion of participation mystique, mythologizing, complexes, compensation, and self-delusion. Identity is a characteristic of the primitive mentality and the real foundation of participation mystique, which is nothing but a relic of the infantile non-differentiation of subject and object, the primordial unconscious state. The further we go back into history, the more we see personality disappearing beneath the wrappings of collectivity.
When a projection is strongly fixated, it may be next to impossible to separate one’s projected material from the person who is carrying the projection. Whether it is a person or an object, suddenly, all those things outside become carriers, unconsciously, of what resides within. Such illusory states left unconscious turn toxic and consuming. Denial leaves room for serious errors of fact. It is a warning against extreme conscious attitudes which inevitably get compensated by the Shadow. In the process Jung termed enantiodromia, projections can break or revert into their opposites as psyche seeks to equilibriate or rebalance itself.
2012 - Holographic Archetypes Video Series
Holographic Archetypes Videos
Episode 0 - The Zero With a Thousand Faces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzz6fE-f57U
Episode 1 - The Big Picture:
Episode 2 - Entanglement:
Episode 3 - Cosmic Pattern Recognition:
Episode 4 - Synchronicity:
Triangle Book of St. Germain
http://trianglebook.weebly.com
with numerous original videos by Iona Miller
Video Introduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTPgbFp8R8U
This is the story of a singular man, and his influence on the spirit of his times and our time. It is not an old legend of a reincarnating genius, a body-jumping avatar, nor a new age "ascended master." It isn't about parlor tricks or youth serums.
It is the story of St. Germain's book of magic, why he may have written it, what secrets of pre-history it may hold, and its clues to St. Germain's family origins and mystic-political agenda within European royalty and Masonry, particularly at the purported end of his life.
It is intriguing no matter what your viewpoints about St. Germain's longevity and spiritual attainments. In many ways, he is still with us today. Many of the issues suggested in his Triangular Book still haunt us. It leads us back to the mysteries of Egypt and Sumeria, back to the time of the great Flood. What we can extract from it is a mirror of our own soul and its treasures.
We are still concerned with the hunt for universal medicines, longevity, the Precession of time and its relation to epochs and cultures, as well as the "treasures" hard to attain that are hidden in the very depths of our being -- our souls. To the extent that we each contain a universe within, we are in that sense immortal.
with numerous original videos by Iona Miller
Video Introduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTPgbFp8R8U
This is the story of a singular man, and his influence on the spirit of his times and our time. It is not an old legend of a reincarnating genius, a body-jumping avatar, nor a new age "ascended master." It isn't about parlor tricks or youth serums.
It is the story of St. Germain's book of magic, why he may have written it, what secrets of pre-history it may hold, and its clues to St. Germain's family origins and mystic-political agenda within European royalty and Masonry, particularly at the purported end of his life.
It is intriguing no matter what your viewpoints about St. Germain's longevity and spiritual attainments. In many ways, he is still with us today. Many of the issues suggested in his Triangular Book still haunt us. It leads us back to the mysteries of Egypt and Sumeria, back to the time of the great Flood. What we can extract from it is a mirror of our own soul and its treasures.
We are still concerned with the hunt for universal medicines, longevity, the Precession of time and its relation to epochs and cultures, as well as the "treasures" hard to attain that are hidden in the very depths of our being -- our souls. To the extent that we each contain a universe within, we are in that sense immortal.
Photonic Human
http://photonichuman.weebly.com
"Nonexistence is eagerly bubbling in the expectation of being given existence....For the mine and treasure-house of God's making is naught but nonexistence coming into manifestation." ~Rumi
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
What IS-IS, and it is Radiant. The Universe is a flow of light. In the Now there is something Brilliant. Fathomless numbers of transforming scintillating points of light outnumber the stars. Non-luminous photons are upstream from luminous photons. Virtual photons compose the Zero-Point field and mark the boundary where nothing becomes something.
"Nonexistence is eagerly bubbling in the expectation of being given existence....For the mine and treasure-house of God's making is naught but nonexistence coming into manifestation." ~Rumi
From the Heart of Nature springs the Light, and we are That. Virtual Photon Fluctuation is the Source of the photons that form and sustain our Being. We are truly Light Beings: Homo Lumen. We literally inhabit and embody a Temple of Living Light, which is interconnected with the deepest level of Cosmos. We are shiny Diamonds of Rainbow Light. We are made in the Images of its Brilliance. Shine On! In the Effulgence of its Brilliance.
What IS-IS, and it is Radiant. The Universe is a flow of light. In the Now there is something Brilliant. Fathomless numbers of transforming scintillating points of light outnumber the stars. Non-luminous photons are upstream from luminous photons. Virtual photons compose the Zero-Point field and mark the boundary where nothing becomes something.
Black Man In the CIA, by Leutrell Osborne, Sr., 2012
THE DARK OPERATIVE SERIES
Order Kindle Version on Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006XGJLGE/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb
A young man grows up in Washington D.C. seeking adventure and burning with desire to achieve great things. He finds the keys to making his dreams come true are with the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife and life partner Rose he strikes out on his journey that is remarkable, dangerous as well as fulfilling.
This is his story. He tells it in his own words; through the prism of his unique life experiences, the Black Man in the CIA.
He worked for the CIA, one of the 17 Departments and Agencies of the National Intelligence Communities in particular, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Cold War years. Leutrell M. Osborne Sr. (Mike) tells his story to document the former Spy Manager’s history in the CIA while providing insights for others to understand his rise to become a spy manager supervising CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries, and in addition to that also becoming the only spy manager who also has gained six years of experience in Information Assurance (IA).
Order Kindle Version on Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006XGJLGE/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb
A young man grows up in Washington D.C. seeking adventure and burning with desire to achieve great things. He finds the keys to making his dreams come true are with the Central Intelligence Agency. With his wife and life partner Rose he strikes out on his journey that is remarkable, dangerous as well as fulfilling.
This is his story. He tells it in his own words; through the prism of his unique life experiences, the Black Man in the CIA.
He worked for the CIA, one of the 17 Departments and Agencies of the National Intelligence Communities in particular, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Cold War years. Leutrell M. Osborne Sr. (Mike) tells his story to document the former Spy Manager’s history in the CIA while providing insights for others to understand his rise to become a spy manager supervising CIA agents and assets in over 30 countries, and in addition to that also becoming the only spy manager who also has gained six years of experience in Information Assurance (IA).
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Paranoia is Making a Comeback: Spring 2012
October 2011: PARANOIA is Alive & Well and under new ownership.
http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/issues.html
Paranoia Magazine Staff: Publisher - Ron Patton Editor - Columbia Jones Assistant Editor - Skylaire Alfvegren Proofreader - Joan d'Arc Layout - Leticia A. Martinez Cover Illustration - Iona Miller Graphic Art - Tantra Bensko Al Hidell Webmaster - Kevin Crosby
Writers - Kenn Thomas, Olav Phillips, Clyde Lewis, Ron Patton, Adam Gorightly, Elana Freeland, Kevin Crosby, Ralph Epperson, Naveed Khan, Skylaire Alfvegren, H. Michael Sweeney, Joan d'Arc, Iona Miller .....and other former Paranoia alumni, who have yet to confirm their interest in contributing to the best damn conspiracy magazine on the planet!
Coming, Spring 2012
2011
DECEMBER 2011: Futuring - CRAFT ZINE Launches - Io on the Editorial Board
http://crafters-circle.com/
CRAFT –
Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions
Because our future is in our hands - THINK & DO
Issue 1: Biochar December 2011
CRAFT is a “think and do” tank of people and processes that can provide policy and strategic suggestions. We could assist you to rethink and redo an issue so that it can be addressed through CRAFT.
Publications: CRAFT anticipates, should it be successful, encouraging and supporting a plethora of publications formats styles and genres from music to art to craft to hand work to volk philosophy etc.
Speaking: The founding editors are available for interviews, workshops and speaker engagements. Please contact us if you have such a proposal.
Workshops, Learning Circles, Exemplar Projects and Sauvage craft: We can also design and deliver generic and also tailored workshops etc.
Learning Design: Pre-Primary-Secondary-Adult Education: CRAFT is deeply committed to the re-integration and re-membering of CRAFT as a vital part of the above education streams. We believe our learning systems locate between education and training and we are happy to help you design, develop and implement them. Such a ‘third path’ is, we believe, vital for assisting many of us as students gain deeper understanding of the systems we are studying as well as achieving our potential within an efficacious resilient and locally responsive economy.
Welcome to CRAFT – an online magazine where crafters of materials turn to crafting deeds and words. We hope you enjoy the experience! CRAFT is an eZine where we can all can publish and edit for our friends, family and community. If you wish, you can contribute a topic or theme for a given issue.
CRAFT is designed as a Peer 2 Peer mentored and reviewed publishing platform. Please let us have your thoughts and ideas and suggestions for future editions.
Our Vision Primarily our vision is one of a ‘practical hope’ through helping us as spectators, readers and/or digerati learn towards an embodied, thoughtful, critical, practical, empowered, interpersonal and experimental attitude. As such, this is the opposite of the illusionary and environmentally destructive stance we see even in our own back yards today with our dependent consumerism.
CRAFT’s mission is to publish work that is primarily visual and can provide practical hope, is innovative and developed within practice that is grounded. The focus of such critical practice is to include a significant ‘hands on’ component and include reprise and reflections thereon. Generally such praxis is based on a completed (exemplar) project. Each publication will have a theme1 around this focus potentially drawing on a range of engagement with CRAFT.
Our Aims
CRAFT –
Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions
Because our future is in our hands - THINK & DO
Issue 1: Biochar December 2011
CRAFT is a “think and do” tank of people and processes that can provide policy and strategic suggestions. We could assist you to rethink and redo an issue so that it can be addressed through CRAFT.
Publications: CRAFT anticipates, should it be successful, encouraging and supporting a plethora of publications formats styles and genres from music to art to craft to hand work to volk philosophy etc.
Speaking: The founding editors are available for interviews, workshops and speaker engagements. Please contact us if you have such a proposal.
Workshops, Learning Circles, Exemplar Projects and Sauvage craft: We can also design and deliver generic and also tailored workshops etc.
Learning Design: Pre-Primary-Secondary-Adult Education: CRAFT is deeply committed to the re-integration and re-membering of CRAFT as a vital part of the above education streams. We believe our learning systems locate between education and training and we are happy to help you design, develop and implement them. Such a ‘third path’ is, we believe, vital for assisting many of us as students gain deeper understanding of the systems we are studying as well as achieving our potential within an efficacious resilient and locally responsive economy.
Welcome to CRAFT – an online magazine where crafters of materials turn to crafting deeds and words. We hope you enjoy the experience! CRAFT is an eZine where we can all can publish and edit for our friends, family and community. If you wish, you can contribute a topic or theme for a given issue.
CRAFT is designed as a Peer 2 Peer mentored and reviewed publishing platform. Please let us have your thoughts and ideas and suggestions for future editions.
Our Vision Primarily our vision is one of a ‘practical hope’ through helping us as spectators, readers and/or digerati learn towards an embodied, thoughtful, critical, practical, empowered, interpersonal and experimental attitude. As such, this is the opposite of the illusionary and environmentally destructive stance we see even in our own back yards today with our dependent consumerism.
CRAFT’s mission is to publish work that is primarily visual and can provide practical hope, is innovative and developed within practice that is grounded. The focus of such critical practice is to include a significant ‘hands on’ component and include reprise and reflections thereon. Generally such praxis is based on a completed (exemplar) project. Each publication will have a theme1 around this focus potentially drawing on a range of engagement with CRAFT.
Our Aims
- CRAFTing Futures Nature can live with – through CRAFT – Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions
- This e-zine/e-magazine seeks to link the humanities/social sciences with hard sciences through, ‘hands on’ projects and associated learning that demonstrate practically today that a better world is possible tomorrow for our children with planet
- To listen to and give a site for the silenced voices and invisible practices in a praxis of hope that can help our culture be sustainable
- Our principal aim is for readers/surfers/authors who are learned in the school of life/hard knocks/unschooled in the conventional sense so to speak yet deeply learned and practical yet with few if any degrees or training diplomas.
- Crafters connecting in a circle of practice and learning – a community of praxis.
- To link with initiatives such as Transition Towns, PowerDown, Permaculture, Zero Emissions Living Economies etc.
Oct. 2011: Verities, No. 8 - "Dark Night, the World Weary Man & His Ba"
http://herebedragons.weebly.com/verities-8-dark-night.html
Depression is ordinarily a subject we don't want to confront, filled with uncomfortable material and issues we like to leave buried in the unconscious, but which rear their head in the mandatory passages of life. From postpartum depression to grief, to suicidal tendencies these archetypes exert their fatal fascination by drawing us into the seductive depths of despair. The soul becomes weary yearning for delight. There are losses we feel we cannot live without. With a soul full of pain and anguish, some do succumb to the undertow of deprivation or self-loathing and give up. The cheerful heart is gone and only wrong roams the earth and death hovers near the face.
Self-annihilation, or at least fantasies about it, may seem the only solution to abject misery, the existential impasse. But the Ba or soul says "love me here, having put aside the West," or realm of death. The "higher" transpersonal components were associated with the "ba" (its body and the shadow of the latter) and the "akh", or divine spark. This soul was the hidden dweller, caught as a prey like fish in a net. The physical body is closely connected with the double, and the "ba" was thought ethereal.
The task of the "ba" (true individuality) was to guide the person during life and to fly with the deceased to the sky, to the heaven of the stars. The "ba" dwelt in the heart, the receptacle of the higher components. The "ba" dwelt only in the heart of those who spoke and did Maat -- balance. Those established in their humanity would see their heart as the permanent abode of the soul. They are "in their middle", in their true nature and master the passions. Those who have a sick heart carry their burden with them as a load of heavy stones. The words of their soul do not reach them. Hence, they lack rejuvenation and are stuck. However, the soul is a trustworthy guide who always remains, encouraging a return to the middle of life.
Depression is ordinarily a subject we don't want to confront, filled with uncomfortable material and issues we like to leave buried in the unconscious, but which rear their head in the mandatory passages of life. From postpartum depression to grief, to suicidal tendencies these archetypes exert their fatal fascination by drawing us into the seductive depths of despair. The soul becomes weary yearning for delight. There are losses we feel we cannot live without. With a soul full of pain and anguish, some do succumb to the undertow of deprivation or self-loathing and give up. The cheerful heart is gone and only wrong roams the earth and death hovers near the face.
Self-annihilation, or at least fantasies about it, may seem the only solution to abject misery, the existential impasse. But the Ba or soul says "love me here, having put aside the West," or realm of death. The "higher" transpersonal components were associated with the "ba" (its body and the shadow of the latter) and the "akh", or divine spark. This soul was the hidden dweller, caught as a prey like fish in a net. The physical body is closely connected with the double, and the "ba" was thought ethereal.
The task of the "ba" (true individuality) was to guide the person during life and to fly with the deceased to the sky, to the heaven of the stars. The "ba" dwelt in the heart, the receptacle of the higher components. The "ba" dwelt only in the heart of those who spoke and did Maat -- balance. Those established in their humanity would see their heart as the permanent abode of the soul. They are "in their middle", in their true nature and master the passions. Those who have a sick heart carry their burden with them as a load of heavy stones. The words of their soul do not reach them. Hence, they lack rejuvenation and are stuck. However, the soul is a trustworthy guide who always remains, encouraging a return to the middle of life.
Oct. 2011: GREEN EGG, "HAARP & the Schumann Resonance"
http://greeneggzine.com/doc/aut2011.pdf
HAARP & the Schumann Resonance by Iona Miller
Earth is a fundamental type of electrical generator. The solar winds, interacting with the upper atmosphere rotation, act as the collector and brushes of a generator. The lower atmosphere can be seen as a storage battery for this gradient potential. This electromagnetic field around the
Earth can be viewed as a stiff jelly. When our bodies move and vibrate, these movements are transmitted to the environment, and vice versa. These fields not only impinge on our bodies, they also affect the charges inside our bodies. When we are standing on the ground, under normal conditions, we are grounded. Our body then acts as a sink for the
electrostatic field and actually distorts the force-lines somewhat. The human body also has its own electrostatic field about itself.
HAARP & the Schumann Resonance by Iona Miller
Earth is a fundamental type of electrical generator. The solar winds, interacting with the upper atmosphere rotation, act as the collector and brushes of a generator. The lower atmosphere can be seen as a storage battery for this gradient potential. This electromagnetic field around the
Earth can be viewed as a stiff jelly. When our bodies move and vibrate, these movements are transmitted to the environment, and vice versa. These fields not only impinge on our bodies, they also affect the charges inside our bodies. When we are standing on the ground, under normal conditions, we are grounded. Our body then acts as a sink for the
electrostatic field and actually distorts the force-lines somewhat. The human body also has its own electrostatic field about itself.
Sept. 2011: Verities 6, "KINdling Effect: Sympathetic Resonance & Entanglement"
http://herebedragons.weebly.com/verities-6-kindling.html
Neuroplasticity is the ability of groupings of neurons to change and realign themselves in response to repeated exposure to stimuli.
"KINdling" is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' and an alternative mechanism for the mutual stimulation of gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval is part of our Journey to Wholeness and quest for self-knowledge. It refers to shamanic practices that reintegrate various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma -- loss of vitality and connection to life. KINdling is renewal of life force.
Soul Retrieval opens the door to self realization as Soul. From a shamanic point of view, part of the soul may split off, or dissociate, when we experience trauma or abuse. Soul loss is a spiritual illness that causes emotional and physical disease. We need to be re-tuned, recalibrated from the deepest level of our being - from the Source Field where our patterns remain intact, undisturbed and self-organizing. The lost soul has been found, retrieved, and revitalized. Many report that even nonlocal contact with kin spontaneously reawakens a new energy or level of vitality in themselves. Such spontaneous phenomena can be called "KINdling."
Kindling takes place in the infolded (negative) time dimension of virtual photon flux (hyperspace), or zero-point. The effect of coherent time collection is 'kindling', and orthorotation of one type of field into another. The collection of de Broglie waves is moving much faster than light (supraliminal). And for very slow-moving objects, the collected and projected bioenergy on their deBroglie waves is moving at essentially infinite velocity. Thought energy can be turned into electromagnetic energy by 'kindling' and can even be materialized if 'kindling' is of sufficient intensity.
Neuroplasticity is the ability of groupings of neurons to change and realign themselves in response to repeated exposure to stimuli.
"KINdling" is a possible mechanism for 'soul retrieval' and an alternative mechanism for the mutual stimulation of gene expression in psychosocial genomics. Soul Retrieval is part of our Journey to Wholeness and quest for self-knowledge. It refers to shamanic practices that reintegrate various interpretations of the soul that might have become disconnected, trapped or lost through trauma -- loss of vitality and connection to life. KINdling is renewal of life force.
Soul Retrieval opens the door to self realization as Soul. From a shamanic point of view, part of the soul may split off, or dissociate, when we experience trauma or abuse. Soul loss is a spiritual illness that causes emotional and physical disease. We need to be re-tuned, recalibrated from the deepest level of our being - from the Source Field where our patterns remain intact, undisturbed and self-organizing. The lost soul has been found, retrieved, and revitalized. Many report that even nonlocal contact with kin spontaneously reawakens a new energy or level of vitality in themselves. Such spontaneous phenomena can be called "KINdling."
Kindling takes place in the infolded (negative) time dimension of virtual photon flux (hyperspace), or zero-point. The effect of coherent time collection is 'kindling', and orthorotation of one type of field into another. The collection of de Broglie waves is moving much faster than light (supraliminal). And for very slow-moving objects, the collected and projected bioenergy on their deBroglie waves is moving at essentially infinite velocity. Thought energy can be turned into electromagnetic energy by 'kindling' and can even be materialized if 'kindling' is of sufficient intensity.
Sept. 2011: Meta-Genetics
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/meta-genetics.html
Meta-genetics—a term that encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics—accepts two of the major premises of genetics and epigenetics, namely that:
1. The coding portion of the DNA molecule is physically responsible for building proteins; and
2. Regulatory proteins play an important role in interacting with environmental signals to determine which genes in coding DNA are silenced and which are expressed.
From the above, it should be obvious that meta-genetics subsumes crucial, irrefutable aspects of genetics and epigenetics and, thus, respects the relative importance of both nature (genetics) and nurture (epigenetics) in human experience.
By establishing the Primacy of Consciousness, meta-genetics provides an overarching conceptual framework under which the apparent duality between nature and nurture can be resolved. Specifically, meta-genetics proposes that both nature and the reality conditions that allow for nurture emerge from—and are controlled by—conscious energy that constructs and directs our biological experience intelligently.
According to meta-genetics, potential DNA is anything but “junk.” Indeed, potential DNA plays the truly primary role of interfacing “ener-genetically” with our bioenergy blueprint in the consciousness field (Figures 1 and 2). In this way, potential DNA regulates cellular expression—and even the origin and evolution of species—in a manner that genetics cannot begin to account for and epigenetics cannot come close to matching.
In explaining the role potential DNA plays in the origin and evolution of species, meta-genetics reveals that genetics and epigenetics alike control our lives only relatively, compared to the underlying spiritual energy that engenders, supports and develops life: consciousness.
Meta-genetics—a term that encompasses a group of related fields including quantum bioholography, genetic linguistics, and wave-genetics—accepts two of the major premises of genetics and epigenetics, namely that:
1. The coding portion of the DNA molecule is physically responsible for building proteins; and
2. Regulatory proteins play an important role in interacting with environmental signals to determine which genes in coding DNA are silenced and which are expressed.
From the above, it should be obvious that meta-genetics subsumes crucial, irrefutable aspects of genetics and epigenetics and, thus, respects the relative importance of both nature (genetics) and nurture (epigenetics) in human experience.
By establishing the Primacy of Consciousness, meta-genetics provides an overarching conceptual framework under which the apparent duality between nature and nurture can be resolved. Specifically, meta-genetics proposes that both nature and the reality conditions that allow for nurture emerge from—and are controlled by—conscious energy that constructs and directs our biological experience intelligently.
According to meta-genetics, potential DNA is anything but “junk.” Indeed, potential DNA plays the truly primary role of interfacing “ener-genetically” with our bioenergy blueprint in the consciousness field (Figures 1 and 2). In this way, potential DNA regulates cellular expression—and even the origin and evolution of species—in a manner that genetics cannot begin to account for and epigenetics cannot come close to matching.
In explaining the role potential DNA plays in the origin and evolution of species, meta-genetics reveals that genetics and epigenetics alike control our lives only relatively, compared to the underlying spiritual energy that engenders, supports and develops life: consciousness.
Sept. 2011, Plumbing the Plenum: Source Mysticism & Physics
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/plumbing-the-plenum.html
Reality Maps
Beginning long before the fad for the source field, over the years, I've written numerous articles on the plenum or vacuum potential, working with notables in that arena. This is a fertile area of research whose stock has 'risen' over the last decade or so. The Plenum can be modeled as a holographic realm, either with or without string theory, which may or may not be an accurate reflection of the true nature of Reality -- the total field of direct experience. Theories must be examined for their phenomenological and metaphysical utility.
Source Mysticism
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the Quantum Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form. Qabalistic creation stories say much the same, describing three Veils of Negative Existence. This correlation between Source Mysticism and leading edge physics yields many interesting ideas for exploration.
Reality Maps
Beginning long before the fad for the source field, over the years, I've written numerous articles on the plenum or vacuum potential, working with notables in that arena. This is a fertile area of research whose stock has 'risen' over the last decade or so. The Plenum can be modeled as a holographic realm, either with or without string theory, which may or may not be an accurate reflection of the true nature of Reality -- the total field of direct experience. Theories must be examined for their phenomenological and metaphysical utility.
Source Mysticism
This Quantum Vacuum is more aptly named the Quantum Plenum, whose vast energy density some consider the source of sentient Being. The dynamic discovered to be the very substance of the Plenum of space is light itself, the spectrum of fluctuating electromagnetism called the Zero Point Energy (ZPE). The "Quantum Vacuum" points to the fact that it is not a vacuum - an emptiness pure and simple, but rather is saturated with vibrant potential energy and is in fact a highly energetic medium, an absolute fullness of potential energy, the dynamic modification of which actually "emanates" what we call mass, matter or material form. Qabalistic creation stories say much the same, describing three Veils of Negative Existence. This correlation between Source Mysticism and leading edge physics yields many interesting ideas for exploration.
Sept. 2011, Perfume Alchemy - "Spirit In a Bottle"
http://perfumealchemy.weebly.com/sample-chapter.html
ETHEREAL SPIRITS: The history of fragrances is as old as old as the history of humanity. Who knows when the first person noticed they could rub a pleasant scent onto their skin to good effect? Ancient recipes can evoke mystic even ancestral memories from the cauldron of the unconscious, temporarily transporting us to by-gone times. As essence, perfumery is intimately related to alchemy with its primary process of distillation of gross materials into fine. Fragrant oils, some of which survived millennia in their ancient bottles, are among the most cherished items ever produced by mankind.
WISDOM ART: Perfumery is an olfactory art form -- a Tantric and Hermetic art. When it is personalized in a signature scent, and used for balancing the personality, it adds another dimension of pleasure to life -- one that is shared with others. Naturally, organic perfumes best replicate the essence of by-gone eras. Pure organic scents are naturally the most attractive and inspiring, and work best with the body's chemistry.
ELAN VITAL: Most esoteric perfumery books are based on the Doctrine of Signatures. But the fragrances of many essences differ in psychosensory effect from the healing or magical use. Scent can be luminous and illuminating, infusing the air with its olfactory mystique. Perfumery provides easy entry into the mystic arts and you can extend your studies outward from there, for personal transformation and activating your potential life force.
Alchemy is concerned with the transformation of the individual into an enlightened being, hence the well known metaphor of turning base metal into gold. It uses a language of symbols and laws many of which were known in the
ancient world. It's practice involves an initiation from where the initiate passes stages of understanding and development toward the ultimate goal, which is sometimes symbolized by a star. Alchemy is associated with a variety of dispersed belief systems, some of which are thousands of years old. The Tao, the Mithraic cult, the Isis cult, Gnosticism, the Kabbala, Astrology and the Tarot are a few of its sources of occult wisdom. Some of the pagan religions of Europe were much influenced by the Eastern mystical cults that the Romans had popularised throughout their Empire.
SOURCE MYSTICISM: Thus from it earliest beginnings the human personality is in constant mystical motion. Reaching inwardly toward the self and outwardly toward the world in ever-new encounters, forever changing, man from childhood onward passes through all the stages of transformation mysticism. And just as the beginning of source mysticism extends back into an unknown sphere prior to the emergence of the ego, so does the end of immortality mysticism extend into an unknown realm beyond the extinction of the ego. The inexplicable fact that man's very center is an unknown creative force which lives within him and molds him in ever-new forms and transformations, this mystery which accompanies him throughout his life, follows him even into death and beyond. So the circle closes, and man ends as he began, a homo mysticus. --Erich Neumann
ETHEREAL SPIRITS: The history of fragrances is as old as old as the history of humanity. Who knows when the first person noticed they could rub a pleasant scent onto their skin to good effect? Ancient recipes can evoke mystic even ancestral memories from the cauldron of the unconscious, temporarily transporting us to by-gone times. As essence, perfumery is intimately related to alchemy with its primary process of distillation of gross materials into fine. Fragrant oils, some of which survived millennia in their ancient bottles, are among the most cherished items ever produced by mankind.
WISDOM ART: Perfumery is an olfactory art form -- a Tantric and Hermetic art. When it is personalized in a signature scent, and used for balancing the personality, it adds another dimension of pleasure to life -- one that is shared with others. Naturally, organic perfumes best replicate the essence of by-gone eras. Pure organic scents are naturally the most attractive and inspiring, and work best with the body's chemistry.
ELAN VITAL: Most esoteric perfumery books are based on the Doctrine of Signatures. But the fragrances of many essences differ in psychosensory effect from the healing or magical use. Scent can be luminous and illuminating, infusing the air with its olfactory mystique. Perfumery provides easy entry into the mystic arts and you can extend your studies outward from there, for personal transformation and activating your potential life force.
Alchemy is concerned with the transformation of the individual into an enlightened being, hence the well known metaphor of turning base metal into gold. It uses a language of symbols and laws many of which were known in the
ancient world. It's practice involves an initiation from where the initiate passes stages of understanding and development toward the ultimate goal, which is sometimes symbolized by a star. Alchemy is associated with a variety of dispersed belief systems, some of which are thousands of years old. The Tao, the Mithraic cult, the Isis cult, Gnosticism, the Kabbala, Astrology and the Tarot are a few of its sources of occult wisdom. Some of the pagan religions of Europe were much influenced by the Eastern mystical cults that the Romans had popularised throughout their Empire.
SOURCE MYSTICISM: Thus from it earliest beginnings the human personality is in constant mystical motion. Reaching inwardly toward the self and outwardly toward the world in ever-new encounters, forever changing, man from childhood onward passes through all the stages of transformation mysticism. And just as the beginning of source mysticism extends back into an unknown sphere prior to the emergence of the ego, so does the end of immortality mysticism extend into an unknown realm beyond the extinction of the ego. The inexplicable fact that man's very center is an unknown creative force which lives within him and molds him in ever-new forms and transformations, this mystery which accompanies him throughout his life, follows him even into death and beyond. So the circle closes, and man ends as he began, a homo mysticus. --Erich Neumann
Thus, then, having overcome the World of the Elements, does the Adept stand equilibrated in Tiphareth. In that equilibrium he must set forth upon the greatest magical adventure which has yet befallen him, to win the knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, otherwise called his holy Genius. Equilibrium is vitally necessary to him in this quest, for the fulfillment which he seeks will not come about unless in accordance with the aphorism, "As Above, so below." ...The Holy Guardian Angel is a beam transmitted from...that Supernal region which even in symbolic representation defies dimension...this Being of living light and love whom the Adept, and he alone, is to know as his Angel. ...the Reality which is named in occult doctrine as the Holy Guardian Angel is the same which underlies the pale abstraction, Grace. --Denning & Phillips/The Magical Philosophy, Vol. IV
Coming Soon in Alchemy Journal - Embodying Osiris, a Review
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/embodying-osiris.html
Egypt remains a realm of mystery as does the psyche. The ancient land of Egypt is not the same as the eternal sunshine of the Egypt of our modern minds. We can never "embody Osiris" with conceptual processes, but only through fully entering the inherent mystery of alchemical processes that define the rhythms of life we exist in. Emotions effect our DNA, and DNA effects our emotions. Emotions regulate gene-expression.
In this insightful Jungian volume, Dr. Thom Cavalli is likely correct in insisting that "empathic engagement of the god on an imaginal and physical level" is required. In this way only perhaps a more meaningful life springs from death, through a "body" of integrative experience. The Egyptians presumed "death" was not the only option.
As unconscious, Osiris is the paradoxical life/death ground from which integrative impulses arise. His epic ordeals mirror our own. Perhaps the Jungians need alchemy for their articulation of psychic processes more than alchemy needs Jungian models. After all, benchwork went on for millennia without Jung's hermeneutics, but alchemy had its own ways of describing proto-scientific interpretations of phenomena. Still, Jung and Cavalli's categories, homologues, metaphorms and mytho-poetic language broaden our descriptive vocabulary, perhaps helping us articulate the deep meaning of what we see in the vessel.
In the Mystery schools, applicants for the priesthood of Osiris entered the tomb alive to await his light. They spent the night in the coffin, entering through the door of fear to achieve mastery.The initiate in the open sarcophagus was left alone in the darkness of the crypt., feeling the cold of the grave close in. In such a sensory deprivation chamber, perhaps the initiate experienced a life review or began to see colors and lights appear. This illumination was recognized as the light of Osiris, bringing visions. Some aspirants might claim to have conversations with Isis or Osiris. Others might visualize themselves in the land of the dead, walking and talking with departed spirits and receiving special teachings from Osiris before a resurrection.
Egypt remains a realm of mystery as does the psyche. The ancient land of Egypt is not the same as the eternal sunshine of the Egypt of our modern minds. We can never "embody Osiris" with conceptual processes, but only through fully entering the inherent mystery of alchemical processes that define the rhythms of life we exist in. Emotions effect our DNA, and DNA effects our emotions. Emotions regulate gene-expression.
In this insightful Jungian volume, Dr. Thom Cavalli is likely correct in insisting that "empathic engagement of the god on an imaginal and physical level" is required. In this way only perhaps a more meaningful life springs from death, through a "body" of integrative experience. The Egyptians presumed "death" was not the only option.
As unconscious, Osiris is the paradoxical life/death ground from which integrative impulses arise. His epic ordeals mirror our own. Perhaps the Jungians need alchemy for their articulation of psychic processes more than alchemy needs Jungian models. After all, benchwork went on for millennia without Jung's hermeneutics, but alchemy had its own ways of describing proto-scientific interpretations of phenomena. Still, Jung and Cavalli's categories, homologues, metaphorms and mytho-poetic language broaden our descriptive vocabulary, perhaps helping us articulate the deep meaning of what we see in the vessel.
In the Mystery schools, applicants for the priesthood of Osiris entered the tomb alive to await his light. They spent the night in the coffin, entering through the door of fear to achieve mastery.The initiate in the open sarcophagus was left alone in the darkness of the crypt., feeling the cold of the grave close in. In such a sensory deprivation chamber, perhaps the initiate experienced a life review or began to see colors and lights appear. This illumination was recognized as the light of Osiris, bringing visions. Some aspirants might claim to have conversations with Isis or Osiris. Others might visualize themselves in the land of the dead, walking and talking with departed spirits and receiving special teachings from Osiris before a resurrection.
August 2011 Psychosocial Genomics in Subcultures
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/genomics.html
Recent research on neuroplasticity and psychosocial genomics lends compelling support to the theory that psychosocial forces shape neurobiology through gene-expression. Investigations of neuroplasticity demonstrate that the adult brain can continue to form novel neural connections and grow new neurons in response to learning or training even into old age. This means under facilitating circumstances, we have the capacity to awaken undreamed of potential within ourselves. Moreso, if Dragon subculture supports and reinforces such emergent capacities.
Recent research on neuroplasticity and psychosocial genomics lends compelling support to the theory that psychosocial forces shape neurobiology through gene-expression. Investigations of neuroplasticity demonstrate that the adult brain can continue to form novel neural connections and grow new neurons in response to learning or training even into old age. This means under facilitating circumstances, we have the capacity to awaken undreamed of potential within ourselves. Moreso, if Dragon subculture supports and reinforces such emergent capacities.
July 2011 The Vortex, A Metaphorical Exploration
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/dragons-vortex.html
The Ouroboros or Uroborus is an ancient mystical circle depicting a serpent-dragon of Primordial Unity. It represents eternity, the Milky Way, cyclic processes like Precession, and the "circle of life." In self-referential dynamic motion, it becomes the Vortex, the primary icon of the Dragon peoples from time immemorial. It is the first glyph in the universal language of symbols, encompassing all others -- the threshold of symbol and substance. It is the "Mother of all symbols". Rose windows in medieval cathedrals were Christian depictions of the cosmic vortex. The esoteric view of this vortex of Being's internal logic, is raw Feminine power.
SUMMER 2011 - "The Sedona Effect" Issue No. 155, in Green Egg Magazine
http://greeneggzine.com/doc/GE155.August%20pdf.pdf
"There is no such thing as a spiritual journey. If there were a spiritual journey, it would be only a quarter inch long, though many miles deep. You do not have to go away outside yourself to come into real conversation with your soul and with the mysteries of the spiritual world. The eternal is at home --within you." --Meister Eckhart
SEDONA SYNCHRONIZATION EXPERIMENTS: Arguably, here is the first scientific proof of Sedona Vortex/Brainwave EEG Synchronization. Further repeatable experiments are still being conducted in Arizona, by Ben Lonetree, using a variety of volunteer subjects. Using magnetometers and EEG, he is recording the synchronous signals of geomagnetic anomalies with human brainwaves. Parameters include Schumann Resonance (amplifies effect), Brainwave frequency and amplitude, and sudden magnetic events from vortex spots. Evoked potentials include high well-being, healing, ESP and other psychophysical phenomena. Fieldtrip Report: http://sedonanomalies.com/brainwave_magnetic_sync.htm
NOW AGE PHYSICS:
March 2011 - DNA Decipher Journal, Vol 1, Issue 2
http://www.dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj
DNA Decipher Journal (ISSN: 2159-046X) is a publication in which biologists, physicists, mathematicians and other learned scholars publish their research results and express their views on the origin, nature and mechanism of DNA as a biological program and entity and its possible connection to a deeper reality. The current policy at this journal is editorial selections of submitted papers for publication and editorial invitation for publication under the advisement of an editorial Advisory Board. All papers published by this journal are either subject to open-peer-review ("OPR") in the same issue or open to OPR in subsequent issues. DNA Decipher Journal is a platform and fair playing field for biologists, physicists, mathematicians and other learned scholars publish their research results and express their views on the origin, nature and mechanism of DNA as a biological program and entity and its possible connection to a deeper reality.
From Helix to Hologram
Iona Miller & Richard A. Miller, ©2004
ABSTRACT: Life is fundamentally electromagnetic rather than chemical, the DNA blueprint functioning as a biohologram which serves as a guiding matrix for organizing physical form.
QUANTUM BIOHOLOGRAPHY
A Review of the Field from 1973 - 2002
Iona Miller, Richard Alan Miller, and Burt Webb, ©2002
ABSTRACT: Complex information can be encoded in EM fields, as we all know from coding and decoding of television and radio signals. Even more complex information can be encoded in holographic images. DNA acts as a holographic projector of acoustic and EM information which contains the informational quintessence of the biohologram. Only 3% of human DNA encodes the physical body. The remaining 97% of the 3 billion base pair genome contains over a million genetic structures called transposons, that have the capacity to jump from one chromosomal location to another (Kelleher, 1999). We are 99.9% alike in our genetic legacy. Our individuality is expressed in three million small variations in our cells, called single nucleotide polymorphisms.
Gene-expression is the mechanism by which new patterns are called into being (Rossi, 2000). There is also a strong correlation between modulation of the brain’s EM field and consciousness (Persinger, 1987; McFadden, 2002). The Gariaev group has discovered a wave-based genome and DNA phantom effect which strongly supports the holographic concept of reality (Miller, Webb, Dickson, 1975). This main information channel of DNA is the same for both photons and radio waves. Superposed coherent waves of different types in the cells interact to form diffraction patterns, firstly in the acoustic domain, secondly in the electromagnetic domain -- a quantum hologram -- a translation process between acoustical and optical holograms.
The Sacred Order of St. Jude, Iona Miller, Hon. Dame Commander
http://orderofjude.weebly.com/index.html
http://orderofjude.weebly.com/index.html
COMING: Women of Underground Art
COMING SOON, ZORA VON BURDEN (Editor) interviews Iona Miller, "From Underground to Under Cover" in WOMEN OF THE UNDERGROUND: ART - Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
“It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist
“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a reflection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see, whose critique is relevant to him or herself, exposing his or her own perversions.”—Irina Ionesco, artist
Until the late twentieth century, women’s creative skills were relegated to craft and decorative arts, and valued only for utilitarian purposes in service to others and the manufacturing of products to benefit society. After enduring the great injustice of being denied the freedom that self-expression brings through art for the joy of the human spirit, Women of the Underground: Art celebrates those female cultural innovators who are creating new artwork that pushes boundaries, dares to question, and redefines the genres of mixed media; theater; film; photography; and visual, conceptual, and performance art. This groundbreaking anthology inspires artists and everyone interested in alternatives to mainstream culture, and serves as a reference book for art historians. Twenty-six female artists describe their ideas, beginnings, influences, and creative techniques. Contains interviews with Lady Pink, Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Aleksandra Mir, Iona Miller, Penny Arcade, Johanna Went, the Guerrilla Girls, and many others. Editor Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. A frequent contributor to The San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Underground-Cultural-Innovators-Themselves/dp/1933149337/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262119006&sr=1-7
“It is not about provocation, reaction or even invocation, it is about transformation: mentally and physically.”—Marina Abramovic, artist
“Art is subjective, and if one sees something in an image, that projection is a reflection of the spectator, who sees what he or she wants to see, whose critique is relevant to him or herself, exposing his or her own perversions.”—Irina Ionesco, artist
Until the late twentieth century, women’s creative skills were relegated to craft and decorative arts, and valued only for utilitarian purposes in service to others and the manufacturing of products to benefit society. After enduring the great injustice of being denied the freedom that self-expression brings through art for the joy of the human spirit, Women of the Underground: Art celebrates those female cultural innovators who are creating new artwork that pushes boundaries, dares to question, and redefines the genres of mixed media; theater; film; photography; and visual, conceptual, and performance art. This groundbreaking anthology inspires artists and everyone interested in alternatives to mainstream culture, and serves as a reference book for art historians. Twenty-six female artists describe their ideas, beginnings, influences, and creative techniques. Contains interviews with Lady Pink, Marina Abramovic, Orlan, Aleksandra Mir, Iona Miller, Penny Arcade, Johanna Went, the Guerrilla Girls, and many others. Editor Zora von Burden was born and raised in San Francisco, California. A frequent contributor to The San Francisco Herald, von Burden also wrote the screenplay for Geoff Cordner’s underground cult classic film, Hotel Hopscotch.
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Underground-Cultural-Innovators-Themselves/dp/1933149337/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262119006&sr=1-7
EARTH STAR, Feb-Mar 2011 http://www.earthstarmag.com/docs/198-F.M11.pdf
NEW SITE DVD: Winter 2010: THE SEDONA EFFECT - Sedona Sychronization Experiments
Geographically, Sedona is the virtual center of Arizona and certainly its spiritual heart. Many have made esoteric claims about the region, but no one has repeatedly demonstrated the SEDONA EFFECT to a scientific standard, until now.
Full Story at http://sedonanomalies.weebly.com
Long hailed by Native Americans as the place where “Mother Earth speaks”, and more recently as home of the “mystical vortex”, Sedona with its redrock temples proves much more than a place of intense beauty. Many books have been written on the special "Vortex" energy field phenomena found in Sedona. Some say it cannot be measured while others claim it is electromagnetic in origin. Perhaps, both are true, because its ethereal effects are more than imaginal. They are quantifiable.
Electrical engineer Ben Lonetree began as a skeptic of Sedona’s metaphysical claims, so he decided to monitor Mother Nature’s heartbeat, take her pulse, and listen carefully to what She had to say. Yes, Ben is a bit of a shaman, too. After 10 years of research using fluxgate magnetometers and large induction coils, Lonetree can definitively state that intense electromagnetic activity abounds in Sedona.
Proof of Sedona Vortex/Brainwave EEG synchronization can be demonstrated with portable equipment on site in the field, during “sudden magnetic events”. In 2005, Lonetree announced results of nearly a decade of measurements. He repeatedly recorded inward, outward and circular magnetic anomalies in both known and unrecognized Vortex activity locations.
Sedona is rich in Fe2o3, (Iron Oxide), the element responsible for the red rocks, soil, and even the red color of the inner bark of trees. In addition to iron oxide the mineral Magnetite may also exist in large quantities. Concentrations of iron oxide and other metal/minerals have the effect of focusing the earth's natural geomagnetism which is produced by the Earth's molten outer core.
Lonetree also observed a correlation or amplification of vortex phenomena with Schumann Resonance (SR) and Brainwave Resonance or Entrainment.
SEDONA EFFECT SYNCHRONIZATION EXPERIMENTS:
Arguably, the first scientific proof of Sedona Vortex/Brainwave EEG Synchronization. Further repeatable experiments are still being conducted in Arizona, by Ben Lonetree, using a variety of volunteer subjects. Using magnetometers and EEG, he is recording the synchronous signals of geomagnetic anomalies with human brainwaves. Parameters include Schumann Resonance (amplifies effect), Brainwave frequency and amplitude, and sudden magnetic events from vortex spots.
Evoked potentials include high well-being to ESP and other psychophysical phenomena. Further, we hypothesize that anyone having extraordinary visionary activity in vortex spots may be naturally subject to sub-clinical "temporal lobe transients," (TLTs), micro-seizures which induce a host of psychosensory phenomena. The neural static and discharge are kindled by electrical instabilities in the brain. Typically, such experiences are assigned special personal meaning. According to neuropsychologist Michael Persinger, "God is a result of electro-magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes .... the God Experience is synthesized during the temporal lobe transients." TLTs can be induced by the application of natural or artificial transcerebral complex magnetic fields. Vortex activity may be a precipitating stimuli with testable parameters, including tectonic strain. More:http://sedonanomalies.weebly.com/index.html and http://ionamiller.weebly.com/sedona-synchronization.html
Full Story at http://sedonanomalies.weebly.com
Long hailed by Native Americans as the place where “Mother Earth speaks”, and more recently as home of the “mystical vortex”, Sedona with its redrock temples proves much more than a place of intense beauty. Many books have been written on the special "Vortex" energy field phenomena found in Sedona. Some say it cannot be measured while others claim it is electromagnetic in origin. Perhaps, both are true, because its ethereal effects are more than imaginal. They are quantifiable.
Electrical engineer Ben Lonetree began as a skeptic of Sedona’s metaphysical claims, so he decided to monitor Mother Nature’s heartbeat, take her pulse, and listen carefully to what She had to say. Yes, Ben is a bit of a shaman, too. After 10 years of research using fluxgate magnetometers and large induction coils, Lonetree can definitively state that intense electromagnetic activity abounds in Sedona.
Proof of Sedona Vortex/Brainwave EEG synchronization can be demonstrated with portable equipment on site in the field, during “sudden magnetic events”. In 2005, Lonetree announced results of nearly a decade of measurements. He repeatedly recorded inward, outward and circular magnetic anomalies in both known and unrecognized Vortex activity locations.
Sedona is rich in Fe2o3, (Iron Oxide), the element responsible for the red rocks, soil, and even the red color of the inner bark of trees. In addition to iron oxide the mineral Magnetite may also exist in large quantities. Concentrations of iron oxide and other metal/minerals have the effect of focusing the earth's natural geomagnetism which is produced by the Earth's molten outer core.
Lonetree also observed a correlation or amplification of vortex phenomena with Schumann Resonance (SR) and Brainwave Resonance or Entrainment.
SEDONA EFFECT SYNCHRONIZATION EXPERIMENTS:
Arguably, the first scientific proof of Sedona Vortex/Brainwave EEG Synchronization. Further repeatable experiments are still being conducted in Arizona, by Ben Lonetree, using a variety of volunteer subjects. Using magnetometers and EEG, he is recording the synchronous signals of geomagnetic anomalies with human brainwaves. Parameters include Schumann Resonance (amplifies effect), Brainwave frequency and amplitude, and sudden magnetic events from vortex spots.
Evoked potentials include high well-being to ESP and other psychophysical phenomena. Further, we hypothesize that anyone having extraordinary visionary activity in vortex spots may be naturally subject to sub-clinical "temporal lobe transients," (TLTs), micro-seizures which induce a host of psychosensory phenomena. The neural static and discharge are kindled by electrical instabilities in the brain. Typically, such experiences are assigned special personal meaning. According to neuropsychologist Michael Persinger, "God is a result of electro-magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes .... the God Experience is synthesized during the temporal lobe transients." TLTs can be induced by the application of natural or artificial transcerebral complex magnetic fields. Vortex activity may be a precipitating stimuli with testable parameters, including tectonic strain. More:http://sedonanomalies.weebly.com/index.html and http://ionamiller.weebly.com/sedona-synchronization.html
"THE SEDONA EFFECT" appeared in EARTH STAR MAGAZINE
http://www.earthstarmag.com/
http://www.earthstarmag.com/
2010
"IONA: Mystic Isle Between Heaven & Earth" in Green Egg, Yule 2010, Issue #154
http://www.greeneggzine.com/Issues/GE_2010_12_Yule.pdf
SACRED SITE: Many holy sites are esteemed around the globe. The sacred isles of Britain have a spiritual role so rich that few comprehend their scope that is so disproportionate to their size. Sacred sites are natural meeting places of heaven and earth. A tiny, nearly barren speck of land, the Scottish island of Iona embodies an astounding holographic record of the span of human civilization, much of which is beyond the scope of this article. Each snippet of a hologram contains a smaller but intact version of the original image. The smallest parts of a hologram contain all the information possessed by the whole, demonstrating that separateness is an illusion. Cosmos is a superhologram, echoing the axiom, “As Above, So Below”.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram or fractal provides us with an entirely new way of understanding Iona which has been called “the Mecca of the Gael.” This mystic island was sacred to megalithic, iron and bronze age pagans, Druids and Celtic Christians alike. Windswept Iona is a time machine, a gem in the frigid sea, embedded in “the back of the ocean” like a planetary chakra.
Iona’s holy ground formed as the first oceans were condensing on the blistering hot surface of the earth. These rocks are so old, they contain no fossils. Perhaps the first plants took root in Iona’s thin soil. The island is the oldest rock on Earth, four billion year old remains of the Precambrian ocean’s eruptive spine. Her marble formed under vast heat and pressure. The metamorphic Lewisian gneiss shot through with green serpentine has resisted the relentless blue-foaming dragon of the devouring sea that eats up the land. Much of the island itself is highly-conductive and charged quartz, often said to enhance healing, telepathy, remote viewing, dreaming, and superconsciousness or store subtle information or energy. There are unseen things here that are eternal. From the mainland, the spiritually magnetic isle often appears like a mirage.
Iona is the “motherland of dreams”, the ethereal ground of imagination and ground zero of Druid culture. Its spell draws us into its center. Iona’s old Gaelic name Innis nan Druidhneach translates as the Island of the Druids. Their motto was Y Gwir Erbyn Y Byd (“Truth Against the World”). These Servants of Truth held greater power than the kings who took advice from them: All of nature was sacred to them and they were its students and stewards.
These seers and overlords understood the workings of Nature and our nature. To the male and female Druids and their predecessors, the “Shining Ones,” (Siddhe, Fairies), the dead live through visions in dreams, more so for those in one’s own lineage. In Druid lore myth is not plot, but image; not action, but rhythm; not character, but ghosts. Images animate the soul with guidance from higher dimensions. Alba or ‘light’ is the Gaelic name for Scotland and Iona is her most ancient and holy capital. The island Iona is the shape of a dove and curiously its name even means 'dove' in Hebrew, though it was named after the pioneering spirit, St. Columba, “the dove of the church”. The Rosarium Philosophorum equates the dove with heavenly light. Young visionaries, virginal children used as oracles or channels, are also called “Doves” in the magic tradition.
Iona’s colorful history is related to sea gods, King Arthur and Merlin, the Grail stories, St. Brighid and the Goddess -- Sophia, Virgin of the Light, the archetypal soror mystica. Its mystery and magic includes tales of Templars, elves, fairies, and pixies; the Sidhe or People of the Hills, Tuatha De Daanan. Angels’ Hill on Iona is associated with supernatural beings.
Iona was always an island of mystics and scholars. Iona’s most ancient Gaelic or Pictish name is Ioua. The name, (a corruption of early Gaelic Ii-shona, pronounced, Ee-hona; the 's' in Gaelic is silent before an aspirate), is steeped in multidimensional mystique that can be gradually unfolded in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual metaphors. But it is more than a metaphor to be unraveled like a Scottish yarn. Indeed, an exciting and illuminating journey to the "heart of Iona" is a soulful initiatory journey into myth and eternity. Our journey does not have an ordinary aim.
More: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/iona-mystic-island.html
SACRED SITE: Many holy sites are esteemed around the globe. The sacred isles of Britain have a spiritual role so rich that few comprehend their scope that is so disproportionate to their size. Sacred sites are natural meeting places of heaven and earth. A tiny, nearly barren speck of land, the Scottish island of Iona embodies an astounding holographic record of the span of human civilization, much of which is beyond the scope of this article. Each snippet of a hologram contains a smaller but intact version of the original image. The smallest parts of a hologram contain all the information possessed by the whole, demonstrating that separateness is an illusion. Cosmos is a superhologram, echoing the axiom, “As Above, So Below”.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram or fractal provides us with an entirely new way of understanding Iona which has been called “the Mecca of the Gael.” This mystic island was sacred to megalithic, iron and bronze age pagans, Druids and Celtic Christians alike. Windswept Iona is a time machine, a gem in the frigid sea, embedded in “the back of the ocean” like a planetary chakra.
Iona’s holy ground formed as the first oceans were condensing on the blistering hot surface of the earth. These rocks are so old, they contain no fossils. Perhaps the first plants took root in Iona’s thin soil. The island is the oldest rock on Earth, four billion year old remains of the Precambrian ocean’s eruptive spine. Her marble formed under vast heat and pressure. The metamorphic Lewisian gneiss shot through with green serpentine has resisted the relentless blue-foaming dragon of the devouring sea that eats up the land. Much of the island itself is highly-conductive and charged quartz, often said to enhance healing, telepathy, remote viewing, dreaming, and superconsciousness or store subtle information or energy. There are unseen things here that are eternal. From the mainland, the spiritually magnetic isle often appears like a mirage.
Iona is the “motherland of dreams”, the ethereal ground of imagination and ground zero of Druid culture. Its spell draws us into its center. Iona’s old Gaelic name Innis nan Druidhneach translates as the Island of the Druids. Their motto was Y Gwir Erbyn Y Byd (“Truth Against the World”). These Servants of Truth held greater power than the kings who took advice from them: All of nature was sacred to them and they were its students and stewards.
These seers and overlords understood the workings of Nature and our nature. To the male and female Druids and their predecessors, the “Shining Ones,” (Siddhe, Fairies), the dead live through visions in dreams, more so for those in one’s own lineage. In Druid lore myth is not plot, but image; not action, but rhythm; not character, but ghosts. Images animate the soul with guidance from higher dimensions. Alba or ‘light’ is the Gaelic name for Scotland and Iona is her most ancient and holy capital. The island Iona is the shape of a dove and curiously its name even means 'dove' in Hebrew, though it was named after the pioneering spirit, St. Columba, “the dove of the church”. The Rosarium Philosophorum equates the dove with heavenly light. Young visionaries, virginal children used as oracles or channels, are also called “Doves” in the magic tradition.
Iona’s colorful history is related to sea gods, King Arthur and Merlin, the Grail stories, St. Brighid and the Goddess -- Sophia, Virgin of the Light, the archetypal soror mystica. Its mystery and magic includes tales of Templars, elves, fairies, and pixies; the Sidhe or People of the Hills, Tuatha De Daanan. Angels’ Hill on Iona is associated with supernatural beings.
Iona was always an island of mystics and scholars. Iona’s most ancient Gaelic or Pictish name is Ioua. The name, (a corruption of early Gaelic Ii-shona, pronounced, Ee-hona; the 's' in Gaelic is silent before an aspirate), is steeped in multidimensional mystique that can be gradually unfolded in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual metaphors. But it is more than a metaphor to be unraveled like a Scottish yarn. Indeed, an exciting and illuminating journey to the "heart of Iona" is a soulful initiatory journey into myth and eternity. Our journey does not have an ordinary aim.
More: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/iona-mystic-island.html
Oct. 2010 - Riverbank Labs & Acoustic Levitation - http://ionamiller.weebly.com/riverbank-labs.html
Many different research activities occurred at Riverbank Labs, Geneva, Illinois, including decoding and deciphering enemy messages during World War I & II, deciphering alleged secret messages in the works of William Shakespeare, research in the field of architectural acoustics, groundbreaking research in the field of cryptology, fieldwork in the use of hand grenades and military trenches, research and development of tuning forks, and studies of human fitness and anatomy. The list is varied and fascinating. Riverbank is considered the direct lineal predecessor of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency.
The cryptographers were mainly there to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, but still ended up being the foundation for the NSA. Fabyan read in one of Bacon's works a description of a levitation device that allegedly worked on acoustic principles. He built one, but couldn't get it to fly, so he sent to Harvard University for some acoustic experts to help him. One discovery revealed by the code, previously known only to the Rosicrucians, is an acoustical levitating machine. A huge drum with piano strings stretched along its surface rotated within an outer casing with corresponding strings. As the strings vibrate, the outer shell is made to levitate.
The machine was a wooden tube with metal strings attached to it, around which fit another wooden tube with metal strings attached to the inside of it. The center tube was supposed to spin and by sympathetic vibration cause the strings on the outer tube to vibrate. The resonance from the striking would create a force field, which would levitate the outer tube off of the ground. Colonel Fabyan hired Bert Eisenhour, an engineer from Chicago, to construct this machine at Riverbank. Though the machine was constructed, it did not work. Eisenhour was convinced that the strings were not tuned properly, and suggested they consult someone knowledgeable in acoustics. Decipherment from Shakespeare's first folio produced the plans for the Baconian Acoustical Levitation Device, which Fabyan and his army managed to build. It was: A wooden tube with metal strings attached to it, around which fit another wooden tube with metal strings attached to the inside of it. The center tube was supposed to spin and by sympathetic vibration cause the strings on the outer tube to vibrate. The resonance from the striking would create a force field, which would levitate the outer tube off of the ground. Though it did not work, it was a historical antecedent to acoustic levitation, a valid scientific phenomenon.
The cryptographers were mainly there to prove that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays, but still ended up being the foundation for the NSA. Fabyan read in one of Bacon's works a description of a levitation device that allegedly worked on acoustic principles. He built one, but couldn't get it to fly, so he sent to Harvard University for some acoustic experts to help him. One discovery revealed by the code, previously known only to the Rosicrucians, is an acoustical levitating machine. A huge drum with piano strings stretched along its surface rotated within an outer casing with corresponding strings. As the strings vibrate, the outer shell is made to levitate.
The machine was a wooden tube with metal strings attached to it, around which fit another wooden tube with metal strings attached to the inside of it. The center tube was supposed to spin and by sympathetic vibration cause the strings on the outer tube to vibrate. The resonance from the striking would create a force field, which would levitate the outer tube off of the ground. Colonel Fabyan hired Bert Eisenhour, an engineer from Chicago, to construct this machine at Riverbank. Though the machine was constructed, it did not work. Eisenhour was convinced that the strings were not tuned properly, and suggested they consult someone knowledgeable in acoustics. Decipherment from Shakespeare's first folio produced the plans for the Baconian Acoustical Levitation Device, which Fabyan and his army managed to build. It was: A wooden tube with metal strings attached to it, around which fit another wooden tube with metal strings attached to the inside of it. The center tube was supposed to spin and by sympathetic vibration cause the strings on the outer tube to vibrate. The resonance from the striking would create a force field, which would levitate the outer tube off of the ground. Though it did not work, it was a historical antecedent to acoustic levitation, a valid scientific phenomenon.
Halloween Special 2010 - Vampyre Theatre, New York City; How Does that Grab You?
http://ionamiller.weebly.com/vampyre-theatre.html
Iona Miller with Playwrite Tony Sokol on the Vampire Craze - Video Interview of Tony Sokol by Joan Rivers, Sokol's music videos for Vampyr Theatre, photos and commentary on the juvenile and adult cycles in crazes for vampires. Learn what self-styled vampires say about themselves. Take a walk on the wild side of NYC nightlife: hypnosis, tricksters, mental illness, subcultures, sanguine satire and sartorial splendor. Sokol has interviewed over 300 self-styled vampyres, including a handful who's seeming paranormal qualities or youthful appearance he could not account for.
Performance Art: "Control of the audience? We took them hostage. We frisked them. We threw them up against the wall and checked for weapons. Sometimes we found them. I loved my audience. They amused me endlessly. The spaces we used sometimes hindered what I'd written. But it was written to be sparse. It was written to be done in the old abandoned subway station on 26th St. The D train used to pass it way back. The last script, the last play we did was the most diluted by space. It was written to be done in a club, it was done in a theater. One of the last weekends we were booked the theater build a stage-within-a-stage for another show they were doing. We did ours after hours, midnight shows. My actors broke the stage. Made me proud."
Iona Miller with Playwrite Tony Sokol on the Vampire Craze - Video Interview of Tony Sokol by Joan Rivers, Sokol's music videos for Vampyr Theatre, photos and commentary on the juvenile and adult cycles in crazes for vampires. Learn what self-styled vampires say about themselves. Take a walk on the wild side of NYC nightlife: hypnosis, tricksters, mental illness, subcultures, sanguine satire and sartorial splendor. Sokol has interviewed over 300 self-styled vampyres, including a handful who's seeming paranormal qualities or youthful appearance he could not account for.
Performance Art: "Control of the audience? We took them hostage. We frisked them. We threw them up against the wall and checked for weapons. Sometimes we found them. I loved my audience. They amused me endlessly. The spaces we used sometimes hindered what I'd written. But it was written to be sparse. It was written to be done in the old abandoned subway station on 26th St. The D train used to pass it way back. The last script, the last play we did was the most diluted by space. It was written to be done in a club, it was done in a theater. One of the last weekends we were booked the theater build a stage-within-a-stage for another show they were doing. We did ours after hours, midnight shows. My actors broke the stage. Made me proud."
October, 2010 - New Site, Curated by Iona Miller
Tom Lyttle Memorial Site: The Psychedelic Yogi, Art & Entheogens
http://tomlyttle.weebly.com/index.html
Thomas Lyttle (b. 5-5-55 / d. 9-5-08) was Publisher and Editor of the kaleidoscopic journal PSYCHEDELIC MONOGRAPHS & ESSAYS, the books PSYCHEDELICS and PSYCHEDELICS REIMAGINED (Autonomedia). Later, he sold signed blotters of non-impregnated blotter art. His articles were published by Feral Press, Disinformation, High Times, Boing Boing, New Times, Paranoia, many scholarly journals and underground zines. His blotter art included signed editions by pop icons Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Peter Fonda, Allan Ginsberg, John Lilly, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, Ira Cohen, Laura Huxley, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Anton Wilson, Alex Grey, H.R. Giger, Laurence Gartel and other noted figures of the international underground.
Ever mercurial, Lyttle's interviews and performance art included such gags as pasting postage stamps all over himself to prevent arrest as First-Class Mail. He was a quirky Trickster who could be very heartful in one moment and vitriolic in the next. Still, Lyttle's works were among the first to publicly discuss DMT, Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, MDMA and the Holographic Paradigm. This memorial site is not an obituary but a celebration. Many have been in-formed by his scholarly and popular articles. Let him continue to inspire us. Madman or seer, Lyttle dared to make his unique contribution and left a footprint in this world and perhaps the next.
Thomas Lyttle (b. 5-5-55 / d. 9-5-08) was Publisher and Editor of the kaleidoscopic journal PSYCHEDELIC MONOGRAPHS & ESSAYS, the books PSYCHEDELICS and PSYCHEDELICS REIMAGINED (Autonomedia). Later, he sold signed blotters of non-impregnated blotter art. His articles were published by Feral Press, Disinformation, High Times, Boing Boing, New Times, Paranoia, many scholarly journals and underground zines. His blotter art included signed editions by pop icons Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Peter Fonda, Allan Ginsberg, John Lilly, Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, Ira Cohen, Laura Huxley, Annie Sprinkle, Robert Anton Wilson, Alex Grey, H.R. Giger, Laurence Gartel and other noted figures of the international underground.
Ever mercurial, Lyttle's interviews and performance art included such gags as pasting postage stamps all over himself to prevent arrest as First-Class Mail. He was a quirky Trickster who could be very heartful in one moment and vitriolic in the next. Still, Lyttle's works were among the first to publicly discuss DMT, Ibogaine, Ayahuasca, MDMA and the Holographic Paradigm. This memorial site is not an obituary but a celebration. Many have been in-formed by his scholarly and popular articles. Let him continue to inspire us. Madman or seer, Lyttle dared to make his unique contribution and left a footprint in this world and perhaps the next.
Coming: "Killing the Divine King", PARANOIA, Spring 2012
COMING SOON: Spring 2012 - Paranoia , http://paranoiamagazine.com
Re-surrection Murders: If insurrection is an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government, what is the revolting effect of numerous incidents of political re-surrection?
Did COINTEL PRO & CIA "Back Pocket Agents" Kill Rev. King, Jr.?
Governmental agencies caused Martin Luther King to be assassinated... They caused this whole thing to happen. And they then proceeded with the powerful means at their disposal to cover this case up. This is a conspiracy... and that's a nasty word. Let justice and truth prevail, else the heavens fall . . . send a message to all of those in power, all of those who manipulate justice in this country that you cannot get away with this. Or if you can get away with it, you can only get away with it for so long." ~Dr. William F. Pepper, closing argument, King Family v. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-conspirators, December 8, 1999.
RITUAL MURDER: Public assassination is psychological warfare. In the mythic dimension, it is ritualistic drama. It echoes the ancient practice of the "Killing of the Divine King". From the seed of the event, televised slaughter, come the alchemical effects which transform society -- not for the better. The Group Mind or "dreaming mind" enters our awareness. The subtext is that forces that could get away with such ghastly public demonstrations of power could get away with anything. Has the public been hoodwinked from the true meaning of these events by the shadow government or the governmental "Shadow" for which we all share responsibility? Is sorcery the root of history? Was it his destiny or misfortune that Martin embodied the archetype of the "Divine King," a "Black Messiah," that psychically forced his martyrdom? He sensed his fate before it claimed him. His was one of three Triple K Assassinations of iconic men "who would be kings." No matter who the perpetrators, does the collective psyche mandate the cyclic replay of such primordial themes of human culture or is it all just part of an imposed "shock doctrine"? Who, in fact, functions as judge, jury and executioner? Does Rule by Survivorship mimic survival of the fittest or actually derail humanity's evolutionary arc?
PSYCHODRAMA: The divine life, incarnate in a material and mortal body, is liable to be tainted and corrupted by the weakness of the frail medium in which it is for a time enshrined; and if it is to be saved from the increasing enfeeblement which it must necessarily share with its human incarnation as he advances in years, it must be detached from him before, or at least as soon as, he exhibits signs of decay, in order to be transferred to a vigorous successor. This is done by killing the old representative of the god and conveying the divine spirit from him to a new incarnation. But in ancient times the killing was always associated implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, with a revival or resurrection of him in a more youthful and vigorous form. The killing of the god, that is, of his human incarnation, is therefore merely a necessary step to his revival or resurrection in a better form. Far from being an extinction of the divine spirit, it is only the beginning of a purer and stronger manifestation of it.
MYTHIC POLITICS: One explanation of the custom of killing divine persons assumes, or at least is readily combined with, is the idea that the soul of the slain divinity is transmitted to his successor. But the real purpose was to kill something within each of us, some part of the collective dream of freedom. This King encouraged the audacity to dream of a positive future. But, something within each and every one of us died, diminished by this tragic loss and the American Dream soured. As in days of old, they were put to death when their political usefulness was over --upon serious failure of their power. But the successor who insures the "resurrection" of the Triple K figures has never appeared. In this way it echoes the Jesus story of the Second Coming in which everyone wishes to be resurrected must undergo the ritual death of baptism. But in any overt or covert political action we have to look to its generalized EFFECT on the populace. In the Triple K Assassinations it was shock, confusion and demoralization. It made people suspect and realize their government perpetrated a power grab. There were ritual killings of Irish kings and masonic "Killing of the king" rituals.
ARTICLE: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/assassinations.html
Re-surrection Murders: If insurrection is an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government, what is the revolting effect of numerous incidents of political re-surrection?
Did COINTEL PRO & CIA "Back Pocket Agents" Kill Rev. King, Jr.?
Governmental agencies caused Martin Luther King to be assassinated... They caused this whole thing to happen. And they then proceeded with the powerful means at their disposal to cover this case up. This is a conspiracy... and that's a nasty word. Let justice and truth prevail, else the heavens fall . . . send a message to all of those in power, all of those who manipulate justice in this country that you cannot get away with this. Or if you can get away with it, you can only get away with it for so long." ~Dr. William F. Pepper, closing argument, King Family v. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-conspirators, December 8, 1999.
RITUAL MURDER: Public assassination is psychological warfare. In the mythic dimension, it is ritualistic drama. It echoes the ancient practice of the "Killing of the Divine King". From the seed of the event, televised slaughter, come the alchemical effects which transform society -- not for the better. The Group Mind or "dreaming mind" enters our awareness. The subtext is that forces that could get away with such ghastly public demonstrations of power could get away with anything. Has the public been hoodwinked from the true meaning of these events by the shadow government or the governmental "Shadow" for which we all share responsibility? Is sorcery the root of history? Was it his destiny or misfortune that Martin embodied the archetype of the "Divine King," a "Black Messiah," that psychically forced his martyrdom? He sensed his fate before it claimed him. His was one of three Triple K Assassinations of iconic men "who would be kings." No matter who the perpetrators, does the collective psyche mandate the cyclic replay of such primordial themes of human culture or is it all just part of an imposed "shock doctrine"? Who, in fact, functions as judge, jury and executioner? Does Rule by Survivorship mimic survival of the fittest or actually derail humanity's evolutionary arc?
PSYCHODRAMA: The divine life, incarnate in a material and mortal body, is liable to be tainted and corrupted by the weakness of the frail medium in which it is for a time enshrined; and if it is to be saved from the increasing enfeeblement which it must necessarily share with its human incarnation as he advances in years, it must be detached from him before, or at least as soon as, he exhibits signs of decay, in order to be transferred to a vigorous successor. This is done by killing the old representative of the god and conveying the divine spirit from him to a new incarnation. But in ancient times the killing was always associated implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, with a revival or resurrection of him in a more youthful and vigorous form. The killing of the god, that is, of his human incarnation, is therefore merely a necessary step to his revival or resurrection in a better form. Far from being an extinction of the divine spirit, it is only the beginning of a purer and stronger manifestation of it.
MYTHIC POLITICS: One explanation of the custom of killing divine persons assumes, or at least is readily combined with, is the idea that the soul of the slain divinity is transmitted to his successor. But the real purpose was to kill something within each of us, some part of the collective dream of freedom. This King encouraged the audacity to dream of a positive future. But, something within each and every one of us died, diminished by this tragic loss and the American Dream soured. As in days of old, they were put to death when their political usefulness was over --upon serious failure of their power. But the successor who insures the "resurrection" of the Triple K figures has never appeared. In this way it echoes the Jesus story of the Second Coming in which everyone wishes to be resurrected must undergo the ritual death of baptism. But in any overt or covert political action we have to look to its generalized EFFECT on the populace. In the Triple K Assassinations it was shock, confusion and demoralization. It made people suspect and realize their government perpetrated a power grab. There were ritual killings of Irish kings and masonic "Killing of the king" rituals.
ARTICLE: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/assassinations.html
NEW: GREEN EGG ZINE, Issue #152 - Pineal DMT, by Iona Miller - August 2010
http://greeneggzine.com/issues.html
http://greeneggzine.com/Issues/GE_2010_08_152.pdf
DMT is implicated in the wild imaginings of our nightly dreams, near-death phenomena (NDEs), alien abduction experiences, and dream yoga. It is also a source of visionary phenomena in therapy, such as unusual psychophysical states attained in waking dreams, shamanic or psychotherapeutic journeys. Synthetic and botanical DMT crosses the blood-brain barrier and bonds to the same synaptic sites as serotonin. Psychedelic chemist, Sasha Shulgin claims, “DMT is everywhere.”
Each night in dreams we experience an essentially psychedelic state. The principal difference between dreams and hallucinations is the way the stages of wakefulness are organized, with the suppression of REM sleep and the intrusion of PGO waves in the arousal (waking) stage and in NREM (or slow) sleep. The stages include: waking (arousal) stage, stage of PGO waves, hallucination stage, sleep stage and hallucinatory manifestations. The waking dream eliminates “residues” stirred up by the PGO wave pattern in the absence of REM sleep. These visions resemble those at the approach of death, or what are called near death experiences (NDEs). In another context, they are perceived as visions. They include the characteristics of two phases of NDEs (Sabom, 1982): Autoscopic phase includes 1) subjective feeling of being dead; 2) peace and well-being; 3) disembodiment; 4) visions of material objects and events. The Transcendental phase includes 5) tunnel or dark zone; 6) evaluation of one’s past life; 7) light; 8) access to a transcendental world, entering in light; 9) encounter with other beings; 10) return to life.
But Strassman cautions those who take his initial research too literally: 5-7-2010 I am surprised at how many people assume that the conjecture in my book about whether the pineal makes DMT, has actually been established as fact. *If* DMT were made in the pineal, it would tie a lot of loose ends together. But, we don't know if DMT does appear in the pineal. The same has happened regarding my wondering if endogenous DMT activity increases during particular non-drug altered states, such as dreams and near-death experiences. We don't know if that's true. If it were, it would help explain the psychedelic characteristics of those altered states. A new assay for low levels of endogenous DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenine, and metabolites is being developed at LSU. We'll be looking at endogenous levels of these compounds in different tissues, different species, and different groups of people. Hopefully we'll get some answers within the next year or two. The Cottonwood Research Foundation site (www.cottonwoodresearch.org) could be more up-to-date. However, the section on the assay is more current and was written by Steve Barker at LSU, who's supervising the PhD student, Ethan McIlhenny. READ ARTICLE: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/pineal-dmt.html
http://greeneggzine.com/Issues/GE_2010_08_152.pdf
DMT is implicated in the wild imaginings of our nightly dreams, near-death phenomena (NDEs), alien abduction experiences, and dream yoga. It is also a source of visionary phenomena in therapy, such as unusual psychophysical states attained in waking dreams, shamanic or psychotherapeutic journeys. Synthetic and botanical DMT crosses the blood-brain barrier and bonds to the same synaptic sites as serotonin. Psychedelic chemist, Sasha Shulgin claims, “DMT is everywhere.”
Each night in dreams we experience an essentially psychedelic state. The principal difference between dreams and hallucinations is the way the stages of wakefulness are organized, with the suppression of REM sleep and the intrusion of PGO waves in the arousal (waking) stage and in NREM (or slow) sleep. The stages include: waking (arousal) stage, stage of PGO waves, hallucination stage, sleep stage and hallucinatory manifestations. The waking dream eliminates “residues” stirred up by the PGO wave pattern in the absence of REM sleep. These visions resemble those at the approach of death, or what are called near death experiences (NDEs). In another context, they are perceived as visions. They include the characteristics of two phases of NDEs (Sabom, 1982): Autoscopic phase includes 1) subjective feeling of being dead; 2) peace and well-being; 3) disembodiment; 4) visions of material objects and events. The Transcendental phase includes 5) tunnel or dark zone; 6) evaluation of one’s past life; 7) light; 8) access to a transcendental world, entering in light; 9) encounter with other beings; 10) return to life.
But Strassman cautions those who take his initial research too literally: 5-7-2010 I am surprised at how many people assume that the conjecture in my book about whether the pineal makes DMT, has actually been established as fact. *If* DMT were made in the pineal, it would tie a lot of loose ends together. But, we don't know if DMT does appear in the pineal. The same has happened regarding my wondering if endogenous DMT activity increases during particular non-drug altered states, such as dreams and near-death experiences. We don't know if that's true. If it were, it would help explain the psychedelic characteristics of those altered states. A new assay for low levels of endogenous DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, bufotenine, and metabolites is being developed at LSU. We'll be looking at endogenous levels of these compounds in different tissues, different species, and different groups of people. Hopefully we'll get some answers within the next year or two. The Cottonwood Research Foundation site (www.cottonwoodresearch.org) could be more up-to-date. However, the section on the assay is more current and was written by Steve Barker at LSU, who's supervising the PhD student, Ethan McIlhenny. READ ARTICLE: http://ionamiller.weebly.com/pineal-dmt.html
NOW AVAILABLE JUNE 2010 - GREEN EGG MAGAZINE, Issue 151, "The Dodecahedral Universe"
GREEN EGG MAGAZINE, Issue 151, "The Dodecahedral Universe" http://www.greeneggzine.com/
http://greeneggzine.com/Issues/GE_2010_06_151.pdf
THE DODECAHEDRAL UNIVERSE and the Qabalistic Tree of Life
by Iona Miller, O.A.K., 11/2003
“An analysis of astronomical data suggests not only that the universe is finite, but also that it has a specific, rather rigid topology (dodecahedral sphere). If confirmed, this is a major discovery about the nature of the universe.” ----George F. R. Ellis, “The Shape of the Universe,” Nature, Vol 425, October 9, 2003
Plato informs us in his Republic: “Geometry rightly treated is the knowledge of the Eternal,” and he is reported by Plutarch to have said that “God is always geometrizing.” Nor was the conception of the Universe in the form of the Dodecahedron unknown to Plato, for in his Timaeus this idea is clearly indicated. --Frater Achad, Anatomy of the Body of God
Sacred Geometries: Imagine that hundreds or even thousands of years ago, mystics anticipated the astounding findings of modern science by looking deeply within themselves to plumb the mysteries of the universe. The ancient doctrine of Kabbalah says that its teachings about the nature of creation were given to Abraham in the form of wisdom and sacred geometries by an angel of God. Ten spheres or subtle dimensions of existence emanated in a geometrical pattern from the veils of negative existence, ranging from archetypal Kether through the Causal and Astral levels to Malkuth, the physical plane. Current research may bear out some kabbalistic assertions about the cosmos. Recent discoveries by French cosmologists have led them to believe that the universe is finite with a regular dodecahedral or soccer-ball shape, which is omnitriangulated and omnisymmetrical with 20 vertices. This contrasts markedly with the flat, infinite “Standard Model”.
http://greeneggzine.com/Issues/GE_2010_06_151.pdf
THE DODECAHEDRAL UNIVERSE and the Qabalistic Tree of Life
by Iona Miller, O.A.K., 11/2003
“An analysis of astronomical data suggests not only that the universe is finite, but also that it has a specific, rather rigid topology (dodecahedral sphere). If confirmed, this is a major discovery about the nature of the universe.” ----George F. R. Ellis, “The Shape of the Universe,” Nature, Vol 425, October 9, 2003
Plato informs us in his Republic: “Geometry rightly treated is the knowledge of the Eternal,” and he is reported by Plutarch to have said that “God is always geometrizing.” Nor was the conception of the Universe in the form of the Dodecahedron unknown to Plato, for in his Timaeus this idea is clearly indicated. --Frater Achad, Anatomy of the Body of God
Sacred Geometries: Imagine that hundreds or even thousands of years ago, mystics anticipated the astounding findings of modern science by looking deeply within themselves to plumb the mysteries of the universe. The ancient doctrine of Kabbalah says that its teachings about the nature of creation were given to Abraham in the form of wisdom and sacred geometries by an angel of God. Ten spheres or subtle dimensions of existence emanated in a geometrical pattern from the veils of negative existence, ranging from archetypal Kether through the Causal and Astral levels to Malkuth, the physical plane. Current research may bear out some kabbalistic assertions about the cosmos. Recent discoveries by French cosmologists have led them to believe that the universe is finite with a regular dodecahedral or soccer-ball shape, which is omnitriangulated and omnisymmetrical with 20 vertices. This contrasts markedly with the flat, infinite “Standard Model”.
Available Now: Antibothis No. 3 (Portugal); May 2010
ANTIBOTHIS - Occultural Anthology 3
Book anthology + cd compilation.
135 PAGES, IN ENGLISH
Featuring articles from:
The anti-civilizationist author JOHN ZERZAN on "Silence".
LIAM SIONNACH from Earth First on " Becoming an Anti-Capitalist Ecological Social Force".
CHAD HENSLEY on " Dead Lays".
EWEN CHARDRONNET on "Molecules of Combat".
IONA MILLER on "Sasha´s Ecstasy & the Agony of CONtrollers".
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_19.html
JOE AMBROSE on " The Darker Side of Me - White Irish".
NIGEL AYERS on "All Killer, No Filler".
WILFRED HOU JE BEK on "In Defense of Primate Poetics".
FRANK RYNNE on " Brian Jones Joujouka Rolling Stone".
RANDALL PYKE on " Neo-Anarchist Dream State".
ADI NEWTON and JANE RADION NEWTON on "The Denizens of Beyond".
Antibothis cd compilation includes: The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Lydia Lunch with Philippe Petit, Checkpoint 303, Kal Cahoone, Gintas K, Orbit Service, Anla Courtis, Stpo, Jabe Radion Newton and Adi Newton / T.A.G.C., Zeitkratzer, Pietro Riparbelli/K11, Gjoll.PRICE : 15.00 euros with postage included everywhere,payable through Paypal - Published by Associação Chili com Carne and Thisco THISCOvery CChanel collection
Book anthology + cd compilation.
135 PAGES, IN ENGLISH
Featuring articles from:
The anti-civilizationist author JOHN ZERZAN on "Silence".
LIAM SIONNACH from Earth First on " Becoming an Anti-Capitalist Ecological Social Force".
CHAD HENSLEY on " Dead Lays".
EWEN CHARDRONNET on "Molecules of Combat".
IONA MILLER on "Sasha´s Ecstasy & the Agony of CONtrollers".
http://ionamiller2008.iwarp.com/whats_new_19.html
JOE AMBROSE on " The Darker Side of Me - White Irish".
NIGEL AYERS on "All Killer, No Filler".
WILFRED HOU JE BEK on "In Defense of Primate Poetics".
FRANK RYNNE on " Brian Jones Joujouka Rolling Stone".
RANDALL PYKE on " Neo-Anarchist Dream State".
ADI NEWTON and JANE RADION NEWTON on "The Denizens of Beyond".
Antibothis cd compilation includes: The Master Musicians of Joujouka, Lydia Lunch with Philippe Petit, Checkpoint 303, Kal Cahoone, Gintas K, Orbit Service, Anla Courtis, Stpo, Jabe Radion Newton and Adi Newton / T.A.G.C., Zeitkratzer, Pietro Riparbelli/K11, Gjoll.PRICE : 15.00 euros with postage included everywhere,payable through Paypal - Published by Associação Chili com Carne and Thisco THISCOvery CChanel collection
Fall, 2010 - Documentary Video on Georg Dehn's Quest for Abramelin, the Mage;
Arguably the most important occult text in existence. Cryptoporticus Production.
. The Book of Abramelin is the first modern translation of this magical work since Mathers’ original translation over 100 years ago.. It obsessed Aleister Crowley, who was unable to carry through the ritual it describes. Mathers only had a French exemplar of the text. More reliable German versions were discovered and published by Dehn in 1995/2001, in German. This is the English translation of that work. Not only is the language updated, but Georg Dehn, the compiler and editor, has sourced his work from all extant manuscripts, while Mathers used just one. The result is a stunning new translation that has already set the occult world abuzz. " The Book of Abramelin - A New Translation" by Dehn and Guth may very well be the finest contribution to modern esotericism in a generation. The author clearly defines that distinctions between calssical kabbalah, 'mixed-kabbalah,' and the 'Sacred Magic' as he is presenting it. It includes voluminous important material left out of Mathers’ work, including an entire Part 2 filled with magical recipes, important distinctions in the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ritual, and complete word grids that were only partially completed by Mathers. This is an essential work for any serious practicing magician or student of occult history. The ultimate goal of Abramelin's Art is to gain direct conversation with your Holy Guardian Angel. There is also the book Abraham writes to his son, as an explanation of how the Treasure and the Art came into his hands. Anyone familiar with the Mathers version will also recognize the last book. It consists of magical squares that produce sundry effects by way of the spirits that are bound to them. Piety is the pre-requisite for occult power. An 18 month initiation involving fasting, prayer, study of the Holy Books, and doing good deeds, culminating in a union between the prospecive Magi and the Divine, completing both in the process. Features include:
* There is a fourth book, in addition to the three Mathers translated from the French edition. This book deals with what Abraham calls the "mixed kabbalah". It is in effect a formulary of folk cures, charms, and nostrums that are not to be found at all in the Mathers edition.
* Instead of six months, the operation detailed here, is a much more complex 18 months.
* The squares from the final book that mesmerize so many students are completely different in the original German, than they are in the manuscript Mathers had worked from. Instead of 242, mostly incomplete squares, the German manuscripts show 251 squares, and every single one of them is completely filled in. That is to say, the Mathers version gave not only an incomplete list of squares, but out of the ones that are listed, two thirds are not completely filled in. What lines in the squares are filled in, you quickly discover, are misspelled, out of order, and almost wholly in disagreement with the original sources the present author uses.
* The author goes to great lengths retracing the steps of Abraham, making a case for his historcal reality, as well as the hermatage of Abramelin the "old father" himself.
About the Author Abraham von Worms, long thought to be a pseudonymous figure, is nearly conclusively proved to be a well-known 14th century Jewish scholar, Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha Levi Moellin, more commonly known as MaHaRIL. Georg Dehn is a life-long student of all things esoteric, which led him on the quest to not only translate The Book of Abramelin, but also to following the original seeker's footsteps through the Middle East and eventually to the hermitage at Araki. He is the founder and publisher of Edition Araki, a German publishing company specializing in the occult. Dehn is the author of many works, Abramelin being the first to be translated into English. He lives in Leipzig, Germany.
Get the Book: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Abramelin-New-Translation/dp/089254127X
See the Video: [in production]
PREVIEW: Backstory http://ionamiller.weebly.com/quest-for-abrarmelin.html
and film http://ionamiller.weebly.com/abramelin-effect.html
* There is a fourth book, in addition to the three Mathers translated from the French edition. This book deals with what Abraham calls the "mixed kabbalah". It is in effect a formulary of folk cures, charms, and nostrums that are not to be found at all in the Mathers edition.
* Instead of six months, the operation detailed here, is a much more complex 18 months.
* The squares from the final book that mesmerize so many students are completely different in the original German, than they are in the manuscript Mathers had worked from. Instead of 242, mostly incomplete squares, the German manuscripts show 251 squares, and every single one of them is completely filled in. That is to say, the Mathers version gave not only an incomplete list of squares, but out of the ones that are listed, two thirds are not completely filled in. What lines in the squares are filled in, you quickly discover, are misspelled, out of order, and almost wholly in disagreement with the original sources the present author uses.
* The author goes to great lengths retracing the steps of Abraham, making a case for his historcal reality, as well as the hermatage of Abramelin the "old father" himself.
About the Author Abraham von Worms, long thought to be a pseudonymous figure, is nearly conclusively proved to be a well-known 14th century Jewish scholar, Rabbi Jacob ben Moses ha Levi Moellin, more commonly known as MaHaRIL. Georg Dehn is a life-long student of all things esoteric, which led him on the quest to not only translate The Book of Abramelin, but also to following the original seeker's footsteps through the Middle East and eventually to the hermitage at Araki. He is the founder and publisher of Edition Araki, a German publishing company specializing in the occult. Dehn is the author of many works, Abramelin being the first to be translated into English. He lives in Leipzig, Germany.
Get the Book: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Abramelin-New-Translation/dp/089254127X
See the Video: [in production]
PREVIEW: Backstory http://ionamiller.weebly.com/quest-for-abrarmelin.html
and film http://ionamiller.weebly.com/abramelin-effect.html
MONDO 2000 History Project
http://www.mondo2000history.com/ - Io Art
Remember MONDO 2000? If you are one of the original Cyberpunks or MONDOIDS, please enter and sign in as one of the "Usual Suspects"
Remember MONDO 2000? If you are one of the original Cyberpunks or MONDOIDS, please enter and sign in as one of the "Usual Suspects"
Sept. 2010 SITE: Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) Inside Out - Makes Me Want to Psi
http://mankindresearchunlimited.weebly.com/
SPOOKS, KOOKS & ALPHABET SUITS
Each Moment is a Singularity --
ESOTERICS - SCIENCE - INTELLIGENCE: The science of mind-body-environment relationships, psychotronics is an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness.
From the early 1970's through the 1990's, Washington DC-based MRU research was one coherent force behind the paradigm shift that led to the holism revolution, the holographic paradigm, and human potential movement. MRU explored and pioneered New Technologies, Alternative Health Modalities, Consciousness Studies, Radionics and Subtle Energies.
Subjects included psychotronics, quantum mind, bioholography, biophotonics, mindbody, medical meditation, nonlocal healing, futuring, EVP, radionics, stress management, resonance, psychic & paranormal phenomena, scalar physics, psychism, channeling, Kirlian photography, dreamwork, rapid scan medical diagnostics, biofeedback, ESP & hypnosis, hypnotherapy, remote viewing, plasma physics, biomedical engineering, earth energies, mind control, entanglement, UFOs and a variety of other subjects that now captivate the public imagination.
PSYCHOTRONICS: Czech term for “parapsychology” (excluding the study of survival), but embracing certain phenomena that are not now generally accepted as parapsychological. According to (the late) Larissa Vilenskaya (1983, p. 107), the term was first proposed with the analogy of “bionics” in mind, to refer to “the field dealing with the construction of devices capable of enhancing and/or reproducing certain psi phenomena (such as psychokinesis in the case of ‘psychotronic generators’ developed by Robert Pavlita) and later embraced some other phenomena.” [Dale & White, 1977] The science and discipline of how life functions; includes the study of how technology interacts with the human mind, spirit, and body; science, mathematics, philosophy, metaphysics, and esoteric studies are united through the study of psychotronics; it would also include other realities and how we interface with other dimensions of existence; psychotronic devices use radionic tuning to transmit brain waves and are used as mind amplifiers. The first Psychotronic Conference was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in June of 1973.
MRU was among the vanguard that led to a revisioning of forbidden science as well as a holistic worldview, including self-care and self-regulatory practices. The collision of spiritual science with intelligence applications led to a revisioning of the nature of reality and our own reality in terms of extraordinary human potential. It remains for us to implement what was learned for good or evil.
MRU sought to move humanity forward toward a better, sustainable future in which each individual could optimize their own potential in a healthy society. We are in an era when the death of the outworn societal system is leading toward chaos, but a new healthier system can emerge from the chaos of transformation, much like it does in individual therapy when we face our shortcomings, challenges and need for radical change. How well we learn and apply spiritual technologies and compassion may well be key in the global transformative process. At this juncture, where we are merging with our technology we must be proud to be flesh and learn to become more fully human even while we enhance our abilities and performance with hi tech innovations that make us cyborgs (h+) or immerse us in the virtualities of electronic worlds.
MRU inspired later efforts of similar nature such as Journal of Nonlocal & Remote Mental Interaction. JNLRMI is a free online journal offering its readers a forum for the scientific investigation of our human potential. Based on current research in physics, parapsychology and complementary medicine, and drawing on the discipline of meditative arts such as qigong, the discussion revolves around the nature of space-time, causality, and individual selves; focused intentionality as a tool for shaping personal and social reality; the cultivation of mental energy and "psi" abilities; and the creation of global resonance to ensure a peaceful, meaningful and humane future for our planet.
MRU VIDEO -- "NEED TO KNOW" - http://www.vimeo.com/10785553
Below: "The Mothership Has Landed", DFI, Iona Miller, 2009
Each Moment is a Singularity --
ESOTERICS - SCIENCE - INTELLIGENCE: The science of mind-body-environment relationships, psychotronics is an interdisciplinary science concerned with the interactions of matter, energy, and consciousness.
From the early 1970's through the 1990's, Washington DC-based MRU research was one coherent force behind the paradigm shift that led to the holism revolution, the holographic paradigm, and human potential movement. MRU explored and pioneered New Technologies, Alternative Health Modalities, Consciousness Studies, Radionics and Subtle Energies.
Subjects included psychotronics, quantum mind, bioholography, biophotonics, mindbody, medical meditation, nonlocal healing, futuring, EVP, radionics, stress management, resonance, psychic & paranormal phenomena, scalar physics, psychism, channeling, Kirlian photography, dreamwork, rapid scan medical diagnostics, biofeedback, ESP & hypnosis, hypnotherapy, remote viewing, plasma physics, biomedical engineering, earth energies, mind control, entanglement, UFOs and a variety of other subjects that now captivate the public imagination.
PSYCHOTRONICS: Czech term for “parapsychology” (excluding the study of survival), but embracing certain phenomena that are not now generally accepted as parapsychological. According to (the late) Larissa Vilenskaya (1983, p. 107), the term was first proposed with the analogy of “bionics” in mind, to refer to “the field dealing with the construction of devices capable of enhancing and/or reproducing certain psi phenomena (such as psychokinesis in the case of ‘psychotronic generators’ developed by Robert Pavlita) and later embraced some other phenomena.” [Dale & White, 1977] The science and discipline of how life functions; includes the study of how technology interacts with the human mind, spirit, and body; science, mathematics, philosophy, metaphysics, and esoteric studies are united through the study of psychotronics; it would also include other realities and how we interface with other dimensions of existence; psychotronic devices use radionic tuning to transmit brain waves and are used as mind amplifiers. The first Psychotronic Conference was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in June of 1973.
MRU was among the vanguard that led to a revisioning of forbidden science as well as a holistic worldview, including self-care and self-regulatory practices. The collision of spiritual science with intelligence applications led to a revisioning of the nature of reality and our own reality in terms of extraordinary human potential. It remains for us to implement what was learned for good or evil.
MRU sought to move humanity forward toward a better, sustainable future in which each individual could optimize their own potential in a healthy society. We are in an era when the death of the outworn societal system is leading toward chaos, but a new healthier system can emerge from the chaos of transformation, much like it does in individual therapy when we face our shortcomings, challenges and need for radical change. How well we learn and apply spiritual technologies and compassion may well be key in the global transformative process. At this juncture, where we are merging with our technology we must be proud to be flesh and learn to become more fully human even while we enhance our abilities and performance with hi tech innovations that make us cyborgs (h+) or immerse us in the virtualities of electronic worlds.
MRU inspired later efforts of similar nature such as Journal of Nonlocal & Remote Mental Interaction. JNLRMI is a free online journal offering its readers a forum for the scientific investigation of our human potential. Based on current research in physics, parapsychology and complementary medicine, and drawing on the discipline of meditative arts such as qigong, the discussion revolves around the nature of space-time, causality, and individual selves; focused intentionality as a tool for shaping personal and social reality; the cultivation of mental energy and "psi" abilities; and the creation of global resonance to ensure a peaceful, meaningful and humane future for our planet.
MRU VIDEO -- "NEED TO KNOW" - http://www.vimeo.com/10785553
Below: "The Mothership Has Landed", DFI, Iona Miller, 2009
Bio: WORDS AND IMAGES THAT EMANATE FROM THE HEART, PENETRATE THE HEART.
"Lyrical Perceptions & Novel Solutions for One-derous Times"
Breakdown or Breakthrough?
SCIENCE * CONSCIOUSNESS * ACTIVISM
Family Motto: "All things are good to the good." Bonis Omnia Bona
Personal Motto: "lucidius sole lux amicitiae", Friendship is Brighter than the Light of the Sun
"The new media are not ways of relating to us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will." --Marshall McLuhan
“We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience"
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated." --Bertrand Russell
BIO: Hypnotherapist, IONA MILLER is a researcher, filmmaker, and popular writer in future science, intelligence and esoterics. She analyzes the collective psyche and cultural effects of geopolitics, religion, science, art and psychology. She fuses wedging and culture jamming into documentary and art films. The ‘spywhisperer’ has appeared in Nexus and Paranoia, authored several books and international publications. A futurist, analyst, and consultant, specialties of this “Meta Hari” include social engineering, pop culture, pop physics and psychology, media ecology, source mysticism, psi research, esoteric espionage, New Age critique, cults, PSYOPS, mind control countermeasures, creativity, mindbody, well-being, conscious activism, and extraordinary human capacities. In an arena in which it is nearly impossible to unravel "the truth," rather than being interested in unprovable minutiae or untraceable connections, she analyzes general trends visible to all with a startling, unique viewpoint.
FREE RADICAL: Activist Iona Miller, consultant and transdisciplinarian, is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omnisensory fusion of sacred activism, intelligence reform, esoterics, science-art, chaos theory, pop physics, and emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, ultra-science, biophysics, chaos theory, resonant space, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, articulated and tacit knowledge, qabalah, magick, paranormal, media ecology, mind control, paramedia ecology, metaphysics, and cultural filters.
ARTFUL LIVING; HEARTFUL HEALING: I consider myself a SCIENCE-ARTIST. I write about quantum theories of consciousness, but when we make a personal quantum leap the language of science fails, and we must use the contextual language of mysticism, or the graphic depictions of art. Often I am trying to embody and convey the visionary experience of my inner world through symbolic, impressionistic or abstract renderings that resemble my inner vision as much as possible.
This interface is the locus of the jump from the linear to the nonlinear, from the ego to psyche (spirit and soul), and from "knowing about" to "knowing by virtue of identity with" reality. WE ARE THAT. Art is the objective embodiment of the subjective imaginal reality in which we are all immersed.
Inspiration should be a verb, not a noun; it is a complex dynamic, a force of Nature and our nature. When someone asks me what “inspires” me and my artwork, I can’t imagine naming any one thing, or list of “things”. It’s like asking my favorite color. I can’t help but answer, ALL, “all of the Above and Below”. What doesn’t inspire the artistic eye that doesn’t merely “look at”, but “sees through” to the imaginal depth of any given perception or experience? Rather than the impressionistic senses informing the soul, the soul informs the multisensory experience of being. Inspiration means life, the opposite of death. It implies purpose, direction, meaning, ecstasy, creativity.
Any moment can be as inspirational as the next, approached with creativity, self-direction, and life-long learning. Each moment is a singularity. Inspiration can come from an internal movement or sensation, a love affair with color and form, the awe of an incandescent moment, a healing event, even the pain of a soul on fire struggling to express itself or the zeitgeist of the times. All ways of looking at reality are imaginative. When we see soul as the background of all phenomena, we become aware of the animating principle.
The soul in depth psychology is an empirical manifestation of imagination, fantasy, and creativity which is always in the process of becoming--images forming, and dissolving, and forming anew. Imagination is the essence of the life forces, both physical and psychic. It is the hidden ground behind symbol, archetype, metaphor, image. These fantasies always permeate our beliefs, ideas, emotions, and physical nature.
Our imagination is not something possessed by our minds, but the fundamental conscious/unconscious shared field of our psyche, our soul. The imaginal field is not derivative, but the very ground of our existence, conditioning all of our experience. Our psychophysical self embodies our unconscious. Our physical being IS our memory. It is where the personal encounters the transpersonal and finds “I AM That”. Imagination is the primary irreducible activity of the soul.
The image-making psyche or soul is the primary creative capacity, not only in art. Yet, perhaps, this is what is meant when it is said an artist has ‘soul,’ the capacity to draw on the inspirational mythopoetic taproot to Source, the creative field. Imagination is the basis of soul. In fact, to live the artistic life is to live immersed consciously in that aesthetically-nuanced Reality, to find it virtually inescapable.
Personal Motto: "lucidius sole lux amicitiae", Friendship is Brighter than the Light of the Sun
"The new media are not ways of relating to us the "real" world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will." --Marshall McLuhan
“We have learned that we do not see directly, but mediately, and that we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors. Perhaps these subject-lenses have a creative power; perhaps there are no objects.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience"
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated." --Bertrand Russell
BIO: Hypnotherapist, IONA MILLER is a researcher, filmmaker, and popular writer in future science, intelligence and esoterics. She analyzes the collective psyche and cultural effects of geopolitics, religion, science, art and psychology. She fuses wedging and culture jamming into documentary and art films. The ‘spywhisperer’ has appeared in Nexus and Paranoia, authored several books and international publications. A futurist, analyst, and consultant, specialties of this “Meta Hari” include social engineering, pop culture, pop physics and psychology, media ecology, source mysticism, psi research, esoteric espionage, New Age critique, cults, PSYOPS, mind control countermeasures, creativity, mindbody, well-being, conscious activism, and extraordinary human capacities. In an arena in which it is nearly impossible to unravel "the truth," rather than being interested in unprovable minutiae or untraceable connections, she analyzes general trends visible to all with a startling, unique viewpoint.
FREE RADICAL: Activist Iona Miller, consultant and transdisciplinarian, is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omnisensory fusion of sacred activism, intelligence reform, esoterics, science-art, chaos theory, pop physics, and emergent paradigm shift melding experiential psychotherapy, ultra-science, biophysics, chaos theory, resonant space, philosophy, cosmology, healing, creativity, articulated and tacit knowledge, qabalah, magick, paranormal, media ecology, mind control, paramedia ecology, metaphysics, and cultural filters.
ARTFUL LIVING; HEARTFUL HEALING: I consider myself a SCIENCE-ARTIST. I write about quantum theories of consciousness, but when we make a personal quantum leap the language of science fails, and we must use the contextual language of mysticism, or the graphic depictions of art. Often I am trying to embody and convey the visionary experience of my inner world through symbolic, impressionistic or abstract renderings that resemble my inner vision as much as possible.
This interface is the locus of the jump from the linear to the nonlinear, from the ego to psyche (spirit and soul), and from "knowing about" to "knowing by virtue of identity with" reality. WE ARE THAT. Art is the objective embodiment of the subjective imaginal reality in which we are all immersed.
Inspiration should be a verb, not a noun; it is a complex dynamic, a force of Nature and our nature. When someone asks me what “inspires” me and my artwork, I can’t imagine naming any one thing, or list of “things”. It’s like asking my favorite color. I can’t help but answer, ALL, “all of the Above and Below”. What doesn’t inspire the artistic eye that doesn’t merely “look at”, but “sees through” to the imaginal depth of any given perception or experience? Rather than the impressionistic senses informing the soul, the soul informs the multisensory experience of being. Inspiration means life, the opposite of death. It implies purpose, direction, meaning, ecstasy, creativity.
Any moment can be as inspirational as the next, approached with creativity, self-direction, and life-long learning. Each moment is a singularity. Inspiration can come from an internal movement or sensation, a love affair with color and form, the awe of an incandescent moment, a healing event, even the pain of a soul on fire struggling to express itself or the zeitgeist of the times. All ways of looking at reality are imaginative. When we see soul as the background of all phenomena, we become aware of the animating principle.
The soul in depth psychology is an empirical manifestation of imagination, fantasy, and creativity which is always in the process of becoming--images forming, and dissolving, and forming anew. Imagination is the essence of the life forces, both physical and psychic. It is the hidden ground behind symbol, archetype, metaphor, image. These fantasies always permeate our beliefs, ideas, emotions, and physical nature.
Our imagination is not something possessed by our minds, but the fundamental conscious/unconscious shared field of our psyche, our soul. The imaginal field is not derivative, but the very ground of our existence, conditioning all of our experience. Our psychophysical self embodies our unconscious. Our physical being IS our memory. It is where the personal encounters the transpersonal and finds “I AM That”. Imagination is the primary irreducible activity of the soul.
The image-making psyche or soul is the primary creative capacity, not only in art. Yet, perhaps, this is what is meant when it is said an artist has ‘soul,’ the capacity to draw on the inspirational mythopoetic taproot to Source, the creative field. Imagination is the basis of soul. In fact, to live the artistic life is to live immersed consciously in that aesthetically-nuanced Reality, to find it virtually inescapable.
INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION - Novel Phenomenological Viewpoints
Now seeking information is over.
Now spiritual seeking is over.
Now seeking of objects is over.
Now seeking who to blame is over.
Now seeking dark forces behind reality is over.
Now seeking meaning is over.
Now seeking peace is over.
There is but NOTHING NOW.
WANTED: DEAD nor/nand ALIVE...
SEMPER OCCULTUS
META HARI: The Spywhisperer
"Darker than velvet, brighter than diamonds..."
TRANSFORMATION AGENT: Rather than having an interest in specific doctrines, she is interested in the transformations, the EFFECTS of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, politics and the arts. Our beliefs are the moldable raw material of the psyche, manipulated by governments, media and culture. How do we become what we are and how is that process changing in the near future?
META HARI: Performance artist and spywhisperer, Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Dream Network, PM&E, Journal of Nonlocality and Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Chaosophy Journal, OAK, DNA Monthly, Pop Occulture, Schiffer, Bolero, Science-Art Research Centre, and more.
Ms. Miller serves on the Board of Medigrace.org nonprofit organization for CalmBirth.org. She serves on the Editorial Board of Craft: Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions, on the ,Advisory Board of Scientific God Journal, and Associate Editor of Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions. http://www.emergentmind.org/journal.htm
Recent print articles include DNA Decipher Jurnal, Alchemy Journal Vol. 10 No.1, Mar 09 (Australia), Paranoia zine #44, #46, #49, #50 #51 (USA), The Paranoia Reader, HunterGatheress Journal, Vol. I and Vol. II, Green Egg zine #151 & #152, #154, June, August & Dec. 2010, JNLRMI (Russia), Der Golem (Germany), Antibiothis I and III (Portugal), The Art of Fetish (Miami), and Journal of Interdisciplinary Crossroads (India). Her artwork has shown in Miami, Phoenix, New York, in magazines and more. Appearances include "21st Century Radio," "Untamed Dimensions," "Reality Portal," " Digital Long Island," "The Ascending Way," etc. Imprints include Eye-Oh! Productions, SpyCoSomatix, and Digital Diva.
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ARTIST'S STATEMENTS:
"My medium is a Large."
"Artists Do It With Style"
“By 2007, my artistic medium changed: the world is my canvas; intelligence is my medium.”
“If the world is my canvas, the palette is a shapeshifting morphology of belief systems and ideologies."
THERAPIST'S STATEMENT:
"Just as one event can traumatize, one event can heal. I'm more of a Hereapist than a Thereapist."
SPYCOLOGIST'S STATEMENT:
"At the bleeding edge of Intelligence, from Underground to Undercover, things are all spooked up."
"Deep politics is the name for Empire, pump-and-dump economy vs. democracy and legitimate open politics."
WRITER'S STATEMENT:
“I’m the Carrie Bradshaw of conspirituality. Writing for NEXUS and PARANOIA is like writing for the Vogue and Cosmo of conspiracy, only with skeletons in the closet, not Manolo’s.” ~ Iona Miller, “Sects & the Siddhi”
NEW STRATEGIES IN ART & MEDIA:
Media ecology means recycling your images. The ecology of the soul is recycling your consciousness.
COSMOS AS CANVAS: Joseph Campbell's art comment, "The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant," misses the point that in the Information Age, the ground is as or more important than the figure, and both are irreducibly metaphysical in their very essence, a virtuality.
AESTHETIC ARREST is found in the unimaginable grandeur of virtual photon fluctuation creating the continuous illusion of manifestation with a negentropic basis: the void/plenum in continuous emergent manifestation as Light: everything everywhere forever. The Void is not Devoid.
"In Propaganda, Jacques Ellul contends that it is the total culture in action that is propaganda, or teaching. Thus, real propaganda is environmental and invisible, like the perceptual bias of one's native language. The counterenvironments created by the artist serve to raise these hidden environments to the level of conscious appreciation." --McLuhan, From Cliche to Archetype (77)
* Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows?
* As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?
* Can we identify new models to replace the auteur and the artwork? If so, where do they come from and what might that say about the future of critical practices?
* What new kinds of “virtual” spaces, bioart designer bodies and immersive realities are opening up for cultural practice in electronic media? As “old media” begin to collapse under the pressures of the virtual, imaginal and hyperdimensional, what new media can we find?
* How are didactic illustration and channelled dissidence giving way to new forms of surprise, arrest and intensity?
* What strategies elude the creative industries’ seemingly infinite appetite for things radical? Are there any radically decommodified strategies that can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism?
FUTURESHOCK: The next technologies are those of the infinitely small: nanotech, photonics, smart technology, and cold fusion. Psionics will revolutionize culture with both new means of mind control and self-regulation: Electromagic, Yogatronics. Currently, we access computers manually, but soon we will have direct neural interface which will create a form of synthetic telepathy among those with the hook up. Eventually, our machines will share our organic substance and nature. DNA is a versatile component for nano devices and and structures. There are non-biological uses for DNA such as computing devices. DNA is an ideal molecule for building nano-structures that hold molecule-sized electronic devices or hosting crystalline molecules. We will move from silicon circuits toward organic biochips. We are already fusing with our technology as it moves into our bodies. We are becoming cyborgs as tech moves into our bodies for support, repair and enhancement.
CULTURAL ENGINEERING: We will morph from Cyber-culture to PSI-ber Culture, with challenges humanity has never faced. We may not even be "humanity," but trans-human moving toward a post-human hybrid of high tech and tissue as communication and computing technologies amplify. We already have voluntary and synthetic telepathy. The advent of the cellular camera/phone means we are never alone, and always accountable, and surveilled on GPS. Now cellular is beginning to provide mindless entertainment on tiny TV with expanded content. In the global era, there is no more first-person singular. "They" are inside your head and potentially watching and conditioning your every move.
Media ecology means recycling your images. The ecology of the soul is recycling your consciousness.
COSMOS AS CANVAS: Joseph Campbell's art comment, "The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant," misses the point that in the Information Age, the ground is as or more important than the figure, and both are irreducibly metaphysical in their very essence, a virtuality.
AESTHETIC ARREST is found in the unimaginable grandeur of virtual photon fluctuation creating the continuous illusion of manifestation with a negentropic basis: the void/plenum in continuous emergent manifestation as Light: everything everywhere forever. The Void is not Devoid.
"In Propaganda, Jacques Ellul contends that it is the total culture in action that is propaganda, or teaching. Thus, real propaganda is environmental and invisible, like the perceptual bias of one's native language. The counterenvironments created by the artist serve to raise these hidden environments to the level of conscious appreciation." --McLuhan, From Cliche to Archetype (77)
* Beyond the obsolete models of artist or author as genius and their fetish objects, what collective and collaborative practices are inventing new terrains and flows?
* As information and communication technologies saturate our world, how is art giving way to new forms of cultural symbolic manipulation?
* Can we identify new models to replace the auteur and the artwork? If so, where do they come from and what might that say about the future of critical practices?
* What new kinds of “virtual” spaces, bioart designer bodies and immersive realities are opening up for cultural practice in electronic media? As “old media” begin to collapse under the pressures of the virtual, imaginal and hyperdimensional, what new media can we find?
* How are didactic illustration and channelled dissidence giving way to new forms of surprise, arrest and intensity?
* What strategies elude the creative industries’ seemingly infinite appetite for things radical? Are there any radically decommodified strategies that can elude being reduced to styles in the service of sales, or are critical practices doomed to play cat and mouse with the forces of consumerism?
FUTURESHOCK: The next technologies are those of the infinitely small: nanotech, photonics, smart technology, and cold fusion. Psionics will revolutionize culture with both new means of mind control and self-regulation: Electromagic, Yogatronics. Currently, we access computers manually, but soon we will have direct neural interface which will create a form of synthetic telepathy among those with the hook up. Eventually, our machines will share our organic substance and nature. DNA is a versatile component for nano devices and and structures. There are non-biological uses for DNA such as computing devices. DNA is an ideal molecule for building nano-structures that hold molecule-sized electronic devices or hosting crystalline molecules. We will move from silicon circuits toward organic biochips. We are already fusing with our technology as it moves into our bodies. We are becoming cyborgs as tech moves into our bodies for support, repair and enhancement.
CULTURAL ENGINEERING: We will morph from Cyber-culture to PSI-ber Culture, with challenges humanity has never faced. We may not even be "humanity," but trans-human moving toward a post-human hybrid of high tech and tissue as communication and computing technologies amplify. We already have voluntary and synthetic telepathy. The advent of the cellular camera/phone means we are never alone, and always accountable, and surveilled on GPS. Now cellular is beginning to provide mindless entertainment on tiny TV with expanded content. In the global era, there is no more first-person singular. "They" are inside your head and potentially watching and conditioning your every move.
Roy Ascott, 2007
- What futures might emerge at the interface between Trans-Humanism and Neo-Humanism?
- What can Neo-Humanism offer Trans-Humanism, and vice-versa?
- What range of futures might this dialogue and interaction generate feel like?
- Are these futures completely compatible / incompatible, and why?
- What possibilities exist at the interface between progressive socio-ecological values and interacting technologies?
- What strategies might be required to overcome the hegemony of technology and capital over community and values?
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Iona Miller
(c)2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED for this site by Iona Miller, Io Web and SpyCoSomatix. Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. She is a participant, not just commentator. Her conspirituality work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics, source mysticism, and emergent paradigm shift, melding many social issues into a new view of society. She is interested in the effects of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Website: http://ionamiller2010.iwarp.com
Author of THE MODERN ALCHEMIST (Phanes) and MAGICAL & RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES (Destiny, Inner Traditions).
Knowledge is built on experience and opens a window on the future. Iona places a high premium on knowledge, including spiritual knowledge, realizing it cannot remain separate from our daily life activities. The spiritual elements of humanity challenge us to let our highest creative potential emerge. Spirit flowers in self-knowledge. She understands the difference between optimal and maximal performance, realizing well-being is part of the self-management equation.
Human potential experts realize that there is an intuitive quintessential element beyond the rational that transcends intellectual and emotional acceptance. Insight is this kind of knowing. Knowledge Management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice.
We are imaginal beings; we view the world through our rich fantasy lives. The intrapersonal process of art and the products of art have different cultural meanings. However, the primary purpose of art as a culture is to externalize and concretize that ephemeral ever-morphing field of the image-scape. We merge subjective and objective through affective, aesthetic experience. Our cultivation of the soul restores the human dimension to experience, destigmatizing imagination as merely fantasy, illusion, dream, or delusory perception.
The untrained mind is a distorting lens, structured by beliefs, myths, and philosophies, even those of so-called rational science. This is so because the mind is in the Imagination, the Anima Mundi, rather than the reverse. We can’t think without images. Multisensory images constantly condition our meaningful perception of the world, inner and outer. They organize our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior, our responses.
Our images condition our perception and perspective, the way we see. As artists, it isn’t what we see and depict, but how we see it. Traditional art promotes conformity. Interesting art, as distinct from what we could call “sofa art”, has something to say, a unique perspective or point of view that speaks to the observer or participant.
BIG PICTURE: All of Nature and our own nature arises from the omnipresent centerpoint of Zero-Point Energy or vacuum fluctuation, beyond energy/matter. Our whole body flickers in and out of existence at an astounding rate, and each of those quantum recreations is an opportunity to transform utterly. First we have to let go of the old outmoded self like a snake sheds a skin that is too constricting. Re-creation emerges spontaneously in a new form as transformation and healing.
Emergent healing is the result of self-organizing criticality, inevitability of global change, restored organismic integrity. Our own personal Zero-Point is our core self which connects us directly with our subspace Source. When we stray too far from our own core beliefs, self-image and self-expression, we feel like we aren't ourselves. Once we reconnect with that core we feel that all is in alignment, including our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual domains. We feel like ourselves, in our own rhythm, and aligned with Cosmos. This is the authentic life.
Change happens at the creative edge of order and chaos, the Known and the Unknown. Where are the boundaries of conscious experience and self, and why do these boundaries exist? What is beyond this mystic veil? How do boundaries, roles and pathology develop in interaction with parents, caregivers and others? In what ways are they conditioned by prevailing systems of belief, philosophy, sociocultural history, and environment?
Presencing: Growth, Meditation, Manifestation: Presencing is a method of self-inquiry that scans the body, mind, and emotions for what is Present at that time. What is present is often the tip of the iceberg, a barely recognizable "feeler" put out by your higher self to try and get your attention. Your higher self tries to get you to notice something, some resistance, some karmic / emotional / physical pattern that requires release before your evolution / understanding / manifestation can proceed smoothly. What appears as something minor, can often be a significant guide to your healing and mental / emotional / spiritual progress. The small self tends to defend against this knowledge and self-responsibility, repressing self-knowledge and projecting responsibility externally. Until we are fully self-aware and claim responsibility for, and mastery of our thoughts and emotions, our progress will be slowed. Allowing the unimpeded flow of what needs to shift, heal, and be recognized within ourselves creates a profound and simple process of self-knowledge and emotional freedom. The energy trapped in subconscious repression and external projection is then freed to create empowerment, joy, and creativity.
Meditation: Meditation is represented as developing the ability to still the mind.Yet the mind resists this. The brain is designed to process information for survival and growth and resists letting go of this function. The very process of "stilling the mind" can become an active repression of coded information valuable to a more highly efficient process of self-knowledge. No amount of "stilling" will negate the noise until its message is received and integrated. Presencing or mindfulness allows these messages / feelings / distractions to reveal their hidden wisdom. For some, the Presencing Process is so efficient that within a few minutes a person can achieve deeper states of meditation, peace, and joy than they thought possible.
Therapy / Communication Skills: As a therapeutic modality, Presencing presents a palette of mindbody tools to create a more holistic approach to healing. One of the difficulties with verbal therapy is that, well, we lie! Even when we think we are telling the truth, we tend to edit, rationalize, and project as defense mechanisms. We have "sleeper cells" deep within us that press our subconscious agenda. The mind and the mouth can lie, but this is not so with the body. The body is always broadcasting our truth. Being present and simply aware is a simple and more gentle path to the same end. No stress, strain, or catharsis is required. Truth, freedom and release from past trauma can be achieved through attention, recognition and validation of both mental / emotional and somatic content.
Manifestation: One reason we often find it difficult to create what we want is that we are asking for what we don't. Our subconscious mind / emotions may be broadcasting antithetical requests sequentially or simultaneously. We are both asking for what we want and what we don't. No wonder Universal Mind is confused! The subconscious cannot recognize a negatively-framed seed idea. To effectively attract what we want, we must clear ourselves of magical thinking and the subconscious resistances and counter messages we are broadcasting. Presencing helps us sow the right seed.
Metaphysics: It’s Not What You Think
***meta- (also met- before a vowel or h) combining form
1 denoting a change of position or condition : metamorphosis | metathesis.
2 denoting position behind, after, or beyond: : metacarpus.
3 denoting something of a higher or second-order kind : metalanguage
METAPHYSICS means neither supernatural nor magical. It means ‘beyond physics,’ beyond the observables of particles and describes the non-physicality of virtual vacuum field effects, at least in current usage. They are real but inherently non-observable energy dynamics whose EFFECTS are never-the-less observable.
Author of THE MODERN ALCHEMIST (Phanes) and MAGICAL & RITUAL USE OF PERFUMES (Destiny, Inner Traditions).
Knowledge is built on experience and opens a window on the future. Iona places a high premium on knowledge, including spiritual knowledge, realizing it cannot remain separate from our daily life activities. The spiritual elements of humanity challenge us to let our highest creative potential emerge. Spirit flowers in self-knowledge. She understands the difference between optimal and maximal performance, realizing well-being is part of the self-management equation.
Human potential experts realize that there is an intuitive quintessential element beyond the rational that transcends intellectual and emotional acceptance. Insight is this kind of knowing. Knowledge Management (KM) comprises a range of strategies and practices used to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. Such insights and experiences comprise knowledge, either embodied in individuals or embedded in organizational processes or practice.
We are imaginal beings; we view the world through our rich fantasy lives. The intrapersonal process of art and the products of art have different cultural meanings. However, the primary purpose of art as a culture is to externalize and concretize that ephemeral ever-morphing field of the image-scape. We merge subjective and objective through affective, aesthetic experience. Our cultivation of the soul restores the human dimension to experience, destigmatizing imagination as merely fantasy, illusion, dream, or delusory perception.
The untrained mind is a distorting lens, structured by beliefs, myths, and philosophies, even those of so-called rational science. This is so because the mind is in the Imagination, the Anima Mundi, rather than the reverse. We can’t think without images. Multisensory images constantly condition our meaningful perception of the world, inner and outer. They organize our beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and behavior, our responses.
Our images condition our perception and perspective, the way we see. As artists, it isn’t what we see and depict, but how we see it. Traditional art promotes conformity. Interesting art, as distinct from what we could call “sofa art”, has something to say, a unique perspective or point of view that speaks to the observer or participant.
BIG PICTURE: All of Nature and our own nature arises from the omnipresent centerpoint of Zero-Point Energy or vacuum fluctuation, beyond energy/matter. Our whole body flickers in and out of existence at an astounding rate, and each of those quantum recreations is an opportunity to transform utterly. First we have to let go of the old outmoded self like a snake sheds a skin that is too constricting. Re-creation emerges spontaneously in a new form as transformation and healing.
Emergent healing is the result of self-organizing criticality, inevitability of global change, restored organismic integrity. Our own personal Zero-Point is our core self which connects us directly with our subspace Source. When we stray too far from our own core beliefs, self-image and self-expression, we feel like we aren't ourselves. Once we reconnect with that core we feel that all is in alignment, including our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual domains. We feel like ourselves, in our own rhythm, and aligned with Cosmos. This is the authentic life.
Change happens at the creative edge of order and chaos, the Known and the Unknown. Where are the boundaries of conscious experience and self, and why do these boundaries exist? What is beyond this mystic veil? How do boundaries, roles and pathology develop in interaction with parents, caregivers and others? In what ways are they conditioned by prevailing systems of belief, philosophy, sociocultural history, and environment?
Presencing: Growth, Meditation, Manifestation: Presencing is a method of self-inquiry that scans the body, mind, and emotions for what is Present at that time. What is present is often the tip of the iceberg, a barely recognizable "feeler" put out by your higher self to try and get your attention. Your higher self tries to get you to notice something, some resistance, some karmic / emotional / physical pattern that requires release before your evolution / understanding / manifestation can proceed smoothly. What appears as something minor, can often be a significant guide to your healing and mental / emotional / spiritual progress. The small self tends to defend against this knowledge and self-responsibility, repressing self-knowledge and projecting responsibility externally. Until we are fully self-aware and claim responsibility for, and mastery of our thoughts and emotions, our progress will be slowed. Allowing the unimpeded flow of what needs to shift, heal, and be recognized within ourselves creates a profound and simple process of self-knowledge and emotional freedom. The energy trapped in subconscious repression and external projection is then freed to create empowerment, joy, and creativity.
Meditation: Meditation is represented as developing the ability to still the mind.Yet the mind resists this. The brain is designed to process information for survival and growth and resists letting go of this function. The very process of "stilling the mind" can become an active repression of coded information valuable to a more highly efficient process of self-knowledge. No amount of "stilling" will negate the noise until its message is received and integrated. Presencing or mindfulness allows these messages / feelings / distractions to reveal their hidden wisdom. For some, the Presencing Process is so efficient that within a few minutes a person can achieve deeper states of meditation, peace, and joy than they thought possible.
Therapy / Communication Skills: As a therapeutic modality, Presencing presents a palette of mindbody tools to create a more holistic approach to healing. One of the difficulties with verbal therapy is that, well, we lie! Even when we think we are telling the truth, we tend to edit, rationalize, and project as defense mechanisms. We have "sleeper cells" deep within us that press our subconscious agenda. The mind and the mouth can lie, but this is not so with the body. The body is always broadcasting our truth. Being present and simply aware is a simple and more gentle path to the same end. No stress, strain, or catharsis is required. Truth, freedom and release from past trauma can be achieved through attention, recognition and validation of both mental / emotional and somatic content.
Manifestation: One reason we often find it difficult to create what we want is that we are asking for what we don't. Our subconscious mind / emotions may be broadcasting antithetical requests sequentially or simultaneously. We are both asking for what we want and what we don't. No wonder Universal Mind is confused! The subconscious cannot recognize a negatively-framed seed idea. To effectively attract what we want, we must clear ourselves of magical thinking and the subconscious resistances and counter messages we are broadcasting. Presencing helps us sow the right seed.
Metaphysics: It’s Not What You Think
***meta- (also met- before a vowel or h) combining form
1 denoting a change of position or condition : metamorphosis | metathesis.
2 denoting position behind, after, or beyond: : metacarpus.
3 denoting something of a higher or second-order kind : metalanguage
METAPHYSICS means neither supernatural nor magical. It means ‘beyond physics,’ beyond the observables of particles and describes the non-physicality of virtual vacuum field effects, at least in current usage. They are real but inherently non-observable energy dynamics whose EFFECTS are never-the-less observable.
EGO 101 - Letting go of the ego
Our ego is a major obstacle to our contact with our higher self. It is difficult to be happy when we are enclosed in our ego, because it is a very insecure being, without its own inner resources. It is consistently looking outwards in order to find security, self-worth and happiness.
In order to gradually become free from the ego, we can observe it and choose to abstain from its main activities such as:
1.Criticizing, rejecting, judging and condemning.
2.Arguing to prove it is right and the others wrong.
3.Feeling offended and or rejected.
4.Comparing itself with others.
5.Fearing and being anxious.
6.Feeling guilty.
7.Living in the past.
8.Living in the future.
9.Feeling angry with others.
10.Being attached to external sources of self-worth, security, love, meaning etc.
These are some of the characteristics of the ego. You will naturally notice that we have described 99.9 % of all human behavior, because in fact we are basically controlled by our egos. Our freedom to be happy, peaceful, loving and powerfully creative beings lies in observing the ego as witnesses, realizing that we are not it, and in gradually allowing it to attenuate by avoiding the above-mentioned activities.
Loving Our Egos
We are not our egos just as we are not our cars, computers, or any other machine that serves our needs. We do not want to reject or conflict with our egos. That will not be productive, just as it would no be useful to hate or conflict with our car or computer. We need to love and educate our egos.
The first step is to observe them, without judgment or negative feelings; watching and learning how they work. When do they become fearful, hurt or angry? Under what conditions do they become self-center and selfish? What do they fear that causes them to become indifferent or angry or hateful? What needs causes them to conflict with other egos? To which emotions have they become addicted and frequently seek to recreate? Which past experiences have they not yet overcome? To whom and what are they attached?
What are their hot buttons that cause them to either withdraw or lash out angrily? What do they reject about themselves? What do they feel the need to criticize in others? What do they fear most of all? When do they doubt themselves most? How do they seek to get approval from others? From whom do they need approval most? To whom have they given the power to accept or reject them?
Which are their strongest attachments? How do they measure their self-worth? With whom do they compare themselves and in relationship to what? When do they feel safe and when do they feel insecure? To which roles are they most attached? Where have they lost their objectivity? Where are they projecting their own subjective reality onto others and to life?
When do they react unreasonably because they fear that their freedom is in danger? Which habits have they developed that are harming them or others? Where are they resisting change and evolution? What do they need in order to accept and love themselves? What do they need in order to feel secure?
These observations are to be done with total acceptance and without any rejection or criticism. We can imagine that we are observing our beloved child who has not yet become mature. We love this child. We want it to be happy and we are observing how it functions so that we can help it. And if we find that our child is unhappy or fighting with the other children, we will seek to help it mature.
The next step is to educate and heal our egos. This process requires a spherical approach including observation, analysis, self-acceptance, energy psychology in order to get free from the effect of past experiences, the study of our true spiritual nature and the transcendence of the mind through meditation. These are the subject matter of self-knowledge seminars. The first aspect of the work is to understand how our egos become identified with specific roles and then become lost in a web of attachments, fears and negative reactions.
Our ego is a major obstacle to our contact with our higher self. It is difficult to be happy when we are enclosed in our ego, because it is a very insecure being, without its own inner resources. It is consistently looking outwards in order to find security, self-worth and happiness.
In order to gradually become free from the ego, we can observe it and choose to abstain from its main activities such as:
1.Criticizing, rejecting, judging and condemning.
2.Arguing to prove it is right and the others wrong.
3.Feeling offended and or rejected.
4.Comparing itself with others.
5.Fearing and being anxious.
6.Feeling guilty.
7.Living in the past.
8.Living in the future.
9.Feeling angry with others.
10.Being attached to external sources of self-worth, security, love, meaning etc.
These are some of the characteristics of the ego. You will naturally notice that we have described 99.9 % of all human behavior, because in fact we are basically controlled by our egos. Our freedom to be happy, peaceful, loving and powerfully creative beings lies in observing the ego as witnesses, realizing that we are not it, and in gradually allowing it to attenuate by avoiding the above-mentioned activities.
Loving Our Egos
We are not our egos just as we are not our cars, computers, or any other machine that serves our needs. We do not want to reject or conflict with our egos. That will not be productive, just as it would no be useful to hate or conflict with our car or computer. We need to love and educate our egos.
The first step is to observe them, without judgment or negative feelings; watching and learning how they work. When do they become fearful, hurt or angry? Under what conditions do they become self-center and selfish? What do they fear that causes them to become indifferent or angry or hateful? What needs causes them to conflict with other egos? To which emotions have they become addicted and frequently seek to recreate? Which past experiences have they not yet overcome? To whom and what are they attached?
What are their hot buttons that cause them to either withdraw or lash out angrily? What do they reject about themselves? What do they feel the need to criticize in others? What do they fear most of all? When do they doubt themselves most? How do they seek to get approval from others? From whom do they need approval most? To whom have they given the power to accept or reject them?
Which are their strongest attachments? How do they measure their self-worth? With whom do they compare themselves and in relationship to what? When do they feel safe and when do they feel insecure? To which roles are they most attached? Where have they lost their objectivity? Where are they projecting their own subjective reality onto others and to life?
When do they react unreasonably because they fear that their freedom is in danger? Which habits have they developed that are harming them or others? Where are they resisting change and evolution? What do they need in order to accept and love themselves? What do they need in order to feel secure?
These observations are to be done with total acceptance and without any rejection or criticism. We can imagine that we are observing our beloved child who has not yet become mature. We love this child. We want it to be happy and we are observing how it functions so that we can help it. And if we find that our child is unhappy or fighting with the other children, we will seek to help it mature.
The next step is to educate and heal our egos. This process requires a spherical approach including observation, analysis, self-acceptance, energy psychology in order to get free from the effect of past experiences, the study of our true spiritual nature and the transcendence of the mind through meditation. These are the subject matter of self-knowledge seminars. The first aspect of the work is to understand how our egos become identified with specific roles and then become lost in a web of attachments, fears and negative reactions.
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Meditation Mandala --Philosopher's Stone
IT WAS A MINERAL SUBSTANCE, dense and opaque, it was melted and became transparent glass and then became much finer glass. And then this latter had been subjected for the first time to fusion and projection of the white Elixir, it became incandscent crystal. It was fused a second time and the Elixir was projected on it, it became diamond. Place it on an anvil, strike it with a hammer, it will dent the anvil and the hammer but it will not break. Strike it with a piece of lead and it will break into cubiform fragments.
This is the true sign that it really is diamond, but if it has become diamond it is also a sign that the diamond was hidden in the essential depths of the mineral substance, because, in fact, the composition of the latter is the result of two well-known principles, mercury and sulphur, according to what is established in physics.
And this diamond, separated from the crystal, this crystal separated from the glass, this glass separated from its mineral opacity, is homologous to the 'Resurrection Body' of the faithful believer in the Paradise of the future Aeon (that is to say jism B, the essential archetypal body, the corpus supra coeleste, the 'diamond body'). ~ Shaikh Ahmad Ahsa'i (Article IX, Spiritual Body & Celestial Earth, Henry Corbin).
"The Diamond Body" by Iona Miller, acrylic on canvas
IT WAS A MINERAL SUBSTANCE, dense and opaque, it was melted and became transparent glass and then became much finer glass. And then this latter had been subjected for the first time to fusion and projection of the white Elixir, it became incandscent crystal. It was fused a second time and the Elixir was projected on it, it became diamond. Place it on an anvil, strike it with a hammer, it will dent the anvil and the hammer but it will not break. Strike it with a piece of lead and it will break into cubiform fragments.
This is the true sign that it really is diamond, but if it has become diamond it is also a sign that the diamond was hidden in the essential depths of the mineral substance, because, in fact, the composition of the latter is the result of two well-known principles, mercury and sulphur, according to what is established in physics.
And this diamond, separated from the crystal, this crystal separated from the glass, this glass separated from its mineral opacity, is homologous to the 'Resurrection Body' of the faithful believer in the Paradise of the future Aeon (that is to say jism B, the essential archetypal body, the corpus supra coeleste, the 'diamond body'). ~ Shaikh Ahmad Ahsa'i (Article IX, Spiritual Body & Celestial Earth, Henry Corbin).
"The Diamond Body" by Iona Miller, acrylic on canvas
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