FLY AGARIC 23 (talk back post back from 2019)

GENERATION P: An Interview with Director Victor Ginzburg

2012-02-08T18:17:00.000-08:00

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Generation P

Generation P

An Interview with Director Victor Ginzburg

Friday, January 27, 2012

his year’s most stoner-friendly film during SBIFF is surely Generation P, which involves trips on both fly agaric mushrooms and LSD for our protagonist as he navigates the early days of post-Soviet Russia working in advertising man and caught up in a Babylonian cult that runs the world through media manipulation. It’s got lots of hilarity and trippy visuals wrapped up in symbolism and social commentary, plenty to chew on for even the most sober of us.
Director Victor Ginzburg recently answered a few of my questions via email.

There seems to be a wave of films coming out of Russia about the transition from the Soviet era. Does that mean that enough time has passed for filmmakers to reflect with some meaning on that time period?
There’s definitely a civil reawakening going on in Russian society today, and a certain re-evaluation of the past, but I don’t think the same thing is happening in Russian film (excluding documentary). Russian cinema hasn’t really dealt with the revolutionary period of the ‘90s, and the Putin era in any meaningful way. It doesn’t deal with political issues. The Russian film industry hasn’t produced any real sharp anti-government satire or political films since the ‘90s.
Filmmaking in Russia today is split between thre genres: Festival genre, the brooding, dark, and slow pseudo-Tarkovsky product for Euro festival elite, that don’t get released in Russia, because Russian viewers don’t want to see these films; imitation Hollywood B-movies; and “patriotic films” which are either period war epics or Special Ops films. All of the above are financed by the government and TV networks. There’s no foul language or politics, due to “self-censorship”, born out of fear of not getting the next project financed. It’s all toothless.

Generation P was a huge game changer in that sense. There was real fear on the part of my distributor and investors that Gen P will not be granted the “distribution license” due to foul language and politics, including a scene with “banned” oligarch Berezovsky, and the scene of the creation of Putin-like virtual president, and his virtual inauguration in Kremlin, where I used real footage of Putin’s inauguration.

But after four years in stop-and-go independent production, and lots of press, the buzz was so strong, and Facebook and Yandex (Russia biggest search engine) becoming our partners in the Russian release, nobody could stop us. So I believe Gen P is the only contemporary Russian film to meaningfully reflect on the ‘90s, and I’m happy to have helped to fill that vacuum.

Was the process of converting this book into a film difficult?
This is a story without a classic plot structure, there’s no conflict or a love interest or a bag full of money that we’re chasing. But that’s exactly what I liked about this story. It’s driven first and foremost by ideas and energy, and the suspense comes from punchy dialog and amazing characters. There was a lot of interior monologue and thought process in the novel, that had to be radically re-conceptualized, as well as the entire Babylonian storyline and the hallucination sequences.

Also, a lot of Pelevin’s dialog was so great, that I couldn’t get the script below 220 pages, as opposed to standard 120. My co-writer Djina helped my tremendously as we were rewriting it constantly on the set, looking for the balance in the story. I shot a lot of extra footage, as opposed to cutting out the pages. It was a calculated expense. You could say that the final draft was “written” in the editing room, where the film found its current pace, and I finally have a 120 page script.

I imagine that advertising was a pretty wide open business with the fall of communism. Is this based on personal experience, or on the experience of others who were in advertising?
Russian advertising was wild and crazy in the ‘90s, free of any rules of aesthetics, history, or regulations. It ranged from terrible to brilliant. Advertising serves a symbolic role in the film. It’s like an interface through which Babylen starts to see the new world. This matrix evolves right in front of our eyes and becomes the virtual world that we live in today.

Drugs are obviously a big part of the film. Was there a boom in psychedelics and cocaine with the fall of communism? How about fly agarics? Are those consumed by in contemporary Russian culture?
Historically, Russians prefer to hallucinate on vodka. LSD and hallucinogenic culture, such as Castaneda literature, arrived in Russia with the end of the Soviet Union, along with the branding and consumerism. For Babylen Tatarsky, it’s gateway to Ishtar, the goddess of these new values. It is also a way to enhance his creativity, but once there, he discovers new revelations about himself and the world.

So in way, LSD serves a spiritual purpose to Babylen’s search for meaning and self understanding, just like it would be for any young person in today’s complex world.

On а more strategic level, for the purpose of telling this story, drug-induced hallucinations serve to introduce the viewer to the concept of the alternative reality that we arrive at towards the end of the film, the virtual world of politics and branding, where you’re led to believe that a politician is more than a TV show or that a given product can bring you happiness.

What’s your fascination with Babylonian mythology?
We worship the same gods of glamour, money, and blood.

The idea of supercontrol of politics doesn’t seem too far from the truth, whether in Putin’s Russia or the corporate world’s America. Do you see films like yours calling attention to that, or is this just an absurd exercise in a fun movie?
I really hope that the film works on a few levels: as a fun ride with a real belly laugh, as biting political satire, and a philosophical tale about the contemporary world. There’s a wide audience out there of smart and interested people that can really dig this.

Generation P screens on Friday, January 27, 7:20 p.m., at the Metro 4 and again on Wednesday, February 1, 10:20 p.m., at the Metro 4, and Saturday, February 4, 1:20 p.m. at the Metro 4.

http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jan/27/generation-p/

Bioluminescence and Sensibility (Glowing Flying Agaricus Jellyfish)

2012-02-05T15:40:00.000-08:00

HI, I would like to jump off here, and launch into a new hypothesis based upon my own research into bioluminescense, mycology and species symbiosis. The question is somewhat posed, and an answer already hinted at: that the glowing shrooms do so to possibly attract critters that like to eat insects, insects that would otherwise eat them; such as flies, beetles, ants etc. Here's the full quote:

"Yet the reason why mushrooms glow has not come to light. One hypothesis is this attracts insects and aids spore dispersal. However, in jack o’lanterns, the foxfire comes from the mycelium or root-like network that gathers food for the fungus.

"We have no idea yet why this happens," said Desjardin. "Maybe the mycelium is glowing to attract the enemy of these insects, and will eat them before they can eat the mycelium. But we don’t have any data to support this."

Desjardin has studied bioluminescent fungi from all over the world to determine why and how this happens, and whether it is the same chemical phenomenon occurring in each species."

The reason why mushrooms glow? well to communicate seems one sensible and very general reason. But, communicate what, and why. (the same chemical phenomena, Yes, I say Yes, the same, with a common, extra-terrestrial origin, maybe, who knows?)

Here I am, if you have eyes to see, generally sums up the glowing activity, for humans however, in 2012 ,the message from glowing mushrooms maybe interpreted to be more profound, more meaningful than simply saying 'Here I am', I think.

Maybe the mushrooms helps us remember the saying from Scotus Eriugena 'All things that are, are lights', also the title of a book by Robert Shea, co-author of Illuminatus Trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson.

Maybe the discovery of 'Luciferin' in Fungi from around the world, joining fungus with other glow in the dark' earth based life-forms like 'fireflies' 'jellyfish' 'anglerfish' 'Arctic Krill' 'squid' and many species of plankton and...here's the list from wiki:

Terrestrial organisms

Animals:

certain arthropods
- fireflies
- click beetles
- glow worms
  - railroad worms
- certain mycetophilid flies
- certain centipedes such as Geophilus carpophagus ^[9]
- certain millipedes such as Motyxia ^[10]
a terrestrial mollusc (a tropical land snail)
- Quantula striata
annelids

Fungi:

Mushrooms (see Foxfire)
- Jack O'Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius)
- ghost fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis)
- Honey mushroom
- Panellus stipticus
- several species of Mycena

[edit] Fish

[edit] Marine invertebrates

many cnidarians
- Sea pens
- coral
- Aequorea victoria, a jellyfish
certain Ctenophores or "comb jellies"
certain echinoderms (e.g. Ophiurida)
certain crustaceans
certain chaetognaths
certain molluscs
- certain clams, bivalves
- certain nudibranchs, sea slugs
- Octopus
  - Bolitaenidae
- the order Teuthida

[edit] Microorganisms

Dinoflagellates (e.g. Noctiluca scintillans, Pyrodimium bahamense)^[11]
Vibrionaceae (e.g. Vibrio fischeri, Vibrio harveyi, Vibrio phosphoreum)
Members of the marine bacterial family Shewanellaceae, Shewanella hanedai and Shewanella woodyi have also been shown to be bioluminescent
Fungi – A total of 71 species are bioluminescent^[12] including species of Armillaria, Omphalotus, Mycena, Gerronema, Pleurotus.

Above: FOXFIRE (FIREFOX?)

So, to be bold, maybe the mushrooms glow and the fish and insects glow as a way to show how a special chain of evolution can teach us a lot about species symbiosis.

Micro-organisms, land fungus, insects, fish, must have some evolutionary chronology, how did bioluminesence pass from species to species and in what order? I wonder. Maybe in the planets long past, bioluminescense was more wide spread, and stronger in its effect?

Maybe 'Luciferin' the active ingrediant in Bioluminescense that makes stuff 'glow' will be found to have extra-terrestrial origins, and add moe evidence to the theories of 'panspermia' and the idea that life on earth was seeded from somewhere else outside the current biosphere, and futhermore that most probably this seeding was done by way of 'spores' travelling on meteorites? who knows, what are some of the other alternatives? Adam and Eve? Darwin's natural selection and evolution based upon the survival of the fittest? there are many more, I just wish to suggest that the recurring, unanswered question of the origins of DNA based life on this planet have a pretty good answer, to my mind, in the 'panspermia' model created by Sir Francis Crick and modified by the likes of Terence Mckenna, Paul Stamets and others.

The glowing mushrooms and the other bioluminescent species want to tell us that 'light' is very important, maybe we can somehow learn how to change from A FOSSIL FUEL AND CARBON BASED WORLD ILLUMINATION SYSTEM TO A BIO-CHEMICAL SYSTEM BY UTILIZING THE POWER OF BIOLUMINESCENCE CUTTING THE GLOBAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION MASSIVELY.

Why, this stuff even looks like Krytonite to major energy companies or lighting businesses. Natural organic light, free and glowing all day and all night if you want it!

HERE'S THE FULL ARTICLE:

Love and peas, fly agaric 23

Bioluminescent Brazilian Mushroom Shines Like a Night Light

Epoch Times Staff Created: July 6, 2011 Last Updated: July 6, 2011

Related articles: Science » Inspiring Discoveries

Neonothopanus gardneri shines brightly enough to read a book by. (Cassius V. Stevani/IQ-USP, Brazil)

A forgotten fungus found in 1840 has been reclassified and its glowing properties studied to understand how and why it shines brightly enough to read a book by.
In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner discovered the fungus over 170 years ago when he saw children playing with the glowing object, which they called “flor-de-coco.” Gardner sent a sample to England’s Kew Herbarium and it was classified as Agaricus gardneri.
The mushroom is bioluminescent, ie it produces a glowing light, like fireflies and some jellyfish. This phenomenon is also known as “foxfire” and is seen in some other fungi like jack o’lantern mushrooms.
However, what makes these fungi glow, and why, are questions that present-day researchers want to answer.

To find new specimens of the fungus, Dennis Desjardin at San Francisco State University and Cassius Stevani at the University of Sao Paulo went hunting in Brazilian forests. They had to "go out on new moon nights and stumble around in the forest, running into trees," said Desjardin in a press release.

Using digital cameras, the scientists took photos of potentially biolumiscent fungi to check the images for any glow invisible to the naked eye, and located new specimens of the forgotten mushroom.
After examining samples to determine the mushroom’s anatomy, physiology and genetics, they reclassified it as Neonothopanus gardneri.

The green glow of Neonothopanus gardneri found by researchers on new moon nights, stumbling around in the forest, running into trees in Brazil. (Cassius V. Stevani/IQ-USP, Brazil)

The scientists have theorized that the mushroom bioluminesces like a firefly, using a mixture of luciferin and the enzyme luciferase to emit light via a reaction with oxygen and water. However, they have been unable to locate these compounds in the fungus.

"They glow 24 hours a day, as long as water and oxygen are available," said Desjardin. "But animals only produce this light in spurts. This tells us that the chemical that is acted upon by the enzyme in mushrooms has to be readily available and abundant."

Yet the reason why mushrooms glow has not come to light. One hypothesis is this attracts insects and aids spore dispersal. However, in jack o’lanterns, the foxfire comes from the mycelium or root-like network that gathers food for the fungus.

"We have no idea yet why this happens," said Desjardin. "Maybe the mycelium is glowing to attract the enemy of these insects, and will eat them before they can eat the mycelium. But we don’t have any data to support this."

Desjardin has studied bioluminescent fungi from all over the world to determine why and how this happens, and whether it is the same chemical phenomenon occurring in each species.

RAWIllumination.net: Fly Agaric on RAW sharing with his readers

2012-02-03T08:18:00.000-08:00

RAWIllumination.net: Fly Agaric on RAW sharing with his readers: Steven Pratt aka Fly Agaric announced his new piece on Robert Anton Wilson as an "article" for his Twitter followers, which of course inc...

Robert Anton Wilson via. Bell's Theorem, No-cloning theorem, holographic principle and black hole complimentarity

2012-01-30T12:41:00.000-08:00

From reading aloud 'The Law's of acceleration by Robert Anton Wilson today, from his book 'Cosmic Trigger' I was reminded of his exponential, holographic prose, and his taking part in the Physics Consciousness Research Insitute in Berkeley where he met Saul Paul Sirag, Jack Sarfatti and other experimental, open minded physicists.

In Saul Paul Sirag's great epilogue to 'Cosmic Trigger' he mentions his interest in Arthur Eddington, and his imapct on his 1977 published paper 'A combination derivation of the Proton-Electron mass ratio' which includes the discovery that 'Baryon' numbers are created.

Baryon caught my eye in the wiki' entry for 'Black Hole' Complimentarity:

The stretched horizon is conducting with surface charges which rapidly spread out over the horizon.
Global symmetries don't exist in quantum gravity. Baryon number is violated, but only at very small scales, and the proton has a very long lifetime. But with a short enough time resolution, the proton oscillates between different baryon numbers and the time warping near the horizon magnifies that. Alternatively, the hot temperatures of the stretched horizon cause the proton to decay. But an infalling observer never has time to see the proton decay.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity

So I jumped into wikipedia and here's a few cutting to allow you to follow my trane' of thoughts. Where do they go?

--Steve fly agaric 23 Pratt. January 30th 2012. Amsterdam

Bell's theorem and no-cloning theorem

members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group latched onto a topic, known as "Bell's theorem," and rescued it from a decade of unrelenting obscurity. The theorem ... stipulated that quantum objects that had once interacted would retain some strange link or connection, even after they had moved arbitrarily far apart from each other. ... Working in various genres and media, the Fundamental Fysiks Group grappled with Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement. ... In the process, they forced a few of their physicist peers to pay attention to the topic ... From these battles, quantum information science was born.The hippie physicists' concerted push on Bell's theorem and quantum entanglement instigated major breakthroughs ... The most important became known as the "no-cloning theorem," a new insight into quantum theory that emerged from spirited efforts to wrestle with hypothetical machines dreamed up by members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group.^{[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Fysiks_Group}

NO-CLONING THEOREM

There is a classical analogue to the quantum no-cloning theorem, which we might state as follows: given only the result of one flip of a (possibly biased) coin, we cannot simulate a second, independent toss of the same coin. The proof of this statement uses the linearity of classical probability, and has exactly the same structure as the proof of the quantum no-cloning theorem. Thus if we wish to claim that no-cloning is a uniquely quantum result, some care is necessary in stating the theorem. One way of restricting the result to quantum mechanics is to restrict the states to pure states, where a pure state is defined to be one that is not a convex combination of other states. The classical pure states are pairwise orthogonal, but quantum pure states are not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

BLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX:
(Navigating the Holographic Labyrinth-Horizon's)

Hawking remained convinced that the equations of black hole thermodynamics together with the no-hair theorem led to the conclusion that quantum information may be destroyed. This annoyed many physicists, notably John Preskill, who in 1997 bet Hawking and Kip Thorne that information was not lost in black holes. The implications Hawking had opined led to the Susskind-Hawking battle, where Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft publicly 'declared war' on Hawking's solution, with Susskind publishing a popular book about the debate in 2008 (The Black Hole War: My battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics, ISBN 9780316016407). The book carefully notes that the "war" was purely a scientific one, and that at a personal level, the participants remained friends.^[2] The solution to the problem that concluded the battle is the holographic principle, which was first proposed by 't Hooft but was given a precise string theory interpretation by Susskind. With this, as the title of an article puts it, "Susskind quashes Hawking in quarrel over quantum quandary".^{[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox}

^{How The Hippies Saved Fysiks: Holographic Information Juxtaposition?}

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The group held informal discussions on Friday afternoons to explore the philosophical implications of quantum theory. Leading members included Fritjof Capra, John Clauser, Philippe Eberhard, Nick Herbert, Jack Sarfatti, Saul-Paul Sirag, Henry Stapp, and Fred Alan Wolf.^[1]
David Kaiser wrote a book titled How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival which had as a thesis that the group's meetings and papers helped to nurture and advance the ideas in quantum physics that came to form the basis of quantum information science.^{[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Fysiks_Group}

Black Hole Complimentarity
(Co-operation, mutual co-existence, collaborative, connected, network?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity

Leonard Susskind^[3] proposed a radical resolution to this problem by claiming that the information is both reflected at the event horizon and passes through the event horizon and can't escape, with the catch being no observer can confirm both stories simultaneously. According to an external observer, the infinite time dilation at the horizon itself makes it appear as if it takes an infinite amount of time to reach the horizon. He also postulated a stretched horizon, which is a membrane hovering about a Planck length outside the event horizon and which is both physical and hot. According to the external observer, infalling information heats up the stretched horizon, which then reradiates it as Hawking radiation, with the entire evolution being unitary. However, according to an infalling observer, nothing special happens at the event horizon itself, and both the observer and the information will hit the singularity. This isn't to say there are two copies of the information lying about — one at or just outside the horizon, and the other inside the black hole — as that would violate the no cloning theorem. Instead, an observer can only detect the information at the horizon itself, or inside, but never both simultaneously. Complementarity is a feature of the quantum mechanics of noncommuting observables, and Susskind proposed that both stories are complementarity in the quantum sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_complementarity

Mavericks of the Mind and Terence McKenna

2011-12-28T13:01:00.000-08:00

http://mavericksofthemind.com/blog/terence-k-mckenna

The Postmortal: A novel set in 2019 about a cure for aging

2011-09-08T06:28:00.001-07:00

The Postmortal: very creepy thriller about a cure for aging

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder on Wednesday, Sep 7th at 4:58pm

The Postmortal, by Drew Magary, is the first-hand account of what happens when a cure for aging is discovered. The story is told to us by 29-year-old John Farrell, an estate lawyer who, in the year 2019, visits a doctor who performs the cure on him for $7,000. The cure is not a fountain of youth. If you take the cure at the age of 65, you will remain 65 years old indefinitely. Also, The cure does not prevent you from dying from cancer, heart attack, alcohol-induced liver failure, or other illness. However, almost everybody who hears about the cure, wants it, even though it is expensive and painful.Some of the people who don't want the cure lobby the government to prohibit the cure, saying it will spell the end of the human race. But their voices are drowned out by the majority of people who demand it. Eventually, the United States government joins Brazil and the Netherlands in lifting the ban. Other countries soon follow. (China, however, continues to prohibit the cure. They tattoo the arms of everyone with their birth year so they can detect if somebody takes the cure.)

At first, Farrell is elated that he has halted his aging process. But as the consequences of having the entire world stop aging take their toll on the environment, Farrel's euphoria is replaced by dread and depression. Most everyone who takes the cure feels the same way. Partly they are affected by the resource shortages caused by overpopulation, but the personal aspects of quasi-immortality are surprisingly bad, too. People who received the cure when they were old realize they will have to go back to work and never retire. Married couples start to wonder about the “till death do us part” vow they made with their spouses. Parents have to deal with kids who feel no pressure to go out and find a job after going to college, and are faced with having to support them, and their grandchildren, and their great grandchildren, indefinitely.

When the world runs out of gasoline, things get worse. As the population continues to explode, the price of a glass of tap water in a New York City restaurant is $5. Internet trolls, once satisfied tormenting people online, take their griefing into the physical world and throw lye into the faces of people who have gotten the cure. Army deserters form gangs and raid houses for food.

The Postmortal is a dark, bleak tale, but it's also an exciting page turner, with bits of black humor thrown in to keep it from becoming bottomlessly depressing (ala Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which I had to abandon very soon after I started reading it because it felt like being crushed to death). I found myself staying up past my bedtime to finish it, tearing through the pages to find out what happens to Farrell over a span of 60 years.

Drew Magary is an excellent writer. This is his first novel but he tells the story masterfully, interspersing Farrell's diary entries with TV news transcripts, Huffington Post style link roundups, and online magazine articles. His scenarios depicting the ramifications of a society that stops aging and keeps reproducing are terrifying. The world in which The Postmortal takes place reminds me of the world in Children of Men –- where civilized society still functions, kind of, but is losing power with each passing year. The most frightening thing about The Postmortal is that this could really happen -- it's not a supernatural story, but it's even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse. I finished The Postmortal a few days ago and I'm still spooked. It also made me realize that if I were given the opportunity to take the cure (and I probably would) I'd end up regretting it.
The Postmortal, by Drew Magary on Amazon (It's called The End Specialist in the UK)

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/07/the-postmortal-very-creepy-thriller-about-a-cure-for-aging.html

Paul Davies: Eerie Silence

2011-08-19T18:54:00.000-07:00

2019 co-ordinates at wikipedia

2011-08-19T18:51:00.000-07:00

2019 (MMXIX) will be a common year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It is the 2019th year of Common Era (also called Anno Domini), the 19th of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century and the 10th of the 2010s. It will also be the last year of the 2010s decade.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019

CENTURY 1969

2011-08-19T18:39:00.000-07:00

Top Shelf Productions
YEAH, BABY, YEAH!

Century: 1969, writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill's latest installment of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, pushes its readers tolerance for obscure references to the absolute limit. Where Moore's groundbreaking Watchmen holds the status of the Citizen Kane of graphic novels, the shagadelic 1969 proves more comparable to James Joyce's Ulysses or Finnegans Wake, works so dense that readers need supplements at hand to appreciate them.

Nicknamed LXG by the misbegotten movie version, League didn't start as such a challenge. Initially, Moore envisioned a superhero team drawn from characters of Victorian literature, including Dracula's Mina Harker and fictional game hunter Alan Quartermain. Moore and O'Neill packed the first two volumes with literary in-jokes, but still delivered ripping yarns with the League fighting Fu Manchu and Professor Moriarty in the first half and H.G. Wells' Martian invaders in the second.

http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2011/08/17/would-alan-moores-1969-work-without-wikipedia

Bruce Sterling. Atemporality & The Passage of Time. 2009 1/11

2010-12-27T15:17:00.000-08:00

Doctor Marshmallow Cubicle Syblings at 301 Overtoom 6

2010-11-28T07:47:00.000-08:00

Dense and Thick. Future Present. Mark Pesce, Chu, Fly.

2010-08-01T05:07:00.000-07:00

Mark Pesce - Words.
CHU - Images.
Steve 'Fly Agaric'' - Mixing

Dense and Thick

Part One: The Golden Age

Part Two: The Silver Age

Example One: The Book

Example Two: Beef Mince

Part Three: The Bronze Age

Dense and Thick

Part One: The Golden Age

In October of 1993 I bought myself a used SparcStation. I’d
just come off of a consulting gig at Apple, and, flush with
cash, wanted to learn UNIX systems administration. I also
had some ideas about coding networking protocols for shared
virtual worlds. Soon after I got the SparcStation installed in
my lounge room – complete with its thirty-kilo monster of a
monitor – I grabbed a modem, connected it to the RS-232
port, configured SLIP, and dialed out onto the Internet. Once
online I used FTP, logged into SUNSITE and downloaded the
newly released NSCA Mosaic, a graphical browser for the
World Wide Web.

I’d first seen Mosaic running on an SGI workstation at the
1993 SIGGRAPH conference. I knew what hypertext was –
I’d built a MacOS-based hypertext system back in the 1980s –
so I could see what Mosaic was doing, but there wasn’t much
there. Not enough content to make it really interesting. The
same problem that had bedeviled all hypertext systems since
Douglas Englebart’s first demo, back in 1968. Without
sufficient content, hypertext systems are fundamentally
uninteresting. Even Hypercard, Apple’s early experiment in
Hypertext, never really moved beyond the toy stage. To make
hypertext interesting, it must be broadly connected – beyond
a document, beyond a hard drive. Either everything is
connected, or everything is useless.

In the three months between my first click on NCSA Mosaic
and when I fired it up in my lounge room, a lot of people had
come to the Web party. The master list of Websites –
maintained by CERN, the birthplace of the Web – kept
growing. Over the course of the last week of October 1993, I
visited every single one of those Websites. Then I was done. I
had surfed the entire World Wide Web. I was even able to
keep up, as new sites were added.

This gives you a sense of the size of the Web universe in those
very early days. Before the explosive ‘inflation’ of 1994 and
1995, the Web was a tiny, tidy place filled mostly with
academic websites. Yet even so, the Web had the capacity to
suck you in. I’d find something that interested me –
astronomy, perhaps, or philosophy – and with a click-clickclick
find myself deep within something that spoke to me
directly. This, I believe, is the core of the Web experience, an
experience that we’re so many years away from we tend to
overlook it. At its essence, the Web is personally seductive.
I realized the universal truth of this statement on a cold night
in early 1994, when I dragged my SparcStation and boatanchor
monitor across town to a house party. This party, a
monthly event known as Anon Salon, was notorious for
attracting the more intellectual and artistic crowd in San
Francisco. People would come to perform, create,
demonstrate, and spectate. I decided I would show these
people this new-fangled thing I’d become obsessed with. So,
that evening, as front the door opened, and another person
entered, I’d sidle along side them, and ask them, “So, what are
you interested in?” They’d mention their current hobby –
gardening or vaudeville or whatever it might be – and I’d use
the brand-new Yahoo! category index to look up a web page
on the subject. They’d be delighted, and begin to explore. At
no point did I say, “This is the World Wide Web.” Nor did I
use the word ‘hypertext’. I let the intrinsic seductiveness of
the Web snare them, one by one.

Of course, a few years later, San Francisco became the
epicenter of the Web revolution. Was I responsible for that?
I’d like to think so, but I reckon San Francisco was a bit of a
nexus. I wasn’t the only one exploring the Web. That night at
Anon Salon I met Jonathan Steuer, who walked on up and
said, “Mosaic, hmm? How about you type in
‘www.hotwired.com’?” Steuer was part of the crew at work,
just few blocks away, bringing WIRED magazine online.
Everyone working on the Web shared the same fervor – an
almost evangelical belief that the Web changes everything. I
didn’t have to tell Steuer, and he didn’t have to tell me. We
knew. And we knew if we simply shared the Web – not the
technology, not its potential, but its real, seductive human
face, we’d be done.

That’s pretty much how it worked out: the Web exploded from
the second half of 1994, because it appeared to every single
person who encountered it as the object of their desire. It
was, and is, all things to all people. This makes it the perfect
love machine – nothing can confirm your prejudices better
than the Web. It also makes the Web a very pretty hate
machine. It is the reflector and amplifier of all things human.
We were completely unprepared, and for that reason the Web
has utterly overwhelmed us. There is no going back. If every
website suddenly crashed, we would find another way to
recreate the universal infinite hypertextual connection.
In the process of overwhelming us – in fact, part of the
process itself – the Web has hoovered up the entire space of
human culture; anything that can be digitized has been
sucked into the Web. Of course, this presents all sorts of
thorny problems for individuals who claim copyright over
cultural products, but they are, in essence swimming against
the tide. The rest, everything that marks us as definably
human, everything that is artifice, has, over the last fifteen
years, been neatly and completely sucked into the space of
infinite connection. The project is not complete – it will never
be complete – but it is substantially underway, and more will
simply be more: it will not represent a qualitative difference.
We have already arrived at a new space, where human culture
is now instantaneously and pervasively accessible to any of
the four and a half billion network-connected individuals on
the planet.

This, then, is the Golden Age, a time of rosy dawns and bright
beginnings, when everything seems possible. But this age is
drawing to a close. Two recent developments will, in
retrospect, be seen as the beginning of the end. The first of
these is the transformation of the oldest medium into the
newest. The book is coextensive with history, with the largest
part of what we regard as human culture. Until five hundred
and fifty years ago, books were handwritten, rare and
precious. Moveable type made books a mass medium, and lit
the spark of modernity. But the book, unlike nearly every
other medium, has resisted its own digitization. This year the
defenses of the book have been breached, and ones and zeroes
are rushing in. Over the next decade perhaps half or more of
all books will ephemeralize, disappearing into the ether,
never to return to physical form. That will seal the
transformation of the human cultural project.

On the other hand, the arrival of the Web-as-appliance means
it is now leaving the rarefied space of computers and mobiles129
as-computers, and will now be seen as something as mundane
as a book or a dinner plate. Apple’s iPad is the first device of
an entirely new class which treat the Web as an appliance, as
something that is pervasively just there when needed, and put
down when not. The genius of Apple’s design is its extreme
simplicity – too simple, I might add, for most of us. It
presents the Web as a surface, nothing more. iPad is a portal
into the human universe, stripped of everything that is a
computer. It is emphatically not a computer. Now, we can
discuss the relative merits of Apple’s design decisions – and
we will, for some years to come. But the basic strength of the
iPad’s simplistic design will influence what the Web is about
to become.

eBooks and the iPad bookend the Golden Age; together they
represent the complete translation of the human universe into
a universally and ubiquitously accessible form. But the
human universe is not the whole universe. We tend to forget
this as we stare into the alluring and seductive navel of our
ever-more-present culture. But the real world remains, and
loses none of its importance even as the flashing lights of
culture grow brighter and more hypnotic.

Part Two: The Silver Age

Human beings have the peculiar capability of endowing
material objects with inner meaning. We know this as one of
the basic characteristics of humanness. From the time a child
anthropomorphizes a favorite doll or wooden train, we imbue
the material world with the attributes of our own
consciousness. Soon enough we learn to discriminate
between the animate and the inanimate, but we never
surrender our continual attribution of meaning to the
material world. Things are never purely what they appear to
be, instead we overlay our own meanings and associations
onto every object in the world. This process actually provides
the mechanism by which the world comes to make sense to
us. If we could not overload the material world with meaning,
we could not come to know it or manipulate it.

This layer of meaning is most often implicit; only in works of
‘art’ does the meaning crowd into the definition of the
material itself. But none of us can look at a thing and be
completely innocent about its hidden meanings. They
constantly nip at the edges of our consciousness, unless, Zenlike,
we practice an ‘emptiness of mind’, and attempt to
encounter the material in an immediate, moment-to-moment
awareness. For those of us not in such a blessed state, the
material world has a subconscious component. Everything
means something. Everything is surrounded by a penumbra
of meaning, associations that may be universal (an apple can
invoke the Fall of Man, or Newton’s Laws of Gravity), or
something entirely specific. Through all of human history the
interiority of the material world has remained hidden except
in such moments as when we choose to allude to it. It is
always there, but rarely spoken of. That is about to change.

One of the most significant, yet least understood implications
of a planet where everyone is ubiquitously connected to the
network via the mobile is that it brings the depth of the
network ubiquitously to the individual. You are – amazingly
– connected to the other five billion individuals who carry
mobiles, and you are also connected to everything that’s been
hoovered into cyberspace over the past fifteen years. That
connection did not become entirely apparent until year, as the
first mobiles appeared with both GPS and compass
capabilities. Suddenly, it became possible to point through
the camera on a mobile, and – using the location and
orientation of the device – search through the network.
This technique has become known as ‘Augmented Reality’, or
AR, and it promises to be one of the great growth areas in
technology over the next decade – but perhaps not the
reasons the leaders of the field currently envision. The
strength of AR is not what it brings to the big things – the
buildings and monuments – but what it brings to the smallest
and most common objects in the material world. At present,
AR is flashy, but not at all useful. It’s about to make a
transition. It will no longer be spectacular, but we’ll wonder
how we lived without it.

Let me illustrate the nature of this transition, drawn from
examples in my own experience. These three ‘thought
experiments’ represent the different axes of a world which is
making the transition between implicit meaning, and a world
where the implicit has become explicit. Once meaning is
exposed, it can be manipulated: this is something unexpected,
and unexpectedly powerful.

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Example One: The Book

Last year I read a wonderful book. The Rest is Noise:
Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross, is a
thorough and thoroughly enjoyable history of music in the
20th century. By music, Ross means what we would
commonly call ‘classical’ music, even though the Classical
period ended some two hundred years ago. That’s not as
stuffy as it sounds: George Gershwin and Aaron Copland are
both major figures in 20th century music, though their works
have always been classed as ‘popular’.

Ross’ book has a companion website, therestisnoise.com,
which offers up a chapter-by-chapter samples of the
composers whose lives and exploits he explores in the text.
When I wrote The Playful World, back in 2000, and built a
companion website to augment the text, it was considered
quite revolutionary, but this is all pretty much standard for
better books these days.

As I said earlier, the book is on the edge of ephemeralization.
It wants to be digitized, because it has always been a message,
encoded. When I dreamed up this example, I thought it
would be very straightforward: you’d walk into your
bookstore, point your smartphone at a book that caught your
fancy, and instantly you’d find out what your friends thought
of it, what their friends thought of it, what the reviewers
thought of it, and so on. You’d be able to make a well-briefed
decision on whether this book is the right book for you.
Simple. In fact, Google Labs has already shown a basic
example of this kind of technology in a demo running on
Android.

But that’s not what a book is anymore. Yes, it’s good to know
whether you should buy this or that book, but a book
represents an investment of time, and an opportunity to open
a window into an experience of knowledge in depth. It’s this
intension that the device has to support. As the book slowly
dissolves into the sea of fragmentary but infinitely threaded
nodes of hypertext which are the human database, the device
becomes the focal point, the lens through which the whole
book appears, and appears to assemble itself.

This means that the book will vary, person to person. My
fragments will be sewn together with my threads, yours with
your threads. The idea of unitary authorship – persistent
over the last five hundred years – won’t be overwhelmed by
the collective efforts of crowdsourcing, but rather by the
corrosive effects of hyperconnection. The more connected
everything becomes, the less likely we are prone to linearity.
We already see this in the ’tl;dr' phenomenon, where any text
over 300 words becomes too onerous to read.

Somehow, whatever the book is becoming must balance the
need for clarity and linearity against the centrifugal and
connective forces of hypertext. The book is about to be
subsumed within the network; the device is the place where it
will reassemble into meaning. The implicit meaning of the
book – that it has a linear story to tell, from first page to last –
must be made explicit if the idea and function of the book is to
survive.

The book stands on the threshold, between the worlds of the
physical and the immaterial. As such it is pulled in both
directions at once. It wants to be liberated, but will be utterly
destroyed in that liberation. The next example is something
far more physical, and, consequentially, far more important.

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Example Two: Beef Mince

I go into the supermarket to buy myself the makings for a nice
Spaghetti Bolognese. Among the ingredients I’ll need some
beef mince (ground beef for those of you in the United States)
to put into the sauce. Today I’d walk up to the meat case and
throw a random package into my shopping trolley. If I were
being thoughtful, I’d probably read the label carefully, to
make sure the expiration date wasn’t too close. I might also
check to see how much fat is in the mince. Or perhaps it’s
grass-fed beef. Or organically grown. All of this information
is offered up on the label placed on the package. And all of it
is so carefully filtered that it means nearly nothing at all.

What I want to do is hold my device up to the package, and
have it do the hard work. Go through the supermarket to the
distributor, through the distributor to the abattoir, through
the abattoir to farmer, through the farmer to the animal itself.
Was it healthy? Where was it slaughtered? Is that abattoir
healthy? (This isn’t much of an issue in Australia, or New
Zealand. but in America things are quite a bit different.) Was
it fed lots of antibiotics in a feedlot? Which ones?
And – perhaps most importantly – what about the carbon
footprint of this little package of mince? How much CO2 was
created? How much methane? How much water was
consumed? These questions, at the very core of 21st century
life, need to be answered on demand if we can be expected to
adjust our lifestyles so as minimize our footprint on the
planet. Without a system like this, it is essentially impossible.
With such a system it can potentially become easy. As I walk
through the market, popping items into my trolley, my device
can record and keep me informed of a careful balance
between my carbon budget and my financial budget, helping
me to optimize both – all while referencing my purchases
against sales on offer in other supermarkets.

Finally, what about the caloric count of that packet of mince?
And its nutritional value? I should be tracking those as well –
or rather, my device should – so that I can maintain optimal
health. I should know whether I’m getting too much fat, or
insufficient fiber, or – as I’ll discuss in a moment – too much
sodium. Something should be keeping track of this.

Something that can watch and record and use that recording
to build a model. Something that can connect the real world
of objects with the intangible set of goals that I have for
myself. Something that could do that would be exceptionally
desirable. It would be as seductive as the Web.

The more information we have at hand, the better the
decisions we can make for ourselves. It’s an idea so simple it
is completely self-evident. We won’t need to convince anyone
of this, to sell them on the truth of it. They will simply ask,
‘When can I have it?’ But there’s more. My final example
touches on something so personal and so vital that it may
become the center of the drive to make the implicit explicit.

Example Three: Medicine
Four months ago, I contracted adult-onset chickenpox.
Which was just about as much fun as that sounds. (And yes,
since you’ve asked, I did have it as a child. Go figure.) Every
few days I had doctors come by to make sure that I was
surviving the viral infection. While the first doctor didn’t
touch me at all – understandably – the second doctor took my
blood pressure, and showed me the reading – 160/120, a bit
too uncomfortably high. He suggested that I go on Micardis,
a common medication for hypertension. I was too sick to
argue, so I dutifully filled the prescription and began taking it
that evening.

Whenever I begin taking a new medication – and I’m getting
to an age where that happens with annoying regularity – I am
always somewhat worried. Medicines are never perfect; they
work for a certain large cohort of people. For others they do
nothing at all. For a far smaller number, they might be toxic.
So, when I popped that pill in my mouth I did wonder
whether that medicine might turn out to be poison.
The doctor who came to see me was not my regular GP. He
did not know my medical history. He did not know the
history of the other medications I had been taking. All he
knew was what he saw when he walked into my flat. That
could be a recipe for disaster. Not in this situation – I was
fine, and have continued to take Micardis – but there are
numerous other situations where medications can interact
within the patient to cause all sorts of problems. This is well
known. It is one of the drawbacks of modern pharmaceutical
medicine.

This situation is only going to grow more intense as the
population ages and pharmaceutical management of the
chronic diseases of aging becomes ever-more-pervasive.
Right now we rely on doctors and pharmacists to keep their
own models of our pharmaceutical consumption. But that’s a
model which is precisely backward. While it is very important
for them to know what drugs we’re on, it is even more
important for us to be able to manage that knowledge for
ourselves. I need to be able to point my device at any
medicine, and know, more or less immediately, whether that
medicine will cure me or kill me.

Over the next decade the cost of sequencing an entire human
genome will fall from the roughly $5000 it costs today to less
than $500. Well within the range of your typical medical test.
Once that happens, will be possible to compile
epidemiological data which compares various genomes to the
effectiveness of drugs. Initial research in this area has already
shown that some drugs are more effective among certain
ethnic groups than others. Our genome holds the clue to why
drugs work, why they occasionally don’t, and why they
sometimes kill.

The device is the connection point between our genome –
which lives, most likely, somewhere out on a medical cloud –
and the medicines we take, and the diagnoses we receive. It is
our interface to ourselves, and in that becomes an object of
almost unimaginable importance. In twenty years time, when
I am ‘officially’ a senior, I will have a handheld device – an
augmented reality – whose sole intent is to keep me as
healthy as possible for as long as possible. It will encompass
everything known about me medically, and will integrate with
everything I capture about my own life – my activities, my
diet, my relationships. It will work with me to optimize
everything we know about health (which is bound to be quite
a bit by 2030) so that I can live a long, rich, healthy life.
These three examples represent the promise bound up in the
collision between the handheld device and the ubiquitous,
knowledge-filled network. There are already bits and pieces
of much of this in place. It is a revolution waiting to happen.
That revolution will change everything about the Web, and
why we use it, how, and who profits from it.

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Part Three: The Bronze Age

By now, some of you sitting here listening to me this
afternoon are probably thinking, “That’s the Semantic Web.
He’s talking about the Semantic Web.” And you’re right, I am
talking about the Semantic Web. But the Semantic Web as
proposed and endlessly promoted by Sir Tim Berners-Lee was
always about pushing, pushing, pushing to get the machines
talking to one another. What I have demonstrated in these
three thought experiments is a world that is intrinsically so
alluring and so seductive that it will pull us all into it. That’s
the vital difference which made the Web such a success in
1994 and 1995. And it’s about to happen once again.

But we are starting from near zero. Right now, I should be
able to hold up my device, wave it around my flat, and have an
interaction with the device about what’s in my flat. I can not.
I can not Google for the contents of my home. There is no
place to put that information, even if I had it, nor systems to
put that information to work. It is exactly like the Web in
1993: the lights on, but nobody home. We have the capability
to conceive of the world-as-a-database. We have the
capability to create that database. We have systems which
can put that database to work. And we have the need to
overlay the real world with that rich set of data.

We have the capability, we have the systems, we have the
need. But we have precious little connecting these three.
These are not businesses that exist yet. We have not brought
the real world into our conception of the Web. That will have
to change. As it changes, the door opens to a crescendo of
innovations that will make the Web revolution look puny in
comparison. There is an opportunity here to create industries
bigger than Google, bigger than Microsoft, bigger than Apple.
As individuals and organizations figure out how to inject data
into the real world, entirely new industry segments will be
born.

I can not tell you exactly what will fire off this next revolution.
I doubt it will be the integration of Wikipedia with a mobile
camera. It will be something much more immediate. Much
more concrete. Much more useful. Perhaps something
concerned with health. Or with managing your carbon
footprint. Those two seem the most obvious to me. But the
real revolution will probably come from a direction no one
expects. It’s nearly always that way.

There no reason to think that Wellington couldn’t be the
epicenter of that revolution. There was nothing special about
San Francisco back in 1993 and 1994. But, once things got
started, they created a ‘virtuous cycle’ of feedbacks that
brought the best-and-brightest to San Francisco to build out
the Web. Wellington is doing that to the film industry; why
shouldn’t it stretch out a bit, and invent this next generation
‘web-of things’?

This is where the future is entirely in your hands. You can
leave here today promising yourself to invent the future, to
write meaning explicitly onto the real world, to transform our
relationship to the universe of objects. Or, you can wait for
someone else to come along and do it. Because someone
inevitably will. Every day, the pressure grows. The real world
is clamoring to crawl into cyberspace. You can open the door.

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Reading Finnegans Wake backwards.

2010-05-28T13:20:00.000-07:00

Reading Finnegans Wake backwards. by Fly Agaric 23.

And as I was jogging along in a dream as dozing I was dawdling, arrah, methought broadtone was heard and the creepers and the gliders and flivvers of the earth breath and the dancetongues of the woodfires and the hummers in their
ground all vociferated echoating: Shaun! Shaun! Post the post!” 404.

John Sinclair invited me to the Firey Tongues Festival held at Ruigoord, Amsterdam, where I was subjected to several ‘live’ poetry performances at the tranquil setting.

The feeling of being near the squatted church at Ruigoord in Holland was tipped over the edge of cool by encountering the poetry of Robert Priest reading from his new work titled 'reading the bible backwards. Something about his brilliant methodology captured the vibe of questioning God, ‘Reality’ and everything else that oozed out from the choice selection of wordsmiths and wise warrior writers.

A wild band of international troubadours gathered together to exercise the tongue and keep the novelty wave of history on its trajectory ever outwards, and ever inwards, the information expansion that you feel when in the presence of poets, bards and humanists, steersman of the infinite tongue of being.

‘Reading the Bible Backwards’ by Robert Priest made me shiver and shout, it got stuck right in my eyeball and has grew on me like fungus, since being infected with this new viral meme: backwards bible reading I have turned back to Finnegans Wake: a readymade Bible of backwards genius and futurology, I think. Please excuse my Joyce fiending.

Robert Priest’s book of poems has a heavy cosmological and mathematical basis I suspect, and like a current running between James Joyce and Marshall McLuhan, Priest seizes the time-space of 2010 cosmology and intersperses the truth of his place in spacetime, covering Dark Matter, religion & DJ's.

Robert Priest poetically is writing holographic prose in praise of ‘backwards’ interpretations. Reverse engineering of our neurological networds, fully embracing the omni-directional sense of our 2010 connectivity times. Plus, Priest has added the centrifugal force of the turntable's as one inspiration for his work and the turntables are a musical instrument I often romance in my writing and musical network projects.

So I simply recommend you visit Robert’s website and get a copy of ‘Reading the bible backwards’, furthermore visit my blogpost about the fiery tongues festival where I was fortunate to meet Robert and other performers during a break. John Sinclair continued his incredible informative radio show tradition, and crafted a selection of 'live' recordings from the event, shared at radiofreeamsterdam, show number 325. Cheers John.

Here is the first part of my simple search and re-reading of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (with page number), a part of my on-going research into hypertext and synchronicity:

Hubbleforth slouch in his slips backwords (Et Cur Heli!) in the directions
of the duff and demb institutions about ten or eleven hundred
years lurch away in the moonshiny gorge of Patself on the Bach.” 73.

a onestone parable, a rude breathing on the void of to be, a venter hearing his
own bauchspeech in backwords, or, more strictly, but tristurned
initials, the cluekey to a worldroom beyond the roomwhorld, for
scarce one” 100

a part of the whole as a port for a whale; Dear Hewitt Castello, Equerry,
were daylighted with our outing and are looking backwards to
unearly summers, from Rhoda Dundrums” 135.

Hear, O worldwithout! Tiny tattling! Backwoods, be wary!
Daintytrees, go dutch!“ 244.

And his eyelids are painted. If my tutor here
is cut out for an oldeborre I'm Flo, shy of peeps, you know. But
when he beetles backwards, ain't I fly? Pull the boughpee to see
how we sleep.” 248.

He knows his Finsbury Follies backwoods
so you batter see to your regent refutation. Ascare winde is rifing
again about nice boys going native.” 374

I am, thing Sing Larynx, letter potent to
play the sem backwards like Oscan wild or in shunt Persse
transluding from the Otherman or off the Toptic or anything off the
types” 419.

-- God save the monk! I won't mind this is, answering to
your strict crossqueets, whereas it would be as unethical for me
now to answer as it would have been nonsensical for you then
not to have asked. Same no can, home no will, gangin I am.
Gangang is Mine and I will return. Out of my name you call me,
Leelander. But in my shelter you'll miss me. When Lapac walks
backwords he's darkest horse in Capalisoot. You knew me once
but you won't know me twice. 487.

I could guessp to her name who tuckt you that
one,tufnut! Bold bet backwords. For the loves of sinfintins! Before the
naked universe. 624.

any hygienic day to this hour and to
make my hoath to my sinnfinners, even if I get life for it, upon
the Open Bible and before the Great Taskmaster's (I lift my hat!)” 36.

Single wrecks for the weak, double axe for the mail, and quick
queck quack for the radiose. Renove that bible. You will never
have post in your pocket unless you have brasse on your plate.” 579.

next those ars, rrrr! those ars all bellical, the highpriest's hieroglyph of kettletom and oddsbones, wrasted redhandedly from our hallowed rubric prayer
for truce with booty” 122.

Good safe firelamp! hailed the heliots. Goldselforelump!
Halled they. Awed. Where thereon the skyfold high,
trampatrampatramp. Adie. Per ye comdoom doominoom noonstroom.
Yeasome priestomes. Fullyhum toowhoom. Taawhaar?
Sants and sogs, cabs and cobs, kings and karls, tentes and
taunts. 'Tis gone infarover. So fore now, dayleash. Pour deday. To
trancefixureashone. Feist of Taborneccles, scenopegia, come!
Shamwork, be in our scheining! And let every crisscouple be so
crosscomplimentary, little eggons, youlk and meelk, in a farbiger
pancosmos.” 613.

I just spent approximately one hour searching Finnegans Wake for words linking to the Robert Priest book ‘reading the bible backwards’ for the reasons outlined above.

As with most of my searches into the wake, a few strange links emerged from my searching, hyperlinks from my previous readings and activities. For one thing, the last entry I visited was page 613, due to searching the word Priest which appears on that page. Earlier today I made a Tweet’ “Stephen Hawking on rivers, James Joyce on traveltime physics” and used the word ‘pancosmos’ due to the fact that ‘pancosmos’ is the only words that a search for ‘cosmo’ threw up. Pancosmos is on page 613, not far from the word Priest.

Also I previously blogged about Finnegans Wake and the Astrophysicist Hubble, based on Joyce's: ‘Hubbleforth slouch in his slips’ and the next words are ‘backwords (Et Cur Heli!)’ so, the phrase came up in my ‘backw’ search and reiterates my contention about Finnegans Wake, holographic prose and holographic cosmology hypertext, I guess.

The phrase ends with the word Bach. Bringing us to the fugue and the kinds of symmetrical holographic music forms that also provide insight into the Universe and Mind.

When will they reassemble it? O, my back, my back, my bach!” 213.

Backwards becomes ‘Backwords’ in the Wake that is full of reverse and alternative omni-directional readings. Another small synchronicity was with the words ‘sinfintins’ pg. 624’ and ‘sinnfinners’ pg. 36; that came to my attention while searching for the word ‘bible’ in the Wake. I find that these words of sin, finn and infinity, with an added overtone of Sinn Fein fit the ‘bible’ theme, and reading the bible backwards.

Oh, and I almost forgot about MONK! on page 487 Joyce writes --God Save the Monk!" and in the same paragraph we find "When Lapac walks backwords he's darkest horse in Capalisoot." back to Bach to Backwords, Bach words, and Thelonious Monk.

And, looking for some more hyperlinks to add just now, I realized I made a post on April 1st titled GOD SAVE THE MONK ! that I forgot about, another surprise.

every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it.” 213.

The difference is merely a matter of convention.

2010-04-18T17:54:00.000-07:00

"Bekenstein summarizes that "Thermodynamic entropy and Shannon entropy are conceptually equivalent: the number of arrangements that are counted by Boltzmann entropy reflects the amount of Shannon information one would need to implement any particular arrangement..." of matter and energy. The only salient difference between the thermodynamic entropy of physics and the Shannon's entropy of information is in the units of measure; the former is expressed in units of energy divided by temperature, the latter in essentially dimensionless "bits" of information, and so the difference is merely a matter of convention. HOLOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

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GUCT: GIANT UNIMEMBRANE CONSPIRACY THEORY

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RAW Joyce Quaternions & Hologlyfly

DJVJ RAW INTERACTING PROCESSING: COLDCUT

2010-03-19T20:03:00.000-07:00

ROBERT ANTON WILSON and the DJVJ Revolution.

I dedicate this writing to Ken Campbell and the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, and Ole'England, to the creative artists who use music, theatre, and multimedia inspire others to interpret and spread the wisdom and ideas of Dr. Robert Anton Wilson across all four corners of the metaphorical, toast.

Approx. three years ago, Matt Black and Mixmaster Morris spearheaded a multimedia tribute to Robert Anton Wilson held at the Royal Queen Elizabeth Festival Hall in London. This event set the vanguard for a new decade of technology and cyber-culture directed toward expanding consciousness and connecting the emergent 'hyperintelligent' social newtworks into a comprehensive praxis of edutainment.

I played a small role in this event by way of my relationship with Deepleaf productions and Maybelogic that helped link up Matt B. and Dr. Wilson for some of the exsquisite video material used in the 2.5 hour extravaganza. With some help I also managed to find an independent host for the entire show, and have been ruthlessly promoting the event since March 2007 together with other sharable RAW related projects.

Over the last three years a lot has happened for the characters involved with this show and here I hope to touch upon some of these events and build a cultural map, with Dr. Robert Anton Wilson firmly in mind.

Ken Campbell
On the 31st of August 2008 the great British writer, comedian, actor Ken Campbell passed over, the comic-glue who pulled the whole RAW tribute event together as the ring master and master of ceremonies for that evening. Not afraid to follow in RAW’s footsteps and explore the 'Chapel Perilous' of his writings; Ken preserved the biting wit and information rich satire that I find budding in RAW and that seems to me desperately missing from the popular conspiracy movement and the alternative social network revolution. Equally, if studied and carefully extracted from these great exemplary figures and their works, what might be missing can indicate the ingrediants for a new synthesis.

There have been a number of fitting tributes to the life of Ken Campbell and I hope that someday, maybe somebody will produce an equally stunning multimedia tribute to Ken, like that which was made for Bob (RAW).

Jung’s Dream & Number 223
On a personal note I, like RAW have traced most of my reasoning for being here to Jung’s dream (Page 223 of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections) situated in Liverpool, a dream that inspired the creation of the science fiction theatre Liverpool, the theatre which the ‘science fiction group inhabited’ first opened on the day Jung died (6th June, 1961) and is the theatre where John Lennon and the Beatles first sang Yellow submarine, you can read about this on page 223 of Cosmic Trigger by Dr. Wilson.

The fact that Jung called Liverpool the ‘pool’ of life may be due to this dream he had that I found of particular interest as it concerns the discovery of a swimming pool. More than approx. half of the dreams that have come to me, and I have wrestled into the waking world concern bodies of water.

I should add that I first came across the works of Robert Anton Wilson in the mid 1990’s while living in the UK and the sources of my discovery lead me to deduct that Bill Drummond and the KLF, who were the rich cultural icons carrying the RAW flame in the UK at that time, probably led to my coming across Cosmic Trigger. Bill Drummond leads back to Liverpool and 1976 when he was working briefly alongside Ken Campbell, and in the RAW tribute video describes how he first came across the book Illuminatus Trilogy!

Bill spoke of his new seventeen project and ‘no music day’ that also came up on radio show (2009) on the 'late late breakfast show' that also featured my friend John Sinclair, who admires 'Wild' Bill Drummond, which brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to the JAMS. The JAMS!

Word to the wise: Bill Drummond Burns a Million Quid.

RAW attracted me to the United States in 2000 A.D and led me on a five year journey acriss-cross the United States and back to Europe (2005). In fact, the day after the Royal Tribute to RAW I flew out from London to Amsterdam and have lived here since then up to 2010. I once caught up with Matt Black and Mike Ladd andColdcut when they played the club 'Paradiso' in 2008.

When I ask myself the simple question ‘why am I here’ the best short answer is because of Jung’s dream, that Ken Campbell start's off his fantastic and perfect choice role as narrator and ring-master of the Robert Anton Wilson memorial concert.

Due to the tragic loss of the great comic 'Ken Campbell' I hope that in his memory others will research and continue his work, re-enact his plays and read his words aloud. My contributions so far are only within the synchro-mesh that surrounds Liverpool and RAW.

Coldcut and Ninjatune and Big Dada.
Since the London performance Coldcut and the constellation of artists that appear under that umbrella have produced countless ‘live’ shows, recorded and released ‘tracks’ ‘albums’ and even a conscious social green movement called energyunion, continuing their trajectory into the uncharted territory of multimedia manipulation and networked sound arts and activism.

As some of the first visual jockeys (VJ's) and inventors of the first VJ software that I am aware of: VJAMM’ Coldcut and by extension Ninjatune have been the mainstay of my case for introducing some principles and methodologies from Dr. Wilson into the new cultural infotech-sphere.

I was first attracted to Ninjatune by way of the Jazz Breaks series around 1994 and some of the early releases from Journey's by DJ’s, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Amon Tobin and Funki Porcini. This new sound together with the emerging Bristol-bass scene, some Drum and Bass brewing from both Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the sounds of James Lavelle’s 'Mo-Wax' imprint; more or less shaped my musical cultural leaning and inspired me to aquire turntables, a mixer and start sharing tunes with others and mixing em' together in a Novel way.

One sure fire sign that Ninjatune, or somebody at Ninjatune, had a respect for RAW came when they released NINJASKINS: Ninjatune signature rolling papers that came with a wonderfully intelligent fold out package describing various terms and phrases of Ninjatune philosophy.

A local encounter with a UK Graffiti artist CHU blossomed into a collaboration with another UK graffiti artist and music producer PART2 that was released on Ninjatune’s sister label ‘Big Dada records’ that was recently featured in a UK Hip Hop exposition. The track was called Quantum Mechanix’ from the album Equalibrium by New Flesh For Old, now shortened to New Flesh.

I should point out here that this was a one off release and I was a mere guest on the album, and that I played drums on the track while turntable scratching was provided by DJ Weston. But still I carried the album to the US in 2000 AD wishing to turn on Bob to Big Dada and Ninjatune, and my own ‘superstring theory’ recording, and perhaps collaborate on something, such were my naive desires as a 23 year old kid with his head in the clouds.

RAW Moving pictures album.
After spending some time with RAW at the Prophets Conference Palm Springs and in San Francisco, I was finally invited to his home to conduct an interview on September 10th 2002.

It was here he told me about a movie project he was working on with some locals tentatively called Maybelogic, and so like a good researcher; I got in contact with 'Deepleaf productions' and soon turned them on to Matt Black and Ninjatune, and some other musical entities I thought had an affinity with RAW such as 'Kosmic Renaissance' (The Supplicants). For this linking I was generously given associate producer credits on the finished movie, plus music I mashed-up featured on the DVD menu music featuring my mentor and Garaj Mahal bassist, Kai Eckhardt.

With the kind hearted and good spirited contributions to this DVD project from many sources it turned into my dream album in some sense, a movie all about RAW with a soundtrack by Ninjatune, more or less my favourite things.

Maybe it was all wishful thinking and I had done nothing more than send an email link, but for me after this spree of good fortune I would be a tireless promoter of this movie, of the Maybelogic Academy (that sprung up in 2004 to provide online classes with RAW himself) and of Ninjatune philosophy, although by no means representing Ninjatune officially, just by playing many of their records for over sixteen years and crediting them with inspiring me to experiment with 'psychedelic' DJ sets and mixing techniques. I simply resonate with their early philosophy of Funk, Jazz, Dub and Hip Hop mashups.

Since 2007 and moving to Amsterdam my musical diet has changed dramatically once again, almost leaving behind electronic music generally to develop 'live’ music and writing projects, greatly influenced by my encounter with the giant of music, poetry, activism, and the MC5: John Sinclair.

So today in March 2010, writing about Ninjatune lacks the original spark it first struck me with in the 1990’s, before I started writing, before Internet. Back then the new 'sample' sound hypnotized me deeply, but now has morphed into tones of Sun Ra, John Cage, Jimi and Miles... I am romancing Ninja to rekindle a flame in my heart and so pulling a particular lens gell upon COLCUT: a collective of artists on the Ninjatune label (and who appear upon many other labels of the independent persuasion) that happen to feature two members that instigated the imprint in the early 1990's.

Together with Mixmaster Morris, and Juxta, Coldcut produced the Robert Anton Wilson Tribute show in London that I have picked as the centre point for this writing, and in my opinion is the most information rich multimedia event to date.

"Although the circumstances for this event were somewhat rare and the resources to reproduce such an event based on donations for the most part, I still feel it stands as an testimony to Multimedia edutainment at its most terse and best, almost fully formed in its experimental launch that night the video teaches by example how educational lectures may look and sound like over the new decade.--Matt Black."

Royaley RAW Edutainment
Although the show is 3 years old it has not picked up dust, only moonlight, and seems more relevant each day that passes, it stands as a great experimental interface between cinema, music, theatre, comedy and poetry that I feel culturally binds America, Britain and the rest of Europe and the entire World due to its shared global web presence and open source offering's.

All schools, colleges and University programs would benefit from such an interactive DJ VJ interface to present artistic interpretations of intellectual topics and biographical data.

Alan Moore.

For me Alan Moore produces consistent work that secure his place as the greatest living Britain; one of the best, a genius in fact, and a widely celebrated creative interpreter of 'art and reality engineering', buttered with RAW’s maps and recipes.

To see and hear Alan reading from ‘Masks of the Illuminati’ and his wonderfully bright ‘eulogy’ for RAW, was a heart thumping highlight of the evening in London, listening to Alan’s Northern accent made me feel at home and really proud to be British, and to be honest I don’t often get patriotic feelings like that. A propa warrior mystic Midlands monk, I rekon. He performance was alike RAW performing 'cameo' in the Black Mass scene of the Illuminatus the stage performance in Liverpool, directed by Ken Campbell 31 years previous.

And with the added ambiance of the occasion (that of the passing of Robert Anton Wilson) Alan really put five cherries on top of the Escher cake, his first words from Masks included “A watchmaker in Amsterdam...” The following morning, as I said, I flew to Amsterdam and the 'Jam in the Dam' festival to meet with the band Galactic from New Orleans.

I have a long list of thanks and wish to add some extra names to those on the E-flyer’ Matt Black, Lance Boucher, Nigel Blunt, Nick Larson, Part2, Ninjatune office staff, Juice Aleem, John Sinclair, Galactic, Mixmaster Morris, Mike Ladd, Propanon, Toby Philpott, Chu.

Steven 'Fly Agaric 23' Pratt
Amsterdam NL.

http://raw.maybeee.com/

And now for something a little different...

PART II Jung’s Dream Revisited.

A constellation of synchronicities surround a dream that Carl Jung had, twas based in Liverpool. A dream that led to Robert Anton Wilson visiting Liverpool and Ken Campbell producing the Illuminatus Stage paly and, Bill Drummond coming into orbit with the Northern renaissance, but not in that order.

John Lennon and the Beatles first performed yellow Submarine at the Cavern, also on Mathew street, Liverpool, and Jung died on the day it opened on June 6th, 1961. Please note Jung visited Lucia Joyce in Northhampton and Jung prescribed James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to the Western World as good medicine. Alan Moore writes about Lucia Joyce and the Northhampton 'Intersection points' and 'syncro-mesh'.

As a student of synchronicity, by way of RAW, best explicated in his book ‘Coincidance: A head test’ I'm somewhat familiar with this synchromesh around Carl Jung and his Liverpool based dream. And was happy when Ken Campbell reignited my interest when describing the events at the ‘Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris Tribute to RAW’ held in the Royal Festival Hall London.

Three years after that memorable occasion I have been steered back to Jung’s dream, partly due to the writing of my own dream book ‘Shannanigums Wave’ over those three years, and my continual reading and re-reading of RAW, James Joyce, my personal favourite writers whom I feel wonderfully complement one-another.

The opportunity to present my independent research in this area has arisen due to Evolver and the ‘Dream’ theme of the planned April 21st ‘Evolver Spore’ or (art and edutainment salon). I hope that in combining a mixture of RAW inspired dream content based upon a Jungian’ framework, and with a plash’ of Joyce thrown in I can capture the ‘reality’ of some dreams, and provide sharable tools for others to interpret their dreams and dream-states, or those of others.

The future congress of like-minded ‘dream’ evolvers looks to create an environment where dreams and thoughts about dreams can be shared and openly discussed. My idea for a ‘Jung’s dream’ spore here in Amsterdam is only my first thought on the matter, and I hope to share the available time and resources available so that everyone has an opportunity to interact with the group if they wish. My choice of a RAW inspired glossing of the event reflects my affiliations with the Maybelogic Academy, something else I would encourage people to bring any questions or queries about to the spore.

Two or more audio/video presentations:

1. Ken Campbell introducing Jung’s dream, taken from the London Raw tribute.
2. RAW speaking of Synchronicity and Isomorphism in Finnegans Wake
3. ‘Jung’s Dream’ DJ set by Fly Agaric 23

Other activities and fields of resonance include Hyperbolic Crochet, pancakes, live theatre, comedy, meditation, live music, smoking, dancing, sharing mixed and mashed media, magic truffles.

Robert Anton Wilson - Maybe Logic: The Lives And Ideas Of Robert Anton Wilson

Label: deepleaf productions

Catalog#: none

Format: DVD

Country: US

Released: 2003

Genre: Non-Music

Style: Interview, Political, Education, Speech

Tracklist

001		Tuning In
002		Childhood Mysteries
003		Discordian Infallibility
004		Quantum Gamble
005		PPS Pain
006		Existential Maps
007		PPS Medicine
008		Conspiratorial Responsibility
009		Magick Science
010		Sirius Pookha
011		E-Prime
012		Green Donkey
013		Forgiveness
014		Santa Cruz Protest
015		Optimism
016		Infinite B.S.
017		End Credits

Credits

Artwork By [Package Design] - Propane Studio
Directed By, Written-By - Lance Bauscher
Executive Producer - Timothy F.X. Finnegan
Featuring - Douglas Rushkoff , Ivan Stang , Paul Krassner , R.U. Sirius , Tom Robbins , Valerie Corral
Music By - Amon Tobin , Animals On Wheels , Boards Of Canada , Cinematic Orchestra, The , Funki Porcini , Ognen Spiroski , Pullman , Rick Walker , Supplicants, The , Tarentel
Music By [Dvd Menu] - Fly Agaric 23
Narrator - Robert Anton Wilson
Other [Associate Producers] - Amanda Dofflemyer , Fly Agaric 23 , Katherine Covell
Other [Best Boy] - Robert Anton Wilson
Other [Camera] - Amanda Dofflemyer , David Allen , Ivan Stang , Katherine Covell , Lance Bauscher , Robert Dofflemyer
Producer, Edited By, Artwork By [Designed By] - Cody McClintock , Lance Bauscher , Robert Dofflemyer

Notes
Contains over 3 hours of material including Maybe Logic feature, expanded interviews with all the featured RAW cohorts, maybe logic exercises, and original, non-simultaneously, DVD-randomized footage of the best of Pope Bob.

More info available from http://www.maybelogic.com/.

Jung as a writer
By Susan Rowland

2010 watch-list #1

2010-02-04T04:53:00.000-08:00

ONTOLOGY

HISTORICISM

SOCIOLOGY
MEDIA ECOLOGY

ECONOMICS

ECOLOGY

BIOLOGY

GENETICS

NEURO-SEMANTICS

EVOLUTION

SHAMANISM
POETRY

Howordz Way, How Words Why, Ow! Words Weigh

2009-12-30T17:20:00.000-08:00

Howordz Way

By Fly Agaric

Àpollo versed himself into fish with womb
Piloting poets to DELPHI:
The womb of the Wor.ld
A Womb governing the Oracle of Delphi
Meaning womb
Sauce of Life and Wisdome

Dolphin flipped into FISH WITH A WOMB by greek logic
The damnable Navy seals and their repulsive poison and accursed ear-
wax
Mistranslate dolphin into
FISH WITH BOMB!
Shamefully perverting a smiling samaritan and guardian of ships into
Eliptolis
Destroyer of ship's
Smiling merchant of death
Evil and further devilry in the sickly name of national kaution
Li Sao Li Sao for sorrow
Our only security is change

Sucking my pink thumb i evoke
A Babel ichthus
Decoding To enable alien races to ©omunicare
Speaking with their aboriginal slangwedge
As waves begin taking form
Rising but formed
Holding their form
Foam: sparkling cristal 1494:

Aldus Manutius and his Aldine pressa tipografica was sealed by
Dolphin and Anchor ideographix
Suckling pesci with a womb
And navire ancorare
Whirling Stenella longirostris twisting like DNA hélix ribbons
Mind like the whirl without the pool
A tomb without a corps
Dolphfinnegans: connaissance-without-an-objet
Mathematizing sea-good Dolphins classified as mammifére in 1776 by Linnaeus
Mankind scrawls his taxinomie of gnumerous goodz in his book

Surfing Dolphinnegans Wake
Lactating mindfield churned inside out
And turned again into Eins Leary wide uni.verse
La Tao of Joyce
A delfino voix: JANUS

"Phil Adolphos the weary O, the leery, O,
" Dolphin in the wildsbillow
"Light a pike on porpoise
"Pannonia on this porpoise
"Can you nei do her, numb? asks Dolph
"Spirit spires Dolph
" Godolphinglad in the Hoy's Court
" Godolphing in fairlove

"Dolphin's Barncar. Wan Ceteroom;
"Cods' cradle and porpoise plain
"Simple philadolphus
"Traduced into jinglish janglage
" For the nusances of dolphins born.
" Adolphted such an Adelphus! Jerry Godolphing"

Uncertain.tea brewing the womb of future porpossebili.tea
Disentangle the Dauphine stir into Auvergnat
Realitea
Adding condensed mammal latte for spiral galaxy

Original swinners with oración credentials
Traduced into jinglish janglage
For the nusances of Delphinus born
Babel mammal surfing a word warywide web
Barbarous Godolphin horse speak

And Poseidon took over the titles of le Royal Pallas
Sea beast and salmoneus the human oak king
De Dagdafinn sanghasongs of Salmon read knowledge
Percolating La Boyne Water

®osa dauphin à gros nez corkscrews up a cherry waterspout
Gyrating along the Amazon
Like a brief lived raspberryframboise ripple cascade
A Rubescent ivory strudel.
Salmoneus thrusting out its whirlpoint towards the ruddy riverun
Above the earth a garden of rose trees
Flowers blooming and dying all-at-once
Pink porpoise cloud portal hatchway for
Returning Bufeo Colorado

Dusky faces and pearl shoulder blade oscillating through upward fountains
Petals of frosted skin shed and fall
Through the coral cetoessa fontana
Glowing apricot as sunset leaves
Their ochre clings to their fuselage
Tangerine rust against the sunlight thrusting up a vertical river mouth
Godz puckered roseo lips sucking and blowing with circular breath

®osewine vortice linking heaven and terroir
The Ocean sky ladder exited by delphinidae godolphinnx
Leaving munkind a soggy porpoise corpus which reads
Cherry'O and tanks for all the fish
Tromba d'acqua dances furthur down river back out to the ocean
And makes porpoise portalz
Suckling up Cetacea With kundalini zing
Meeting the Palladium moonlight casting a crescent silhouette
Prophecie'd since Aldus printed the
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Transduced as
poliphilidolfinnegan by Flipper
The great cétacémostro marino
Comming from Greek ketos sea-munster
God A Hikue and goddess Hiuaoioi flipping summersalts

Extraterrestre voices float on the sea aire
Festina lente as Arion's lyr
And Jason dreams upon his chrusos fleece
Deciphering from Delphine to English
The ice of the owlphin in aire is lyke whoman?
Dolpfinnz pronounce owls un ombinaxionx of owls yet
ill avin rubble ith onsonanz

Shark of the covenant appears quilted in sea-beast skins
And sacred Shoulder blades are boiled and brewed into
Delphilazarus elixir
PALLADIUM moonshine
Now Watch the waves as they roll
Ripples and eddies coiling outwards
From the galactating Dauphine constellation of
Strange aquatic attractors that inflowenced us here
Comunicación between bard and porpoise
The Intelligenz sporterspout

Dharma songs ode to Temples of Tethys
Voixed by the sweetest Goddess of la océano
Lamenting mammal babel re©orded in doggerel by hoo-ha GODMEN
As another TYPE of critter
And Pelops married Hippodamia down river
And was sad when she returned to the sea
No longer strange to rediscover fossilized PAKICETUS poems?
A genus of extinct
Cétacé poesé épica
Found in the upper Eocene of Pakistan
Once-upon-a-time part of the coast skirting
Tethys Ozean

The truth paddles around the ruins of Peos
With the Sonne in its golden wor.ld cup
La argent apples of the lune
Le golden pomme's of the sole mixedmashed
Into a sac.red and whiffy fishélixir Finnsmoothé

Delphinus bathes close to the celestial equatore
And the same stars glittered above the noir sea
while Howard plays in electric-ultramarine waves then swimming again
Rushing up the Crathis towards the Styx
In mating season
Charged with lust up through the river bouche fresh from the mare
Making haste slowly
Dolphin kicking and jamming, in the year of the water bearer
Li Sao Li Sao for sorrow

Peace Borso Lilly
Be as eternal peace in the vortex of evolution
Li Sao
And thanks for all the poisson

DJ FLY AGARIC 23 Presents: Saturnalia Christmess 23 (2009)

2009-12-23T16:27:00.000-08:00

Saturnalia Christmess 23 by flyagaric23

Vinyl spun on two Vestax turntables, recorded on Zoom H4 recorder.

Marshmallow World - DARLENE LOVE
Bombtrack - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Ballistic Affair version - CHANNEL ONE STUDIO
All I Want For Christmas Is You - THE LARKS
Hey Santa Claus - BOBBY LESTER AND THE MOONGLOWS
Sakara - THE CLARKE-BOLAND BIG BAND
Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am - FELA KUTI
I Ain't Fattening No Frogs For Snakes - THE LARKS
Sleigh Ride - THE RONETTES
"Rockin' with Reed - JIMMY REED
Glue Finger Pt. II - MARCUS BELGRAVE
And I Won't Tell The Truth About You - JAMES BROWN
No Water - BOB MARLEY
Killing In The Name - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Compiled by DJ Fly Agaric 23, at fly agaric studios' Oosterpark, Amsterdam. 23rd December 2009.

Octopussy & Ants Use Bacteria to Make Their Gardens Grow

2009-12-22T18:00:00.000-08:00

"Here's a new one to add to the list: the ant farmers, like their human counterparts, depend on nitrogen-fixing bacteria to make their gardens grow. The finding, reported Nov. 20 in the journal Science, documents a previously unknown symbiosis between ants and bacteria and provides insight into how leaf-cutter ants have come to dominate the American tropics and subtropics.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119141032.htm

"These are sensational fossils, extraordinarily well preserved," says Dirk Fuchs of the Freie University Berlin, lead author of the report. But what surprised the scientists most was how similar the specimens are to modern octopus: "these things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species." This provides important evolutionary information. "The more primitive relatives of octopuses had fleshy fins along their bodies. The new fossils are so well preserved that they show, like living octopus, that they didn't have these structures." This pushes back the origins of modern octopus by tens of millions of years, and while this is scientifically significant, perhaps the most remarkable thing about these fossils is that they exist at all. - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317111902.htm

PLOUGHSHARE THIS COURSE

2009-12-11T16:01:00.000-08:00

Chinese Iron Plow, Tien Kung Jai Wu, 1637.

To add the prefix 'Plough' or 'Plow' to the title 'share this course' turns up a furtive picture, to my mind, of a universal process recorded throughout most human cultures. Keeping with the themes of Agriculture, farming and working with the earth, ecology, environment & climate. Transforming knowledge from the spirit-web-net-world into life-sustaining livingry & earthworks.

Ploughing can imply the cutting-edge or leading edge of the driving ploughshare itself, like the the diamond-tip of a phonograph stylus, but literally ground-breaking and earth-shattering. I like to think this reflects our work on share this book. The ‘plowshare’ might be a good pictograph for us to consider. 'Plough' & 'Share' bond well with the words 'book' and 'course'.

A 'shire' horse might power the plough, or an OX, but horse has a nice rhyme structure together with 'course' and shire with 'share' to make 'Shire this horse'. Other metaphors based on the 'horse-course' 'Plough-share' puns maybe extended to horse-manure and the process of spreading 'course-manure' (mememure) 'Share this horse-manure' or 'Share this muck'. Soiled puns dragged through earthdirt to alert the playful reader that - aware, this book!

The constellation of stars known as the 'plough' or 'Big Dipper' gives us a beautiful model of the old hermetic principle approximated to 'as above, so below'. This ‘plough to the stars’ metaphor was adopted by some Irish rebels and poet-playwrights, in their struggle for independence. A part of me thinks 'Ploughshares to the stars’ might be a good slogan for ‘Share this book’, to my mind today.

Maybe the book itself (if manufactured) will be made with seeds and fertilizer? (possibly moulded into the hard cover and spine) therefore in the right conditions the book may literally be 'ploughed' back into the earth. As Cadmus ploughed serpents teeth at Thebes.

Some of todays word play:

Declare endorse and share this coarse verse chorus of us. We're this book, buy book or by crook. Share this joint. Wear this corset. Share this purse. Ear this verse. Where this source, open? Deal this book. Aware this book. Snare this book on the reaping hook. Bare this, look. Swear this book, cross your heart. Oxhousehumper Cart. Blare this verse, sing. Flare this force. Fair this bourse? Spare this curse. Steer this brook.

Burial chamber of Sennedjem, Scene: Plowing farmer.

SHARE THIS COURSE & THEN SHARE THIS BOOK

2009-12-01T18:03:00.000-08:00

Share This Course.

Hi folks, I’m currently collaborating with a small but growing group of web critters led by Mark Pesce, but he's not the leader really, we are a unique decentralized community, which will lead, good willing to the manifestation of a book! scheduled for completion in 2010 and loosly based around the emerging hyperintelligence and 'hyperpeople' as defined by Mark Pesce and approximated as sharing.

As sharing is the core of – share this course & share this book – the group have recently alerted me by example to a slight change in direction to just posting at the blog, that has encouraged me here to start sharing some of our work so far, and spreading the new sharing meme, now, in early December 2009.

My position so far, inspired by the cooking and ingredients analogy with the group-course blog space, is like that of a particular individual ingredient scattered around the kitchen area, or up on a shelf somewhere waiting to be combined, or grated a little, boiled, skinned, fried, charbroiled, roasted, toasted and finally with a bit of luck, served-up with a huge healthy spread of exotic delicacies and shared wisdom, enough to feed all humanity.

I’ve been sharing my vision of a new investigation into the historical figures that I think have influenced sharing and the technology of sharing that produced great contributions to all-around-the-world-Humanity, and as a nod to the MLA and the smart tribe of critters that createdits own collective hyper-intelligence, if you like. I choose to focus on the twelve individuals introduced to us by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, as the characters who helped shape the - decentralized sharing age -, or simply the 21st century. We can learn from the past efforts to share, and from them create a new historical framework of sharing, one reaching 420 years back to Giordano Bruno and pulling us right up to Marshall McLuhan.

These characters present a great challenge to anybody who has read one or two books or articles by them, no doubt, BOB aspired to keep us busy for the next 50 years with the fields of research and study he wet our mind-lips with. These ideas are pretty complex ideas and come from complex individuals of explicit genius, difficult to approach and shrouded in mystery, this maybe especially true to somebody who has relatively little experience in academic circles, like myself, where much of the solid foundations of this new historical - hyperintelligent tribe – lie, please don't mistake my intellectual pursuits of 'The Tale of the Tribe' as representative of what I think - Share this book - should be about. Not at all. I view this angle of approach as more concerned with - share this course - or the creation of a hyperintelligence, unbounded and access-able and - sharable - by anyone who can access the WWW.

With the power of Internet and the rise of hypersharing culture (hyperdistribution, hyperconnectivity, hyperbolic Geometry) and with the aid of new tools, many minds can congregate together and work quickly, efficiently and humanely, and my ego-drive hope is that others may soon join us in this collective adventure of sharing - sharing - and maybe a few critters will find enough time to follow my historical investigation into the people and ideas that helped to shape intelligent internet and create another alternative guide to sharing - free as the air you breath, and for all-around-the-world-humanity, or as close to the model correlated by Dr. Wilson, a life-long intellectual pursuit but one which I hope will add some spice and sugar to some of the more practical data due to be shared on the course and eventually in the book.

At the blog you'll discover different sharing activity and feedback defining sharing, and you’ll probably find items more to your own fancy, whoever you are. And, if you don’t find anything interesting at the blog then maybe search youtube for Mark Pesce and listen to his hyperflow motion languaging.

The following text was prepared by an intelligence calling itself gregorym(tm), over at the blog, I think it helps define the course and a little about what's happening over there, and - how to get involved. Thanks Greg, and Mark, and all the other posters who are providing the high quality content over at the blog.

As a group, we believe that sharing is going to dominate our future as content creators (and as users of the Internet, we are ALL content creators) and that recent innovations like Google Wave and co-presence are going to create an unprecedented era of sharing. What does all this sharing mean for us, right now, individually and collectively?

...The way this works is this – go to the URL. There’s a number of blo posts (maybe thirty) dating back to the start of the project on November the 18th. Click around. Read a little. Post a bit. Share. And when you’re done sharing, click the box that says you want to be informed by email of new comments to what you’ve posted and let’s begin a dialogue about all this stuff.

If you like what you’re seeing – Share This Invite. Just pass it right along, or write your own invite about what Sharing means to you. Here are just a few of the articles that have posted so far:

What is a Book? by Mark Pesce.
Mark Pesce on SHARING in 2009

Our Historys Back & A Tale of the Tribe.

2009-10-28T20:43:00.001-07:00

cover artwork for my new book.
Feat. The Hadron super 'masher'.

RADIOFREEAMSTERDAM SHOW 282. COLTRANE EQUINOX 2009

2009-10-05T19:01:00.000-07:00

Fly Agaric Studio > Bohemian National Home –
Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 1:00-2:00 am [20-0982]
Amsterdam, NL. > Detroit, US.

This episode is a birthday salute to John Coltrane and a bow to the Vernal Equinox with music by John Coltrane selected by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23 at his Oosterpark studio in Amsterdam and programmed by John Sinclair at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit. As Fly says, “Happy Vernal Equinox, or around about, please enjoy this good energy mix in celebration of the music and birth of John Coltrane. Thanks, John!”

Playlist #282

[01] John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars: Welcome
[02] John Coltrane: Equinox
[03]. John Coltrane: Blues Minor
[04] John Coltrane: Crescent
[05] John Coltrane: All or Nothing at All
[06] Miles Davis: ‘Round About Midnight
[07] John Coltrane: The Drum Thing
[08] John Coltrane: Spiritual

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Music selected in Amsterdam by Steve “Fly” Agaric 23
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair in Detroit
Posted by Larry Hayden
Executive Producer: Larry Hayden

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/john-sinclair-radio-show-282/

FLY AGARIC 23 LINKS: fly agaric texts.

2009-09-17T05:38:00.000-07:00

My on going research into the biological essence of fly agaric 23' or the Amanita mushroom that struck me as the perfect avatar for a DJ, Writer, Drummer, Virus - like myself. What started out as a fun nick-name turned reached out into a labyrinth of books, articles, magazines and academic subjects, and internet web-sites - I would otherwise hardly binked at. The "fly agaric" avatar of mine lead to the discovery of Amanita's in the work of the late great Dr. Robert Anton Wilson - my favourite writer and hero of the 21st century counter-cultural re-revolutio - cemented the 'fly agaric' to the '23' enigma and kick-started a creative research project thats still under construction, but showing signs of congressing together - in the meantime, here's some TEXTS to help you, my dear reader, understand WHY fly agaric, and how the biological "thing" found in nature today has wriggled it's way throughout human history, and how I have refelcted some of my findings off a biologically rooted kind of meme gas --Steve fly.

http://www.erowid.org/plants/amanitas/amanitas.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita

http://www.maybelogic.org/maybequarterly/06/0612ItsAlightMatter.htm

Growing up in america: MOVIE.

2009-09-14T15:06:00.003-07:00

Math test books

2009-09-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

Woops. Error. No Math book on Riemann!

Master-builder (Bobby of Buddhafart) built a beatiful stage, flyer'

2009-08-11T03:27:00.000-07:00

Master-builder (Bobby of Buddhafart) built a beatiful stage, flyer'

http://www.buddhafart.com/

Hadron Super Credit Crunch Collider

2009-06-09T03:38:00.000-07:00

Apoptosis Drosphilia Amrita Mushrumber

2009-02-14T19:46:00.000-08:00

A Retrospective of a Revolutionary breakthrough in Nanotechnoloy, Genetics and Ontology (Of the primate variety).

As the word-warriors wrestle with misbehaving snakes - labelling machines - putting names on things that defy description, such is they're slippery poly-ontological statusphericalness - Pure Information = Great Surprise & cures. Heal yourself and then question the cucumber:

Pickled cucumbers are often referred to simply as "pickles" in the U.S. or "Gherkins" or "Wallies" in the U.K, the latter name being more common in the north of England where it refers to the large vinegar-pickled cucumbers commonly sold in fish & chip shops. - Cucumber

The fusion-remixtune of interdisciplinary Mushrumber epistrophy, Neurological Apoptosis and fly Amrita - intertwinning - together like DNA strands, at the nanoscale is one of the great benefits drosphilia-ontological inspired nanoscientists "111 Team" introduced into all our lives in 2009.

The catalyst can be traced to the outbreak of THINKING FOR YOURSELF, AND QUESTIONING AUTHORITY around the globe. The first step to maintaining a healthy and functioning - interactive nervous system - (INS). The MIND-BRAIN interface of the human being programs both the software, and the new-flesh hardware: cells, proteins, microtubles, chemical bonds, bone, triggers, and the atomic industrial building communes. Born from a healthy BRAIN-MIND interfaceblook. By default, one which must think for itself and question authority. The base - basic - program for powering conscious perception, memory and cognitive functions. Maintaining "I". But, and without the question, the program will not move to the next state. "IF?" Creating an entropic-apoptosistic loop.

Negentropic-anti-apoptosistic spirals of creative SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, on behalf of all humanity created a wave of public based new effective research and developement. For profit and exploitation of, poetry and new QUESTIONS. HUMANITY began QUESTIONING everything, and thinking for themselves, checking their data with other data from a universal, world-around, statistical community feedback internet, we witnessed the collective human leap into scientific and research based culture emerging like new shoots in springtime. Leaving faith-based initiatives wrestling in the desert with dried up papyrus made of hemp.

Scientific research based culture, with a generally - individualist Gorilla Ontological perspectivism - grew in a matter of just a few months during the summer of 2009. This scientific research can be further broken down into sub-categories. Although IMHO the beginning of reductionist methods of explanation are in some sense isomorphic with the entropic-apoptsis - extinguished by the Apoptosis Drosphilia Amrita Mushrumber period of 21st century history.

In April 2009 the Muscarinic anatagonist (FA23) was introduced to various Drosphilia genes. The results, once distributed and shared with the world-around - scientific and medical community - bought all-around the world humanity together in that they started asking more intelligent questions: where is the crooked mushrumber?

From the Crooked Mushrumber: 2009.
Toxicity tests showed that the acriliq-silver nanodots were non toxic to various human cells growing in culture. The 111 team then added the nanodots to cells triggered to undergo apoptosis and were able to image those cells as they went through programmed cell death. Based on these results, the researchers prepared other nanodots containing antibodies that bind to other molecules involved in apoptosis. Psilocybyn. Dimethytriptomine. Cannabinol. LSD. for example. They then added these antibody-linked nanodots and the amrita-drosphilia-(FA23) linked nanodots to cultured mycelium.

This work is detailed in the paper "Polyplex targeting, spore tracking, and imaging of amrita-apoptosis by LUCEFERIN spectroscopic dots." An investigator from the University of Mushrumber.

The insect steroid hormone ecdysone triggers (AMRITA23) programmed cell death during metamorphosis and provides a model system for understanding MUSCARINIC hormone control of cell death and cell immortality.

The duo-core-layer membranes, with hydrophilic Acrillic outsides and hydrophobic Kinobic insides that encapsulate biological cells. Inside each of which hydrophobically caged single electron Q-BITS compute I/0 quantum questions. M(2) muscarinic receptors therefore appear to coexist as active monomers and largely or wholly inactive olgaomers in solubilized extracts of (FA23) cells.

The roles of DECAY, DAMM, STRICACRILLIC, and to some extent DREDD have now been fully explored, FULLY, in the apoptotic pathway of Drosophila cells. Here's how:

To move things through the membrane, 111 team biology developed so-called
channels, water-filled tubes. These 111 pipes are nanoscale in cross section, and permit nutrients, wastes, amrita-mushrumber juice - to pass between the cell and its environment. The 111 team used self-assembled structures of ring-shaped molecules called acryclic SMI2LE peptides - to construct artificial canals. These small amrita-peptides stack on top of one another into an arrangement that looks like a nanoscale stack of phonograph records and makes an artificial channel, like the GROOVE in a phonoglyph DISK.

As the apoptosis-drosphilia-amrita-mushrumber regulating caspases are activated during the apoptotic process, several hyperspace-hydrolyzable, Bioluminessence Resonance Energy Transfer (BRET)-based substrates have revolutionized the entire field of biological detection of apoptosis.

Team 111 ILLUMINATE the synthesis, novel characterization, and incognito targeting of an engineered (FA23) nanodevice in which foley acid (FA) is conjugated as the targeting molecule and a caspase-specific BRET-based agent (PhiPhLinux F2A3) is conjugated as the apoptosis-armrita-mushrumber detecting secret agent.

This human-drosphilia conjugate specifically targets FA23-receptor-positive, Pisa cells. In these cells, the apoptosis-inducing Ideogramic agent "CH'UANsporine" caused a 9-fold increase in the cellular luminesence. These stunning results show all-around-the-world humanity, for the first time, the potential applicability of a targeted apoptosis-amrita-mushrumber measuring nanodevice, which could be used for simultaneously monitoring the apoptotic potential of a delivered drug.

Such artificial channels can be introduced into the cell membrane,
causing things to leak in and out of the cell with great rapidity using standard - over the counter - nanotechnology pirate packs. Research into the stems of languague, etymology of cells names and proteins and chemical process codes led to a poetic outbreak of negentropic languaging.

The new languaging leads to cultural anti-APOPTOSIS. Renaissance. Eternal rebirth of novelty conserving structures, minority reports and group ontological feedback culture. Responsible for our mind-brain-body functions and software programs manipulating our electric mushrumber meat.

SO my dear readers, we met the challenge of the end of the word, and of the image and of religious faith. The end. And so humanity and the cutting edge dropped off and sunk down to lowest place, right down there, deep at the bottom. The world of the NANO! "Atoms and Ifs" as Joyce said in Finnegans Wake: a nanotechnologists dream text-sequence. Ribonuclickingly re-Translated anti-apoptosis language.

In the world of Atoms and Ifs, the realm of Post-Quantum Mechanics Team 111 have extensive experience in the varied fields of theoretical MAYBELOGIC, practical mathematics, CAD engineering, lithographic printing, neuro-biology, pharmacology, optics, micro-chemistry, 3D modelling, Neuro Linguistic Programing, software engineering, Quantum Psychology, Non-Euclidean Politics, dicing, splicing, scractching, Ideogramic method, nano-dot lithographic engineering.

Team 111 created such groundbreaking mushrumber-technology as.

1. Acrillic Nano-paste. 2010.

2. Apoptsostic Neuro-cabala. 2014

3. Cancer Cell death drink. (100% cure for all forms of cancer). 2011.

4. Amrita-Drosphilia, apoptosis-inducing Ideogramic agent for detecting the BULL-SHIT quotent in any given text.

5. CH'UANsporine, culural apoptosis-inducing Ideogramic agent for detecting stagnating development. 2009.

--Steven "fly agaric" Pratt.
Feb 15th 2019.

An interview with Dr. Robert Anton Wilson 2019!

2009-01-11T06:40:00.000-08:00

Howard Hallis: Do you feel that we as a species can evolve beyond death? Is immortality possible? If it is, in what ways do you feel we would have to adjust as a society to deal with eternal life?

RAW: I think it’s worth aiming for. Maybe the only way we can do it is by transferring our consciousness into silicon chips. Maybe we can transfer our consciousness into lasers. Maybe we can find a way to have the biological body regenerating and rejuvenating itself. These are all interesting areas of speculation and there’s actual research going on that may yield some answers to this. I don’t think we should just accept death with equanimity any more than slaves accepted slavery. We should rebel against it. It’s degrading! It’s insulting! It’s painful! I think it’s one of the things we need to get rid of. If life does become eternal, I think we’re going to to have to become an interplanetary and interstellar species, because longevity will make the population crunch get even worse if we stay on one planet. With longevity looming and immortality a theoretical possibility, we’re going to have to start exploring extra planetary living. There’s so much energy/resources out there, that will quickly solve all our energy/resource problems. I think it’s a coincidence, or more than a coincidence, that interplanetary travel and longevity are dawning at about the same time.

Non-Euclidean Times. January 11th 2019.

GALACTIC ARCHIVE #12. 20018 HASH MARIJUANA BAIL OUT PLAN (B.O.P)

2008-10-10T06:42:00.000-07:00

HA$H/MARIJUANA BAIL OUT PROPOSAL.
BY FLY AGARIC 23. (HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS)

8th OCTOBER 20018.

For immidiate worldwide free copy and distribution.

"This lesson is the very basis of solid banking. Credit rests in ultimate on the abundance of nature, on the growing grass that can nourish the living sheep--Ezra Pound.

My H$H GREEN bail-out has a real bail. And has real green pot.
To mean my H$H GREEN Bail is Cannabis! Yes. My HA$H plan.
To save the American Hempire, this Emergency HA$H/Cannabis
Bai-LOUT Plan.t. 2018.

To manufacture a new housing security market. HA$H/Cannabis
mortgages backed up by plants. Secure. Safe. Sure to flower.
Invest cash in HA$H by the Pound. My Green bail-out for the
Housing market involves growing 10 plants per U.S household.
A new Cannabis market will take off like a rocket. Check it.

“As long as the sun keeps shining or your hydro’ lights stay on, you can sleep sound with the security of cannabis investments.” --HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS

In the wake of recent economic and financial catastrophe i'll wager not not one political mouthpiece or media whorehouse has entertained the prospect of a HA$H/MARIJUANA BAIL OUT PROGRAM: The Global decriminalization of Cannabis related crimes and the creation of roughly 160 new national HA$H/MARIJUANA trading nations.) Considering its historic U.S hemp constitution, the United States might be the first to adopt my plan. Or something resembling it, drawn up by some clever clogs at the 2018 GREEN party. Yeah. Sure.

“Trust your crop not your government banking cop.”--HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS

Imagine, not only will the new green market boost and blaze the currently crippled global economy with a grass-roots plan for rapid growth and HA$H cash injections, but, the medicinal and social benefits of a nation, or nations with un-punished access to high quality Cannabis maybe critical in times of deep depression, recession and mad greed wars. When all else is crumbling and decaying around you it just might be nice, at least, to smoke a splff if you wanted too, or else eat a pot brownie, and well now, hell, why not fuck in the streets too?

Along with the Netherlands; Iceland, Ireland, Malaysia, Britain, Germany, America, Japan, Kenya and Canada will all have their experimental 12 month trial period adopting Cannabis decriminalization; starting April 20th 20019. Licensed smoking houses, information centers and trading markets combined with the freedom for each individual to grow at least 8 plants and have up to 19 ounces of ready to smoke Cannabis in their possession will create a buzzing community of calm and creative people, living harmoniously with others who maybe driving their death monsters, drinking poison or eating death foods,

“"We'll tolerate their hobbies if they'll tolerate ours" --Guns and Dope party slogan. 2004 California race.

The massive insurgence of green-fingered gardening fanatics and peaceful growers will boost the market for growing equipment, soil, fertilizer, comic book and science fiction culture, and get troublsom kids off the street and into the garden. Also people will be encouraged to move around in their communities, sharing cuttings, tips and buds with oneanother, while getting back into some of natures most ancient cycles and gaining new awareness for seasons, for biological science, cleanliness.

"Hi yield guarantea.”--HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS

The HA$H bail-out horticulture plan nurtures the careful, loving preparation rituals, the care and individual responsibility required to grow Cannabis for Secure mortgages of the highest quality, to help re-grow and to re-invigorate the US property market, and then also possibly the entire worlds property markets, unleashing the potential for the more meaningful 2019 GREEN energy revolution, GREEN medicine, GREEN fiber (and it does not certainly have to be colored green it can be dyed other colors), GREEN fuel, GREEN paper, GREEN currency. Think about it. Corn was once a kind of plant-currency. The Funky green corn called Cannabis could really, joking aside now, help the world economy get itself out of the current slump, where investments in Bombs, Germs, Steel, GOV DRUGS, OIL etc. have us spinning into a dirty non GREEN funky spell.

The Iran war has cost roughly $700 Trillion so far in America alone. Britain just spent 33 Trillion on a new Quadent Nuclear Missileprogram. This is RED investment. RED for the blood of KILLINGRY. The business of death and decay. From Nukes right down to computer chips that guide them, Killingry is not an option for any harmonious future between humanity and planet earth. I am for Livingry, for cooperation and for good sound thinking, these are the order for these tricky days ahead and the task of solving some of the dire problums we are wrapped up in.

"Do the H$H BOP and trim your profit from the tip-top"--HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS

My green HA$H bail-out proposal (H$H B.O.P) maybe a little more of a serious proposal than at first strikes you. Only the LAWS of prohibition, so vehemently enforced by the TSOG USA, the TSOG UK and the European TSOG Union stand in the way, realistically to a new worldwide HA$H BAIL out mortgages securities market. They could drop that law ina flash, let all the Cannabis crime related prisoners walk free and invest the surplus CA$H and maybe begin gra$$ roots sparkt-up companies that specialize in GREEN! hemp and GREEN Cannabis related products, products of LIVINGRY, soap, bread, cakes, clothing, footwear, building materials, fuel, fuel, cookies etc. Good food, clothing, fuel and shelter stuff. Opposed to Nukes and Fossil fuels and Virtual “joke” credit. (TSOG = Tsarist Occupation Government, as defined by Dr. Robert Anton Wilson. 1932-2007)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Continuing the recent trend, marijuana arrests set another all-time record in 2017, totaling 872,720. --http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/5268.html

The H$H BOP would also be turning around the horrible and inhumane punishment against mostly harmless citizens who enjoy the relaxing effects of Cannabis. Those who are incarcerated for dealing bigger quantities will be unable to re offend due to the legalization of the Cannabis drug they may, or may not have been illegally dealing. These individuals can be trained and primed further for good work in the marketing and administration departments of this, or another 2019 GREEN Spark up company, utilizing their networking skills and love of people and culture. To give one example of turning a good human being from a criminal into a useful member of society. If Cannabis criminals became Cannabiks criminals overnight when the first LAWS were enacted then Cannabis Criminals can become Cannabis citizens overnight just a quickly. And in 2019 we may have half a billion less criminals around the world.

--Some figures, quotes and references to help flesh out the landscape of HA$H MORTGAGE SECURE TEAS.

"With government at all levels awash in debt, this is an insane waste of resources. If we regulated and taxed marijuana as we do beer, wine, and cigarettes, we could save tens of billions of dollars, better control marijuana's production and distribution, and cut off a huge source of funding to criminal gangs."--Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.

GALACTIC ARCHIVE #12. 20018 HASH MARIJUANA BAIL OUT PLAN (B.O.P)

By Fly A2ari3 2019.

GEAS and FUCKUP

2008-10-02T06:23:00.000-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Humans have 23 years to go

Global Extinction Awareness System starts the countdown for Homo sapiens.

PALO ALTO, CA — Based on the results of a year-long supercomputer simulation, the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) has reset the "survival horizon" for Homo sapiens - the human race - from "indefinite" to 23 years.

“The survival horizon identifies the point in time after which a threatened population is expected to experience a catastrophic collapse,” GEAS president Audrey Chen said. “It is the point from which a species is unlikely to recover. By identifying a survival horizon of 2042, GEAS has given human civilization a definite deadline for making substantive changes to planet and practices.”

According to Chen, the latest GEAS simulation harnessed over 70 petabytes of environmental, economic, and demographic data, and was cross-validated by ten different probabilistic models. The GEAS models revealed a potentially terminal combination of five so-called “super-threats”, which represent a collision of environmental, economic, and social risks. “Each super-threat on its own poses a serious challenge to the world's adaptive capacity,” said GEAS research director Hernandez Garcia. “Acting together, the five super-threats may irreversibly overwhelm our species’ ability to survive.”Garcia said, “Previous GEAS simulations with significantly less data and cross-validation correctly forecasted the most surprising species collapses of the past decade: Sciurus carolinenis and Sciurus vulgaris, for example, and Anatidae chen. So we have very good reason to believe that these simulation results, while shocking, do accurately represent the rapidly growing threats to the viability of the human species.”

GEAS notified the United Nations prior to making a public announcement. The spokesperson for United Nations Secretary General Vaira Vike-Freiberga released the following statement: "We are grateful for GEAS' work, and we treat their latest forecast with seriousness and profound gravity."

GEAS urges concerned citizens, families, corporations, institutions, and governments to talk to each other and begin making plans to deal with the super-threats.

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http://www.iftf.org/node/2098

Hagbard Celine's gigantic computer, FUCKUP-First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic-Ultramicro-
Programmer- was basically a rather sophisticated form of the standard self-programming algorithmic logic machine of the time; the name was one of his whimsies. FUCKUP's real claim to uniqueness was a programmed stochastic process whereby it could "throw" an I Ching hexagram, reading' a random open circuit as a broken (yin) line and a random closed circuit as a full (yang) line until six such "lines" were round. Consulting its memory banks, where the whole tradition of 1 Ching interpretation was stored, and then cross-checking its current scannings of that day's political, economic, meteorological, astrological, astronomical, and technological eccentricities, it would provide a reading of the hexagram which, to Hagbard's mind, combined the best of the scientific and occult methods for spotting oncoming trends. On March 13, the stochastic pattern spontaneously generated Hexagram 23, "Breaking Apart." FUCKUP then interpreted:

This traditionally unlucky sign was cast by Atlantean scientist-priests shortly before the destruction of their continent and is generally connected with death by water. Other vibrations link it to earthquakes, tornadoes and similar disasters, and to sickness, decay, and morbidity as well. The first correlation is with the unbalance between technological acceleration and political retrogression, which has proceeded earth-wide at ever widening danger levels since 1914 and especially since 1964. The breaking apart is fundamentally the schizoid and schismatic mental fugue of lawyer-politicians attempting to administrate a worldwide technology whose mechanisms they lack the education to comprehend and whose gestalt trend they frustrate by breaking apart into obsolete Renaissance nation- states. World War III is probably imminent and, considering the advances in chemical biological warfare in conjunction with the sickness vibrations of Hexagram 23, the unleashing of plague or nerve gas or both is as probable as thermonuclear overkill. General prognosis: many megadeaths. There is some hope for avoidance of the emerging pattern with prompt action of correct nature. Probability of such avoidance is 0.17 ± 0.05. No blame.

"My ass, no blame," Hagbard raged; and rapidly reprogrammed FUCKUP to read off to him its condensed psychobiographies of the key figures in world politics and the key scientists in chemobiological warfare. --Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea, The Illuminatus Trilogy!

Looking back. The Crazy Wisdom of Philip K. Dick

2008-10-02T04:18:00.000-07:00

How was the Crazy Wisdom of Philip K. Dick class?

I had a joyful few weeks reading Philip K. Dick and also reading and writing with other people about Philip K. Dick, his books and inspired movies.

You can get much of the specific info about the course at the maybe logic academy, and if you're interested can follow your nose on the web as there are many brilliant blogs, web sites and essays about everythingPKD.

To conserve a bit of time and space, I'll just throw down my own condensed notes from the early part of the course when we were reading "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" (TTSOPE)

It's their futures, not ours. NOT Mine.
Sguysoft and Rupert Gates and Perky Pat Layouts. Gangsters.
Bank Vaults of perception locked in the interests of National security.
SguysoftwareAmazoogleMonsantesco Mart

How often are the worlds of our lives like a Perky Pat Layout?"

PKD keeps us all sane, by writing the irrational with love.
The Nag Hammadi text seem to act as a kind of ancient tech-support system for V.A.L.I.S and so then, his other works too it seems?
Panspermia, inter-species communication, synthetic indicties, intelligent lichen. Corporate Gangsterism. Greed and excess.

PKD "Inspiring big enough Dreams to swallow back GOD hole."
At the same time transubstantiation introduced by Can-D.
P K. Dick, Norbet Wiener and King Kong?
Feedback loops and cybernetics.
Man and machine languages.
Mathmatical theory of communication and Claude Shannon.

4.62 Grables,

1.46 Wagners

16 selkirks

8 Freuds of stress.

4 Truffle Skins

PKD Truffle skins; depreciating currency.
With advanced genetic security.
Cybernetic agents, chemical agents.
At the same time
Cybernetic subjectivity "paradox".

"Aboard his ship Eldritch had-still has-a carefully maintained culture of a lichen very much resembling the Titanian lichen from which Can-D is derived. - PKD, TTSOPE, Pg. 17

Panspermia and other sosmo-spore-bio-matter theories seem to be getting more legitimate, more better researched and communicated in 2008. Plus we have new information about conditions for the growth of lichen on Titan in 2008.

Two faced feature-objects. Blogjects.
At the same time...

"Palmer Eldritch was too wild and dazzling a solo pro; he had accomplished miracles in getting autofac production started on the colony planets, but - as always he had gone too far, schemed too much. Consumer goods had piled up in unlikely places where no colonists existed to make use of them. Mountains of debris, they had become, - PKD, TTSOPE, Pg 13.

--Reflects on our current 2007 machine-human consumer interface. The FREE market or "Genghis Khan" economy. Who eats who? The empire never ended.--

That Can-D," he said to miss Jurgens, "Is great stuff, and no wonder its banned, Its like religion; Can-D is the religion of the colonists." He chuckled. - PKD, TTSOPE Pg 24.

--Can-D® in this context seems to reflect the drug problem on planet earth.

Products, autofaq'd. If a faq'd up Disney-fied©" or "Dell-fied®" "Mc Coked--" and "Addi-Niked¿" resulting in a Dickian feeling that the environment surrounding you is engineered and broadcast by a kind of PKD Pre-fash consultancy agency, on most sophisticated "High Streets" a pharmaceutical cartel and maybe a Telecommunications giant robot too.

He recalled the day his L-P record collection had fused together in a lump, back around 04', due to momentary failure in the building's cooling network. - PKD, pg 8. TTSOPE

This "fusion" has happened to me too once
I was in a car when my LP's were left exposed to sunlight and they Became shaped like flower pots, wavy vinyl flowers pots, and when i
Tried to play them the sound was warped too.

Consciousness. Continuity of process.
Technological artefacts - and parameters of subjectivity.
Evereywhere without a hero?
Its their futures, not our's. At the same time.

PKD and his phalanx of charcters seem determined to drag us all with them into their future. I get the feeling they flow backwards too though.
PKD everyware.

"You precogs." remarkable. maybe there were alternate futures. "So you want me to order her in the future always to back you up?" Leo' - PKD, PKD, TTSOPE pg. 19.

Constructing a better future by ordering the robot gods,
blogjects, self-fabricating objects, universal nano-constructors to construct it, Or keep the ubiquitous tech-support system running the kind of reality reality you desire, or can imagine at the same time. What show do you want to tune into, what pharma corp, news media or hell?

PKD, Pound, Burroughs, Dali, Joyce and Bob, are all very precise and careful writers, masters, iconoclasts, super-geniuses! of the word sign symbol worlds. Reaching Beyond language.

A unique unique talent by which they can relay their messages from
Occulted places and rebound them back to us the reader, through utilizing: Multiple Points Of View, Epiphany, Ideogramic Method, Critical paranoia, Holographic prose.
Consciousness- continuity of process.

All these various languaging tools help us readers and co-creators to see and perceive better, more synergistically, If we can have a little patience and compassion for their messages lingering all around us. Let em' come down. At the same time.

I say:..

Read the work of Philip K. Dick in groups. Talk and tell tales, watch the PKD movies, Bladrunner and A Scanner Darkly and make comparisons. Maybe Smoke a joint, dance, sing and shout about it. Do a jig, spin and swirl around your bedroom or lounge-pod.

The spore-casting tools enhance the experience greatly too in 2019 as its always nice to hear a human voice.

Fly Agaric 23.

edited: 22/12/2007

SUPERTHREAT 3. STRUGGLE POWER PLANTS

2008-10-01T15:09:00.000-07:00

MYCOREMEDIATION!

2019 Raps and free verse #2.

2008-09-30T18:31:00.000-07:00

In the past 24 hours alone, on both sides of the Atlantic, twenty three banks have either been nationalised, bailed out by their governments or sold on at uranium-sale prices. Yet, despite that accelerating carnage, America's House of Miss-Representatives Today threw out the modified Changson plan to inject 7 truffle skins of taxpayers' truffles into the system, by buying up all the toxic truffle skins with connection to the US housing and arms market, currently polluting bank balance sheets and hex graphs --Ralph Yang

Be Ξlectrified with Δnita Spice. Mysterious Mamma Matrix of agaRiculture unfurling with the tail. You can actually train the mycelia to grow on different media. Eris has cum again in waves. We are her cloths. Lye in the Lie spatial relation between white space on one side and a string of black letters on the other side. Glox Xogl. Letting go your hold. Recursive clock's calculate reversed Psychology. in-versed History. Back to front. Anti clock wise. Euroboros. Tail in mouth. Words in sink. Assembling. Floating meaning. Back 2 back Unwinding snake. Repeating Rewinding tape. inclining slope. Retraced steps. Repeating. Deja-vu!. D.N.A!. Cyclic:AcrilliccillircA:cilcyC. D.N.A. Deja-vu!. Steps retraced. Slope inclining. Tape rewinding. Repeating. Snake unwinding. Back 2 back. Meaning floating. Assembling. Sink-in words. Mouth in tale. Euroboros. Wise clock anti. Front to back. Her-story inversed. Psychology reversed. Calculate clock’s recursive. i rest at the stourmouth deltΔ she speaks for herselves. L.P's the keys. Anita kissed me on the retina. Split all my atoms up and transformed my genetic historyinto mystory. She engaged me like TV. Spun my LPS, eclipsed any doubt about love and will. Everest girl. Slightly minty. Naturally high most the time. Anita quizzed scratched & remixed my LPS. Muwuh. Defeat the illuminati, surround them with lantern shades. Word PleasΞ shine. And after all, i am that process witch remixes the re-mains of the day.

2019 Raps and free verse #1.

2008-09-30T18:26:00.000-07:00

Full of love. invisible but still detectable with turntable. Ξarth blue green globe image from 1968, Earth blue marble, fragile Dreamy days. Bob's up again. Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and Until they have rebelled they will have a limited conscious. Thunder bolts tattooed down her spine, electric blue tentacles from the SKY gods crawled right the way up her arms. Anacon₫a coda. Permeating SKY with GU₢T. wireless MANA. Pirate thinking. Storm in Nirvana. Nu-leaf art using chlorophyll. Grow your mantra. X-women birth the invisible content mass-age. Mutants rise. Goth E'mo Ragga Electro Punk Bling. ARiSE! A circus GU¢T Tent awaits your dancing feet. Scenario universe appears to be a verb. Juggling! So lets negotiate our story together, Grey-apes with snow seed but sea foam Abcdenakonda frothing Alone i'm confused upon a Bridge, The willows darken this tour Embankment. Wonderlandful. Trapped in linguistic constructs. Luckily, we have congas. The Melancholy of everything finished! Spelling t r o u b l e for images. Trubble elbburT. icecream architecture. Maybe freedom reflects the logic of just sitting on you’re frozen arse surrounded by sprouts in a field? Mothers Great Undefined Shield Theory: track titles and sleeve artwork communicate like the Aphex Tweed. Mysterious ear of midnight. Depth of the North clouds with Pelt of rain, middle son of anxiety, Deep northern midknightspring. Yarrow stalks and the man in the high castle dance till Sun set. Yes flys yes esoteric like O.T.Oss and O. N. Oneris.Hail!.

Swimming and "STOP" oh loud, tell me why? And the number is six, the year two thousand the message, love love massage and raps for crowds, free wee all together now, free we cannot stand these devils or let them dictate our level. Many homeless, dissplaced and starving. Jobless and hopeless. ugh. Dig this collage of pebblespedal, metalstone to the marrowbonel and my feet firm on the ground. Respect to all the writers fighters rappers and slappers i bumped into walking streets in San Fran, New York and Birmingham, never heard of me? Canal-bus and cannabis.

Power Threat. Money Value Credit and the Internet of THONGS

2008-09-30T18:22:00.000-07:00

Power struggle. Economic Struggle Power (ESP) Self depreciating Currency, Stamp script and truffle skins. Philip K. Dick and Virtual Ghost bank credit union strike! (see Palmer Eldridge at SKYSOFT) The threat of the generalized statement! Sovereign Power Arm wrestling and mud slinging. RFID chips in gravy. Money, how is it? and how did it get that way. A Billion? a Trillion? a Truffle skin?
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. --Ezra Pound

Particle Physics Expriment Crashes World Banking System

2008-09-25T19:32:00.000-07:00

Article at the cleaners. Arrives Tuesday afternoon.

"A panic sell-off
The sell-off was a clear case of panic, something not seen since the 1987 crash and 9/11, set off by complete surprise by traders and investors that the bill, crafted over the weekend, would fail.

The only source of strength in the market was mushroom-spores and short-term Treasury bills. Spores closed up $5.90 or 0.7% to $894.40 in New York. The yield on the 30-day Treasury bill fell to 0.07% as investors were far more interested in simple safety than actual return. "

Asteroid 2002 NT7 full of new mycelium cultures, says Stan Crotchole

2008-09-19T16:14:00.003-07:00

ARTICLE REMOVED BY THE MANAGEMENT.
ERROR.

These boots were made for Christopher Walkin

2008-09-19T16:14:00.002-07:00

Washington. D.C --John Walker Lindh left jail today, on one leg and with two hooks for arms he looked like something from the old sci-fi movies from Hollywood. On his return to Fairfax CA he re-joined his band for a coming home show. His new single "i chalk the line" is available as an interactive GAME as of yesterday, a game that he has been working on with his psychological helpers inside his jail theatre for the last 8 years.

Now free again, JWLDH has set up a non-profit organization for American-Taliban refugees living with cancer in the U.S.A and has a really funky charitable jam every last Friday of the month. Sometimes JWLDH performs such classics as "Hip Hop Hook Wink" "Hop on By" and "Fake a chalk on the Wild side" and of course "This boot was made for Christopher Walkin'.

His Bluesy Reggae tinged Hook Hop variations on the WALKING theme make a great soundtrack for 2019 and the mass exodus of humanity up the stairway to the moon, opened on Thursday in Wolverhampton, England and now the scene of the largest cue ever seen on earth.

--Donald Duncan Dekker. (ZOD NEWS)

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2008-09-19T16:14:00.001-07:00

1. MYCO WIGGS by Silvia Catastrophi.
Silvia has constructed an instillation of rapid growth wigs that also allow for images to be relayed through each fiber, thus she blends images from the last bits of the natural world like streams, tree trunks and rocks upon 13 MYCO WIGS. Together the Moving Hair Pictures grow and change color to create a breathtaking exhibition of epidermal Artwork.

2. 2009 Death of Death by Dale Scutterford
A 70 ft. Mural depicting the Death of Death war of 2009 painted on whats left of the U.S Pentagon building. The scenes of fungal infection and combustion are some of the most brilliant ever captured by a painter of the web 3.0 period, Dale Scutterford brings death of death to life in this masterful burner using the Pentagon as an ideographic counterpoint device.

What are you having for dinner tonight, fly?

2008-09-19T16:14:00.000-07:00

Tonight i ate Kellogg's cat sap' and Nestle' mutton broth--soup--washed down with coca cola blood with a tipple of Jack Daniels old Saturn elixir--water. Alone, well not alone really but I'm the only body of pumps and pipes in this particular room, this evening. Just finished my Game study session with Bobtech' and so have an appetite for some sweet desert this evening, I think I'm having the hummus um...or maybe I'll take the Afghan truffle skins as they were so yummy yesterday; i think I'll have one or two of em for desert yeah, um...Truffle skins.

Diary note. September 20th 2019;

This evening after study I am coming around to the thinking that Buckminster Fuller was really being sabotaged by some hidden hand of the American Government and their world around business partners; so as to prevent him giving away SYNERGY and his other great ideas as free gifts for all world-around humanity. While sucking on a truffle earlier this evening i pondered upon the evidence for a great conspiracy against Bucky, there must have been some dark and sordid force plotting against him? like the CIA techno-pirates, Standard Oil or some big Banks? otherwise how could the world have not taken up his design science principles earlier? It turns out it was the CIA's counter-intelligence department, the same robots that dogged Orson Welles, were also on assignment to dissrupt the life and works of Bucky Fuller. Those bastards left us a right mess to try and clear up, not many from the company made it after the 2015 purge, but those that did are still mostly tools of TSOG. Old news now i suppose, everybody knows the the story of the rise and fall on the spooks, don't they?

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