Esoteric Histories and Ancient Wisdom

Butthole Surfers – Interview in bed (part 1)

Butthole Surfers – Interview in bed (part 2)

Alan Moore on writing and magick

Klint Finley
via http://mutateweb.com/archives/2005/02/16/alan-moore-on-writing-and-magick/
New Alan Moore interview:
AM: I’ll give a brief recap in case we feel we missed anything. Magic and language are practically the same thing, they would at least have been regarded as such in our distant past. I think it is wisest and safest to treat them as if they are the same [...]

Write Magick

Manipulating the field of perception . . . Shamanic trance postures, sending the unstruck note via written word into your blood stream . . .  Scrying the dark side of the brain . . . coaxing whispers from the spaces between the emptiness neurons . . . Buddhism
Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Ray Bradbury. . .
“i [...]

Jack Kerouac’s Essentials of Spontaneous Prose

Via http://www.languageisavirus.com/
SET-UP
The object is set before the mind, either in reality. as in sketching (before a landscape or teacup or old face) or is set in the memory wherein it becomes the sketching from memory of a definite image-object.
PROCEDURE
Time being of the essence in the purity of speech, sketching language is undisturbed flow from the [...]

My kind of reading group

My kind of reading group

http://www.realitysandwich.com/chapter_1_simplicissimus
Has anyone here read or heard about this book? Looks pretty good.

Decentralized networks, smart mobs, collective intelligence, open source software, biopolitics, the emergent social Web and the integration of love percolate the New Edge, yet how do we use all these sexy, geeky, quasi-spiritual concepts to deconstruct the global empire [...]

Writing Down the Dreams

Looking back on my dream diary, I begin to see a pretty clear message emerging. What is more, there are some real great materials emerging as well. Rich imagery, archetypes, strange story lines. . .
What I am getting at is that if you work with the material in your dream diary, you have a great [...]