First I want to apologize for disappearing so abruptly. I'm a 36 year old college student, and it is difficult at times to juggle this whole thing called life.

Right now, however, I want to talk a moment about lies. We all do it. We all lie. If you say you don't lie, then you've just lied, because WE ALL LIE. It's what we do. I'm not saying that we are all driveling idiots, spouting lies so often we can never tell the truth from fiction(although for some people this is the truth). I'm simply saying that at some point in time, we have all lied for something, or someone.

Okay, so lies. Here we go:

When we think of lies, we generally think of some person creating a story that isn't real, then trying to pass it off as real. Example: lets just say that I'm getting my nipple pierced, and it's being recorded. In the midst of this someone brings up snakes. Not wanting to look like a weakling, a pussy, or a fraud, I create a story that makes me feel more important. I tell them that I grew up in Missouri(which is true), and that I had lots of snakes around me(also true)...I even embellish the story to include me being bitten by a snake at some point(not true).

Now here me out. The lie was not that bs story I just told about me being bitten by a snake. No? No. The real lie here is not my story. The real lie here is that I convinced myself that the story I made up about being bitten by a snake is more important or more relevant than the fact that I did not actually get bit by a snake in my youth. Let me restate this:

I told a story to a bunch of people that in my youth I was bitten by a poisonous snake. That never happened. I was never bitten by a poisonous snake. I told that story to make myself feel cool...to make myself feel important...to make myself feel something about myself that I don't normally feel...and THERE is the real lie.

The real lie is not the story I told. The real lie is not what I said happened that didn't really happen. The real lie here, is that I believed a fabrication of the truth was more valuable than the actual truth. Do you get that? Does that make sense? Can you hear what I'm saying?

A person who lies all the time, but is not aware of the magnitude of their lies, becomes blind to the fact that they are a liar.

I am saying that when a person lies, the story that they are telling is not really the lie. The story that they are telling is just that...a story. The lie is that the person who is telling the story(the untruth)has convinced them self that the fabrication..the lie...is better, or more worthy, than the truth.

That is my thesis...my argument. It is my observation that the "lies" most people tell are not really lies. It is my observation that the lies people tell are simply stories that we ALL tell. The real lie happens not in the falsified story, but in the belief that the falsified story is more worthy, or better than the truth.

If I tell you that I'm a black belt in Ai-Ki-Do but I'm actually not that at all, the lie is not that I told you an untruth. The lie is not that story I told about being a black belt. Me telling you that I am a blackbelt is bullshit, but it is not really a lie...the real lie is that I believed the untruth to be a better reality that the actual truth. The story I tell is not the real lie...it's fiction, yes, but not the lie...the lie is me believing that the fiction is better and more worthy than the truth.

To lie is human. Not getting caught is divine.

Dustin

In today’s high tech world, we have at our disposal a medium in which all of the rules, structure, and curriculum of Magick(astrology, tarot, qabalah, skrying techniques, ritual, etc)could be easily combined into a simple fun to follow, easy to disseminate instrument of learning. Video games.

There are literally tens of thousands of video games on the market, with billions of dollars each year being poured into this highly addictive, highly profitable, highly entertaining, niche’.

The most simple way to give human evolution a gigantic shove in the right direction would be to empower hundreds of thousands(even millions) of children/young adults/middle agers with the tools of Magick through an entertaining fun to play series of video games.

I’m not just talking about your average 80 hour play times of Mass Effect or Oblivion games, I’m talking about creating the "Everquest" and "World of Warcraft" of Magick video games. The addicting, I-play-this-18-hours-a-day-for-weeks-at-a-time video games, with a level up engine designed to truly test the Magickal knowledge of the player. Through the simple act of playing the game, the techniques of Magick would eventually settle themselves firmly into the unconscious of each and every player.

Hours and hours, days and days, weeks and weeks, spent leveling up one’s Magician from 0=0 to 5=6 would permanently embed Genius into the population. The religions, consumer markets, governments, and educational systems of the present would soon dissolve away into memory as these tools would begin to manifest themselves in every aspect of society. Big business managers, despotic rulers, school teachers, bankers, college professors, fry cooks, janitors, construction workers, and on and on and on would all be replaced by the video game Adepts.

Israel Regardie believed with his whole being in the value of Magick so much that he dedicated much of the last part of his life to creating a guide for the general layperson to be able to use for self-initiation. He also felt that the average intelligence person was perfectly capable(through hard work, and determination of course) of following a properly laid out plan of self initiation through to the all important Tiphareth level of Self guidance/knowledge and conversation of the HGA. How much more easy would it be to follow that same curriculum through an entertaining and most importantly INTERACTIVE, system of level ups!

It seems to me that any Magickal group who pooled their resources to fund such a project with any number of video game manufacturer’s in the business, would benefit a thousand times over. Like World of Warcraft, the player would be required to pay a monthy or yearly fee. Not to mention the possibility of the nearly unlimited amount of expansion packs available...Wicca, Enochian Magick, Celtic Magick, OTO, VooDoo, Santeria, I-Ching, and on and on ...there's at LEAST a decades worth! Just like any initiatory group, each level would be managed by members of groups who have attained the appropriate or equivalent grades of practice. This would not only open up thousands of PAYING jobs worldwide that utilize the knowledge of the occult making that kind of knowledge marketable, but it would set off a chain reaction of all the other Magickal groups and organizations to follow suit speeding up the evolution of mankind by dizzying proportions.

We worry that our technology might run away and devour us, but that fear is there ONLY BECAUSE AS A RACE OF HUMANS, WE DO NOT HAVE AN EQUIVALENT LEVEL OF SPIRITUAL APTITUDE AS WE DO TECHNICAL PROWESS. By infusing the world with Magick THROUGH THE USE OF OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENTERTAINMENT, we would jump human consciousness exponentially closer to the level of Christhood in less than one generation. It is the easiest, fastest, and potentially the most effective way to save ourselves from the upcoming doom that is nearly upon us.

Now the only problem left is for me to convince the proper groups and associations of the Genius of this plan…

Dustin

...by Lon Milo DuQuette. "Devil be my God" is an excerpt from "Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation", New Falcon Publications, 1996, Tempe Arizona.

"In 415 CE Cyril, the Bishop of Alexandria Egypt, found himself in a most awkward position. Not only was he burdened with the task of concocting viable doctrines from the muddled and conflicting traditions of the young Christian cult, he was required to do so in the most sophisticated and enlightened pagan city on earth.

Long before the alleged virgin birth of the crucified savior, Alexandria, with her celebrated schools and library, nurtured the greatest minds of the Mediterranean world and Asia. Here, religion and philosophy were lovers, and their union gave rise to dynamic environment of dialog and debate. On more than one occasion Cyril tried to glean converts from the student body of Neo-Platonic Academy, only to be stricken dumb by the discomforting realization that the fledgling philosophers were far more knowledgeable than he about the subtleties and shortcomings of his own faith. They afforded him the opportunity to suffer for his faith. His patience came to an end, however, when his faith and reputation were challenged by a brilliant and charismatic luminary of the Alexandrian School of Neo-Platonism, Hypatia-the greatest woman initiate of the ancient world.

Hypatia of Alexandria was without question the most respected and influential thinker of her day. The daughter of the great mathematician Theon, she took over her father’s honored position at the Academy and lectured there for many years. She, more than any other individual since Plotinus, the father of Neo-Platonism, grasped the profound potential of that school of thought. Her lectures were wildly popular and attracted a universal spiritual order-a supreme philosophy- an enlightened religion to unite all religions. Such was the golden promise of Neo-Platonism, and Hypatia of Alexandria was its virgin prophetess.

Troubled by the continued degeneration of the Christian movement, its intolerance of other faiths and its dangerous preoccupation with miracles and wonders, Hypatia began a series of public lectures dealing with the cult. She revealed the pagan roots of the faith and systematically unmasked the absurdities and superstitions that had infected the movement. Then, with power and eloquence surpassing that of any Christian apologist, she elucidated upon what she understood to be the true spiritual treasures found in the purported teachings of the “Christ”.

Her arguments were so persuasive that many new converts to the cult renounced their conversions and became disciples of Hypatia. Her lectures stimulated enormous interest in Christianity, but not Christianity as it was presented by Cyril, the Bishop of Alexandria.

Not blessed with the strength of character necessary to suffer a personal confrontation with Hypatia, Cyril embarked upon a campaign of personal vilification by preaching to his unwashed and fanatical flock that Hypatia was a menace to the faith, a sorceress in league with the Devil. These diatribes seemed to have little effect upon the sophisticated population of urban Alexandria who were beginning to realize that Bishop Cyril’s Christianity was a cult that didn’t play well with other children. Deep in the Nitrian dessert, however, Cyril’s hateful words eventually reached the crude monastery of Peter the Reader.

Years of preaching to the wind and converting scorpions had uniquely qualified Peter to be the cleansing sword of the Prince of Peace, and the thought of a devil-possessed woman attacking his savior was more than this man of God could stomach. Mustering a rag-tag collection of fellow hermits, he marched to Alexandria where they met with officials of the Caesarean church who informed him that each afternoon the shameless Hypatia drove her own chariot from the Academy to her home. Armed only with clubs, oyster shells, and the Grace of God, Peter and his mob ambushed Hypatia in the street near the Academy. Pulling her from her chariot they dragged her to the Caesarean church where they stripped her, beat her with clubs, and finally(because of an on-going debate over the soul’s eternal status if the corpse remained whole) scraped the flesh from her bones with the oyster shells. The scoops of flesh and the rest of her remains were then carried away and burned.

The reaction of the Alexandrian community was one of confusion and shock, and the Neo-Platonist school was dealt a blow from which it never recovered, Cyril took full advantage of the situation and used the terror of the moment to further intimidate the city and establish that the will of the Christian God was to be resisted an one’s own risk.

The martyrdom of Hypatia was certainly not the first example of truth resisting evil and losing, but it did mark the beginning of a prolonged spiritual delirium tremor from which Western Civilization has never fully recovered. Even the bright souls who did not succumb to the universal madness were forced to blossom against the twisted projections of the collective nightmare.

Spiritual growth is not impossible in such an environment. But where wisdom is perceived by the world to be ignorance; love is considered sin, and all that is best in the human spirit is condemned and repressed, the road by which a seeker of enlightenment must travel takes many curious turns. On such a journey one’s companions are outlaws and rebels; sacredness breeds in blaspheme, truth falls from the lips of false prophets, heaven is sought in hell, and God is the Devil himself." --Lon Milo DuQuette

I don't know about you, but that makes me all warm and fuzzy for some of that old time religion! ;-)

Dustin

The Daily Grail probes the very limits of science, history, and magic and I'd argue that the fabled over-unity, perpetual motion machines put those concepts together quite completely.

The Irish company Steorn created a terrific stir in 2006 when they announced that they had not only developed a technology which provides "free, clean, and constant energy" which is a clear violation of the law of conservation of energy, but that they were challenging the scientific community to investigate their claim.

They fell out of the public view for quite some time, but theeeyyy'rrre baaaackk. As of April 1st(April fools? not quite) they announced, "The Steorn Knowledge Development Base (SKDB), as the online community is known, is a collaborative environment designed to share, explain, employ and expand the science, engineering and intellectual property comprising Orbo technology. In short, it is ground zero for the Orbo revolution..."

"...The SKDB will be the sole medium for the dissemination of Orbo technology and its future enhancements. All developments and improvements to Orbo technology will be shared amongst the members of the SKDB for further research and development."

...for a fee of course.

I've got to give Steorn mad props though. Amid all the ridicule they've received they still keep chugging on.

I'm not a scientist, so I have nothing objective to say about the technology itself, but I am an altered state of consciousness living, libertarian, utopia dreaming, psychonaut, and the very thought of such a technology gets me more excited than a greyhound about to catch the rabbit on race day. Of course I also get pretty excited about new BioWare video games, orgone generators, Carl Jung's Red Book, and the seasonal Samuel Adams beer twelve packs, so I'm not really too reliable.

You can sign for e-mail alerts, which I did, 'cause well...I'm easily amused...

Anyway, thought I'd share...

http://www.steorn.com/

Dustin

The Teleological Argument from Design states that the universe exhibits a complex, pervasive order or design. Since any time there is such a design there is a designer, it follows that the universe must then have a designer. The name for that designer is “God” or “Allah”, so God exists.

Humans are tinkerers. We take things apart, see how they look, and then put them back together again, often in different orders. For example, we take plants apart. We look at them in smaller and smaller pieces at greater and greater magnitudes. We cut up animals in the same way, then we try to find the tastiest parts. After that, we find uses for the rest of the parts that we didn’t eat. We cut up trees for lumber and paper. Cut through mountains to build roads. We have this natural tendency to take nature apart then we use the parts as we see fit. We mine minerals, rock, and ore, to make tools to help us take nature apart and to use what we take apart more efficiently. As we dismember nature we also study it to see how it works, then we mimic it in ways beneficial to us. Nature gives us seasons, so we make clocks and calendars to chart it. Nature makes complex brains composed of different parts doing different things allowing animals to be intelligent. Humans make computers to do essentially the same thing. We seem to borrow ideas from nature, but it’s not really borrowing since we ourselves are part of nature. Some animals have thick hides that protect them, we make clothing that does the same. As intelligent beings it is natural for us to ask question such as, “What exactly is it that we are copying here?” and “Have these natural things that we mimic been ‘thought up’ by something more intelligent than us?” The analogy that since our human designs require a designer, then natural designs must have a designer too, insists on a very close bond between human kind and nature, a link like a mother to a child. If the very atoms that make up our body come from the Earth itself and were put together into a very complex organism, just like mother and child then it is reasonable to assume that our intelligence mimicks nature too.

A watchmaker is to a watch’s design as nature is to the universe's design. No, nature is not an actual mother pumping out new designs from her womb, and birthing them from some huge vagina, nor is the universe a giant watchmaker in the sky, but the analogy still holds. Nature creates everything, and from the dirt and rock of its womb everything that has shape or design on this planet from it’s atomic level to it’s technological level has come about from natural evolutionary forces here on earth. I’m not saying that there aren’t other planets with intelligences as well, or that earth’s intelligence is the greatest intelligence, it’s just that our human intelligence and design, so far as we know, has come about through seemingly intelligent evolutionary processes happening here on earth. Here is where the problems start. Lots of smart people have given names to this apparent intelligence, Evolution, Mother Nature, Gaia, God, Brahma, etc. Because our social nature which creates relationships combines with our ability to “believe”, we humans create strong emotional ties to some of these names and concepts that we personify, and then we argue about which one is more right.

It absolutely does not follow that since the universe exhibits design that there must only be one God designing it. Monotheism says that there is only one God, but I don’t buy it. If we take the watchmaker analogy a bit further, it would be absurd to believe that the only thing humankind has ever designed was watches. There are shoemakers, and computer parts makers, and drinking straw makers, and building makers, and book makers, and car makers, ad infinitum! It makes sense that nature could have planet makers and, solar system makers, and plant makers, and animal makers, and quasar makers, and nebula makers, and ant makers, and moon makers, and rainbow makers, etc.

Maybe all of those moon makers, and planet makers, and rainbow makers, and animal makers also have a maker or designer. I’ll be honest, I can’t deny that as a possibility, but is there ever a stop to this line of reasoning? Does our universal designer have a designer, and was its designer designed by yet another designer? My point is there is no reason why there can’t be many gods, and I believe the bible (one of monotheisms magnum opus’s) backs me up on this. I choose to discuss an objection that is not grounded in there being something wrong with the teleological argument’s logic, such as its validity or its soundness. I chose an objection that actually agrees with the basic idea that the things we see in nature have been intelligently designed. What I am objecting against is not the argument itself, but the specific Abrahamic religious intent in the wording of the arguments conclusion. My objection is with monotheism specifically, not with intelligent design.

Here’s what I have to say to monotheists. In the King James version of the bible specifically in Exodus chapter 20, verse 3, the first commandment of God to Moses states, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” First of all, I want to make it very clear here that the words do not say, “I am the only God, and there are no other gods.” The words themselves speak of other gods, and that you are not supposed to have any of them before the god of Israel. This rule was given to the people of Israel as part of a covenant between a particular family and this particular god. I’ll grant that the god of Abraham is certainly popular these days, but to be honest, I don’t really want much to do with it. It is our intimate relationship with earth and nature, by watching the patterns and using the parts that we humans have prospered and advanced.

The Teleological Argument from Design supports the idea of fideism rather than actually helping to prove the existence of God. It shows that it is unnecessary to use reason to try to legitimize religious beliefs. The question, “does God exist?” is a Christian/Muslim/Jewish question and can only make sense to someone with some understanding of Christian, Muslim, or Jewish ideas, and the Teleological Argument from Design provides a logical answer. The question itself(does God exist?) infers that there is a God who might or might not exist, and any argument is going start with that basic assumption. The answer is “yes” before it is even asked.

I could rewrite the teleological argument to say this, “The universe exhibits a complex, pervasive order or design. Any time there are such designs there are designers, therefore it follows that the universe must then have designers. The being that designs things here on earth is named Mother Nature. Therefore Mother Nature exists.” We have no rational justification that either God or Mother Nature actually exist yet either, both or neither might. Even with these two versions of the teleological argument, we still either believe or we don’t believe. The use of reason in the teleological argument seems to prove the existence of God, yet it also seems to prove the existence of Mother Nature, or Brahma, or whatever label that you wish to insert in to the question, “does ______ exist?”.

Our reason has this natural tendency to want to validate our beliefs or invalidate conflicting beliefs. So the conclusion of the Teleological Argument by Design doesn’t prove God exists, it merely utilizes natures apparent intelligent designs to validate a belief that he might.

Why oh why don't these "scientists" work with the experts? There are people who have been researching this phenomenon for decades...Intelligent, forward thinking scientists who already have a working philosophy complete with distinct and comprehensible terminology, scientifically tested. Some of the people over at the Monroe Institute have worked with the U.S. government on their psychic spy program(although I don't think the Monroe Institute was actually involved).

Robert Monroe started trying to piece together what it means to have an out of body experience back in the 60's and 70's. Frank Kepple has followed in his footsteps, and has worked out many of the confusing kinks that were left by Monroe.

This New Scientist article makes it sound as though someone who is having an OOBE has something wrong with them...as though a part of their brain isn't functioning properly. WTF people?!?!?!? IT IS NOT TRUE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE SICK OR HAVE A DISEASE TO HAVE SPONTANEOUS OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES OR EXPERIENCE SLEEP PARALYSIS. Any healthy human can train themselves to have them. ANYONE.

Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer wrote a book called "Mastering Astral Projection: 90-day guide to out-of-body experience". It's just like it sounds...a training manual to having out of body experiences.

The Monroe guys have figured out that consciousness is non-local. It's not in your brain. It's not in your body. Sorry, New Scientist. I hate to break it to you, Metzinger and Blanke, but if you're looking for the seat of consciousness inside the human body somewhere, you're in for a long, expensive, fruitless search.

Every human has the ability to focus their consciousness wherever they choose to. There are 4 major "zones" that are available to our conscious minds. The Monroe folks call these zones, "Focuses". Monroe had "visited" and documented a lot of these area's, but Kepple came along and figured out that there were really only 4. Monroe had mistakenly thought that since many of the "regions" looked different and had different inhabitants that they must be completely different areas.

Kepple found that there are really only 4.

Focus One is the hear and the now...it's what many astral projectors call RTZ(pronounced "ritz" and stands for Real Time Zone). In this focus zone alone, we have the ability to focus our attention anywhere we choose. Most of the time we all choose to focus our attention at our eyes, but we can actually focus it 10 feet from our eyes...20 feet...20 miles...2000 miles, whatever.

Focus Two is personal to every individual. It's our dream state. Everybody has one.

Focus Three is called the "Transition Area". It's where our focused consciousness naturally goes to when we die. There are BILLIONS of people there in all levels of consciousness. This is where "Heaven" and "Hell" are located, and every imaginable paradise or purgatory conceivable to man, and you(yes YOU!)can visit it any time you damn well please.

Focus Four, I have no idea how to explain. It seems almost like Plato's realm of the Forms(that's only a guess)...but you'll need to have Frank Kepple explain that one to you. I've never experienced it.

For anyone interested at all about human consciousness or out of body experiences, this is a real eye opening read. I highly recommend it.

http://www.astralpulse.com/frankkepple.html

Alright gang, I haven't posted in quite a while, but I've stumbled across something that raised my eyebrow. I love a good conspiracy, but this is a little unsettling. The state of Massachusetts is about to pass a bill into law that has me squirming a bit:

"A new proposed bill designed to combat the threat of the H1N1 virus would allow the state to forcefully quarantine people in the event of a pandemic.

Anyone who refuses to comply with the quarantine order could face jail time or a $1000 per day fine.

The "Pandemic Response Bill" would also force health providers to vaccinate people, authorize forcible entry into private homes, and impose fines or prison sentences on anyone not complying with isolation or quarantine orders. "

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local...

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/1...

Has this already been discussed and I just missed it?

I just want to say thank you, Dr Hyatt, for doing what you what you did. You were a father figure to me, even though we never met...you never knew my name.

eternally grateful for being extreme,

Dustin Troy Cole

http://www.drhyatt.com/

Mankind. Multi faceted domesticated apes. Caged sheople. Working class drone. The ninety seven percent of the human race that works for a living. Semi educated to grad level intelligent human.

There is a crowd. There are people. Within this group of people there are patterns. Like fingerprints, every person is unique in their own way...but there are patterns within groups of unique individuals. People act like people. Knowing these patterns gives a degree of power to the knower of those patterns, in that products and services can be created to cater to these patterns.

A thinking person will often recognize these patterns in themselves, and be grateful for the availability of choice in which their own pattern of existence can be made more comfortable.

A non thinking person will unknowingly to themselves, recognize these patterns and purchase products and services that cater to those patterns in themselves, making life more comfortable for them.

The similarities in these two scenarios is obvious. The thinking person has chosen based on recognition of a choice, and the non thinking person has chosen based on the recognition of a choice. The important difference is that one chose it consciously, and the other had it chosen for themselves subconsciously.

You may ask why this is important, but think about it. That is the edge a company needs to predict what you might want, and then provide that to you for a fee.

If you know what patterns within you that tend to be catered to, you cater to them yourself. Relatively free of charge.

Sheople prefer to pay for it.

I am the epitome of arrogance. I live in a world in which I generally feel that it is my right to have this house, this car, these bookshelves full of books, this TV, this xbox, this hp pavillion that I use to write this blog. I feel that because I work 9 hours a day for a large multi-national company, I am somehow entitled to these strange exotic luxuries. I take for granted many, many, things. It is very sad.

The Universe is pretty darn big. The number of building blocks available to make up all the infinite realities is surprisingly small compared to the amount of things that I experience in this reality.

Who am I? I am the experiencer of this reality. Which reality? My reality. A funny irony is that in an infinite universe, I truly am the center...if that is how I choose to calculate it.

Albert Einstein once said that the universe is like a pocket watch that is sealed shut so that we cannot see its internal workings...all we can see is the movement of the hands. He said that all of our science and all our mathematics was simply us trying to understand what makes the hands move around the clock...with out really knowing what's going on inside. We can create many different models to explain it beautifully, but we will never really know how it truly works...only God knows how it works. Are you arrogant? Do you take for granted the things of this reality? Yes, you do. Would you please be so kind as to acknowledge that for yourself? Thank you. Then thank anybody who has helped you see beyond the arrogant you. Then thank yourself, and be arrogant again, because hell, that's what we're good at...