Hi all who may read this, if any
Just want to see if this turns up anywhere else on the web, so I know what information is going where
These days I have feeds going to every corner of the web, so good to take stock for the big year ahead
This site is all about my exploration on the nature of reality, human civilization and consciousnesses. Here is just a random sample of some of the things you might find me talking about here.
- How do we know the things we know. What is the direction of modern science? What are some of the more fascinating viewpoints and theories that are currently being discovered? What is my opinion on this.
- What role does the ideas of information theory have on areas such as consciousness, genetics, time, consciousness and the fabric of reality
- How is our understanding changing about topics such as UFO’s, Aliens, Shamanism, The Occult, meditative spiritual practice, psychedelics, ghosts, cryptozoology. Why is there so much overlap between these subjects? What are the commonalities and differences.
- Why is there such a wide range of paranormal entities encountered and described. Why are there very few set ‘types’.
- Is there a connection between ceremonial magick ’summoned’ entities and modern spontaneously encountered entities.
- What is the role of the signal and noise principal in enlightenment and understanding of reality.
Some notable thinkers whose views that I will pick apart and discuss at some stage will be Ken Wilbur, Krishnamurti, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence Mckenna, Jacques Vallee, Gurdjeff, Jed Mckenna, buddhist texts, vedanta texts, tarot symbolism, occult books and libers.
I won’t claim to come up with any answers at all, and I will relate some of my experiences along the way. All we can be at best is mirrors pointing towards the truth. The real truth is the eternal spiritual mystery, the no-thing at the center of all things.
Oh yeah, and I am always up for a chat via email at info (at) informationreality (dot) com
Wow here I am back here and writing another post. Who would have thought after another long abscence that I would think to post something back here. But here I am, full of suprises.
For those of you that stop by and have a look, I give you this insightful jpg.
It makes a very valid point. Technology only goes so far at doing so much. Beyond that its time for people to wake up and realise that there is more to the world then pixels and chips and AI driven wish machines.
Ok, I have big plans in store for this domain over the next few weeks. There is so much interesting information out there that needs to be shared, talked about, encouraged and expressed.
Have been tweeting a lot of thoughts lately, so if you are interested go and check out http://www.twitter.com/inforeality
It is so hard not to speak about things like consciousness and the nature of reality without sounding massively new age. That is not my intention. At all.
So when I say that we are on the edge of an age where Quantum Physics , Consciousness Studies, Genetics, Information Theory and what would have once been termed The Paranormal, Shamanism, as well as Buddhist thought, Occult theory and the insights gained via psychedelics will all converge, and we begin to see the similarities between these areas. I can see them, and so can a lot of other people. It’s just quite hard to put it into words. Well at least words that are not just empty rehashes of the same old theories.
I mean words that can be used, expanded on. Tested and poked and prodded. Shaken until more truth drops from them.
From the history of man people have speculated on the nature of reality and conciousness, they just have not had the language or conceptual framework to make any sense out of it. For instance, say that reality behaved in much the same way as computer software. It is only in this present age that we would begin to be able to grasp this in any percievable way. Before that it would be very vauge analogies and wild metaphors which would serve as explanations.
Culture as a whole may not be your friend, but the edge of culture is an area that you should be very friendly with. For every marketing driven fad and gimmicky flash in the pan, there are also beginnings of movements that could shake the established ways of society to the core. New styles of writing, music, dance, art, as well as world views and social theories all present the world to us in a different way that we haven’t seen before. To bring it back to a theme that I talk about a bit on this site, what they do is create noise that disrupts the signal that mainstream culture and established forms pump out to the population, and make people re-evaluate what they like, and how they see the world.
These new form then become part of the overall evolving cultural framework, merging with other forms, morphing, changing and spawning new forms and movements
Emerging cultural trends are the only place that there is any chance for something vital to occur. They either become new movements, or merge into existing forms and change them, resetting their direction. All of this happens in very strange ways, with movements becoming vectors for ideas, inserting viral memes into subcultures and the over culture as a whole. Look at what late 60’s rock music did for the hippy lifestyle. Because people dug the tunes, a whole lot of other ideas piggybacked into their lives as well like peace, love, environmentalism, drug use, eastern philosophy, new age ideas, fashion trends and lifestyle choices.
Of course, eventually every cultural trend will eventually be co-opted by the marketing driven corporate machine and ground down through a predictable, vampiristic cycle of abuse and over exposure. The key is to go back and look at the original spirit of the movement, and look at what made the originators come up with the style.
Also, I don’t want to contradict myself, but I do see a lot of sense in people using traditional forms to express themselves and their ideas. Traditional views of things like magick, shamanism, meditation have worked well and served people for thousands of years. If you really look at these things that appear on the surface as timelines, what you see is the most staid and steady cultures are still not too stagnated and full of dogmatism (at least in some areas and by some practitioners). They still allow themselves to be vital, for the nuances of the form to flourish, for fresh insights to allow the practice to evolve and mature. As soon as everyone knows all the tricks, the fun soon goes out of the game.
So I have the SEO optimisation on this site cranked right up, doing everything right and ranking very high on the search engines for some pretty obscure term.
And I have a big plan with this site, and others that i run to start using my online skills (its the magick of the modern times) to start generating some passive income, just from recording my online nomadic travellings. I have a few goals that a little bit of extra income would help, and a income stream of a few dollars trickling in every day would come in handy.
SO
The Adsense ads on the site serve two purposes. The first is that they give the page another random element, one more thing that I can feedback into image and text searches in order to generate new content for the site. The second is to get a few cents if something pops up there that is of interest. However people don’t really click these all that often.
THEREFORE
At the bottom of some posts, not for the eyes of you people who are here for the stuff about conciousness and reality and philosophy and magick, but just for the casual clicker that gets here from a google search, there will be some posts that have a section at the bottom called “BUY IT TODAY” which will have a link to an affiliate product or something like that.
If it doesn’t concern you, just ignore it, but It is my plan by throwing out hundreds if not thousands of these SEO rich articles inbetween this content, it will actually perform quite well over time by not competing directly against niche targeted sites, but attracting traffic that these sites would normally miss.
It is my hypothesis that it is content that is different from the norm that is out there, that has a high noise ratio combined with SEO targeting that will actually do quite well, and that it is volume that wins out over directed sales copy in the end.
My random internet divination / scrying came up with a very surprising result last night. The first push of the random Wikipedia button bought up a radio station that the headquarters is situated about 200 meters from my house.
In fact, I would say that it is the closest physical thing on wikipedia to my location when I pushed the button.
What are the chances of that happening.. One in a billion? Seriosuly, that was a very spooky result to get back.
Still reeling from that, I pushed the random button again, and came up with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruber
Some cartoon character, nothing very synchronistic about that.
However
I then placed the answer into the Google Image Ripper, and came up with this.
There is a strange story about a fungus that looks like that.
Last year I pulled into the driveway and saw a strange red shape next to my fishpond. I had no idea what it was, and as I approached it I saw that it was a weird, red crinkly looking thing. It was one of these exact fungus. The first time that I had ever seen one was at that time, and it was virtually next to my front door. I have never seen one before in the local area (near Melbourne Australia), and have not seen one since.
So we have a massive change of synchronistic events here, meaningful to me, probably not to anyone reading this. I have a bit of a theory about all of this.
By encouraging the random function to play in your life, you bring the probability of available synchronicities up to a higher level. By completely opening yourself up to just surf the random data streams that come to us on the web, to follow the results of some random process, you give up control and let the universe talk directly to you.
Some people think that massively synchronistic events like these are an indicator by the universe that you are on the right path. I think that I have to agree with that hypothesis at the moment.
Also, by letting some random noise into the normally ordered nature of your life and thoughts, you open yourself up to evolve your consciousness, and just to learn and consider things you wouldn’t normally.
So what is the message? Tune to the frequency of the fungus. To look for the strange differences that present themselves in life?
My laptop decided to die the other day, a memory leak caused a hard drive error, which could not be fixed. Right when i was flat out busy as well. So I have rebuilt it and am now working and the laptop, nice and cleaned up, a fresh installation.
So back into the posting swing of things again this week.
Also taking steps to simplify my life, spend more time creating and less time working. Oh yeah, and also some time for living.