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Barriminge
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Mutton Productions
replied on: 3/22/2007 4:19:32 PM quote: Syncromeshed again, Russ.Notice that your posting is registered at 2.38. You say not to believe what Matey says but it was he that said that you were 23 at points that were more than a year apart so he must have been wrong at one of these points. I don't really care which but you now carry the burden of forever being 23. Also some time ago Matey said to you not to mock the Mittonian Strange Attractor since he got his computers nicked and banned from the site and missed the next 18 pages of the New Mitton Thread. If you go to the 5th page of the NM thread, (or is it 6th) youll find that his last posting was timed at 1.00 p.m. exactly 23 seconds. This does in fact show great affinities with phenomena in nature known as 'attractors' where the same shape may iterate or morphically resonate more than seems ever probable. |
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Rowley-Russ
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Mutton Productions
replied on: 3/22/2007 7:38:31 AM I'm actually going to that. |
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m8e
Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 3/22/2007 3:31:54 AM by m8e |
Mutton Productions
replied on: 3/22/2007 3:26:20 AM Bearing in mind Iain Sinclair's fictional rendition of Charlie as "Bad News Mutton" in Landor's Tower, I was struck by an advert in What's On for an upcoming entertainment to be performed at the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton entitled "Mutton." Attributed as being the work of "Mutton Productions," it claims to be, quote - "A unique and brilliantly funny sketch show that appeals to women of all ages and the men that have to live with them! From hot flushes (or 'power surges' as the girls like to call them!) and memory loss, to HRT and bladder weakness... no subject is too taboo to tackle!" Can't say that it corresponds much with my own idea of an evening's entertainment, but the salient point to note here is that it will be performed for one night only on - yes, you guessed it synchronicity fans - March 23rd. Maybe Chas should take his new missus along to see it. |
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H.J.
This message was updated on 2/15/2007 10:17:09 AM by H.J. |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 2/15/2007 10:00:44 AM quote: I think that enough 23s have already been found on these threads. I got the impression that it should have now been finished. The finding (after all that was said) of a film that was about a guy that is obsessed with the number 23 and then finds a book that he believes is about himself is either one coincidence too far or someone's playing a spooky trick. Significant though that the name of the star is Jim Carrey and his initials are J.C. As for Gravy Hole, he's either making all these things up or it really is some kind of occult happening. The thread should now close. The blurb for the film says that it all gets a bit dangerous. |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 2/14/2007 2:07:01 PM Of course, thanks for reminding me m8e, it's just it seemed such a an amusing happenstance. Talking of amusing happenstances, yesterday I was sat at some temporary traffic lights in Haywayds Heath, Sussex. It's a ghastly place, with a grandiose opinion of itself rather like a smaller version of Sutton Coldfield. Anyway, glancing accross the road in a moment of ennui, I was tickled to see a road called Mytten Twitten. Subsequently, when I looked on Multimap, it wasn't to be found. Sure there was a Mytten Close (a worrying prospect) and a Mytten Bank (empty I imagine) but no Mytten Twitten. Where has it gone? |
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m8e
Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 2/8/2007 6:46:35 PM by m8e |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 2/8/2007 6:45:35 PM quote: Nah - it's just a coincidence (whatever that might mean). BTW, Gravy, there were two women involved in the car park shenanigans. Apparently they work as a team. |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 2/8/2007 5:21:22 PM One clip on the website looks just M8e during his spot of bother with the Irish girl in the dingy car park. Having said that, I didn't see M8e as appearing quite so raffish in my mind's eye. Sorry to drag that one up again. |
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falsedog
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 2/8/2007 9:02:19 AM by falsedog |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 2/8/2007 8:57:20 AM A new film out on the 23rd Feb, rumoured to be based on the experiences of C. Mitten |
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Barriminge
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 1/23/2007 12:24:59 PM by Barriminge |
Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 1/23/2007 9:03:00 AM quote: Absolutely splendid.So a 'Zen Koan' is the anti-particle of the 'long-lived kaon'. A bit confusing but a quick internet search has revealed to me that a 'Zen Koan' is a 'transcendance of dualities', that makes sense. Well that seems to have answered a good deal of our musings from a scientific point of view. That was none other than Mad Sir Jack Boffin, the poststructuralist physics professor who has obviously been influenced by the now deceased (again) Jack Derradah. JACKS MEN CAME. It all makes sense now and so I think I can retire for awhile to The Dirty Duck in Stratford-On-Avon for a bevvy. It seems that a reconstuction of western metaphysics has been necessary after the initial rather labyrinthine deconstruction. This story all seems to have started with a bad case of 'hourglass stomach' which our hero found diagnosed in a novel after numerous quacks had been unable to find anything wrong. The 'Curse of the Hourglass Stomach' had got him into many scrapes, hospital jobs and time spent in lock-ups for crimes of emission from orifices in unappropriate places. All the time though Mitty fought against the castigation of the world and seemed to be helped along by a whole panoply of helpful ACOPs. Let the Force be with him especially in his present dealings with the law. Our story is indeed not complete. To know the end of it you will have to by a copy of his second autobiographical novel 'The Postmodern BINS Prophecy' subtitled 'How I was Binned but lived to tell the Tale'. Which takes us back to the blues. We actors love to listen to a bit of jazz and blues.Little Walter, Muddy Wasters, Madeleine Peyroux, Benny Spillers, anything like that. Well Charlie's blues gal (park bench girl) has her birthday today. It is the 23rd but by some strange attractor she has something troubling her. In true Billie Holliday style she has been arrested. Funny thing is though that she has been charged with the same offence as Chaz. But what's more, by some acausal connecting phenomenon they are both to appear in court on the same day. She's a real Balsall Heath gal. All her Creole children have had to be adopted or are in care and she is a binge drinker. She dances all night to Bluebeat music and is sometimes done for criminal damage. She is lucky to find herself with a deranged floating signifying existential psychiatrist like Chaz. Well, this is the story so far. B. is a hypochondriac with a bad 23 chromosomes from her mother who is a fire/alcohol devotee from the Manzoni Gardens c.1965, about the time that Brian Jones was just a libidinous bluesman and so Nicholas Martin Stone. We all went a bit wrong, it was a sign of the times. Last year the bluesman connection seemed to be made explicit by an interesting synergy. When there was the premiere of the Brian Jones film in Brum of all places at about the same time Chaz found a review in the Guardian of a book called 'In Search of Mitochondria' by one Nicholas Lane who in our London text was a man who nearly replaced Brian Jones in the Stones. The Drowned/Hanged Man. Number 23. Mitochondria are molecules that are passed down and which have been essential to our development but they are only passed by the mother. Interesting, hypochondria as well maybe. Charlie tells me that he has a book at home which more or less says that Brian was murdered. In the book is a letter from Brian to his real teenage love, Brenda, who married Donovan - the inspiration for 'Legend of a Girl Child Brenda' and in turn it was Don that inspired the 'The National Assistance Blues' (the tramp/beatnik tale). Just think though if it had all never happened. Society would have been completely different and the young Brian would have married his teenage sweetheart Brenda and she would have become ...BRENDA JONES. Happy birthday, Brenda!!! Anyway I think this performance will blow over. The theatre will become empty but the GEOMETREE will stand. It's in the writing as Jack would have said. We've found the absent presences, filled over the erasures and played in the space of ontological doubt. Not so much a deconstruction as a reconstruction. In the Age of the Floating Signifier things are not always what people say they are. That's about all to be said. |
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Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 1/22/2007 1:43:19 PM "At the end of chap.1 Oedipa despairs when she sees her life as trapped in entropic drift. The more information she gains concerning Tristero, however the more her choices proliferate beyond the limited binary alternatives of assimilation or solipsism thus offsetting personal and potentially cultural entropy" (P.74. Understanding Thomas Pynchon. Robert D. Newman. The above quote might interest you Boffin and also Derek Littlewood and Peter Stockwell of the U.C.E. (formerly) who dismissed Mitty's story of post-Prigoginian negentropy in their book about new directions in literature using the 'new technology' which was of course brought up by our own 'Trystero' on the BINS thread. Magic (realism). By the way Boffin, have you heard of Andrei Linde the cosmologist who also believes in multiverses and uses the image of the tree as well. He knows that an overabundance of knowing on the part of physicists can be a bad thing. Linde compares the universe to a painting by Kandinsky. Anyway, thank you Boff. we know know that we have some illuminati amongst the scientific community. I think I should know speak up for all 'floating signifiers'. It is clear that the two main binaries that we have employed have been that of the Birmingham Group and the London Mob and everything has been done in the name of creative evolution. Have you heard of Zennard Koan the 60s singer who based his name on an asymmetrical version of the long-lived kaon that proves objectively the arrow of time and in the process caused Roger Penrose to speculate that its discovery must be trying to tell us something. Also of course a kaon and an anti-kaon can metaphorically carry either the +1 or -1 label on their baggage. It is this quality that is preserved when they die. It happens that a single pion, or any odd number of pions, carry always the label -1, whereas even numbers carry the +1. If CP is indeed a true symmetry of nature, this number will be retained forever such that even or odd numbers of pions are formed when a kaon with CP of +1 or -1 dies. A kaon cannot turn into a single pion alone (energy would not be conserved), so three would be the minimum number needed for the CP=-1 mode. Making three pions is harder than two and so the CP=-1 mode resists decay longer than the CP=+1. Thus the story of the short- and long-lived Kaons. 2 and 3. 23. SIMPLE. It arises along the quantum-classical frontier , when we try to reconcile quantum mechanics with the characteristics of the macroscopic world - to confirm quantum phenomena to a more general philosophy that would satisfy what Vladimir Nabokov called the ominous and ludicrous luxury... of human consciousness'. Limited though they may be, these border skirmishes raise questions sufficiently baffling as to constitute the scientific equivalent of a Zen koan. Did you know Boffin that this Gell-Mann guy named the quark after something in James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'. Gell-Mann named his approach the Eight-Fold Way after Buddhist precepts but it at first seemed flawed and his octets revealed a complex triplet. "Three quarks for Muster Mark". Entropy, particle physics and we are back to James Joyce and the Zen Koan. I rest my case. |
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Boffin
This message was updated on 1/30/2007 5:00:49 PM by Boffin |
M8e
replied on: 1/22/2007 9:41:30 AM Having read all the texts concerned and with the final 23 pressing I guess the time has come for me to give my final account of the kettle of fish displayed within these threads. I had been amused to find that the Triad, in coming to their weltanschaung seemed to be helped along by the coincidental appearance of certain helpful books and articles as well as certain not so helpful ones which however provided a negative which our positives could energize. So was produced a quaternity of performance texts which develop the thesis set down in Mitty's novel which is basically the story of how that story had magically written itself and in so doing demonstated its own thesis. This was done by showing that texts could magically appear when required - as though there was an intelligence at work in nature which was helping along the thesis. I was paricularly interested in Charlie's story of how he came to be aware of the subject of entropy and its implications. He had developed a publically entropic personality that through synchronicity reversed itself through a 'phase transition'. Books concerning the work of such as Weinberg, Osserman, Peat, Prigogine, Sheldrake, Bohm, Gooch etc. would magically appear in discard bins and inform him of their existence. This led to certain conclusions which brought about a self-fulfilling prophecy about Western metaphysics (re. his blues CDs). The notion that this spreads out into the world actually happened to me last week after I had been mulling over these matters.I happened to attend a car boot sale and was not finding much of interest when I came upon a tome entitled 'The Whole Shebang' by the scientific journalist Timothy Ferris. It answered some of our questions with numinous resonance. Firstly the idea of the book as physical object containing information which has in turn by some been descibed as the opposite of entropy. Charlie had told the story of how certain texts concerning entropy had, as if by divine bidding been brought to his attention in the late 90s. Sinclair and his cohorts had contributed to a magazine called 'Entropy'; there was a review of of a book on the matter in the London Review of Books (by Simon Schama) and then a radio programme on the life of Ludwig Boltzmann which brought to his attention parallels between lives lived and the process itself i.e. Boltzmann's own - he hung himself. It was broadcast on the very day of the funeral of a fiddle playing friend who had coincidentally... hung himself. The general notion of entropy in turn led to an awareness of the work of Prigogine who was also mentioned in the review. His work on how dissipative systems can suddenly for acausal reasons display utterly original phase states (which in Mitty's case was of course the synchronicity) seemed crucial. And then there was the fact that Boltzmann's work of on probabilites anticipated the quantum effects of all this and also the fact that probabiltes are extremely relevant to the question as to whether this 'whole shebang' could possibly be all 'by chance'. Peculiarly from the Ferris book I was able to build on this train of events. Questions of self-similarity and sensitivity to initial conditions seem to be qualities of 'strange attractors' which have some relevance to these BINS threads. The letter 'K' does seem to have had some relevance to earthly physics especially in the case of m8e but '23' does seem to have produced itself in seemingly relevant places even on a cosmic scale. I noticed in my copy of 'The Whole Shebang' that an Irish bishop has been of the opinion that the universe was created on the night before the 23rd October 4004, as if to form an asymmetry with the Mayan prediction of the earth finishing on 23rd December 2012. Although both events seem unlikely they both seem to give weight to the 23 Enigma.Ferris does tell us that: "As such surveys continue, its possible even larger levels of hierachy will be found. Certainly there is displayed a self-similarity on many spacial scales.As the physicist Philip Morrison of Mit points out, ' if we span the universe from nuclear to intergaqlactic dimensions we encounter a two-beat rhythm. Areas of emptiness - the voids between the nucleus and the electron shell of the atom, between stars and their planets, between galaxy clusters and so forth - are interspersed with high density regions, like atomic nuclei, molecules in crystals and galaxy clusters and walls." Pp.155/156. On further scouting through the Ferris book I found that in a chapter on dark matter, an x-ray image of a gaggle of galaxies called NGC2300 had been a significant landmark in leading up to observations which called the conventionally accepted 'cosmological principle' into question and which eventually led to the work of Alan Dressler and others who posited the idea of something called the 'Great Attractor'. The existence of the G.A. and dark matter throw uo some important questions eg. whether the dark matter might consist of baryons forinstance or perhaps neutrinos. And coincidentally it was Wolfgang Pauli who first theorized the existence of the neutrino long before it was first observed and he was the man who worked with C.G. Jung on synchronicity so there's a connection. Strangely enough then that we learn that a significant observation of neutrinos from an exploding star was made on February 23rd 1987. What's more on p.156 the relevant question of self-similarity is raised and how fractal geometry plays a role. The Koch curve, due to work by Felix Hausdorff and later Benoit Mendelbrot, has been said to have fractal dimension and how like our coastline,we might see it as of infinite length within a finite area, a bit like a computer generated web thread displaying ACOPs. Robert Osserman in 'The Poetry of the Universe told how the fractal dimension of the Koch curve relates also to the cosmological phemenon of the 'Great Attractor'. The fractal geometry of the galaxies is said by Ferris tio be 1.23 dimensions which is very close to the Koch curve.These findings would seem to represent anomalies acaualities etc. which scientists and mathematicians find difficult to accommodate with accepted paradigms. Mandelbrot meanwhile related these self-replicating structures to such things as cloud formations and quite aptly for ourselves to the shapes within a tree. Root, branch and leaf formations replicate a forked geometrical shape which one might suppose could replicate ad infinitum. On page 166 of 'Shebang' evidence is detailed concerning the discoveries of quantum fluctuations in deepest space and relates to Dressler and his work on the ' Great Attractor'. We learn that on April 23rd 1992 there was evidence from the COBE satellite which was said by Michael Turner of the University of Chicago to be the Holy Grail of cosmology and was equally lauded by Stephen Hawking as ' the scientific discovery of the century - if not all time'. It was about how 'cosmic structure formation... resulted from random quantum flux, the smallest phenomenon in nature' (p.167). There are implications here for the Bins thesis which are of some magnitude if we collapse them with 10 to the power of 23 molecules of gas quoted by F.David Peat in his book on synchronicity and Penrose's quoting of 10 to the 10 to the 23 chance of a 'Creator' finding the spot in phase space that would accommodate a universe or the 23 chromosomes from the female and 23 from the male that forms the basic structure of that weird phenomenon of self-reflexive life itself. So, yes, Sinclair with his connection to Burroughs who kicked of the '23'Enigma should, I think, be interested. It may be that 23s replicate in ways that we don't understand.Anyway I've learnt that it was originated by the Beat writer William S. Burroughs with whom Sinclair communicated when he was a callow youth. 'Shebang', in a chapter on the 'shape of space' discusses certain cutting edge theories about the relationship between entropy and black holes. It poses the question of what happens to the information contained in an object dropped into a black hole. It tells of how some theorists have opposed the notion that it is lost forever (as in Hawking) by opining that, according to quantum dynamics, there must be some way of recovering it. There is a Dutch researcher called Gerard t'Hooft who believes that information is contained in the very particles that radiate from black holes according to Hawking's own discoveries. Another proposal was that there was a particle that might be produced that was called .....a 'boltzmon'! and each would be unique in the universe and bundled inside it would be all the information, whole libraries of it, that had fallen into the black hole. This perculiarly re-inforces speculation concerning the validity of 'Mittonian Synergies' and perhaps provide an explanation of how names as particles re-appear as if from nowhere and that echoes previous constructions such as the 'White Chappell/ Ipswich' phenomenon. I would suggest that the synchronicity itself of the information and the event could even be construed as emanating from the final results of each involved individual's personal entropy. However strange this may seem, the acausal juxtaposition of these effects reveal something out of the ordinary and worthy of further investigation. Secondly though, another scientific question emerged in the Ferris book which synchronizes again our own ruminations. It would seem to me that what has occurred brings up the question of 'multiple universes'. The notion that within each individual is an entire univese is mentioned by KotH (Re. as above, so below). It could be suggested that we have undertaken a kind of 'course graining' in which the cosmic past is viewed from the point of view of one of many pasts. Each course-grained history represents branches on the tree of cosmic history. Again a theory of retrodiction is invoked which is based on probabilites and recalls our 'origins of tree worship'. Such ideas are associated with Hartle and Gell-Mann. The third point recalls the 'anthropic' principle and I looked back in amusement at how Charlie was once mentioned in articles in the Times and the Guardian concerning Beryl Bainbridge and drunken behaviour. Some time later he came up with a book called 'Uncle Mort's North Country' at exactly the right page which mentioned none other than Beryl Bainbrindge through a question by a character called Carter Brandon. You must know of course that the man who coined the term 'anthropic' principle was called Brandon Carter. Perhaps the a quote from aforesaid might be of interest: "The universe must be such as to admit the creation of observers within it...what we can expect to observe must be resricted to the conditions necessary for our presence as observers" P.299. 'The whole Shebang'. Seems sensible to me. Hence, if as observers, you see things through a geometry of dates, names, artifacts, literary texts etc., so be it. If your course-grained cap of logic fits then wear it!! Is that of any help? |
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Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 1/18/2007 12:01:35 PM quote: I hope Charlie's not the hanged man but this is all very symbolic stuff about a lot of hidden knowledge. Its true that this big strange cluster of coincidences has really taken place and then the world should know about it.Ive been taking a closer look at whats been said all thru the threads as regards these synergies and think they are compelling.If, as King says they are foreboded by the interest in the occult by a load of art people then maybe the visionaries of our time are coming out of the woodwork and cast a spell on thedunderheads. Sinclair is the mystic and our own people the magicians. Ive read these'Synergies' and Charlie's account of his B'ham Triangle' and this is what I think.Sinclair is a bloke writing at first in the early 70s who came from the Beat tradition and his ideas are weird. He claims there are lines of force between churches that enclose energy and also things like hospitals, football grounds,mortuaries and prisons all have some energetic aura. Things happen near these areas that are bad and in his one book he talks of tramps and winos as fire/alcohol devotees. I think chaz recognized these people and it inspired him to make a triangle between places in Brum in imitation. When he visited the last one, St.Thomas's, Holloway Head, he found inscriptions and the Peace Garden and remembered the Accident Hospital. He then read Sinclair's 'Downriver' and read a part where sinclair and an artist friend go on aquest where they visit a church, there is an abandoned hospital and inscriptions. What he told me though was that the story was about the artist Brian Catling's search for his mother who had been 22 when he was born. He had been an adopted son and so Chaz.And his mother had been22 - the number of the main Arcana of the Tarot which Catling had been seen dealing in a film. Kreepy.Also by weird coincidence the two churches were both called St. Thomas and the Brum one had been bombed during the war recalling Sinclair's saying in a poem that areas of bombings and great fires left residues of occult power.Very strange synchronicities by any standards but all this was compounded when shortly after Brian Catling came to Brum to do a talk and exhibition on 'artists and the paranormal'.What's more I found out that in the light of the recent 'Freemason comments an inscription at the St. Thomas's Brum is from one Ernest Mason. Knowing Sinclair's playing with names it is worth mentioning that William withey Gull' so I'm told in WCST is incarcerated in St. Marys Islington under the name of Thomas Mason. Mantic Tremblings!! Andso we have strong meaning as well as seriality, fullilling Jung's definition of 'synchronicity' over the 'seriality of Kammerer. The plot however thickens during thecourse of these threads. It really is as though a Maxwell's Demon is at work putting all of this together.He says 'well, if you don't believe all that, well how about this!!. In the 'St.Thomas' happening the meaningful event is the 'message from the deceased adopted mother.Crucial. Well let's face it. It happened again. Sinclair in nWCST talks of how certain authors, Rimbaud, Blake, Conan Doyle, Stevenson were able to forebode dark events. And then the Ipswich murders happened. There are five victims, one called Nicholls, another called Nicol(fulfilling the asymmetry of names just talked about). A Stephen and a Stephens (Stephenson). A Nicholls sent off playing football(bizarre - football grounds as energy centres). And the of course a detective called 'Gull'. In WCST there is a reference to Colchester where one of the victims caught a train to and then to cap it all theauthor speaks of an appointment in Ipswich that he 'cannot abandon'. But then I was told that in Downriver the same author has a deranged character called 'John Millom', as seedy and manic as 'Bad News Mutton'. He has atext for our protagonist which thescribeseemsunwilling to accept It is saidto contain communication from the dead.We later find that he hasrewritten WCST and that the text contains a key. This is precisely what we have now done in these threads.He says that he needs to pressgang Millom into his books as a 'prime freak'. In thissense 'White Chappell' and 'Downriver' have become prophetic texts in types of dream fashion which undoubtedly would have appealled to Terence McKenna. We become as Millom says 'in possession of prviliged information'. This can never have been done before. Peoplewould have been burnt at thestake for less never mind hung. So when I came to areference to'navel fluff rambling' from someone called Niccolomac when I did a google search on Charlie's name I knew that there are a few gross people abroad.Well done Chaz, Im with you to the gallows. J. |
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KingoftheHeath
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Behind the Mirror...
replied on: 1/17/2007 4:22:06 PM F.David Peat is astute to recognise the essentially Hermetic nature of the Egyptian creation myth, particularly the reference to “the microcosm can stand as an endless series of analogies of the entire universe, which includes and goes beyond consciousness and matter” which is itself a suitable paraphrase for the Great Work of the Alchemists: As Above – So Below… Alchemical work: the references to Dr John Dee (the White Magician) who resided at Mortlake (the confluence of death and water)...Dee’s influence on later generations of seekers cannot be underestimated: for example, Derek Jarman’s annotated notebooks from the early 1970’s demonstrate a preoccupation with arcane knowledge, particularly using the figure of Dee as a touchstone. He included Dr John Dee as a character in his film ‘Jubilee’ (inspired by Punk Rock in England) where Dee accompanies Elizabeth the 1st on a tour between time frames (patently echoing ‘Orlando’ by Virginia Woolf). Dee’s conversations with the Angels form an oblique inspiration for Jarman’s film ‘The Angelic Conversation’. The film (a version of the ‘Trance Film’ delineated by P. Adams Sitney in his book ‘Visionary Film’ which takes as its model the ‘Quest’ myths popular in a wide range of cultures) also features readings of the Sonnets by Shakespeare (the link to Ariel) and a soundtrack by the English musicians Coil, themselves serious students of Magick and the Hermetic Tradition… Jarman had a keen interest in esoteric knowledge (Egyptian rites, Alchemy, and the Hermetic Tradition) which particularly manifested itself in his early Super 8 films (such as ‘Garden of Luxor’, ‘The Art of Mirrors’ and his unrealised filmscript ‘Neutron’). The early Super 8 films later formed component elements of his ‘home gauge’ Alchemical opus ‘In the Shadow of the Sun’ (with music by Throbbing Gristle who later splintered to become Coil). He also makes reference to the symbolic value of Gold in the phrase ‘Gold is the Metal’ (which re-surfaced as a title for a collection of Coil pieces in the late 1980’s)… Jarman’s use of multiple overlaid images is explicitly influenced by Brakhage’s work, particularly ‘Dog Star Man’ (a work in 4 parts corresponding to the 4 elements). Brakhage ties his exploration of vision to a form of return to magic through the appearance (albeit fleetingly) of the image of Kenneth Anger embedded in the celluloid of the film ‘The Dead’ (filmed during Anger’s sojourn in Paris). Kenneth Anger – the Magus, member of the OTO, student of Crowley and Thelema…and now Brakhage screening next to the San Francisco Beat artist (and lifelong student of the Qabbalah) Wallace Berman and the visionary Harry Smith (Heaven and Earth Magic) as part of the Photon Hex séance… The psychic topography leads to Hyde Park (created for the purpose of hunting by the Royal overseers) and entered through the double columns (echoing the 2 pillars which support the 2 spheres on the Tree of Life) of the Grand Entrance. The park situated itself as an element within the Smokescreen of the 1960’s: concerts by (among others) the Rolling Stones and Hendrix (the rainbow bridge central sphere)… Of course, the Beatles had been there first (as always) with ‘Beatles for Sale’…The proposed breaking of a butterfly on a wheel became a reality of lepidopterean genocide when Jagger celebrated the execution of Brian Jones (the drowned man) as a representation of the triumph of Mammon over Mystic). The act was one of a number designed to ensure the completion of the Synaptic Smokescreen which characterised the 1960’s and culminated in the sacrifice of an African American (the Black–Faced Man of Mumming plays) by Hells Angels (fallen angels) as part of a Black Masonic ritual designed as a form of vampiric osmosis of the energy of the decade… The duality of the decade finds an expression in the name of the park itself: the Northampton mystic Alan Moore (another conduit recognised by Sinclair) asserts that the name of Hyde Park is taken from the name of Edward Hyde (the indicator of duality existing within one body)… And, inside the park, a tree: the ‘upside down tree’ (mirrored by certain trees in Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham)… The idea of the Tree of Life is indeed malleable: it moulds itself to a globalised vision (and expresses itself in many ways in both the pagan and Hermetic traditions)… Yggdrasil (the world tree of Nordic mythology) is also known as the Tree of Time or the Tree of Life (echoing the Qabbalah). The tree operates as a unifying element between the 3 levels of creation with each of its 3 roots connected to 3 kingdoms and fed by 3 wells… Ymir the giant (originally created from the meeting of fire and ice) was killed by Odin in order to create Midgard from his body: hair as trees, blood as sea, and his eyebrow (Odin’s eye / Brakhage) delineated the area where mankind would exist… Water is a consistent motif: Midgard was surrounded by ocean waters which fostered a serpent (the Serpentine memorial to Diana – the goddess of hunters – in Hyde Park). 3 wells nourish Yggdrasil… Odin gave his right eye for a drink from one of the wells (in order to initiate the act of seeing with one’s own eyes as suggested by Brakhage)…the dragon Nidhog (darkness) lies at the bottom of one of the wells (water) and gnaws on the roots of the tree (life beneath the roots of the Ash tree as reclaimed by M.R. James in the short story ‘The Ash Tree’ where the tree secretes arachnoid beings from beneath its roots)… Ymir’s body also formed the seedbed for the growth of Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is believed to be an Ash tree, a tree of a certain potency in Greek mythology – the tree of the Meliai nymphs created at the time of the victory of Kronos (Saturn – the ‘Old Man’ of Alchemical symbolism)… Just as the Nordic peoples believed that Yggdrasil succoured both Odin’s goat (who produced Mead) and the 3 stags (whose horns dripped honey-dew drops), the Greeks believed that honey fell from heaven in the form of a dew (as Pliny the Elder noted), a dew known as ‘manna’…Pliny believed that it was particularly formed at the time of the rising of the stars, especially the dogstar (Brakhage). Similarly, the Vedas makes an explicit connection between Soma (the divine intoxicant) and honey which falls from the skies as does the Prose Edda of the Northern Germanic peoples. Ash trees secrete a sweet and sugary viscous fluid from their bark and foliage: even until the earlier part of this century, it was harvested under the name ‘manna’… The Shamen of the Finno-Ugric peoples would climb the boughs of the Lime tree to symbolically commune with the different stages of creation. The Lime Tree exudes a sweet substance linked in folklore and literature to bees and honey. The Lime tree is known in England as the Linden Tree (the Ash tree). The Linden tree was used to aid sweating - the sweat from under Ymir’s left armpit made the first man and woman while he was asleep. The flowers of the Lime tree were traditionally used as a tranquiliser – a form of Soma… The tree holds the Hanged Man: the internalised Tarot card… The Hanged Man upside down like the tree in Hyde Park, leg folded into the number 4 to represent the 4 elements, and symbolised by the Hebrew Mem and Neptune (water), and by the number of this page with an ultimate value of 3… The fool gaining a space between worlds (like the Finno-Ugric Shamen), and reflecting the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Will Mitton be a sacrifice to the gods of spring? Make of it what you will, Non-Obsidian Panopticon… |
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m8e
Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 1/16/2007 5:14:39 PM by m8e |
Synchromeshed
replied on: 1/16/2007 5:07:29 PM quote: Regarding Jung's model of synchronicity, here is Terence McKenna's take on the matter (quote) - "One way of thinking of this is to suppose that the laws that operate in the dream, the laws that operate in hyperspace, can at times operate in three-dimensional space when the barrier between them becomes weak. Then one gets these curious experiences that always have a tremendous impact on the experient because there seems to be an exterior component that could not possibly be subjective. At such times coincidences begin to build and build until one must finally admit that one does not know what is going on. Nevertheless, it is preposterous to claim that this is a psychological phenomenon, because there are accompanying changes in the external world. Jung called this "synchronicity" and made a psychological model of it, but it is really an alternative physics beginning to impinge on local reality." - Terence McKenna, New Maps of Hyperspace. Of course these curious clusterings of coincidence also call into question our conventional notion of free will. For all that one feels that the sequence of choices leading up to a synchronicity are being made freely, when the synchronistic event actually occurs it seems to cast a shadow back in time over those choices, as if it were some kind of trans-temporal attractor pre-determining them. There is in any case good reason to suspect that free will is an illusion, following a series of fascinating experiments conducted by the neurosurgeon Benjamin Libet. These involved asking subjects to note the exact position of a revolving spot on a clock face whenever they chose spontaneously to flex their wrists. The flexing action was electronically timed, along with the start of a particular brain wave pattern called a "readiness potential" which is seen just before an action is performed. Intriguingly, Libet found that the readiness potential appeared nearly half a second BEFORE the moment of conscious decision, implying that what we take to be our action-initiating conscious choice is no more than a derivative after-impression arising from action already under way. In other words, our actions have already started WITHOUT us. (For more on the implications on Libet's work, and for a cogent critique of the notion of free will in general, see "The Meme Machine" by Sue Blackmore) |
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Derradah
Rank: Toyah This message was updated on 1/16/2007 4:38:15 PM by Derradah |
Entropy
replied on: 1/16/2007 4:28:54 PM well, yes Barri I think the time has come to assess what exactly has taken place.The last few rounds of K -flow and 23s have demonstrated that they do seem to appear more than is likely by chance. I'm glad we're both acquainted with Peat's book since just browsing through it today I noticed a couple more 'K's. The person who first noticed and wrote scientifically on patterns in coincidental events, Paul Kammerer and the author Arthur Koesler who took an interest in his findings. Then when I consulted the 'JK' diagram in WCST(p.188) I noticed the word 'Kyot' which I presume to refer to Kyot of Provence 13thC philosopher who wrote on the Holy Grail. It seems from our research that many of these traditions have common origins. The theme of linking it to modern science though was extended for me when I consulted once more Coveney and Highfield's 'The Arrow of Time'. Another phenomenon noted is the K-model which appears on p.200. It is one of those reactions which produce unexpected results and we can place it alongside K-flows. Jung and Pauli extended the serialities in time of Kammerer and added the notion of meaning. Our own synergetic system of 'K-models', I believe, may be of some scientific interest and I would be pleased to hear what Boffin makes of it. Now that we have extended our examination to the voices on the Mitton threads I would like to extend it from a scientific point of view to the appearance of Trystero. The Trystero system as it appears to Oedipa Maas in 'The Crying of Lot 49' excites all sorts of questions about enropy and information theory which we discussed in the 'Synergies', a suitable corridor of exploration Barri.I do believe that we have studied how Mitty arrived acausally at various manifestations of 'entropy' which related back to the work of Ludwig Boltzmann and so the appearance of Trystero on the thread had about it our correct balance of chance and necessity. This is all becoming very complicated but I do hope at this point we can recall as cogently as possible the now myriad links which have emerged |
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