Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:
Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism – the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]
Retroactive Enchantment
“Changes to the ego or self-image or personality by magic are classed as works of illumination and are mainly accomplished by retroactive enchantment and invocation. Retroactive enchantment in this case consists of rewriting our personal history. As our history largely defines our future, we can change our future by redefining our past. Everybody has some [...]
Cut-ups
“Burroughs… developed the concept of ‘cut-up’ in using it to demonstrate the controlling quality intrinsic to ‘the Word’; possession over human beings by language. The cut-up is a way of exposing word and image controls thereby freeing oneself from them, an alteration of consciousness that occurs in both the writer and the reader [...]
One God Universe
“Consider the One God Universe: OGU. The spirit recoils in horror from such a deadly impasse. He is all-powerful and all-knowing. Because He can do everything, He can do nothing, since the act of doing demands opposition. He knows everything, so there is nothing for him to learn. He can’t go anywhere, since He [...]
Burroughs, William S.
"There is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination." – William S. Burroughs
"…trip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass." – William S. Burroughs [...]
Magic
"Some mon just deal wit’ information. An, some mon, him deal wit’ the concept of truth. An’ den some mon deal wit’ magic. Information flow aroun’ ya, an’ truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t’rough ya" – Nernelly the Bush Doctor
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." – Arthur C. [...]
Mind & Body
"Our body is composed of what we eat; our mind, of what we hear, read, say, and write. This is why every society, every social institution – religion, law, medicine – controls not only what we can and cannot take into our bodies, but also what we can and cannot take into our minds. [...]
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
ART? Alternatives Issue #9
Back in 1994, one man began having startling realizations about “the very foundations of [his] being.” He… discovered several texts describing gnosticism, one of the three main branches of primitive Christianity. “Somehow, these ancient Christian heretics had already discovered and written about almost every thing I had always suspected” [he later claimed]. Now, as the [...]
