Thoughts #1

June 9th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/jfa2179l.jpgSpace and time are approximations. There are infinite dimensions, which we bring down to 3+1 for a remote chance of any understanding of what goes on around us.

We are non-local entities. No space and no time. We are a point in the hologram, containing the whole structure, both the visible and the invisible.

We live multiple life experiences at the same time; like a radio, we receive signals. When we live in a “rich” environment which doesn’t require us to fight for food and shelter and all those basic needs, we  develop an obvious boredom for all things human and material. It is at this point that our radio receiver “widens” its spectrum.
We can see our most intimate spaced, invaded by “alien” presences.

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PKD

May 7th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory
PKD

PKD

I just can’t get enough of Philip K. Dick. To me, he is a constant source of amazement, ideas, concepts. I simply feel very close to him, if I had to go on a desert island I would definitely bring his books with me. He has a special gift for serving his readers tasty philosophical dishes dressed with a delicious pop sci-fi dressing. Try it and be amazed.

Right now I just finished reading The Man on the High Castle (one of his finest books) and I’m now reading The Crack in Space, a minor one yet very intriguing. In my opinion his best books are Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Blade Runner), The Man in the High Castle, Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, VALIS. But really it’s not that easy to say, because even in minor novels or in short stories you can find that philosophical sparkle that can make your day.

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Diamonds

April 13th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory

walking in the fields, walking, I see, awake
yet still dreaming, a small shiver from a cold breeze, winds from nepal
then god appeared and gave us an undeserved gift
undeserved maybe, yet obvious
for the gift was a key;
a Key to a Door we had all seen before, but not dared go through;
Now the time has come – together we reach for the lock
our minds died
our hearts blossomed
then love ruled the earth
as i was walking the field, awake in the dream.

The Journey

The Journey

—- A pOem bY AleX, stEfAN & frAttAle

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Crucifixion and prophecy

March 29th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory

http://labibliaatea.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/its-official-jesus-is-my-new-favorite-recurring-ch-character.pngYesterday I gave a new meaning to Christ’s crucifixion, thanks to Paul Levy and Jung’s theories.

According to Jung, the ego gets crucifixed, in an agonizing suspension between irreconcilable opposites.

This makes lots of sense, when you think of the allegory of Jesus, his pain, his torture, and finally, his crucifixion. Jesus is our ego, what we feel as ourselves in our everyday life. Life is a complex mechanism designed to slowly torture and crucify the ego so that opposites can meet in a painful yet needed act of will.

Seen from this point of view, the whole new testament can take on new meaning. If we stop thinking about Jesus as an actual person, and we start thinking Jesus is us (our egos) and his tale is… well just a tale, yet a special one, an informed one, where the primary character is us, can we then gather useful information about how to behave and what to expect?

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Podcasts roundup

March 10th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: news, theory

Wondering what good stimulating podcasts are around? Here’s what I’ve found so far:

Red Ice Creations (mainly conspiracies, quite on the dark side)
The Psychedelic Salon (mainly… ehm… psychedelic, mainly McKenna stuff)
C-Realm Podcast (where C stands for Consciousness…)
Diet Soap (interesting guests, various topics)
Coast to Coast AM (one of the classics)
Black Light in The Attic

UPDATE: This one is also good: Labyrinth of the Psychonaut, and this one: Kephas

Know more? post them in the comments!

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The new-new-new economy

February 25th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory

Today I was thinking about the concept of a basic income, one of many proposition to get out of the current economic situation.

In a few words, basic income means each citizen gets a basic salary just because he is a citizen, without having to work. This basic salary could be 500/600 Euro per month. Now, the concept is difficult to grasp for many people, mainly because they will generally feel that it’s unfair and detrimental to give money “for free”. And they might be right, for what I know.

So, as I was saying, today I was thinking about the basic income, and how it should be linked to a minimum amount of work (let’s say, 16 hours per week).

Let me explain.

Imagine you can get 600 Euro per month if you work 16 hours. You can do any work. You can make up your job (web-designer, musician) or you could work for a factory (16 hours per week is ok), a call center, or even volunteer for the Red Cross or anything else. All you have to do is to get yourself busy somehow. Of course if you work more than 16 hours, you will get paid accordingly.

This is the skeleton of my idea. Its realization is not very easy, because a system must be put in place in order to avoid scams. Perhaps a feedback system a-la eBay might work, along with a microchipped-card similar to the supermarket fidelity cards.

I think that the economic boost something like this would have (imagine how creativity would explode) could pay back the money the governement needs to spend to get the program started.

We have to think about this.

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The Imaginary Part of Action

February 4th, 2010 by aLeX, posted in: theory

A few days ago an interesting podcast was released on Red Ice Creations radio; it featured Holger Bech Nielsen, a physicist in the Niels-Bohr Institute in Denmark, talking mainly about the Large Hedron Collider and Nielsen’s theory about the “bad luck” which seems to have hit the experiment.

It’s an interesting talk, although a bit technical, so I recommend it to ya.

During the talk, Dr. Nielsen talks about the concept of “Imaginary Part of Action”. The action is the “history” of a certain system. This history has caused the state the system is in at the moment, and we call it action.

Now, according to Nielsen, we can say that at the moment of the creation, there must have been some kind of action (imaginary action), and he goes on by saying that for “mathematical” reasons this action must have been the smallest possible, and “negative”. He also states that “the system that wins is the one with the smallest amount of imagination”.

Now, I have a feeling this might tie up in some way with Terence McKenna’s timewave theory. I just don’t know how yet.

What Nielsen’s theory implies is that we are not going to have UFOs landing, our moms shapeshifting before our very eyes, Maytreias appearing in the sky, and so on. It implies change has to be subtle, natural, harmonius, non-traumatic.

Perhaps change within ourselves and change on the outside are connected in some kind of inverse relation. The more dramatically we change within ourselves, the more subtle yet powerful the change will be in the outside world.

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Crop Circles…

December 12th, 2009 by aLeX, posted in: theory

I don’t know what your stance is on the crop circles affaire. Some say they are alien made, some say they are natural occurrences, some say they are man-made.

A while ago it occurred to me that it is highly unlikely they are man-made, for a few simple reasons…

According to cropcirleconnector.com during 2009 we had 73 crop circles in UK alone (mostly in Wiltshire) and 46 in the rest of the world (7 in Italy, this one being especially beautiful). Most of these crops are really beatiful works of mathematical art.
If we think or a moment that YES, they are all man-made, this would mean that:

1. We need at least a designer with great visionary skills capable of coming up with around a 100 designs per year. A great artist capable not only of producing aesthetically pleasing compositions but also to often integrate mathematics  in these designs.

2. We need a crew of at least 6-8 people (according to videos of manmade crops I’ve seen on the internet) equipped with appropriate tools. This crew would be most probably based in Wiltshire, I guess.

3. These people need a good cash flow to keep going with their creations during 4 months in a row. Cash is needed to pay for cars, fuel, airplane tickets for when cropping abroad, tools, food, sleeping.

4. Hence, cropmakers would need a rather good occult financial support.

5. It would be highly probable that there is more than one cropmakers crew to keep up with the amount of work done, meaning that we need a couple or maybe four designers, and 20-30 more people.

Is this possible? I don’t know, it might be, but what are the chances? To me, it sounds much more likely that crop circles are natural, caused by something we do not understand yet.

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My take on 2012

October 19th, 2009 by aLeX, posted in: theory

I was around Milano with my bicycle at 3.00 AM when the following occurred to me.

IF Terence McKenna was right, we are experiencing an increase of novelty (which is, the amount of stuff happening in my/your/our life), to culminate in 2012.

In my own experience, which might be different from yours, I am actually perceiving an increase in the amount of “stuff” going on within me. I never have a boring moment. I always feel busy even tho I’m not working at the moment.

So, if my own experience is agreeing with McKenna’s ideas (and with the idea of cycles in the Mayan calendar, and the idea of technological singularity in some way) I then assume it has some sort of truth.

This said, what does it mean that novelty is increasing?
It means that the amount of things happening in a second is increasing.
Time is not speeding up, we are.

As McKenna used to say, it is as if there is an attractor at the end of time (he called it, eschaton).

This attractor does not accelerate time itself, it rather does increase the frequency of the oscillation in our lives.

This can only mean we are approching everlasting life. And it is not going to be through a superhuman ability to live on through the ages. It is going to be through a breakthrough on the inside. Time is not an issue anymore.

Some good links:

Here is a Terence McKenna website

here, a timewave calculator (really cool)

Dedicated to Terence – We love you

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Aliens in the sky with diamonds

July 26th, 2009 by aLeX, posted in: theory

I’m posting this from my hometown Milano, where it seems many UFO sightings have taken place… here’s a few videos.

Now, I know it’s easy to faKe a small ufo in the sky using computers. What I find “real” in this videos is rather the audio. You can hear people genuinely amazed, talking to each other and so on. This feels real (especially if you understand what they say).

Enjoy.

PS: I can add my own cents to this saying that myself I have witnessed a white oval shape traversing the sky one night a few months ago in Ireland. Don’t know what it was, it was not a plane I tell you.

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